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Ouch, my brain hurts. I had it all figured out how much more lumber i needed, until hubby started figuring. We never figure the same way . But the answer was the same in the end.:lau i added on more, just to be sure. Besides, i want some to play with.
 
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Ouch, my brain hurts. I had it all figured out how much more lumber i needed, until hubby started figuring. We never figure the same way . But the answer was the same in the end.:lau i added on more, just to be sure. Besides, i want some to play with.
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I doubt you'll ever waste any excess lumber!
I love having a stash, so I can build when the spirit strikes.
 
I took Ollie down to the mower, wrapped a tow strap around the front axles and in just a second, Ollie lifted Minnie Pearl right out of there..
I finished mowing the "lawn" and then tackled the orchard.. let me tell you, that was a picnic.. fallen branches everywhere.
the orchard is 80 black walnuts. I do believe they drop more branches than a willow..
at the end of the black walnuts I have a few rows of jack pine. there is some sort of viney weed that is hard to eradicate. two years ago I had my nephew help me and we pulled those nuisances out by the roots.
wherever a root broke off, there was a new vine.. they resemble elderberry bushes, sort of..
anyway, I found one of my tow chains hanging in a pine tree.. and I found a hemp rope on the ground. It wrapped around the mower blades and choked the tractor off. I sharpened a bone handled knife and cut the rope off..
I checked the blades while I was at it.
a few nicks in them. I will have to sharpen them soon. I am going to try to just lift the mower up with Ollie and take the blades off. that way I won't have to remove the whole mower deck.

I have lots of rough sawn lumber . but I cannot come up with a good item to make to sell. I have red pine, red oak, some maple and some bitter nut..
One project I am thinking of is a cutting board that will fit over both sections of the kitchen sink.
.....jiminwisc..........
 
jvls1942 said:
I took Ollie down to the mower, wrapped a tow strap around the front axles and in just a second, Ollie lifted Minnie Pearl right out of there..
I finished mowing the "lawn" and then tackled the orchard.. let me tell you, that was a picnic.. fallen branches everywhere.
the orchard is 80 black walnuts. I do believe they drop more branches than a willow..
at the end of the black walnuts I have a few rows of jack pine. there is some sort of viney weed that is hard to eradicate. two years ago I had my nephew help me and we pulled those nuisances out by the roots.
wherever a root broke off, there was a new vine.. they resemble elderberry bushes, sort of..
anyway, I found one of my tow chains hanging in a pine tree.. and I found a hemp rope on the ground. It wrapped around the mower blades and choked the tractor off. I sharpened a bone handled knife and cut the rope off..
I checked the blades while I was at it.
a few nicks in them. I will have to sharpen them soon. I am going to try to just lift the mower up with Ollie and take the blades off. that way I won't have to remove the whole mower deck.

I have lots of rough sawn lumber . but I cannot come up with a good item to make to sell. I have red pine, red oak, some maple and some bitter nut..
One project I am thinking of is a cutting board that will fit over both sections of the kitchen sink.
.....jiminwisc..........
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How about signs? Or benches?
 
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We are having glorious days. dry and sunny.
to our south is where the rain is. we will get it eventually.

today is officially pick-up-fallen-branches day
IDK how long my back will hold out.
also have to clear a spot in the garage for Minnie Pearl..
I have always wanted to build a porch swing.. or a lawn glider swing .
I made a couple of cutting blocks.
IDk if there is much of a market for those.
....jiminwisc.....
 
jvls1942 said:
We are having glorious days. dry and sunny.
to our south is where the rain is. we will get it eventually.

today is officially pick-up-fallen-branches day
IDK how long my back will hold out.
also have to clear a spot in the garage for Minnie Pearl..
I have always wanted to build a porch swing.. or a lawn glider swing .
I made a couple of cutting blocks.
IDk if there is much of a market for those.
....jiminwisc.....
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Every day could be pick up fallen branches day here! The woods are full of them.
Today we got a start on the runs. Made four , 6 foot by 8 foot panels to use for the run. Waiting on more lumber. We figure five rolls of 3 foot 2"x4" welded wire will do the job. Hopefully my compressor will run on the extension cords running out there.
 
when I started building my first spec house, I had to run wire from the box about 200 feet from the foundation. I just unrolled a box of romex and put a 4 plex box at the end .
I plugged in my radial arm saw and the blade just swung back and forth a little.
If I gave it a nudge, in either direction, it would run either forward or backward.
Annie went to town for awhile this morning. I had a lull time so I looked the old Husqvarna over a bit. found out why the belt was slipping, fixed it and took it for a trial run through some thick weeds.
It cut really well.. I am almost afraid to tell this to Annie.. LOL
I will use it to cut tightly around the trees. It works better than the tractor for that purpose.. I have over 125 trees to trim around in the grove..
I cut a tree down two summers ago. right on the corner of the pine grove. Now with all the rest of the trees trimmed out, that corner of weeds looks bad. I hauled out two large branches . still have the main trunk and some odds and ends to haul out
I hope I can do it without having to cut that log into smaller pieces.
right now it is pushing 80F. I will wait for it to cool off just before dark before I go at it again..
.....jiminwisc.....
 
Molpet said:
and south of you I am a rainy 64f
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Kinda nice to feel 'cold', eh?
Another heat wave coming soon tho:
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