SteveSS
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They do it on my mulberry trees too.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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SteveSS
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I have to be on travel next week for work in Illinois. As usual, I was perusing CL in advance to scout any saws that may be worth looking into. There was? a rear handle 200 up where I'm going to be that I was? going to have a look at. Where'd ya' happen to find that one?
benp
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Thoroughly agree on taking out the tree pigs especially if you or neighbors have dogs. It's not a matter of if.....
If you have a dog that has the mindset of critters falling from the tree equals play toys......make sure they are secured before you shoot the pork.....
I learned this the hard way but was lucky that he only booped it with his nose as it bounced and did not go full on Great White.
Just went by there on Sunday morning.If you get a minute just throw a few in.
The biggest deer I see are going between the oak and corn, and travel a good distance to get to oak nuts.
We don't have much of a problem with that around these parts. Although one did tear up a bunch of bee hives 6 miles from me, rare though to have them this far south.
I was thinking of both you guys when I ran down to Ft Wayne today.
I went right by the Kubota dealer in Charlotte.
SVK you might recognize this intersection, I-69 and 80-90 at Freemont IN.
View attachment 487761
Scrounged up these today. Don't see that bottom one everyday
View attachment 487762 This was on my way back in the rd at the intersection of m-50 & m-43, I just pulled up to it and stopped for the stop sign and grabbed it.
What's a scrounger to do.View attachment 487763
And this on the way home from church yesterday.View attachment 487764 I even got it all split up with the Fiskars and in the wood rack in the house.View attachment 487765
Nice purse BTW.
Happy 2nd Birthday to the best thread on the internet!!!!!
kingOFgEEEks
Out, standing in my field.
I got tired of lifting buckets of sap, so I put my slaves to work...
this is a sappy bunch a posts... nary a one about getting or scrounging firewood... but heating the gathered tree syrup. awesome!
and then pix of cooking it down... and now pix of the entire '2nd' shift production crew... no doubt as good as it gets in Hollywood... great theme, lots of suspense - will it taste good?, and intrigue... drama at its best. keep those sappy posts coming on in... can't wait for the 'bottling show!' lol good updates, makes me want to just lie down and.....
oh! oh yeah... and
that too!
kingOFgEEEks
Out, standing in my field.
this is a sappy bunch a posts... nary a one about getting or scrounging firewood... but heating the gathered tree syrup. awesome!
oh! oh yeah... and
that too!
That's the problem about being a year ahead on firewood - I don't need to do a lot of scrounging, so I have to provide something for you guys to read and comment on when you are supposed to be working!
I hope to have bottling pics tonight.
nomad_archer
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That's the problem about being a year ahead on firewood - I don't need to do a lot of scrounging, so I have to provide something for you guys to read and comment on when you are supposed to be working!
I hope to have bottling pics tonight.
Only a year ahead?!?!
kingOFgEEEks
Out, standing in my field.
Hoping to get year #2 this fall. There are a lot of tops on the neighbor's propery - about 50 yards from my sap collecting pictures. I would guesstimate 10-15 cords that are reasonably accessible. I am hoping to check with him next time I see him about getting permission to scrounge some of it up. Plus, we are talking about logging our own 212 acres, so there will be plenty of tops there too.
nomad_archer
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212 acres would leave a lot of tops plus some A+ deer habitat.
Is there any hard/fast rule of number of cords worth of tops per acre?
We cleaned up a 40 acre cut and there must have been 12 cords of hardwood tops and at least that much of aspen that was left to rot.
kingOFgEEEks
Out, standing in my field.
No rule that I know of. There seems to be a lot of tops left for the amount of logs taken out on the neighbor's property. He had a local Amishman log with horses, mainly going after ash trees before the EAB can get them, and I swear there are 'tops' there that have another log left in them if you took the time. I believe the local mill is currently not taking anything smaller than 14" diameter at the small end.
we always figured about a 1/2 cord per top. with pulp wood prices higher the loggers are scrounging all they can after they get the saw logs out. we started buying tops at $5-10 per top when they only took the saw logs and you could saw a lot of wood. just saw an ad from a guy that had his property logged. he want $60 an 8' p/u bed full. u cut.
USMC615
Wood's Tougher Than Woodpecker Lips...
Persimmon trees as well...they'll just about stand on each other's backs to get to 'em.
kingOFgEEEks
Out, standing in my field.
You must be cutting bigger trees. Red maples and oak around here rarely go past 16" DBH so tops are a whole lot smaller. The piles we were working were from when logs were delimbed in the woods and tree length logs skidded to the landing. When we were scrounging was basically the cut offs at the top of the tree that were less than 8' longwe always figured about a 1/2 cord per top. with pulp wood prices higher the loggers are scrounging all they can after they get the saw logs out. we started buying tops at $5-10 per top when they only took the saw logs and you could saw a lot of wood. just saw an ad from a guy that had his property logged. he want $60 an 8' p/u bed full. u cut.
I got into some tops last spring. Some maple I had to cut from 2 sides with a 20" bar. Most were 16" and smaller. Tops are a pile of work unless you can get a tractor in.
I was just truck and trailer so if it was within hucking distance, I cut it. No more than two throws away. No way I'd pay 60 bucks for pickup load that I had to cut and load myself. I can get a load of logs dropped at the house for less than that. My deal was cut a cord for me, cut one for the landowner and leave his lay, he'd come get it. No hauling or stacking. I pulled 16 facecord out of there. Good hard maple. It was worth it.
I was just truck and trailer so if it was within hucking distance, I cut it. No more than two throws away. No way I'd pay 60 bucks for pickup load that I had to cut and load myself. I can get a load of logs dropped at the house for less than that. My deal was cut a cord for me, cut one for the landowner and leave his lay, he'd come get it. No hauling or stacking. I pulled 16 facecord out of there. Good hard maple. It was worth it.
