Hickory firewood. Pain in the Butt!!

[zogger]

I get lost of bug dust from hickory and hackberry is real bad for insect bored dust by the piles!!!!!

Ya. I have found getting the bark off with the outside slabbing, and getting them split and stacked "loose" like criss cross gets the least amount of bugs. I mean it's sweet juicy good tasting wood! HAHAHAHAHA! We love it for cooking the same way the bugs love it for eating!

Good practice with your axe/maul or just use a power splitter carefully, slab that bark off, thin wood. Thin. It'll dry faster and also not have as much bugs then. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot.

 

[TheLazyBFarm]

I just burned my first hickory in my new 30-NCH and it was quite different than the pine and poplar that I'm used to so far. Doesn't take off as fast as P/P but boy does it stay a while! Oh and coals the next morning!

I think I found a good combination for me and my climate/temp and stove!

 

[farmer steve]

just split about a 1/2 cord of hickory today. it had been quartered and stacked about a year ago. the stuff split great despite the bug dust. it was bark falling off dry. this will be my cold weather stash.

 

[zogger]

I only did two wheelbarrows of hickory slabs today, but it's stacked. It's nice to be able to get back to splitting and stacking anything with my elbow and back. As in finally I can get more! Looking better for the rest of the fall and winter.