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Take care @CapricornFarm. I'd hate to hear that you ran yourself into the ground. Rest when you can so your body has the strength to concentrate on healing..
I only went outside today to get the ducklings together for my friend. I do need to clean brooders and move chicks today. The two bathroom brooders are full, and chicks are hatching. I have an order to ship eggs too.
X2!
Phew , 88° here! Went out, built a chicken ladder, came back in. Gatorade time.
Hey Old folks wet here but not raining at the moment got up kinda late ..
Looks pretty quiet out
Looks pretty quiet out
Wow, those trees grew fast to get to such a diameter.
Mike Morgan (outdoorswiththemorgans) says red oak takes a full year to dry unlike other woods like maple and cherry. Not sure if it would take as long if the tree was already dead though a lot of what he cuts is dead standing or high wind blow over.
OK, thanks. I was afraid I'd rip the rubber boot.
Is this kinda what it looks like when you log? You can see that my trees aren't nearly as large as yours.
Wanna bring that thing over to my house? I have an ancient sugar maple with a dead "main branch/trunk" starting up around 35' but the rest of the tree is still doing OK.
They can't even give food away??
Cynthia. I'm glad you have her at home. Hard to watch but you can spend much more time with her than when she was in the nursing home. I'm sure she is happy to be with you. to you as well @spartacus_63, condolences on the loss of your FIL.
Need about 4 trees out here would love to find someone to do the job they can have the wood
@bruceha2000, on occasion we've had the tow straps and log chains strung up like lights on a Christmas tree..I think the last time while we were clearing out scrub trees around our pond. I was on the Mahindra and when DH yelled PULL, I did.
Now we just cut down the trees in the direction that we want to drop and hope it decides to fall that way when DH takes the chain saw to it.
Speaking of DH he wants to know what you are using to pull that tree.
As for Oak, the tree we dropped last year died last June/July. We dropped it in the fall and let it lay all winter. The main trunk is still oozing sap when we split it but we have found that the sooner we get it split and piled the faster it will cure. It should be ready to burn by fall, especially since we have it piled on the south side of our barn and there is air circulating around it. Not to mention sun hitting it. We also discovered that the smaller the pieces of wood, the faster it cures.
The second dead tree we dropped died early last year, probably April. We saw sap oozing on it from the main trunk also.
The older the oak the better it burns. We've harvested dead fall that has lost it bark and has been standing for 2 years dead before falling and it still cranks out the BTUs. It all burns. We try to save our higher BTU wood, Hickory, Oak and Honey Locust for super cold weather. We've burned everything from elm to poplar though and kept warm.
I'll have to get some pictures of some of our old growth oak and Hickory.
Now we just cut down the trees in the direction that we want to drop and hope it decides to fall that way when DH takes the chain saw to it.
Speaking of DH he wants to know what you are using to pull that tree.
As for Oak, the tree we dropped last year died last June/July. We dropped it in the fall and let it lay all winter. The main trunk is still oozing sap when we split it but we have found that the sooner we get it split and piled the faster it will cure. It should be ready to burn by fall, especially since we have it piled on the south side of our barn and there is air circulating around it. Not to mention sun hitting it. We also discovered that the smaller the pieces of wood, the faster it cures.
The second dead tree we dropped died early last year, probably April. We saw sap oozing on it from the main trunk also.
The older the oak the better it burns. We've harvested dead fall that has lost it bark and has been standing for 2 years dead before falling and it still cranks out the BTUs. It all burns. We try to save our higher BTU wood, Hickory, Oak and Honey Locust for super cold weather. We've burned everything from elm to poplar though and kept warm.
I'll have to get some pictures of some of our old growth oak and Hickory.
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