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Most excellent work as usual .:thumbup:

Black locust is somewhat resistant to rot for some reason . I think it actually has more btu's per volume than honey locust . Why they call it black is a mystery to me because it looks rather yellow unless I'm color blind .

Probabley the best is Osage orange followed by locust and hickory which are both about equal regarding btu's per volume . Oak falls in line after that and has the advantage of the fact it's easy to split . Of course with the hydraulics it's all easy to split as opposed to swinging and axe or...

That's the 64 thousand dollar question I can't figure out .:? As soon as it dried out the ants sought greener pastures in a manner of speaking . That hickory was solid as a rock and split about like a rock too . All split with my trusty 5 pound axe and ripped with an old geardrive when it got...

Well maybe I should make some maple tooth picks and hickory tooth picks and run a taste test myself . Somewhere in that pile of wood I have some piss elm but I won't try that .;)

Be that as it may, then why would ants attack hickory when in the same stack was green cut silver and sugar maple with a much sweeter sap ?

Okay,I'll buy into the fact that ants get in punky wood and nest . I'm telling you though those danged things tunneled through some hard as a rock green cut shag bark hickory .It wasn't one bit rotten although it was full of sap being spring time .--However they chewed right into the heart...

I don't know what kind they were ,maybe piss ants for all I know . At the same time I had that green hickory I also had some green cut silver and sugar maple . The flys attacked the maple ,evidently for the sugar but the ants don't bother it a bit . The ants annoyed me to the point I wet the...

Okay I might condescend to acknowledge that .Now,being an ant expert then explain why the ants gobbled up all that firewood which was in a green state if you will . There was no rot in it like could possibley had been in those wind fallen hickories .

I'm not sure if we have termites or not around here . What ever wood eating type of ants that got into that firewood tunneled everywhere . They weren't the big black carpenter ants though . So,back to the hickories .Whatever the case was ,where the failure occured in the trees it was infested...

This is an ant infested 100 plus footer that was wind blown .

Yep they were the cause .They weaken the inner portion of the tree and the wind just knocks them down . This is 60 foot blown out of the top of an 80 footer which was over 20 inchs where it broke off .

Most of the 100 foot hickory trees that get wind blown around here are because of ants . I had some spring cut hickory about a year ago I cut for firewood,several cords .The damned ants came from everywhere and attacked it .Once it dried,they left . I still don't know what that was all about .I...