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Xrack self cleaning firewood rack I designed this "Xrack" for storing wood next to our stove. It will hold quite a vit of wood though it is nearly empty in this photo. It is self cleaning and has a catch box under the open vee of the corrugated sheet metal pieces. The corrugations direct...

According to this range/distribution map of the Black Ash it does not (I'm in west/central Arkansas) but it could be a hybrid. After years of looking at trees and identifying them I still have to scratch my head over some that don't fit all the criteria for a species...

Yes that is a very good site and one of the ones I like to use. That's what I was thinking and I agree, but leaves on other White Ash I have are very different. I guess the bottom line is how much do leaves of a specific tree species vary, and I don't know how to answer that. The opposite...

Pumpkin Ash is out and it's no Hickory either. Everything points to some kind of Ash, just don't know what kind.

Sick of it......my river bottom green field has been under the river twice.

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Is this tree Ash? I have several young trees on part of our land that are a little bit of a puzzle to me. I believe them to be young White Ash trees but the thing that throws me is the leaf size. I know they are not Dogwood or Maple, Horsechestnut, Paulownia or Box Elder. Other Ash trees...

Just wood. Nothing like it.

Those are skidding tongs and have been around for several hundred years, and yes ice men did use a smaller version of them to carry blocks of ice around on their shoulders. When I had my sawmill these skidding tongs are what I used to skid logs up to the cold deck. I roll big chunks up an...

You aren't nuts. Neither of us are. Everyone that grew up watching Disney and Bambi are apparently qualified environmental experts. They're not just out of touch with nature and the earth, they never made contact in the first place. I do feel sorry for them, but often that is overcome with...

The bark on some of those pieces - especially the top center piece in the first photo looks like Black Cherry with those individual scales that are so distinctive of it. Black Cherry trees can be identified by their bark even when leaves are not present and are pretty common in our portion of...

I'm in Arkansas too, and we have saved loads of $$$$ this year and heat 100% with wood, never even turning on any other heaters. We only use LP gas for cooking/water heating. With the economy like it is pus other circumstances I would even eliminate even those if I had a practical way. If the...

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Last winter at Christmas we began to heat with wood again after 20+ years and was forced to burn all green Ash which actually wasn't so bad. Have enough cut from last winter to make it till spring. Working on next years now and have about; 1/2 cord White Ash 1/3 cord Hickory 1 3/4 cords Red...

Saw this clip on youtube and so thought I'd give it a shot. This photo is only a cell phone pic and is not the best. I'll take some "good" photos when I have this totally completed. I'm not quite finished but it gives you an idea of what it will look like when completed. The flowers were turned...

OK, I figured it out so I could make some. Wanted to make an arrangement of them for my wife's birthday. Made several from Hickory, Sumac and winged elm and all worked OK. Made stems from Hickory twigs and a base from part of a Red Cedar root. Leaves are pine shavings trimmed to a leaf blade...

Maybe you should start a "woodsplitting spa" and charge customers (a splinter group) half of what the "fitness centers" do to split a face cord or so of wood on each visit. Like Tom Sawyer with a splitting maul instead of a paint brush. "Theraputic wood division" is a good politically correct...

I have a plastic owl decoy I bought to hunt crows with. Find a sporting goods store that has one and take pictures of it or buy one. It would make a good model for a carving.

Sugar Maple.

I use paper towels and vinegar. The acid cuts the crud right off.