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[Bondo]

Ha!  Not this time!  I've already singed my eye lashes off this season. I'm learning though. Last year it was eye lashes AND eyebrows!!

Ouch! I think our hottest burning wood here in MN is white oak if I'm wrong someone please chime in!

Ayuh,.....     Up here in the Northeast, Beech is the Best,...

[Wood Nutt]

80-90% of my cutting time is spent on hedge for the OWB, its a.k.a Osage Orange or Bodart.  Makes great homemade bows for archery purposes as well.  My grandmother spread the hedge balls (fruit) around places she did not want box elder bugs (those little black bugs that have orange lines on their backs) hanging out too.  They were planted in the plains as living fences early on, to  keep grazers out.  they were commonly planted around farmhouses and gardens to keep unwanted bovine out.

Makes great firewood for an outside furnace too!

[AirForcePOL]

I gotta keep my noggin lookin good, slim!  The military won't let me have a mullet....

[slimjim]

Been there, done that, don't miss it! Personally I like the unkept look of an old long haired / bearded Libertarian, Hippie. Thank you for your service to Our Nation!

[mlappin]

One of my landlords lost about fifteen hedge trees when a good storm rolled thru, I need to start cutting on those next.

Hedge around here is also called osange orange, hedge apple, or road apples. It's 2.5's harder than white oak with twice the tensile strength. Makes very good fence posts as well, cut your post and let em dry a bit before placing in the ground or it may start to sprout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera

[CountryBoyJohn]

Mr. Mlappin, if that hedge has been down for very long, it may be a lost cause!!  You have to cut and split it when it's green!! You will go through your bars and chains in no time. When hedge dries it gets hard as concrete.

[AirForcePOL]

Been there, done that, don't miss it! Personally I like the unkept look of an old long haired / bearded Libertarian, Hippie. Thank you for your service to Our Nation!

Thank you as well!  I'll be a hippie in about 14 years 

[mlappin]

Mr. Mlappin, if that hedge has been down for very long, it may be a lost cause!!  You have to cut and split it when it's green!! You will go through your bars and chains in no time. When hedge dries it gets hard as concrete.

Just happened this summer, still had leaves on em this fall.

[Wood Nutt]

I have been cutting hedge from brush piles that was dozed out 5+ years ago.  As long as the bark is still on it, and a sharp chain, you should not have any problems.