Just built fire for tonight in the 20"s...love the smell of hickory smoke.

Steve, do you have hickory nuts on your farm falling right now?

Keith

yes...but i only have a few hickory mostly walnuts.

Do you have English walnuts or just black walnuts?

Keith

Black walnuts keith...native here in this area for 200 yrs. Use to be a house up the road next to me built compketely of black walnut. They bulldozed it.

been burning hickory for about 2 weeks, small fires, just enough to heat the house for a day or so.

As far as hickory nuts, they have been falling for weeks now. Pretty much done.
In some areas its like walking on marbles. Lots of them this year.
My woods is mostly hickory, Shagbark Hickory that is.

I enjoy the smell as well, which is why I consider it a crime to burn hickory unless there's pork shoulder or ribs involved. Seriously, dad wouldn't cut hickory for fire wood and neither will I. Hickory is bbq wood and in Alabama hickory smoke is how you find the best BBQ joints.

Birch over here. Cozy

Removed shagbark limbs for friends from church...big limbs down on their place. Their house is in about a 6 acre hickory grove of huge trees and they are a constant mess for them.

Plenty of hickory here for BBQ and wood stove. Still waiting for cooler weather.

I miss burning wood

I don't miss cutting splitting it

Eastern White Fir here.
Keeps the pros barking.
I have one shaggy,
it doesn't excite me at all.
Squirrels love it though.

Very nice

No hickory nuts the last two years. I still love cutting/splitting firewood.

The dogs are getting some much deserved R & R in front of the camp wood stove after a hard day hunting.

Been burning hickory as well, great aroma & burns hot....White & red oak are the other two we burn.


Shagbark hickory (known as scaley bark here, and the best hickory to burn, IMO.)



Pignut hickory, very good to burn also.

Me too

We put in ground source heat when we moved in 8-9 years ago. I still cut and sell 40-50 face cords a year. Just trying to keep up with down trees and dying ash.

Cut very little hickory even though we have an abundance.

Friend has a tree service disposal. 99% of what we burn are yard trees that are taken down by homeowner request or storms.

You have to be careful with those type of trees. Nails, hangers, etc grown into the wood can be bad news.