how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Cat 525]

Should have got the Siberian the brought them over here! Like a lot of other non-native trees that are brought over for landscaping!

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Wish the red elm would sprout up. They are few and far between.

 

[Hedgerow]

Wish the red elm would sprout up. They are few and far between.

Now those, are some good firewood!!

And morrel mushrooms like their carcasses..

 

[Cat 525]

Yep! That red elm gets about 5 inches in diameter at the most and dies around here anymore! Damn good firewood though!

 

[teacherman]

Wish the red elm would sprout up. They are few and far between.

Rich McConnell sure did like them. He had some growing on his place, but the ones he showed me fell over less than a foot thick. Nice burning wood, just had a pleasant feel and smell to it. Hard to describe.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Yep! That red elm gets about 5 inches in diameter at the most and dies around here anymore! Damn good firewood though!

I cut up one out of the neighbor's yard that was over 20 inches. Most are 5 to 10.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Yep! That red elm gets about 5 inches in diameter at the most and dies around here anymore! Damn good firewood though!

Best thing about them is no splitting.

 

[teacherman]

Well, here is one for the "discrepant event" file:

I've been shopping at this health food co-op store in town off and on since about 1981. It started out as a real hippie type place, and has moved twice and grown to ten times its original size. It's a pillar of our community, with lots of public outreach, food and health education, support for local small farmers, etc. etc.
I can't afford a lot of what they sell, but I get coffee, organic frozen spinach, and some other things there. Still kind of a hippie place, but they cater also to the foodie connoisseur types as well. Good folks overall, ecologically minded, kind of stereotypical in many respects.
So, last week I'm in there and I hear a David Allan Coe song over their music system, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name." Well, that's one of his mainstream songs, OK, that's pretty cool, though. I mention to the cashier that I heartily approve of this.
Yesterday, I'm in there and I hear "If That Ain't Country, It''ll hare lip the Pope..." I am not making this up. The most politically correct place in town and they're playing the Rhinestone Outlaw, both times I'm there. I totally did NOT expect that. I didn't say anything about it the second time, because if somebody stopped and listened to the words of that one, they'd have a fit, and some of it might splash on me.
I'm not surprised by much any more, but this was worthy of noting, and I figured nobody here would rat 'em out to the local thought police...

 

[teacherman]

Best thing about them is no splitting.

I found that red splits pretty nicely, though. Lot better than that smelly stringy stuff.

 

[Cat 525]

If you catch it when the bark slips off there's no cleaner wood than that and hardly any ashes!

 

[Cat 525]

Drizzled and snowed all night! What a deal! Guess it'll freeze up so a guy can get to rolling sometime! Have a great day!

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

If you catch it when the bark slips off there's no cleaner wood than that and hardly any ashes!

yes it is.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders!

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.
Got more done on the GTG Van yesterday .
Do some more today.

 

[Workshop]

Basic raised floor framework. This end will have a 4 ft pull out table/storage unit .
The idea, when it's finished, is to drive it to long distance Gtg's, with my towable generator, arrive and empty out all the saws and set up living quarters outside the Van and have sleeping quarters inside the Van . I'll also wire the inside for 110 power and auxiliary lighting .

 

[Cat 525]

You da man with a van!

 

[Workshop]

Preliminary fit up of flooring.

 

[Cat 525]

That's going to be nice!

 

[cobey]

Thanks, Cobey. I don’t want to see him go the way of my mom, who was the personification of anathema maranatha if ever there was one. Bad business, that.
He’s not quite as hostile as she was, but those intellectual types can get stuck in the cognitive to the point the spirit starves out and they can’t see it. .


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