Hickory stumps worth sawing?

[sgtmaconga]

I notice while searching the forum that some of the members saw stumps for blanks. has anyone done this with hickory stumps? any pics? worth the trouble?

[WH_Conley]

Can't answer the question, kinda wondering, if the stumps are any harder to dry than the wood, would you have anything left when you were done?

[woodmills1]

bet hickory stumps are harder to cut than the average bear. :D

[Ironwood]

Cant imagine why anyone would want to go thru the trouble, but then I do some crazy things as well.  Historically, a "GLUT" was used to hit a FROE to make riven shake shingles. The GLUT of choice was a root knot from a small hickory tree just below ground level. It was supposed to hold up the best hitting the iron backside of the froe better than anything else here in the east. I made on once, heck of a deal digging by hand (younger days :) This is all Roy Underhill type stuff. You would draw knife off the bottom of the sapling just before hte root ball to make a handle easy to grip. I will try to get a picture of mine some time.

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[beenthere]

Ironwood
Some interest here in what you are calling a GLUT....I think it is a wood wedge used to widen a split that is started in the wood using something like a FROE.   A STRIKING MAUL is used to hit the froe....also according to the Eric Sloane's Museum of Early American Tools.. ;)

[Ironwood]

WELL, he would be the master, perhaps I have been misnaming this thing all along. I could stroll over to my collection of ES books but I will take your word for it.

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[pineywoods]

GLUT   A wedge shaped like a splitting wedge but made of a hard wood such as hickory or persimon. Used to further open a split started by other means. Most commonly used around here when splitting fence rails.