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Topic: Texas Oak

Posted By: dgerth
Subject: Texas Oak
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2015 at 11:06pm

Ken in TX,

Was working on a D17 motor that will be going in my WD last night, havin a hard time removing the liners. Everything (wood) split and not move the liners. I finally found a chunk of E. TX oak from over by Rusk. My big hammer and that oak worked like a charm on all 4 of em! It's like a whole other country!

dgerth

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Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2015 at 6:39am

dgerth
I cut some East Texas post oak for Bar-B-Q wood last winter. It was growing at the top of a hill above a creek bottom on the back of the place. Not any over a foot in diameter chest high. It was quite obvious by looking at the growth rings that these oaks for their size had been growing slowly there for a century or more. I counted the rings on a 10 inch stump at more than 150. Crowding and poor sugar sand soil produced some of the hardest post oak I had ever seen. I sold it in 2 foot lengths unsplit to Bodacious Bar B Q in Longview Texas. The owner said it was some of the longest burning post oak he ever cooked with.

Posted By: dgerth
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2015 at 10:06pm

Ken, Never ate at Bodacious, Texas Roadhouse is our favorite. Gonna try and get back down there this winter, all things equal.

Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2015 at 7:17am

dgerth
If you are in my neck of the woods next winter I need to have you over for a Ken style Bar-B-Q cookout at my place.

Posted By: dgerth
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2015 at 10:07pm

Ken,

If we get down there, consider it a done deal my Friend!