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Offline crooketarrow

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HICKORY LOGS
« 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..
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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Re: HICKORY LOGS
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2013, 09:15:48 am »
I'm drooling...  That is a great load of hardwood.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2013, 09:36:01 am »
Nice bunch of logs,you are right ,now the work begins. :)
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2013, 09:52:09 am »
Your back is going to hurt Roy! Nice batch os wood.
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2013, 01:38:02 pm »
Now thats a pile of wood. ;D
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Re: HICKORY LOGS
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2013, 01:47:27 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 ;)

Offline bow101

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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2013, 05:43:39 pm »
...... 8) 8) 8)  nice load, I'm envious
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Offline BowSlayer

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« Reply #7 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
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Offline bow101

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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2013, 08:37:18 pm »
Ya I would like to try working Hickory sometime as well as Ash. ;)
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Re: HICKORY LOGS
« Reply #9 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

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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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« Reply #10 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.
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Offline PrimitiveTim

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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2013, 10:47:46 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.
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Offline Buffalogobbler

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« Reply #12 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?

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Offline Ringeck85

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Re: HICKORY LOGS
« Reply #13 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!
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