Maybe my first scrounge.

Just came from the bank, I was talking with the teller when she started talking about some Oak she wants removed from her property. They had someone trim up a big Oak so it's just some bigger limbs along with some Maple that is free for the taking.

I'm taking another look at it this afternoon, the Maple was in front of the house (not the best but you have to take it all) the Oak is in the back of the house, I'll take a good look later.

Wonder what the wife will think!

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The person lives a good drive from us so I'll make sure it's worth it.

Looks like Saturday could be a interesting one, time to make sure the chains are sharper.

The wife said sure, why not add Oak to the stacks.


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Backwoods Savage said:

Will you get interest on it zap? Be sure to haul it home in the Rhino.

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If we get hit with some bad winds tomorrow which causes some trees to come down then I might cancel the scrounge, if it misses us I'll make the call.

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I finally saw Denise again at the bank today, they still have the Oak so it might be on for tomorrow. I will call tonight just to make sure what time is good for them, I don't have my camera but did get a leaf out of the yard which I will post tonight.

Eco, it's cut but not to length, 14.75 it is. The reason for the big delay is we had someone in our family that was in ICU. Things are coming along pretty good so far, we will find out more next week.

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This is out of the yard near the oak scrounge, what type of Oak is it?

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Defiant said:

You tell us.
http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/compare-oaks.htm

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Northern Red Oak.

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scroungerjeff said:

Not sure where you live, but that curved base of the leaf makes me think southern red oak. We have tons of that here. Probably is a third of my stacks. Nice wood but slow to season.

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This Oak is in Northern NY about 10 miles from Canada.

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I'll give them a call about 9:15 in the morning, if I can get the wood tomorrow I'll load up the 660 and the 075 then head in. All the wood is from the limbs that were trimmed up so there should be nothing for metal in the wood.

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