Got a call early this morning from an arborist friend wanting to know if I wanted an entire box elder "stick" with major ambrosia red staining.
Price: 2 bowls
YEEEEEEEEEEEE HA! 😀 😀
Price: 2 bowls
YEEEEEEEEEEEE HA! 😀 😀
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Whoa, that's not even a stealth gloat! Party at Mark's house!
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Talked to the landowner last night.
HE'S GOT 3 MORE that MUST come down!!! [Doesn't know about any color until we cut them next weekend]
Jeff, you renting a truck to come up? If so, don't get no little Toyota! 😀
Talked to the landowner last night.
HE'S GOT 3 MORE that MUST come down!!! [Doesn't know about any color until we cut them next weekend]
Jeff, you renting a truck to come up? If so, don't get no little Toyota! 😀
Must be nice to have wood to turn Mark. We don't have much in Central KS. You make me envious. GT
georgetroy said:
George,
Little known, but New Jersey is an big example of reforestation. Average age of all trees here is just slightly over 60 years. I've seen pix of my area [western highlands] where the hills and mountains were literally clear cut and denuded as far as the camera could show. All to feed the steel and coke mills in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Looked like something out of The Lorax. Now we're "wood-rich".
Having driven through your state several times, I seem to remember seeing bunches (groves anyway) of walnut and maple. They have guards posted around them? 😀
BTW, you going to Loo-vul? If so, how?
M
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NJ free wood!
Mark,
Where in NJ are ya? I'm in Jefferson Twp. Freecycle has been very good to me, free wood-wise. If you're nearby, we could swap logs sometime.
Can I share the free NJ wood gloat? 😀
If you're wondering about the numbers, I had posted over in WoodNet asking about species.
Speaking of Toyota trucks...this load pushed my Tacoma way past its design parameters 🙂 I couldn't get my foot between the tire and the wheel well to climb into the bed. But she drove it home, all the same. Man, I love that truck 🙂
-Joe
Mark,
Where in NJ are ya? I'm in Jefferson Twp. Freecycle has been very good to me, free wood-wise. If you're nearby, we could swap logs sometime.
Can I share the free NJ wood gloat? 😀
If you're wondering about the numbers, I had posted over in WoodNet asking about species.
Speaking of Toyota trucks...this load pushed my Tacoma way past its design parameters 🙂 I couldn't get my foot between the tire and the wheel well to climb into the bed. But she drove it home, all the same. Man, I love that truck 🙂
-Joe
Joe Fisher said:
Hunterdon County. A bit far to be hauling logs at $3/gal. 😀
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Box Elder
Box Elder? Where is the Box? I'd drive to NJ for a hunka hunka burning Elder.
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Box Elder? Where is the Box? I'd drive to NJ for a hunka hunka burning Elder.
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Now those are some definite wood gloats. And Mark didn't even post any pics!
I can feel it.....I think I'm starting to tip....I'm almost falling off the wagon. Dietrich help me!!! Oh no, you're the wrong guy to ask! 😀
I can feel it.....I think I'm starting to tip....I'm almost falling off the wagon. Dietrich help me!!! Oh no, you're the wrong guy to ask! 😀
Jeff, you must be one with the wood. The power can be with you.
Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. A closet would be ideal. Have your wife nail the door shut and throw away the hammer. You will be cured.
Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. A closet would be ideal. Have your wife nail the door shut and throw away the hammer. You will be cured.
Randy Rice said:
Won't work, Randy. The door's made of
WOOOOOD!
Randy - that might make it worse! I'll just sit in there in that closet and dream of all that wood that I'll be getting when I get out!
Actually I am on a one week business trip in Seattle right now. It is just spectacular up here. Lots of tall trees that we don't get in Texas. Of course most of those tall trees are soft cedar, but they are neat to look at. And half of the trees are in bloom up here right now. The Northwest in the springtime is something to behold.
Actually I am on a one week business trip in Seattle right now. It is just spectacular up here. Lots of tall trees that we don't get in Texas. Of course most of those tall trees are soft cedar, but they are neat to look at. And half of the trees are in bloom up here right now. The Northwest in the springtime is something to behold.
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Just wanted to let you know, Jeff, that despite herculean efforts, I've yet to get one da#$ burl or piece of cherry in the mail from anyone. I tell ya, it's disheartening.
The whole wood ebay thing is largely due to the fact that I can't get around to turning half the wood I have and need to get rid of it. Mostly so I can bring in more.
I'm starting to think it's a worse addiction than turning.
Dietrich
P.S.(anyone need a couple of 100lb+ burls?)
