Yes, it's pretty wide spread now. MD Dept. of Agriculture put a trap on one by my house a few years ago to get an idea of hoe wide spread it is. Loggers in the area are taking them out now to get what they can out of them. May end up being Chestnut Blight II? Kevin
Today's Scrounge--post the free btu's
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Well this is yesterdays scrounge so maybe off topic 
but I got the single biggest firewood load I've ever hauled with the 350 and my little 6x10, both were quite overloaded, days like this make me wonder if I should have opted for the DRW. Rear axle was sitting on the timbren looking bumper thingy, but it was within 5 miles of back roads to my house so I just took it easy on the way back. Wanted to get what I could while the gett'n was good! Mostly cherry, with a couple logs of elm in there too and small bit of osage.
but I got the single biggest firewood load I've ever hauled with the 350 and my little 6x10, both were quite overloaded, days like this make me wonder if I should have opted for the DRW. Rear axle was sitting on the timbren looking bumper thingy, but it was within 5 miles of back roads to my house so I just took it easy on the way back. Wanted to get what I could while the gett'n was good! Mostly cherry, with a couple logs of elm in there too and small bit of osage.
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yinpin
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It’s not up here yet but it is in parts of southern to mid Wisconsin. They say our extreme cold we get up here where it can get down to -38 or so in the winter help kill the larvae but they will eventually adapt to it.
Contractor cut down some 200+ year old oaks and all I had to do was for the logs out of the pile with the skid steer.
I think I have about 18,000lbs judging from truck and trailer squat. Almost all Bur Oak.
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I think I have about 18,000lbs judging from truck and trailer squat. Almost all Bur Oak.
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Beer Belly
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As delivered....cut into nice rounds, and I am expecting some Log length soon. These guys told me they will call to drop when they are in the area, my regular guy drops whole logs, so now I have two trees guys delivering.....may become a problem. His truck got stuck in the mud, had to pull him out with my truck
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planning to take Thursday off to get some scrounging done in the neighborhood. Should be easier with less traffic since I can't get fully off the road where I'll be loading. pics to come
Almost feel guilty free and they loaded it too
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All done!
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!All done!
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I don’t know if you have a splitter but if someone wanted me to take their sweet gum I would charge them $1000.
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Jan Pijpelink
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Not sure what it all is yet but here’s today’s haul. Was anticipating getting more but lost time meeting a guy across the street asking if I could park in his driveway while I loaded. Turned into an hour of talking to him, checking out his house (which has a fireplace and a second fireplace in the bedroom 25’ away or so that share the first fireplace’s chimney. I wonder what the horizontal run looks like but glad to not have made it upstairs) and helping him cut up a little bit that he had laying. Upside is I can use the driveway to more easily retrieve the rest.
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Pin OAK!!' Good day, now to get it split so it can start drying. I've never burnt pin oak but hoping it's as good as the other oaks I've burnt.
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Got a load of red maple.
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So my friend dropped by with his new dump trailer.... picture looked like the wood was a little smaller than it was 
The piece in the front of the picture almost rolled into the neighbors house.... oops!
The piece in the front of the picture almost rolled into the neighbors house.... oops!
Shouldn’t have any problem seeing that trailer in the darkSo my friend dropped by with his new dump trailer.... picture looked like the wood was a little smaller than it was
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The piece in the front of the picture almost rolled into the neighbors house.... oops!
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. Some pretty good sized chunks there.If there was even a remote possibility of anything rolling into my neighbors house
, I would be finding myself a new homestead. I can see my neighbors homes. 1 is about 1/2 mile away the other 2 are about a mile away & they are too close for my liking
. The wife says I am a bit of a curmudgeon & a hermit, I tell her I am not maybe just occasionally obstinate, cantankerous & sarcastic.
, I would be finding myself a new homestead. I can see my neighbors homes. 1 is about 1/2 mile away the other 2 are about a mile away & they are too close for my liking. The wife says I am a bit of a curmudgeon & a hermit, I tell her I am not maybe just occasionally obstinate, cantankerous & sarcastic.
Slocum
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I'm not familiar with Siberian elm but that looks a lot like black locust to me
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It is a fine wood to burn! Burned 2 cord of it this past season and have 5 cord of it CSS out back for 2020
