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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 16, 2018 21:01:58 GMT -6
I am kind of a fan of Hackberry, keep most of them if I can. Hinge a few... how about you guys?
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Aug 16, 2018 21:12:35 GMT -6
I am kind of a fan of Hackberry, keep most of them if I can. Hinge a few... how about you guys? Good wildlife tree! Glad you leave them.
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 16, 2018 22:15:00 GMT -6
I am kind of a fan of Hackberry, keep most of them if I can. Hinge a few... how about you guys? Don't know enough about them, but I don't have many if at all. Lots of them back home in Southern MN.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 16, 2018 22:21:09 GMT -6
we have zero that I have ever found. We planted a few hundred in our CRP planting several years ago and they all died.
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Post by benmnwi on Aug 16, 2018 22:30:15 GMT -6
They seem to have a good shape And they don't take over areas, so I generally leave them be as well. I've never seen much deer or turkey action around them though, but j keep them to add a little variety.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 17, 2018 7:28:04 GMT -6
Turkeys like the small berries- plus the like to roost in them.
Tough tree, I like that they grow up in shade, a nice mix with oak in my opinion.
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Post by Catscratch on Aug 17, 2018 7:43:18 GMT -6
Good bird tree, firewood tree, and stand tree.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 17, 2018 8:13:15 GMT -6
we have zero that I have ever found. We planted a few hundred in our CRP planting several years ago and they all died. That is surprising, hackberry is known to be drought tolerant? I planted 50 one year, and had about 50%, but they get browsed heavily, I probably should have put tubes on them.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 17, 2018 8:27:29 GMT -6
We lost every chokecherry, hackberry, 80% of pines, most oaks and 750 mixed berry bushes/trees.
our initial CRP planting was absolutely brutal. since then I have only replanted pines and we have had some luck filling in areas.
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 17, 2018 9:13:58 GMT -6
Turkeys like the small berries- plus the like to roost in them. Tough tree, I like that they grow up in shade, a nice mix with oak in my opinion. We should help Art get a grip load of these planted then.
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Post by jbird on Aug 17, 2018 10:31:08 GMT -6
Hackberry is a weed! They say too much of a good thing is still too much......well, yep! I will agree the birds like them.....I have huge flocks of blackbirds move thru in the fall to eat the berries......birds shit so much it sounds like it's a light rain out! I have way too many of them and not enough other hard mast trees in my opinion.
It's terrible to split by hand with a maul as well....the wood is very fibrous and stringy. They do hinge well for me. From a form they are fine as the do not produce a dense canopy and the rough bark is great for using climbing tree stands as most grow pretty straight on my place and mature trees don't branch until much higher.
I will agree with the turkey use. We don't have many turkey, but they do like the trees and I have seen them try to roost (I say try....I think the bird torn half the tree down) in them as well. Hackberry is almost as common here as my mulberry......I realize they have their place, but I could stand a few less of them and more variety of other wildlife beneficial trees and shrubs. We cut a bunch of them for pallet wood in my timber harvests.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 17, 2018 14:14:21 GMT -6
Turkeys like the small berries- plus the like to roost in them. Tough tree, I like that they grow up in shade, a nice mix with oak in my opinion. We should help Art get a grip load of these planted then. This year I am finding turkey feathers all over the farm.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 17, 2018 17:00:36 GMT -6
Some years back I had an Aluminum customer out in SD. I was at his house and saw he had bed sheets spread under the hackberry trees. He said he did this to catch the seeds and would sell them to Gurney's seed company for them to start new trees. He said he got paid about $500 per ice cream pail for those hackberry seeds.
I had allot of hackberry trees too back then. I really liked the wood for burning and it split pretty easily for me (using a wood splitter). Made for some hot fires in my wood stove.
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Post by nhmountains on Aug 17, 2018 17:20:59 GMT -6
I have never heard of hackberry before today. I looked it up. I guess it's native here in NH and is part of the cannabis family. What you guys do with the leaves? Foggy how was the wood smell burning?
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Post by Foggy on Aug 17, 2018 18:06:15 GMT -6
I have never heard of hackberry before today. I looked it up. I guess it's native here in NH and is part of the cannabis family. What you guys do with the leaves? Foggy how was the wood smell burning? I think it was some of the best wood I every burned.....next to oak and ash.....IMO. Was really nice for splitting....heavy.....and clean.....no soot.....little sap.....dried easily.
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