Jags said:Man - Thistle, I would love to feed that notty stump through my splitter just to listen to it scream. :coolgrin:
Thistle said:Jags said:Man - Thistle, I would love to feed that notty stump through my splitter just to listen to it scream. :coolgrin:
haha. I found the knottiest one of the bunch that's around 15" diameter,cut a piece off it 10" long & am using it for chopping block.Roughly 10+ cords dead Red/White Oak w/ some Shagbark hand-split since May 2011,a few dents from the X25,but no cracks yet.It'll eventually rot before its splits in two.There's at least 6 large knots in that piece.
seeyal8r said:Very common Eastern Red Cedar it looks like to me. Brought over from Asia to solve erosion problems. It has taken over though. We cut them down anywhere and everywhere we can pile them up and burn them. Too much work for the sappy stuff to burn in my stove. I also worried about all the sap that is in it. It smells good when it burns though. The trees give off a plume of pollen in the spring if they are male which I think is a major allergen contributor and are covered in berries if they are female. Birds spread the trees everywhere.
Jags said:Thistle said:Jags said:Man - Thistle, I would love to feed that notty stump through my splitter just to listen to it scream. :coolgrin:
haha. I found the knottiest one of the bunch that's around 15" diameter,cut a piece off it 10" long & am using it for chopping block.Roughly 10+ cords dead Red/White Oak w/ some Shagbark hand-split since May 2011,a few dents from the X25,but no cracks yet.It'll eventually rot before its splits in two.There's at least 6 large knots in that piece.
I ain't skeered:
Thistle said:Looks like some gnarly old green Piss Elm there.Grain so interwoven it makes a corkscrew seem straight ;-)
Plan was to have a combo watermelon patch & planted a couple dozen Black Walnuts & Butternuts. That didnt work out so well.
Jags said:Thistle said:Looks like some gnarly old green Piss Elm there.Grain so interwoven it makes a corkscrew seem straight ;-)
Plan was to have a combo watermelon patch & planted a couple dozen Black Walnuts & Butternuts. That didnt work out so well.
You sir, are correct on the wood. Also, never plant Black Walnut where you want anything else to grow. They can kill a garden as well as many other tree types.
Thistle said:Jags said:Thistle said:Looks like some gnarly old green Piss Elm there.Grain so interwoven it makes a corkscrew seem straight ;-)
Plan was to have a combo watermelon patch & planted a couple dozen Black Walnuts & Butternuts. That didnt work out so well.
You sir, are correct on the wood. Also, never plant Black Walnut where you want anything else to grow. They can kill a garden as well as many other tree types.
Yup mature (or almost) Black Walnuts need to be 50 ft minimum from certain things like tomatoes,apples.But bluegrass does fine underneath them.I've seen the first 2-3 rows of corn or soybeans stunted when an old walnut is at the edge of field.I have 3 older walnuts along east fence,garlic & other things growing about 50 ft the west,they do fine.But any tomatoes are planted further away.
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