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Forestry and Logging / Re: Clearing small saplings
Last post by livemusic - Today at 02:02:53 PMQuote from: Magicman on Today at 01:20:57 PMHoney Locust has to be my most "un-favorite" tree species. True, I hates Sweetgum but a Sweetgum ball never gave me a flat tire.Yep. I understand that there is a cultivar of honey locust that is thornless and has been planted as landscape trees in some areas. Just yard trees, I suppose. Guys I know who are in the know scramble to get those for firewood if they are felled for whatever reason. Terrific, super-hot burning firewood. And, even the ones with terrible thorns, get rid of those and they make the same, great firewood.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Clearing small saplings
Last post by Magicman - Today at 01:20:57 PMHoney Locust has to be my most "un-favorite" tree species. True, I hates Sweetgum but a Sweetgum ball never gave me a flat tire. 
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Health and Safety / Re: My cancer journey
Last post by Magicman - Today at 01:08:06 PMMy Prayers are with you my Special Friend, and I wish you the best as you continue this unfortunate journey.
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Health and Safety / Re: My cancer journey
Last post by Bricklayer51 - Today at 12:56:39 PM Well everyone this is this post i never wanted to post went tues for chemo after a long talk with my doc check my labs decided to stop the chemo and live whats left
.of my life iam going to still post this best i can having a lot of problems its been a joy being part of this group hoping things stay well for you Ed breaks my heart every time we lose a vet especially a vietnam vet take care
.of my life iam going to still post this best i can having a lot of problems its been a joy being part of this group hoping things stay well for you Ed breaks my heart every time we lose a vet especially a vietnam vet take care
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Firewood and Wood Heating / Re: For the guys selling bundl...
Last post by B.C.C. Lapp - Today at 12:56:27 PMBarbender I was planning to keep most of the oak and beach and slow drying stuff more for the stacked winter heating wood. I figured I would use mostly red maple, ash and cherry for the bundles cause they dry twice as fast. That's what I've always done in my racks.
Yeah, presentation is everything. I get that. Its even important in my racks. The better it looks, neat, not a pile of bark laying around the rack, clean wood, not a lot of loose bark, all counts. I certainly agree it matters.
I'll tell you this, ain't nobody here going to give me twenty bucks for a bundle of firewood. I'm hoping I can get $4.50 a bundle for myself and they can retail those bundles for maybe $7.50 or there abouts. But I really don't know yet. The only MUST is it has to pay better than the racks or the loose cord deliveries because it will take so much more time.
Yeah, presentation is everything. I get that. Its even important in my racks. The better it looks, neat, not a pile of bark laying around the rack, clean wood, not a lot of loose bark, all counts. I certainly agree it matters.
I'll tell you this, ain't nobody here going to give me twenty bucks for a bundle of firewood. I'm hoping I can get $4.50 a bundle for myself and they can retail those bundles for maybe $7.50 or there abouts. But I really don't know yet. The only MUST is it has to pay better than the racks or the loose cord deliveries because it will take so much more time.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: is there a best time to ha...
Last post by moodnacreek - Today at 12:53:13 PMWe don't have hemlock anymore but back when I was learning we did. An old time sawmill man whose mill I often visited owned a wood lot with large hemlock and pine. It was like a virgin stand but I thinki t may of been original 2nd growth, Anyhow he would only cut hemlock in the fall and saw it before spring. He claimed there would be much less shrinkage and splitting and that is certainly true.
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Forestry and Logging / is there a best time to harves...
Last post by maple flats - Today at 12:44:39 PMI have some rather ambishous plans this year for my sawmill, likely greater than my body will keep up with. As such, I'm wondering if it really matters when I fall the trees needed for my multiple projects as long as I store the logs up off the ground. While I set here, as it's raining outside I am wondering how many trees I should cut in the next 2-3 months. I have a good supply of 14-28" dbh hemlocks. My wishes are to build an addition on the side of my shop, a 14x32' 1 story, off one side of the shop, a leanto roof off the other side, 10'x28', a pavilian style cover for my Woodland Mills HM130Max on their trailer, open both ends to drive thru if I need to move the mill, a 12x16' storage shed, an 8x10 sawmill shop, with all of my equipment for the mill, sharpener, setter, chainsaw grinder, saws, logrite tools and spare parts and chains and maybe even a 8x18' solar kiln. The Kiln would come last because the projects will all be built using lumber off the mill in a short period of time (green).
