That Bois d’arc is hard wood. My father in law made a sleeve bearing out of it in a saw mill during the depression and he said they used it for years. Just had to keep it greased. Mesquite is great for cooking. If green it burns really hot. We use mostly oak around here because it’s local. Lots of dead wood due to the droughts.
Mesquite will really junk up a chimney or stove pipe. I would use it wood stove but only one log at bedtime
Yes on the mesquite. It will really screw up your pipes. And I really don’t care for it for smoking. For grilling coals its the bee’s knees! Like for grillin’ steaks.
It do burn hot! I buckled up one of those cheap Sears& Roebuck Franklin stoves with mesquite. But when it’s all you got, you burn it.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
