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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory. mid to late fall down your way
    @fishlessman, but then I'd get arrested for lopping off branches on the side of the road. =) 

    Speaking of arrest, no bike ride today, but I took the dog for a three mile walk this afternoon. Kept looking for hickory and finally found one. Right in the middle of some guy's perfectly manicured front yard. =) Didn't look like it needed pruning, but...

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,465
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory.
    you are kidding aren't you? a shag bark hickory is easy to spot by it's tell-tale bark year around here in the mid-west. 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Jstroke
    Jstroke Posts: 2,605
    Carolina Q said:
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory. mid to late fall down your way
    @fishlessman, but then I'd get arrested for lopping off branches on the side of the road. =) 

    Speaking of arrest, no bike ride today, but I took the dog for a three mile walk this afternoon. Kept looking for hickory and finally found one. Right in the middle of some guy's perfectly manicured front yard. =) Didn't look like it needed pruning, but...
    Put on an orange vest and tell him it's infected--see the bark is falling off. Gotta take it before it spreads
    Columbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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  • XC242
    XC242 Posts: 1,208
    I just use the dry branches that have fallen off my pine tree out back :smiley:
    LBGE (still waitin' for my free T-Shirt), DIgiQ DX2 (In Blue, cause it's the fastest), Heavy Duty Kick Ash Basket, Mc Farland, WI. :glasses:  B)
    If it wasn't for my BGE I'd have no use for my backyard...
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,663
    RRP said:
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory.
    you are kidding aren't you? a shag bark hickory is easy to spot by it's tell-tale bark year around here in the mid-west. 
    theres not a whole lot of them around here, i can drive hundreds of miles before spotting one, its easier to watch the road than the trees when driving as well, good to know where your going =) when i say not many around, ive found 5 of them since egging, 2 years ago i found a small post oak, its like finding the holy grail up here
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    fishlessman said:
    RRP said:
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory.
    you are kidding aren't you? a shag bark hickory is easy to spot by it's tell-tale bark year around here in the mid-west. 
    theres not a whole lot of them around here, i can drive hundreds of miles before spotting one, its easier to watch the road than the trees when driving as well, good to know where your going =) when i say not many around, ive found 5 of them since egging, 2 years ago i found a small post oak, its like finding the holy grail up here
    ton of them just across the methuen line in NH....

    we probably have a dozen of them in the old man's yard.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,663
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    fishlessman said:
    RRP said:
    fishlessman said:
    on those long bike rides watch the road for the green nut husks and shells, easiest way to find the shag bark hickory.
    you are kidding aren't you? a shag bark hickory is easy to spot by it's tell-tale bark year around here in the mid-west. 
    theres not a whole lot of them around here, i can drive hundreds of miles before spotting one, its easier to watch the road than the trees when driving as well, good to know where your going =) when i say not many around, ive found 5 of them since egging, 2 years ago i found a small post oak, its like finding the holy grail up here
    ton of them just across the methuen line in NH....

    we probably have a dozen of them in the old man's yard.
    im just talking the ones i can pic from, people get nervous when seeing a guy running around in their yard with a hatchet. =) have not found one near the camp yet, might have to plant one
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • westernbbq
    westernbbq Posts: 2,490
    theres a place on Washington Street and about 52nd Street in Phoenix called Berry Brothers.  Thomas supplies most of the local wood fired restaurants such as Bandera, Pizzeria Bianco, Chelsea's Kitchen, LGO, as examples with their wood for cooking.   I get almond, cherry, maple, apple, grape vine, and hickory from him.  If i need pecan or mesquite, i go to my sisters house and take a dried out branch from her pecan tree and i have two mesquite trees i harvest from 2x a year to make my own charcoal from or to burn sticks on for super hot pizza cooks.  

    I have gotten wood chunks from HD as gifts tho....nice, uniform pieces but i cant justify the cost when i have free access to pecan and mesquite and a super low cost alternative in Berry bros.    A bag of apple or cherry trimmings dried out is maybe 30 lbs and costs about 14 bucks....
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