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  1. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    DSC01613.JPG A logger refused this Ash & Maple. It mine 4 the taken.
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  2. wishlist Minister of Fire

    joined: Mar 28, 2011
    517 posts
    Corunna, Michigan
    Looks good oppirs. Plenty of heat once its seasoned. My one concern is in the background I see a broken splitter pointing towards the sky? :eek::eek::eek:
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  3. Beer Belly Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 26, 2011
    886 posts
    Connecticut
    Nice haul:cool:
  4. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    Info on this pick, a land-owner sold his timber this was what the buyer rejected. Nice 10' footers stacked, that land-owner called me to take it off his hands. A Win-Win!




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    Good eye's ////\\\\ That splitter is on it last legs after this work-out! Not! A 21 ton 2 stage doing it job. But I feel the work-out. Only half the wood taken. I think another 5 cords are in order....



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  5. Blue2ndaries Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 17, 2011
    605 posts
    Oregon
    Very nice score!
  6. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    Thanks everyone. This was an out of the blue score. Owner sold his Ash/Oak/Maple. And I didn't even have to deal with the tops. More rejects than I can handle, so other wood-user are gettin' a stab at this in my area. It's a free for all.

    This kind of work-out beats the gym....Now to stacking!




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  7. bogydave Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 4, 2009
    7,788 posts
    So Cent ALASKA
    Super score.
    Yep, no gym membership needed if you process fire wood ;)
    Gonna make some beautiful stacks :)
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  8. Thistle Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 16, 2010
    3,911 posts
    Central IA
    Great stuff.Really like Silver Maple for inbetween days.
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  9. Backwoods Savage Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 14, 2007
    24,194 posts
    Michigan
    Wow Oppirs. That is a super find! Don't worry about Wishlist and his statement about the vertical splitting. He just likes to pick a bit. Vertical is the easiest way to get wood split so continue on.

    The only question I have is why all the separate piles of split wood? Is there a reason you don't split all in one spot?

    What we do is cut during December-March. We do sort of stack it in one spot in the winter then do all the splitting in the spring. When finished, we simply stack the wood right there rather than moving it again.

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  10. Gasifier Minister of Fire

    Nice score there oppirs. Good for you. Some nice BTUs and a great price to boot.
  11. Gark Minister of Fire

    joined: Jan 27, 2007
    701 posts
    SW Michigan
    That is an outstanding cache of firewood-to-be! Very nice find, oppirs. Makes me sore all over ("but it's a good sore") just looking at your pictures, heheh.
  12. AJS56 Member

    joined: Mar 5, 2012
    212 posts
    Central Lower Mich
    I have to pile on - nice grab on that wood. Will c/s/s into a nice bunch of heat. Well, it won't actually c/s/s itself. But you know that...
  13. aussiedog3 Burning Hunk

    joined: Sep 15, 2009
    158 posts
    West Michigan
    Wow Oppirs, Nice location! You sling any lead at any whitetails across that field?
    By way of 30-06 or shotgun?
    also love the big rounds on that trailer, yep, take what you can get. Never found a round I couldn't get split.
    Nice work.
  14. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    @ BS... No real reason to the multi-stacks, just how the wood rolled off and to fit the trailer on my land which is 1 acre. Made it easy to pull the splitter around to each group of rounds. All the girls got to feast on the ants, didn't want the goodies buried to deep.


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    @ Aussiedog... Thx for the comment! I don't sling lead like I use too. But Buck a plenty, pix just up to the North.


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  15. Backwoods Savage Minister of Fire

    joined: Feb 14, 2007
    24,194 posts
    Michigan
    Hey, them's not all girls.
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  16. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    opps says


    Name the chicken in yellew
  17. Standingdead Member

    joined: Oct 8, 2012
    94 posts
    Burnt Hills NY
    Looks like the yellow one is a mix of Buff Orpington and Aracuena. Are her eggs a bit greenish or light blue colored?
  18. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    Aracuena is the for off blue eggs
  19. Pallet Pete Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 27, 2011
    3,185 posts
    Ovid MI
    Very nice ! That looks like a little ADD piling but still fantastic all the same. ;lol

    Pete
  20. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    I know everyone likes updates. My pix of the stack (4 - 20") deep with SE IL snow.

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  21. Ralphie Boy Minister of Fire

    Seeing all them rounds and splits is giving me the D,T's! I ain't had a good scrounge in weeks;sick
  22. oppirs Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2012
    56 posts
    SE Illinois
    RB THX! Please do it!

    If you put me in the Wood crazy camp. I'm Gulty!

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