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Post by olfolks on Feb 12, 2024 6:33:27 GMT -6
We call pin oak piss oak because it smells like cat piss when cut
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Post by kevinj54 on Feb 12, 2024 7:55:00 GMT -6
Before the dutch elm disease went thru here the old timers called certain elm piss elm for the same reason.
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Post by billinohio on Feb 12, 2024 9:45:25 GMT -6
In my feeble mind, pin oak is more like baby shit…..
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Post by rustyfarmall on Feb 12, 2024 15:15:58 GMT -6
But if it is dry, and burns, and makes heat, what more do you want?
The best firewood I ever used was osage orange. (hedge)
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Post by billinohio on Feb 12, 2024 19:17:57 GMT -6
I have a lot of hedge apple trees, too. In general, I just stay away from them. Most are twisted, impenetrable , huge bushes. I mean huge as in several cords off of one stump. If they grew in competition with other trees, they can be fairly straight and make easy firewood. They are good for making tires go flat, and, if you get stuck real good, it leaves a black mark and hurts for months. You gotta be careful burning it, it might be too hot, warp your stove, and it spits sparks clear across the room. It’s probably not a good idea to sell any to the average yuppie.
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Post by Butcher on Feb 12, 2024 19:28:12 GMT -6
Sloroll was famous for the green speedo. Now I could be wrong, it's been a long time, but I thought it was Butcher. Not me, Bill aka slorol.
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Post by Butcher on Feb 12, 2024 19:46:40 GMT -6
I have a lot of hedge apple trees, too. In general, I just stay away from them. Most are twisted, impenetrable , huge bushes. I mean huge as in several cords off of one stump. If they grew in competition with other trees, they can be fairly straight and make easy firewood. They are good for making tires go flat, and, if you get stuck real good, it leaves a black mark and hurts for months. You gotta be careful burning it, it might be too hot, warp your stove, and it spits sparks clear across the room. It’s probably not a good idea to sell any to the average yuppie. Hedge is a close relitive of Mulberry. Both are high on wood btu charts for firewood. As far as thorns go, I been cutting a lot of honey locust the past couple years. Very few are thorn free. Most have thorns over 4 inches long all the way to the limb wood. Once I get one on the ground I dawn my safty glasses and shave the whole thing down with a chain saw. Never can get them all and usually end up bleedeing by the time I'm done loading the truck. Where I cut at those locust trees seem to be a good host for some of the biggest posion ivy vines you ever did see. Some of them vines have been 3 inches in diameter. Much caution must be made. Been on the bad side of that shit 2 to many times. But it's worth the risk for me when it comes to the rewards.
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Post by sandbur on Feb 12, 2024 20:32:22 GMT -6
But if it is dry, and burns, and makes heat, what more do you want? The best firewood I ever used was osage orange. (hedge) We have a small pile of old hedge posts we keep around for branding fires.
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Post by billinohio on Feb 12, 2024 21:04:14 GMT -6
Butcher, do you like the honey locust? One year, I pushed a really big, straight honey locust down. It was in the way of progress. But, it was late in the Spring and I thought I would leave it lay for cutting up in the Fall. It was not laying right on the ground. Anyhow, about 6 months later, I decided to cut it for firewood. It was bug eaten, totally, from top to bottom, through and through!. Hickory gets eaten up that way, too! If you cut it, you gotta finish the job and split it so it dries out.
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Post by olfolks on Feb 12, 2024 21:56:30 GMT -6
The pin oak does smell like dog shit when split, you keep looking around to see where you stepped in it at lol . Honey locust makes good wood all thorn trees do but the little thorn trees that are covered with thorns are a real treat to do anything with , best to cut them or push them out let set for a year or so then most thorns will knock off pretty easy. Hedge is the best I ever burnt for heat black locust or honey next then shag bark hickory all those will burn as good green as dry but hickory will give more sap green. We called white elm piss elm because if you put a green piece in the stove it would piss the fire out.
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Post by rustyfarmall on Feb 13, 2024 7:07:25 GMT -6
Shag bark hickory smells really good when burning as does red elm.
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Post by billinohio on Feb 13, 2024 7:08:19 GMT -6
One of the worst messes that I have witnessed was walnut. The occasion was an overnight wedding reception at an event center out in the woods in southern Ohio, for #1 son when he got married. They had brand new A frame cabins, one for the boys and one for the girls, first time to be used with a little wood stove in the center. Some genius supplied the stove with fresh walnut, and that black juice ran out of every crack in the pipes and puddled on the floor.
we used to have some red elms, they died and would stand for years. I had one lady that only wanted it, said it didn’t smoke up her house.
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