You don't need culture to get bonus hammers for chops unless you're talking to expand borders to then get more tiles inside your cultural control. It is unclear if you meant that you need to be generating culture to get the chop hammers. I assume this is what you meant but I'd hate for y
ou to get disappointed.
Also, granary first is most often the first build over anything else except in the rare edge cases, assuming you don't need a worker or military unit or work boat.
ou to get disappointed.
Also, granary first is most often the first build over anything else except in the rare edge cases, assuming you don't need a worker or military unit or work boat.