The whole wood ebay thing is largely due to the fact that I can't get around to turning half the wood I have and need to get rid of it. Mostly so I can bring in more.
I'm starting to think it's a worse addiction than turning.
Dietrich
P.S.(anyone need a couple of 100lb+ burls?)
It sounds like there are several piles accumulating in different woodturners front yards...wouldn't be too hard to do a midnight raid except they are hundreds of miles away! I totally agree, wood collection addiction is a tough one to shake. So far I've been a good boy this year, but there is a lot of "this year" left.
Jeff Jilg said:
Just as an aside for any Midnight Requisitioners in the group. We have an invisable fence installed. It does a really good job . . .
of keeping the Dobbie Attack Teams on the property.
So feel free to cruise by an look all you'd like, but please, PLEASE, call ahead for entry clearance and a map of the Claymore set up. 😉
m
Protecting wood caches
I use the old ammo-dump approach for my wood stash: Wood dispersed in small caches. So dispersed that I've started using a GPS to keep track of them. (I temporarily "lost" a couple of cherry trees one year - I thought they were on a ridge top but they were down in the valley.)
I've also found existing obstacles provide more than adequate protection: decrepted fence trip-wires (I've tripped on them more than once), man-eating multi-flora rose bushes, pugnacious prickly ash, and attack mulberry trees. Guess I should also mention the terrain - rocky hills and valleys, 200' elevation changes and rocks the size of a semi. And if you make it through those obstacles, there's the problem of getting the wood out. A log skidder would be real handy. A skid-steer (Bobcat) or 4-WD compact utility tractor with a loader are smaller, more affordable options. (I went the tractor route.)
But if you still want some wood from my cache, I'll even give you the GPS coordinates in exchange for a couple of prime pieces. :cool2:
I've taken a slightly different approach.Mark Mandell said:
I use the old ammo-dump approach for my wood stash: Wood dispersed in small caches. So dispersed that I've started using a GPS to keep track of them. (I temporarily "lost" a couple of cherry trees one year - I thought they were on a ridge top but they were down in the valley.)
I've also found existing obstacles provide more than adequate protection: decrepted fence trip-wires (I've tripped on them more than once), man-eating multi-flora rose bushes, pugnacious prickly ash, and attack mulberry trees. Guess I should also mention the terrain - rocky hills and valleys, 200' elevation changes and rocks the size of a semi. And if you make it through those obstacles, there's the problem of getting the wood out. A log skidder would be real handy. A skid-steer (Bobcat) or 4-WD compact utility tractor with a loader are smaller, more affordable options. (I went the tractor route.)
But if you still want some wood from my cache, I'll even give you the GPS coordinates in exchange for a couple of prime pieces. :cool2:
The thing that is even worse than those is poison oak. It doesn't get you until a day or so after you've been in it.
Those Hairy Vines!
I cut a lot of ash for firewood, and for some reason in my area it seems to attract poison ivy more than any other tree; almost to the point that you can spot the tree as ash if you see the vines. I asked an arborist about it once and he looked at me for moment and commented that he'd never noticed it but that I was right. He was going to check into any know reasons, but I haven't heard back yet.
I have to debark the bolts before splitting the firewood because my wife handles the splits and, being allergic to "poison", can get a very severe reaction. Then there's also the issue of the smoke.
M
Jeff Jilg said:
I cut a lot of ash for firewood, and for some reason in my area it seems to attract poison ivy more than any other tree; almost to the point that you can spot the tree as ash if you see the vines. I asked an arborist about it once and he looked at me for moment and commented that he'd never noticed it but that I was right. He was going to check into any know reasons, but I haven't heard back yet.
I have to debark the bolts before splitting the firewood because my wife handles the splits and, being allergic to "poison", can get a very severe reaction. Then there's also the issue of the smoke.
M
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Poison Ivy
I am fighting a miserable case of poison ivy from the last time I cut wood. I learned something about it, though. As we started pulling on some of the smaller vines we found there was a whole network of vines crisscrossing just under the grass. I've thought about wearing one of those biological containment suits next time I go out if I could only find one on ebay.
I am fighting a miserable case of poison ivy from the last time I cut wood. I learned something about it, though. As we started pulling on some of the smaller vines we found there was a whole network of vines crisscrossing just under the grass. I've thought about wearing one of those biological containment suits next time I go out if I could only find one on ebay.
Lol I know what you mean about poison ivy. I've got a large cherry down absolutely covered in it. Though each piece I cut is a small patch of rash on my skin. Worth the price to me. 😛