Re: Chili from leftover brisket



"Shawn" <painless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48e69b10$0$19557$ec3e2dad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TFM® wrote:


"Nonnymus" <xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uYsFk.31156$YN3.10407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TFM® wrote:

Speaking of hard hardwood, I got ahold of a big chunk of an orange tree a week or so ago. It was a 6" limb about 8" long.
I started with my hatchet. What a joke that was.
Then I fired up the chainsaw - hot-rod chainsaw with a brand new chain - I might as well have been cutting stone. Damn, that's some hard wood!


I've never smoked with citrus wood, so I cannot say what the results would be like. However, I have two citrus bushes in the back yard and must admit I sure admire the strength of the branches. One Meyer Lemon bush is about 5' in diameter and yielded just over 120 very large lemons last year. The weight was enough to have flattened any other bush I've encountered, but the Meyer Lemon bush might have a pencil-sized branch with 3-4 lemons on it, 2' away from a bigger branch.

In MO, we had a lot of what was called Hedge or Hedge Apple trees. They were a popular fence row in and of themselves, and cut off branches would make great fence posts for in between the trees. I believe the correct name for them is Osage Orange- could that be what you're describing. If so, the wood is incredibly hard. In fact, it's virtually impossible to staple fence wire to one unless you drive the staple into a crack or split. The Hedge Apples have no commercial use I'm aware of, but hogs sure love them.


I don't recall seeing the hedge apple down here. We had a bunch in Tn. The fruit looks like a brain.
What I got was a piece of orange tree stump.

TFM®


I believe they are called bois 'd arc down here. Often pronounced bo-dark, the scientific name is Maclura pomifera.

http://lancaster.unl.edu/hort/Articles/2002/hedgeapple.shtml

I have seen fence posts that were a documented 100 years old, as sound as the day they went in the ground.

A trick in this part of Texas 150 years ago was to cut off a grove of them at about 18 inches, and use them as piers to build a house on. Still the only houses in these parts to never have foundation problems.

I will take a digital picture of said orange limb and Tiny - pic it.

In the meantime, let's not fight about what it is or isn't.

TFM® - It's wood, it's good.

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