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Post by Nathan on Mar 16, 2022 2:39:29 GMT
Is Popple the same as poplar? Is it just what we call it around here
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Post by ratter48 on Mar 16, 2022 2:42:18 GMT
yes, that's what it is called up here to
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Post by Nathan on Mar 16, 2022 2:49:30 GMT
Yeah I don't know anyone purposely burning it here
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Post by trapperles on Mar 16, 2022 3:35:44 GMT
Most folks dont burn it here either, but it's a hardwood, and I own the wood lot. Otherwise, I would have to jump through some hoops, become a certified logger, take logger education courses, just to buy a different kind of decent wood from the state. It's a racket.
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Post by trapperles on Mar 16, 2022 3:38:09 GMT
I burned it all winter, and it holds a fire, has klinkers in the morning to start fire, but produces more ashes, and takes a little more wood to get through a winter say, compared to burning tamarack.
If I split it now, it's dry enough to use by fall.
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Post by ratter48 on Mar 16, 2022 4:15:39 GMT
you burn tamarack
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Post by trapperles on Mar 16, 2022 4:56:09 GMT
That's the best wood that grows up here. All wood here has to be seasoned for a year, or a summer in the case of pople. Some woods more than a year is good...black ash for one.
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 16, 2022 23:43:01 GMT
Around here, my favorite is red elm, but they’ve all been dead a while now, and I’ve about cleaned up all of them on our farm. My next choice is honey locust, we have lots, but they don’t ever die on their own. Solid wood, burns hot and long. We have a ton of ash, and it’s all slowing dying off. It burns decent, but not as good as the previous 2. Ash is nice because it splits super easy and there’s tons of it. I still hand split everything so something straight grained is a pleasure after splitting a pile of elm and locust. Only problem with ash is the ash lol. It makes a ton of ash compared to elm. Hackberry, if you catch it in the right stage of dead burns green to. It’s a total bitch to split as well though. Generally, the harder it is to split around here, the better it burns.
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Post by Nathan on Mar 16, 2022 23:53:15 GMT
Our ash is all but gone. You see some snags here and there standing . But even most of them are down by now
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Post by outlaw99 on Mar 17, 2022 0:16:25 GMT
We have a ton of walnut as well, but I don’t like burning it. Too oily. Another ironic thing. I always talk about our heavy clay gumbo dirt we have on our ground in the Missouri River bottoms. That dirt must have something in it that Oaks don’t like. There’s not a oak to be found anywhere in our flats. You drive 10 miles in any direction out of the bottoms and there’s thriving oak trees everywhere.
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Post by ratter48 on Mar 17, 2022 3:03:52 GMT
i burn hard maple,soft maple,beech,black cherry. i drop them in fall cut them next spring cut them up split them up burn that fall. someof them are big sround as a 55 barrel.
i use wood splitter. i have nice cherry logs on my property. plus huge white pine
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Post by trapperles on Mar 18, 2022 0:46:43 GMT
This little skid loader is the best thing since sliced bread Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by ratter48 on Mar 18, 2022 11:07:03 GMT
i have a 50 horse Massey Ferguson 4x4 tractor the wife bought new for me bout 4 years ago. i love it
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Post by Nathan on Mar 18, 2022 14:07:37 GMT
Peas and onions getting planted today
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Post by trapperles on Mar 18, 2022 15:20:26 GMT
I have thrown the last few pails of ashes from my stove over the 2' of snow that covers the garden to drop the snow.
Last danger of frost is 10th of June here...I'll be seeding my Green house in about 3 weeks for the upcoming sales year.
I might douse the parsnip bed with some ashes to get at them sooner.
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