Wookend fun in Texas

[Wolfcsm]

Weekend fun in Texas

Had a great weekend last week. Was asked to drop this large Pecan tree for a realtor here. Not a big tree, but large for this area.
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[buckwheat]

Nice piece of work. How does pecan rate as a firewood? and did you really get $10 for a wheelbarrow load!!?

 

[glens]

Pecan is a hickory, if that helps on the firewood question.  It's not quite as good as shagbark; more along the lines of bitternut (which ain't shabby).  I've never cooked with pecan but imagine it's top-notch for that.  Ten bucks for a wheelbarrowfull that size is quite fair (more so if fully dried) for a residential area like that, especially mixed with a good oak.  It looks like it'd be about one-thirty or one-forty a cord that way.

The whole pecan pile looks to be about as much wood as I got from a pecan I removed about a month ago.  It was evidently never comfortable with it's location and the grain was about as twisted as elm.  Too bad it was a dual stem tree and shaped the way it was; we'd rather have dropped some on the woodmizer than split it all.

Glen

 

[Wolfcsm]

Most of the folks wanting Pecan here are looking to smoke meat with it. Sold two cords of it last winter to a person who was doing a lot of cooking.

Yes, I do get $10 for that wheelbarrow load of wood. Have sold two or three hundred of them in the past few months. Makes a lot more scense than 4 pieces of wood for $5 that the convienance stores here sellng for.

Hal

 

[Wolfcsm]

Pecan is a sweter wood to smoke with. Mesquite has a sharp and distinct flavor. Oak is more in the middle and Pecan is more on the mild side.

Most of what I ahve sold in the wheelbarrow is Oak and has been dead for a while and down for from several weeks to several months, depending on the time of year. Right now I have been selling wood just about a fast as I can cut and split it. Do it as a hobby - to get away from computers all of the time.

Hal