Thread: Any Butchers About - End Grain Boards

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

black maire is awesome firewood....it burns out fireboxes really quickly...if you are trying to split it with axe you HAVE to hit it directly with the grain or directly against the grain or your razor sharp axe swung with all you heart n soul put into it will simply bounce back up...trust me on this Ive split truck loads of it.....when it splits its a little like fibreglass,and splinters feaster like stink....and yes it is plurry heavy.
rewarewa is nearly as hard when dry,its got beautiful honeycomb grain to it.

I know what you mean, we used to have a fire box in the hut up the back of Taihape that was made from two kents welded together. The bush had been milled years ago but a heap of old stumps still around. That old wood used to make it glow red, that area was one of the coldest I've ever been in winter.