I don't cut much Hickory but that doesn't look like any hickory I have cut. I think it looks like Willow. Both are very different. Willow is soft and would cut very easy and is a much wetter and rot prone wood. Hickory is 1 of the very hardest woods in these and most parts and you can tell as it works your chainsaw much harder. I don't think it rots that easy either. If I had almost any thing else I don't think I'd waste time cutting willow for firewood. Not near the heat and a ton of ashes. May be ok in an outdoor woodburner. Hickory on the other hand is 1 of the very best.
might help to delete "sent..........g Tapatalk" some find that aggravating also. Just a suggestion (-;My phone keeps adding the words "open old" after I push send?!?!?!? It is really aggravating.
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