If I tire out too quickly and I have logs on runners off the ground, do they suffer very soon or will they last a year or more.
At the age of 77 my days are no longer 14 hrs long, in fact about 1/3 that time is more likely, and my grandson who I had planned to get to help me recently got a "real" job, he works at a pizza shop part time. I've tried over the years to hire other school aged helpers but I've never gotten much success in who I hired and my budget doesn't allow me to hire a man with family full time. The school aged kids all now seem to just play games using their thumbs. My last good helper is now in the Navy and it's sounding like he may be a career guy, as such he has 14 more years. By then I'd be 89, likely too late for any plans. If i'm still above the daisies i'll likely just be in my recliner watching others work.
If I tire out too quickly and I have logs on runners off the ground, do they suffer very soon or will they last a year or more.
At the age of 77 my days are no longer 14 hrs long, in fact about 1/3 that time is more likely, and my grandson who I had planned to get to help me recently got a "real" job, he works at a pizza shop part time. I've tried over the years to hire other school aged helpers but I've never gotten much success in who I hired and my budget doesn't allow me to hire a man with family full time. The school aged kids all now seem to just play games using their thumbs. My last good helper is now in the Navy and it's sounding like he may be a career guy, as such he has 14 more years. By then I'd be 89, likely too late for any plans. If i'm still above the daisies i'll likely just be in my recliner watching others work.
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Firewood and Wood Heating / Re: For the guys selling bundl...
Last post by B.C.C. Lapp - Today at 12:44:27 PMGuys, I been selling campfire wood to folks sense 1995. Never had anybody mention rules and I was never quite silly enough to ask. Once in a while I park a trailer in a pull off area across from a state campground and sell it to some camper before the day is out. Nobody ever complains. At least not yet.
I WILL admit once I took a load over the state line into Ohio near Andover Ohio. Only had to go about four miles over the state line. Didn't I roll right up on a traffic check being done by some Ohio Highway Patrol. They checked my drivers license, walked around my truck and trailer and I heard a Trooper say to the other older one "Hey is he allowed to take green wood over the state line?" I heard the other trooper respond, "Who gives a (pile of manure)." But he didn't say pile of manure.
I WILL admit once I took a load over the state line into Ohio near Andover Ohio. Only had to go about four miles over the state line. Didn't I roll right up on a traffic check being done by some Ohio Highway Patrol. They checked my drivers license, walked around my truck and trailer and I heard a Trooper say to the other older one "Hey is he allowed to take green wood over the state line?" I heard the other trooper respond, "Who gives a (pile of manure)." But he didn't say pile of manure.
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Forestry and Logging / Re: Clearing small saplings
Last post by livemusic - Today at 12:42:40 PMQuote from: beenthere on Today at 12:23:12 PMlivemusicWOW, you're my hero, lol! My brother plays golf with a bunch of 80-somethings. He is a kid at 65. I hope I'm alive at 85!
I'm still doing this clearing/maintaining my trails and enjoying them at age 85. 70 was a looong time ago. I hopped out of the Gator a lot faster back then than I do now, but still enjoy playing the game and the trails.
The best tool I think that I use on the trails is my Stihl battery-power pole saw HTA-65. It is 7' long and can reach out a good ways, or just stay tucked close for easy carry.
I have a Milwaukee battery polesaw, used it just yesterday. My 94 year old neighbor had an apple tree that split and I cleaned it up and then she has an umbrella tree, whatever that is, and she wanted it topped to keep it from growing taller. I also have a hedge trimmer attachment for it and use it on trails.
I also used the polesaw a few days ago on some wicked thorny water locust trees on the edge of my pasture and that is going to be quite a project by itself. I finally decided they have to go and I called the forestry service to get herbicide recommendation. I try not to use herbicide, ever, but I am making the exception here, they have to go. My thinking at this time is to girdle them and apply herbicide to that, let 'em stand until the bark and thorns (hopefully) fall off, then fell them where they stand and push them into a pile and burn. Then rake and burn if I can until I don't see any thorns. When I was a kid we used to get lots of tractor flats from these thorns. I wish my locust were thornless, they are attractive trees otherwise. I don't like flat tires! Or punctured feet.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Forestry Forum Website
Last post by Peter Drouin - Today at 12:36:38 PMI don't have a TV 
