I have a 3' diameter bitternut hickory** bucked and ready to split. How long to season this species. It was down for about three years and is still really wet inside.......
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Any type of Hickory I've had has been slow drying. I treat it like Oak, 2 years or more.
Trust me, if you try to rush it, you will just be frustrated trying to get it to burn well. But if you give it the time, it will put put out so much heat it will scare you half to death when you fill your stove with it.I like to embrace the "one year drying time" theory.
I have a 3' diameter bitternut hickory** bucked and ready to split. How long to season this species. It was down for about three years and is still really wet inside.......
Patience of a turkey vulture......I gotta remember that lineDont worry, I have the patience of a turkey vulture.
Ive got 10 yr old Shagbark sitting on my front porch. Almost like those 50yr old white oak Rum barrels sitting in Appletons Rum distillery.
I can wait.
Gorgeous figure in that wood, Soundchasm! Is that split or sawn?
That's the bark side of a split after I peeled off the bark. It's 3-D. The best I can do when I find that stuff is put them to the side in my collection of "Interesting splits I have known".
I saw an interesting show on public tv a couple weeks ago, about animal intelligence. Dogs are smart about reading and responding to humans, but crows are apparently better at creative problem-solving. Much bigger brain in relation to body size, a predictor of intelligence.I like to think it was just curiosity on their part - they are known to be intelligent birds.
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