I'm seeing that here as well. I've gotten some standing dead Red Oaks that were punky, but a couple of the ones that are down, sapwood seems pretty solid (branches are holding these up off the ground.)Funny how the bark can stay on some wood and be Punky, and the bark can fall off other wood and it won't be Punky at all....I've been scrapping some downed red oak on my property and seen it both ways and vice versa....must just be the conditions its sitting in?
Maybe you can get it in the future....don't give up! There's quite a bit of Hedge around these parts but I've for the most part been striking out in my attempts to score it. I've got maybe a third of a cord, still not split and stacked it yet. My latest bid for a decent sized Hedge, the guy told me his BIL was going to get it....it's still there so I remain hopeful. When my nephew was visiting from WA, we did get a couple of small branches over there that he's going to use to make adze handles, so that's a score of sorts, I guess...Well was going to get some hedge this morning and guy said there were horses back there now soooo that's it no more. Sad day indeed!!
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