On another forum that I post alot on (antique tractors and farming and just general BS) a fella from upstate N.Y. was thinkin of sellin farwood as he has a pretty sizable patch of timber and needs the $. He was askin about some varities of trees on his property and if they would be considered hardwoods. He was using some regonal slang words for the names of these trees as he really dont know much about trees I'm thinkin so I really didnt know what kinda wood he was talkin about.
Anyways, another guy who is collage edjucated in horticulture replyed and told him any deciduous tree is concidered a hardwood and any evergreen is a softwood. Well, that got my pea brain ta thinkin that just cuz this collage boy who used ta work for a big golf coarse and had all kindsa book smarts was full of shut so I repyed that I had a stove full of basswood at the moment (which I did) and iffn you want to call that hardwood I would pour milk and sugar on a split and eat it. He came back sayin I best start chewin and went into this long post that was either copyied from the interweb or what ever he was book taught. So I replyed that in the context of the origonal question about FARWOOD you could not blanket all trees into the same catagories like that. Techwise he is correct but not in the farwood world I'm thinkin.
I'm not lookin to vindicate myself in this little pizzn match but for those of you that have to buy your wood how would you feel iffn I was to sell you a load of "hardwood" that was half cottonwood and half Iowa fenceline wild plum trees?
What do you consider 'hardwood' farwood in your neck of the woods?
Anyways, another guy who is collage edjucated in horticulture replyed and told him any deciduous tree is concidered a hardwood and any evergreen is a softwood. Well, that got my pea brain ta thinkin that just cuz this collage boy who used ta work for a big golf coarse and had all kindsa book smarts was full of shut so I repyed that I had a stove full of basswood at the moment (which I did) and iffn you want to call that hardwood I would pour milk and sugar on a split and eat it. He came back sayin I best start chewin and went into this long post that was either copyied from the interweb or what ever he was book taught. So I replyed that in the context of the origonal question about FARWOOD you could not blanket all trees into the same catagories like that. Techwise he is correct but not in the farwood world I'm thinkin.
I'm not lookin to vindicate myself in this little pizzn match but for those of you that have to buy your wood how would you feel iffn I was to sell you a load of "hardwood" that was half cottonwood and half Iowa fenceline wild plum trees?
What do you consider 'hardwood' farwood in your neck of the woods?