Shag bark hickory?

[Ropelie]

A great free score close to home, am I right?

 

[gzecc]

Not a hickory expert, but I don't think so.

 

[FTG-05]

Hickory is great, one of my favorite woods! Well, except for the fact that it's a bi@@@ to split (unless you have a good splitter), is heavy as heck and takes at least a year to season correctly. Most of my hickory is from dead standing or recently fallen dead standing trees. So it's possible that most hickory can take longer to season that what I'm experiencing.

It burns good though!

 

[Wood Duck]

That looks like Shagbark Hickory from here.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Looks like it to me...I bet those rounds are as heavy as ship anchors! And it might even have a slight manure smell to it....

 

[ewlsey]

Looks an awful lot like Silver Maple, but I can't really tell.

 

[bioman]

Free is the best, close to home even better!

 

[Plow Boy]

Looks like hickory to me. Good score!!

 

[Mettlemickey]

sweet score.

 

[Ropelie]

heavy is an understatement. The only had to carry them about 30 yards but the second load had a lot more than I expected. I am excited for these bad boys! Only one year? I thought hickory was atleast 2

 

[coltfever]

Shagbark for sure. Most of my woods is hickory trees. Its great. Get all you can.

 

[Joe13]

Looks like the shagbark hickory i split and stacked. Flakey, almost sharp bark, deep colored center, Takes some gumption to split by hand.

 

[nrford]

Yup Shaggy

 

[Ropelie]

I can vouch for that you are to split by hand. It took me 10 or 15 wacks to get the smaller splits in two to carry thwm

 

[Plow Boy]

heavy is an understatement. The only had to carry them about 30 yards but the second load had a lot more than I expected. I am excited for these bad boys! Only one year? I thought hickory was atleast 2

I would treat it like any other hard wood and season for two. But three is always better

 

[Applesister]

Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll...
And Shagbark Hickory

 

[D8Chumley]

Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll...
And Shagbark Hickory

Easy there, Sister!

 

[Plow Boy]

Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll...
And Shagbark Hickory

Another wood nymph

 

[Applesister]

What happened to the Riders of the Storm video.? I couldnt make an association between Jim Morrison and Hickory. Thought it was really funny late night stuff.
But the poster must have made a wrong link. Lol.
Listening to the Doors singing on YouTube while looking at hickory photos...

 

[Applesister]

Giggle

 

[Soundchasm]

Nice job! Just get any Hickory out of contact with any possible source of moisture. Don't know what's up with that species, but it's hygroscopic to beat the band. And you'll be heartbroken when that solid granite you moved dries out as light as balsa wood!!

Don't ask me how I know...

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Giggle

Did you wake up with a headache this morning......

 

[Kenster]

The pignut hickory I have around here needs even more time than our oak to season properly. Three years minimum. But man! That's some good stuff.
It is also my experience that the quicker you split it, the easier. I left some rounds stacked up once and came back the next year to hand split with a ten pound maul.
That wood just laughed at me. Hardest danged wood I've ever encountered.

 

[30cal]

Ah hell, a good friend I haven't seen for a long while showed up with a thirty pak...we killed it, I was hammered..

check the whiteboy blowin' harp at the 7 minute mark... he digs hickory

 

[Firefighter938]

Ah hell, a good friend I haven't seen for a long while showed up with a thirty pak...we killed it, I was hammered..

check the whiteboy blowin' harp at the 7 minute mark... he digs hickory

That was good for me tonight. I needed 15minutes of muddy waters.