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White Hickory
jcougar:
Mockernut responds very well to heat treating.
Ryano:
The Deer around hear eat the shagbark nuts but not the pignut, only the squirls like them....I'll stick with using hickory for backing strips, there are manny better choices for belly wood... :P
Hillbilly:
As Lennie said, white hickory is another name for mockernut (C. tomentosa), which is very variable, and has recently been renamed as C. alba. It is probably actually more of a complex of related species and subspecies. I have cut mockernut that was white nearly all the way through, but some has a thick, reddish-brown heartwood. The mockernut here makes excellent bow wood. I'd like to see quail eat hickory nuts, too lol. The main critters around here that eat hickory nuts are bears, wild boar and squirrels. Bears love 'em, I've seen places in the woods where a bear had sat down on it's butt under a hickory tree and just raked the nuts up. When I used to bear hunt with hounds, the first places we would check for a bear track were white oak groves and hickory nut ridges. Actually, I like hickory nuts pretty well myself.
Badger:
Would any of you have a sight I could refer my sawmill to so he could see exactly what we look for in how to cut up a log for a bowyer. The more pictures the better, I have been trying to explain by telephone but not sure he really understands exactly what I mean. Steve
snedeker:
According to USDA info, just about every species of hickory is called White Hickory somewhere
http://www.windsorplywood.com/nam_hardwoods/hickory.html
Dave
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