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  1. J

    Gps

    Garmin 60csx is the best handheld that i have ever used. It picks up satalites much better in a dense canopy than the last one I had.
  2. J

    selling fire in a box

    What do you guys think about selling firewood, kindling, tinder and matches and lighting instructions in the same container. This would be everything a person would need to start one fire for a camping trip or in their yards. Have some of you have already tried this. Let me know your ideas...
  3. J

    Beech wood value?

    I am a forester for a sawmill in PA. If you are trying to manage for timber production that is exactly what you should do to your woods. Beech has very little value other than firewood. Beech have such a huge canopy to them that they block the sunlight from getting to the ground and...
  4. J

    Free Wood id?

    Looks like hybrid poplar to me. Hybrid poplar is a cross between aspen and poplar and is planted in peoples yard because it a very fast growing tree.
  5. J

    Free wood, can anyone id it?

    Most likely ailanthus or paulownia, they both have very similar bark and can be hard to tell apart. One can be worth alot for lumber (paulownia) the other is useless (ailanthus). You can tell if its ailanthus if you scratch a little of the bark off and smell it, it will smell like burnt peanut...
  6. J

    Making deal with loggers to clean up tops etc...

    Im a forester for a saw mill so im in charge of buying all the timber and setting up our logging crews. I get several calls per year from people looking to to clean up after we are done with a logging job. If someone calls me i tell them that i will talk to the landowner first to see if I can...
  7. J

    towing a log splitter

    how fast can you tow a log splitter. Or how fast have some of you guys gone while towing one.
  8. J

    Any of you guys buy logs for firewood?

    another logger tells me you can figure on getting between 5-7 cords on a tri-axle truck load of pulpwood(firewood logs). The mill that I work for gets $475.00 per tri-axle load and if I figure on the low side of 5 cords per truck load, thats $95.00 a cord. That doesnt sound like that great of...
  9. J

    Bulk Firewood Drying.

    I use about 3 cords per year for my own personal use, if I stack it in one single row where the sun and the wind can get to both sides of the wood in early april, the wood will be ready to go in November, and its alot dryer and burns better than most of the stuff I have bought in the past...
  10. J

    Bulk Firewood Drying.

    Do the piles get stirred up every so often so the wood on the bottom drys better or do you just let them sit there for 6-8 months. thanks
  11. J

    Bulk Firewood Drying.

    Im just curious how some of you guys are drying your bulk firewood. Im in the logging business and interested in doing firewood but don't know how to dry several hundred cords without taking up a huge amount of space.
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