Bummer...

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HisTreeNut

Minister of Fire
Nov 3, 2014
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Burnsville, NC
So the deer are wandering through town as more and more as weekend hunters enter and leave the area.
Apparently, a spooked deer tried to jump on or over my wood stack the other day. It did not work out for the poor guy as I have half a pallet of wood all over the ground, a leaning partial stack, and a severely torn tarp. Of course today is a day of heavy downpours with up to 2" per hour.
I suppose it could be worse, but a huge bummer... <sigh>
 
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I wonder if I could start blaming my falling stacks on deer...

So far, I’ve blamed them on the shorter 17” splits required to fit in my BK, as the 20” long splits I used to make for the Jotuls never toppled. It couldn’t be the guy doing the stacking, no...
 
Blame it on goats. Goats like to climb - everybody knows that...
 
I will tell my wife that next time one of mine fall over. She just says (after one has toppled) smartass kind of "I guess that one is dry".
 
A bear was using my stack for a ladder over the back fence before I moved it.
 
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No over hanging oak trees are there? I find that acorns falling on your stacks from them can knock over even the best wood pile..:rolleyes:
 
No acorns but lots of needles from white pine trees...what if it was the unicorn that spooked the deer that was being chased by Bigfoot...???
 
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Long ago, back in the days of yore, we had a deer run right into our house. it didn't fall down, but we did get some venison out of it.

It has been a while since my stack collapsed, but when it does, it's all going into a creek. Maybe I should do something to prevent this...

I did notice that some of the stuff piled under the porch has to be pushed back into place regularly. I blame that on the short splits that someone gave me too...
 
I got one stack leaning quite a bit, when it finally falls over im gonna blame it on a deer
 
Long ago, back in the days of yore, we had a deer run right into our house. it didn't fall down, but we did get some venison out of it.

It has been a while since my stack collapsed, but when it does, it's all going into a creek. Maybe I should do something to prevent this...

I did notice that some of the stuff piled under the porch has to be pushed back into place regularly. I blame that on the short splits that someone gave me too...
Did the deer come through a door or a window? Talk about fresh meat!
 
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Did the deer come through a door or a window? Talk about fresh meat!
i should have been more specific. It ran into the side of the house and broke its neck....
 
i should have been more specific. It ran into the side of the house and broke its neck....
You were specific enough, I was just having a laugh. You do see footage of deer getting into buildings on the news from time to time.
 
You were specific enough, I was just having a laugh. You do see footage of deer getting into buildings on the news from time to time.
Mornings. Uggg
 
Darwin theory applies when a deer chases parked houses.
 
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