My slab pile is out of hand!

[tyb525]

Jake, unless you compost that wood, mulch won't do any good for the garden. It might actually harm it.

[hackberry jake]

It'll have close to a year to breakdown some. The plants we mulch always do much better than the ones we don't. This year I multched one row of corn and had three rows unmulched. The row I mulched is the only row we got decent corn from. It accepts more water an holds the moisture for longer. It also keeps the soil cooler. There's nothing wrong with adding carbon to the soil as long as you add nitrogen to break it down. We have a dump truck load of chicken litter spread on the garden every fall then we till it all together. The mulch/litter/soil mix all turns out right by spring. If it weren't for mulch I would spend most of my time in the garden pulling pigweed. I hates pigweed  >:(

[WDH]

I hates pigweed  >:(

I hates nutgrass  .

[bandmiller2]

Jake has the right idea sawdust ties up the nitrogen when it breaks down in the soil and requires the addition of nitrogen.I've used horsey poop with alot of shavings between the corn rows with good effect.As far as slabs, I'am spoiled again, I just throw them in a pile and the tree service guys cut them up for our heat when things are slow. Frank C.

[slider]

pig weed,big problem here in georgia although cows love it as well as pigs and goats.it's taking over here.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

We have Mexicans that come by every year and buy corn to make tortillas.

They also pick a trash bag FULL of PIG WEED leaves from the young plants. They cook them up like you do polk salad.....olive oil, onions, bacon. They say it's good. I was told it's a Greek dish also.


And Danny, you are RIGHT! Nut grass is almost like kudzu!!!!  >:(

[sandhills]

Pigweed doesn't bother me much (easy to kill), although I can't say as I'd like to eat it  ;)  Waterhemp on the other hand is a whole different story, you can keep it.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Can't legally burn em here in NY, so now give them away after trying unsuccessfully to sell at $20 per pickup load.
Edgings are the problem as even for free people don't want them.

[Dewey]

I pile m slabs  and before winter I have a Tub Grinder come in They usually get 11-12 trailer loads  that they turn to mulch.... They pay me $450 per load....

[drobertson]

How many bundles (42X42) typ. size does it take to make a load? Thanks.

[thecfarm]

Dewey that is some slab pile and sawing too.

[Magicman]

Since I am portable, I just saw um and leave um.   ;D


 

[Cypressstump]

I've been burning most of my mine since just getting started. The old sinker gum center heart log left over due to it being hollowed posed a slight problem until yesterday. I had a 10"x10"x 20' useless cant , water logged so it would take forever to dry out to burn.The tuplio gum center hearts shake out so the centers are no good anyways. I toted the cant with the forklift and set it near my burn pile in sight of the little road my mill is off of. It's sorta of a impressive piece of wood to passerbys.

Few hours later 2 guys pull up and asked If I was going to burn that " big ole timber" ?
I explained to them it was no good for any more board. Said did'nt matter they would like to have it. I said its checked badly and hollow down the middle, it's gonna split on ya. ... Could not talk them out of it. So the they returned with a trailer and I gladly forked it up on the trailer for them, have no idea how they will get it off or move it. Don't care now that it's gone anyways, all parties iz happy !

Heck, I coulda got a beer off that ole pc of junk !     ;D ;D

[WDH]

MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

 

 

[WDH]

See, I told you  :D.

[pineywoods]

MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

I resemble that remark.  Y'all must have been watching re-runs. I watched the real thing on the neighbor's 12 inch crosley black and white tv.  ;D ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

I resemble that remark.  Y'all must have been watching re-runs. I watched the real thing on the neighbor's 12 inch crosley black and white tv.  ;D ;D

Hey Danny.....I thing he's got us on this one.   ;D

[WH_Conley]

Gee, Piney. I thought they were original when I watched them in the 60's. Good TV is hard to find.

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Gee, Piney. I thought they were original when I watched them in the 60's. Good TV is hard to find.

The series ran from 1957 to 1963, so you could have been watching the original in the early sixties...

Herb

[Peter Drouin]

This is what I do

  

    works for me, then I sell them :D :D :D

[thecfarm]

Magicman,that looks just about the size of my slab pile. My Boo-Boo was down there under it a good 2 hours barking steady. I went down and got him and brought him up to the house to get some water and 5 minutes later he was down there again. He can't understand why I don't help him get the woodchunk that is living in it. Or that's what i think is in there. He got quite a ways under it too. i told him he's to old and fat to be doing that.  ;D  He don't listen to well when he hunting. I did take the lawn mower down to mow around it. I might get a shoot at it.

[ellmoe]

MM,

That is your Modus Operandi. 

You are also like Palidan, Have Sawmill, Will Travel.  The young guys on here will not understand the Palidan part, but you old codgers will  :D.

  Dang, I woke up this morning feeling fine and now I'm an "old codger"! I think I'll shuffle over to my rocker, grab my shawl, and take a nap! That is, if I can find my walker to help get me over there. You young "whipper- snappers" hold down the fort while I'm dozing.....I ain't talking to you Danny! ;D
Mark

[Magicman]

I feel more like I do now than I did when I didn't.   

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

 say_what

I feel more like I do now than I did when I didn't.