Mega Poplar scrounge this morning, 7 pickup loads that my timber man left me in culls,
Got 2 other piles like this.
Got 2 other piles like this.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I bought the same Fiskars pole saw you have when I moved in here ten years back and it's been one of my handiest tree trimming tools and worth the cost.
Geez , didn't you see in the pic that the chute for the rear bagger was open , I needed it to unclog the long wet grass ,,,, Honest LOL
I used my Fiskars pole saw to take down a birch tree on a customers front lawn , took off all the branches then used it at full extension and a step ladder to cut the top that I could reach which made short enough to drop in a very tight zone .
I did cut up some slabwood today from some scrounged spruce that I milled up this summer , it burns fine
Piled the 7 loads, not a real good pic but it is 12 feet across.
this is the next scrounge pile, gonna guess it will be about 10 - 12 pickup loads, cant see real good cause of the weeds, This pile is 6 feet tall 12 feet wide and around 20 feet long. Culls are mixed with hard maple, red oak, ash, cherry
and mostly poplar
this is the next scrounge pile, gonna guess it will be about 10 - 12 pickup loads, cant see real good cause of the weeds, This pile is 6 feet tall 12 feet wide and around 20 feet long. Culls are mixed with hard maple, red oak, ash, cherry
and mostly poplar
Hey Wudpirat , in my furnace manual it sez you can use a penny to keep the draft flap open in case of power outage , that amount of air will not let the furnace overheat and convection will move the air around .
nomad_archer
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I didn't get much done this weekend. Rainy and had a wedding last night. Today I had to help my wife recover from too many rum and rum drinks. Did pull the garden. I have a 5 gallon bucket of various hot, banana, and bell peppers. Anyone have a good ideas for making the peppers last a long time?
Weather permitting I am cleaning the chimney and splitting some wood this weekend.
Got peppers?
Weather permitting I am cleaning the chimney and splitting some wood this weekend.
Got peppers?
Yea, I harvested my squash last week (butternut & spaghetti).
zogger
Tree Freak
I didn't get much done this weekend. Rainy and had a wedding last night. Today I had to help my wife recover from too many rum and rum drinks. Did pull the garden. I have a 5 gallon bucket of various hot, banana, and bell peppers. Anyone have a good ideas for making the peppers last a long time?
Weather permitting I am cleaning the chimney and splitting some wood this weekend.
Got peppers?
Nice haul, we've been eating peppers for months now, any possible variation that exists, and I ain't sick of them yet. Except for real hot ones that I just can't eat, but moderate to sweet, I love 'em! A lot of them got cleaned, de-seeded, chopped up and frozen. Still getting materz but they slowed down a lot. Put in some cruciferous stuff, and four more flats to plant, a lot of that will go to the cluckeraptors.
nomad_archer
Addicted to ArboristSite
I think I need to freeze some. I have been eating peppers for months as well. Zog how do you freeze them? Just freezer bag and into the freezer?
zogger
Tree Freak
Yep. GF does it, cuts em open, takes out the excess seeds (save for the chickens), cuts em up, into freezer bags. Similar with extra squash.
This spring I had located a nice red oak along a road and concealed it in brush. Today I bucked it up and hauled it home. Completely solid except for the first couple of rounds where it broke off the stump.
NA i just clean them and dice onto a cookie sheet and freeze. then i put them in zip-lock freezer bags. keeps them loose so you can take out what you need this winter.
from the food scroungers channel.
headin down to the treestand in a bit to watch dawn arrive.
nomad_archer
Addicted to ArboristSite
Good luck Farmer Steve. Probably another week or two until I am able to get out with the bow.
DrewUth
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Bought myself a moisture meter to test some wood. I know everyone says to let oak season for a year or more, my father has always said three months is plenty. Well I tested some white and red oak that was alive and thriving when I cut it down this past April. I bucked it into rounds and stacked it along my driveway at that time, just split the rounds and stacked it two weeks ago. Test an average of 15% on the meter (a few 12s, and handful of 17s)- I think that's pretty good. Now it has been a very dry summer, but the wood wasn't in a wide open area or even fully exposed to sun. I burned some this past week and it was just fine, Thoughts?
Ryan Groat
ArboristSite Operative
Did you take it on the ends or did you split them open? If you took them on the ends it won't be a correct reading.
DrewUth
Jack of all trades, master of none.
I am a Poulan man, and I keep a Craftsman 2.2 top handle (Poulan Micro series) with a 14" bar on it. Lightweight and very capable saw, runs like a top and takes up next to no space in the truck.
DrewUth
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Both actually- it read about 1% higher in the middle of the split area than on the ends.
dor-moor hands
ArboristSite Member
I usually blanch the peppers before freezing so the keep longer. I would can the banana peppers and have some great sandwiches. Use the hot peppers in some salsa. All I have left in the garden is kale, spinach and Brussels sprouts everything else is stored.
