Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

For those of us that get leg cramps, I have found yellow mustard or pickle juice will stop the cramp immediately. I keep mustard packets in the truck for those hot days, when I seem to cramp up.


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I use mustard too, pretty sure it's the turmeric in it. While the mustard does help and rather quick they're talking about prevention not treating the effects.
It has many healing properties many in or current society know nothing about.
You may find this tidbit interesting; many scholars believe that the gold the wise men brought to Jesus was actually Tumeric, they say at the time it was more expensive than the metal gold.

 

[chipper1]

I been rubbing mustard on my leg for an hour now..you sure about this.????

Eat it lol.

 

[Cowboy254]

I been rubbing mustard on my leg for an hour now..you sure about this.????

A couple of pics from last weekend in the Snowy Mountains, these are Sugar pines at Laurel hill

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And the Snow mountains highway above the tree line.

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That's a great pic from Laurel Hill, Jeff

 

[chipper1]

That's a great pic from Laurel Hill, Jeff

I'm hoping he was joking.
One time we were out of mustard and my daughter asked if I wanted her to get the ketchup .

 

[dancan]

That's funny.
I can see it hitting the fire hydrant and then causing a crazy accident looking like something from a movie.
Some nice looking wood, just takes forever to season.
What was that crap coming out of the tree . I've never seen one that looked like that.

It was a rot pocket of slug poop right where I cut it at 8'6" Lol

That would have been a bad scene , 4 lanes ...

 

[JustJeff]

Got to the boxelder FWIW!

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Wouldn't be bad but its every bit as much work as oak and half the btu's. Usually more brush. I just can't make myself throw it into a brushpile like so many do.

I know. I burn it too.

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[chipper1]

It was a rot pocket of slug poop right where I cut it at 8'6" Lol

That would have been a bad scene , 4 lanes ...

That's gross .
Could have been, thank God it wasn't. What did you do with it, that's a heavy chunk of wood to get to the top.

 

[dancan]

We'll haul it up next trip plus cut another big stump.
I have a friend that can mill 36" so it will be some live edge slabs , make for some nice tables .

 

[MustangMike]

I just did a ride today, and ironically my drink schedule is a few gulps every 5 miles (number of gulps depending on the heat).

Joe, I presume that stuff can be mixed into your water bottle? I can not imagine that opening a vile of powder when you are going over 20 MPH will turn out too well!

 

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After supper just had time to split this and get er stacked in the shed.

 

[Cowboy254]

Got to the boxelder FWIW!

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Wouldn't be bad but its every bit as much work as oak and half the btu's. Usually more brush. I just can't make myself throw it into a brushpile like so many do.

A third the seasoning time though...

 

[svk]

Got to the boxelder FWIW!

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Wouldn't be bad but its every bit as much work as oak and half the btu's. Usually more brush. I just can't make myself throw it into a brushpile like so many do.

Decent wood as long as you aren't downwind of the smoke

 

[svk]

I use mustard too, pretty sure it's the turmeric in it. While the mustard does help and rather quick they're talking about prevention not treating the effects.
It has many healing properties many in or current society know nothing about.
You may find this tidbit interesting; many scholars believe that the gold the wise men brought to Jesus was actually Tumeric, they say at the time it was more expensive than the metal gold.

Turmeric is good stuff. My uncle puts it in his mashed potatoes. Very good.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Got to the boxelder FWIW!

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Wouldn't be bad but its every bit as much work as oak and half the btu's. Usually more brush. I just can't make myself throw it into a brushpile like so many do.

Heat is heat. I call the not so great stuff "weekend wood" - when I'm home during the day to keep feeding the stove.

 

[rarefish383]

That product looks great Joe … except for the trace amounts of arsenic and mercury! But I guess these things are hard to avoid in any natural product, including Tuna!

That’s what I get for not reading the fine print!

 

[farmer steve]

I've always used beer to combat cramps. Seems to work fine

 

[woodchip rookie]

Do people call hackberry box elder? Or is that 2 different trees? cuz that looks like hackberry

 

[cornfused]

Do people call hackberry box elder? Or is that 2 different trees? cuz that looks like hackberry

No they are totally different. The sure giveaway is the streaks of red in the box elder grain. Also bark and heartwood is different. The heartwood of the hackberry I've cut was dark where as box elder is normally very light colored with the telltale red streaks.

 

[MustangMike]

FYI, my Cran/Grap juice has both Sodium and Potassium and my OJ has Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium! So I guess the "cocktail" I make for my water bottles is on the right track!

My cocktail also probably tastes a lot better than a most of those other things too! (OJ, Cran/Grape, Water).

 

[svk]

FYI, my Cran/Grap juice has both Sodium and Potassium and my OJ has Sodium, Potassium and Magnesium! So I guess the "cocktail" I make for my water bottles is on the right track!

My cocktail also probably tastes a lot better than a most of those other things too! (OJ, Cran/Grape, Water).

I must need more salt than the average person cause even sports drinks and juices do not prevent headaches like Pedialyte does. The one juice I really crave though is tomato juice.