You want what from this hickory?

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Boxing the heart is the only way you can do it but it will be pushing it for even getting the 2 4x4s of each side of it but it can be done even by going alittle into the 4" heart no more than 1/4 though  in section if the tree has good strait heart form but I have only sawn a few Hickory logs but delt with heaps of other species similar  ;) some of you would have noticed at both Jake's and Lynn's Lucas Days  I took the hear out in low grade boards 4 to 5" wide by whatever the thickness was that i was q/sawing out of the center 3rd  ;) alot of big mills will just keep sawing through the heart dose wonders for recovery but not quality  in hardwoods : : and its not the way things are done in my book the center 4x4" heart section is low grade material juvi/young wood which is from when the tree is forming can have reactive wood in drying and wondering heart nice stuff like that to deal with there are species and section sizes that you are able to saw with heart in though  ;)

Question is he planing on dressing down to 3 &1/2 square  ??? as you can pinch it it out on that too  ;)

Regards Chris