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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: crooketarrow on March 21, 2013, 08:30:23 am

Title: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: crooketarrow on March 21, 2013, 08:30:23 am

  Just cut these yesterday. Now the fun starts, theres a plie of stave in the hickory logs. That pic with the split log is sugar berry. That pile also has ash,inwood,elm the other piles have a little of everything. Lots of cherry and wallnut..(http://)

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: Olanigw (Pekane) on March 21, 2013, 09:15:48 am

I'm drooling...  That is a great load of hardwood.

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: Pappy on March 21, 2013, 09:36:01 am

Nice bunch of logs,you are right ,now the work begins. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on March 21, 2013, 09:52:09 am

Your back is going to hurt Roy! Nice batch os wood.

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: turtle on March 21, 2013, 01:38:02 pm

Now thats a pile of wood. ;D
Is the sap up enough to make bark peeling easy?

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: hatcha on March 21, 2013, 01:47:27 pm

Quote from: turtle on March 21, 2013, 01:38:02 pm

Is the sap up enough to make bark peeling easy?

Is it advisable to remove the bark from white wood as soon as it's been felled and split?  I only ask cos I have a few ash staves that've been curing for the past couple of years - but I left the bark on and just sealed the ends.  Have I made more work for myself?

Crooket - that's a nice lot of future meat-makers you've got there ;)

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: bow101 on March 21, 2013, 05:43:39 pm

...... 8) 8) 8)  nice load, I'm envious

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: BowSlayer on March 21, 2013, 06:32:21 pm

Impressive. Never made a bow from hickory :-[ i do wan't to get my hands on some though. BD

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: bow101 on March 21, 2013, 08:37:18 pm

Ya I would like to try working Hickory sometime as well as Ash. ;)

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: TRACY on March 24, 2013, 09:35:35 pm

Nice bounty ! Roy, I'm not real sure what sugar berry is. Does it go by another name or have a scientific name? Thanks

Tracy

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: Thesquirrelslinger on March 26, 2013, 10:23:17 pm

How much is a bowstave from one of them logs? I am drooling at that hickory... I have never made a hickory bow.

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: PrimitiveTim on March 26, 2013, 10:47:46 pm

Quote from: TRACY on March 24, 2013, 09:35:35 pm

I'm not real sure what sugar berry is. Does it go by another name or have a scientific name?

It's basically the southern version of hackberry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis_laevigata)

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: Buffalogobbler on March 26, 2013, 11:16:21 pm

WOW! thats a lot of wood to split!
I never heard of inwood? Is it known by another name?

Kevin

Title: Re: HICKORY LOGS
Post by: Ringeck85 on April 04, 2013, 03:40:15 am

)Maybe he meant to spell Ironwood or Hornbeam/Hophornbeam?

either way, nice haul :) I hope you make a lot of bows/arrows (the ash could make good sturdy arrows) from that!