Let me get this right. You get to go and slay 2 acres worth of trees (not spruce)? Score!
What's the catch? Have to pull or burn stumps? Clear brush?
One way or another, it's gonna take a lot of pics
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Let me get this right. You get to go and slay 2 acres worth of trees (not spruce)? Score!
What's the catch? Have to pull or burn stumps? Clear brush?
One way or another, it's gonna take a lot of pics
That's a good looking pile! Looks like there's some stacking to do. Assuming that you're six foot tall and assuming that pic was taken from about chest height, that pile must be about 15 feet high....that's about worthy of being called Mt Nazi.
Can't beat delivered scrounge!!!!
Dry ash and green locust. I was planning on picking this up this morning but the guys wife said she wanted it out of the yard because they were having a family get together today. It wasn't totally free. i gave the guy 2 dozen sweet corn from the market.
Dry ash and green locust. I was planning on picking this up this morning but the guys wife said she wanted it out of the yard because they were having a family get together today. It wasn't totally free. i gave the guy 2 dozen sweet corn from the market.
Can't beat delivered scrounge!!!!
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Are the BTUs from 24 sweet corn as good as a trailer load of ash and locust?
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Yes but locust doesn't taste as good.
Wow, that's a lot of work. I hope you don't have to clean anything up. Looks like a bunch of dead standing trees. Can you pick and choose, or do you have to start at one point and clear everything. Should have a mountain of CSS by winter!
This is one of the ones I lost the name tag for, and it's one of my favorites. I think the tag said something like "Notta Spruce"?
These guy's might get some kind of scrounging award.
Just think, a scrounge coming from Toronto and Alaska, to PA!
Just think, a scrounge coming from Toronto and Alaska, to PA!
Is this ground based PI? I’ve only dealt with the vine version.
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looks like it. It starts as a plant just like that then vines up whatever it can grab
Dust off, and nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.
That’s what I was thinking. The hairy vines are very easy to identify compared to other ivy and creeper.
It’s funny because when this stuff is present it’s very thick. But it’s only in a few places on this property.
I treat every suspected plant like kryptonite lol. I even wash my winter clothing after every potential exposure. Knock on wood, no rash yet and I’ve been cutting here for 5 years.
Thankfully we don't get it. Worst we have are stinging nettles and brambles for thorns. We leave the drop bears, crocs, sharks, nasty spiders and painful plants to the rest of the world.
Back home we are pretty lucky too. Out here in NY there’s ivy, multiple thorny berry bushes, and wild roses. A few areas along the road here get so choked up with roses that I only will work out there in the winter so I can have heavy clothing for defense.
Let me get this right. You get to go and slay 2 acres worth of trees (not spruce)? Score!
What's the catch? Have to pull or burn stumps? Clear brush?
One way or another, it's gonna take a lot of pics
In true CL fashion, there is always a bit of a catch. I dont have to mess with brush or stumps, no shares, fees, etc. but it is on a fair slope for these parts, there is a pole height power line running thru part of it (a.k.a. the best part of it), and it needs to be done in the next few weeks.
Still working out my logistics for getting it all out of there. Flop and drop is the easy part.
I can and will cherry pick it as I have a bit of a schedule to work around, but I am not against taking the standing dead as well as the live. I'll grab the stems first and then work on tops as time allows. The whole site is going to get dozed over in the future.
Sounds good. If you had to clean up all the debris it would be a deal breaker for me. Now we need weekly updates.
I like the “I cut, you clean” deal as well. Usually when I do volunteer work I just do the cutting as nobody on camp is allowed to use the saw other than the director who is not real keen on running it unless necessary.
