hickory trees

[waygu tim]

i have a cousin that has hickory trees and when limbs and branch's fall down will any size work for smoking 

 

[johnnie walker]

Tim,

to SMF! Yes any size limbs would work, but the smaller ones might have a tendency to catch fire easily. I had a maple in my yard and anything big enough to split in half (at least 2" across) I saved an use in the smoker! If you can find some shag bark hickory, the bark works pretty good too, but again you have to watch as it will catch fire easily.

 

[baja traveler]

Alot of the stuff you can buy is just branches of all sizes run through a chipper. You could also do the same if you want to go the wood chip route.

 

[pops6927]

Sure, you'd want limbs around 1-2 inches in diameter or more, cut into chunks if you have a chunk-burning unit or sticks with a stick-burning unit.

My son just cut down several small plum trees for me with my electric chain saw I gave him as I can no longer handle it safely.   He dragged the small branches out to the streetcurb for pickup and gave me the limbs.  They'd been dead for 2 years or more as it was.  The limbs were 4' or so; I chucked them into my big vise and used my skil saw with my right hand and cut them down to 2" chunks myself (I'm left-handed and afflicted on the left side).  They're in a large bucket awaiting the smokehouse to start up!  

Usually if a limb falls off, it's dead, so it'd be already aged and ready to burn, if not already rotted out too!

 

[waygu tim]

thanks guys for the info u given to me