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Title: You know you have problem when.....
Post by: Flem on April 27, 2019, 02:04:17 PM: Whenever I go anywhere I am always looking at trees with larceny in mind. I travel with Audubon field guide to North American trees. Sometimes I am rubbernecking so bad I have almost rear ended cars. I'm surprised nobody has called the cops on me as I'm standing in their front yards calculating how much lumber I can get out of their landscaping. I can't help but think I am not the only one ;)
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Post by: Roy from Pa on April 27, 2019, 02:06:31 PM: I know where every Osage tree is in SW Pa:)
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Post by: Crooked Stic on April 27, 2019, 05:36:52 PM: What Roy ?? Old age Tree :laughing:
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Post by: Forwardhandle on April 28, 2019, 05:42:22 AM: I used to be like you and I have access to hundreds of acres to hunt trees but over time with all the work and time and drying and debarking milling etc. I got lazy so now all I cut is osage or parts of a tree I could make excuses but the truth is the older I get the more lazy I am to cutting trees :biglaugh:
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Post by: wood carver 2 on April 29, 2019, 05:01:59 PM: It’s a sickness. I have it too. I
Can’t pass a nice looking tree without wondering what it looks like on the inside. Especially the gnarly ones. :goldtooth:
Dave.
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Post by: Flem on April 29, 2019, 09:13:48 PM: I have got a little better over the years, I used to carry wood for miles out of the mountains.
Can't endure that kind of suffer fest these days :saywhat:
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Post by: Roy from Pa on April 30, 2019, 05:40:49 AM: Ya old fart:)
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Post by: Flem on April 30, 2019, 11:42:41 AM: Quote from: Roy from Pa on April 30, 2019, 05:40:49 AM
Ya old fart:)

"It's not the years, it's the mileage" ;)
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Post by: Flem on May 01, 2019, 01:13:35 PM: Of course as soon as I posted about not hauling trees out of the woods, I got to thinking about doing just that :banghead:
Did not want you guys to think I was some kind of wussy boy.
Humped this chunk about 3.5mi out of the mountains. Must have switched shoulders about 50 times. Feeling it today
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Post by: Roy from Pa on May 01, 2019, 01:27:39 PM: Heck I could carry that wif one hand ya wussy boy:)

What's all the straw for, ya maken straw hats and skirts too?:)

:wavey:
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Post by: canopyboy on May 01, 2019, 01:47:22 PM: Quote from: Roy from Pa on May 01, 2019, 01:27:39 PM
Heck I could carry that wif one hand ya wussy boy:)

Who's hand would you be using for that feat? :laughing:
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Post by: Buemaker on May 01, 2019, 02:08:38 PM: Those Yew logs are heavy, I have had sore shoulders many times myself and they often grow in remote hard to get to places. Nice catch. :)
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Post by: Buemaker on May 01, 2019, 02:22:43 PM: I was lucky with these two very nice Ash trees, I could back my car right up to the spot.
(https://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b506/timian46/E4661F8A-5525-446F-9419-963933AECB22_zpsev1xqkxr.jpeg) (https://s1289.photobucket.com/user/timian46/media/E4661F8A-5525-446F-9419-963933AECB22_zpsev1xqkxr.jpeg.html)
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Post by: Buemaker on May 01, 2019, 02:23:36 PM: (https://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b506/timian46/D1BF844B-6B70-4264-AFA8-7C156D8E3C78_zpsdowraaws.jpeg) (https://s1289.photobucket.com/user/timian46/media/D1BF844B-6B70-4264-AFA8-7C156D8E3C78_zpsdowraaws.jpeg.html)
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Post by: BMorv on May 01, 2019, 02:25:33 PM: Quote from: Flem on May 01, 2019, 01:13:35 PM
Of course as soon as I posted about not hauling trees out of the woods, I got to thinking about doing just that :banghead:
Did not want you guys to think I was some kind of wussy boy.
Humped this chunk about 3.5mi out of the mountains. Must have switched shoulders about 50 times. Feeling it today

That's impressive sir. I carried some really heavy live oak, but maybe 1/4 a mile on flat ground. And I thought that was bad.
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Post by: BMorv on May 01, 2019, 02:26:49 PM: I don't think ash gets much better than that Bue
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Post by: Flem on May 01, 2019, 02:50:33 PM: Thats some clean Ash Bue. I've got some Oregon Ash I carried a couple of miles.
I think I would have made a good Penitente.
Roy, I did carry that sucker with one hand......one at a time that is:bigsmyl:
I'm taking orders for straw skirts, if anybody wants one for summer. Not sure how they would look with Pink Chaps :goldtooth:
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Post by: Flem on May 01, 2019, 02:56:21 PM: Bue, did you split that Ash or rip it on your bandsaw?
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Post by: Buemaker on May 01, 2019, 03:02:08 PM: I split it, came apart very easy. I usually cut Ash when the sap goes, then bark comes off very easy and there is a full ring of summer growth from last year. Have a perfect back then. I will take it to smaller sections on the bandsaw.
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Post by: Roy from Pa on May 01, 2019, 03:21:00 PM: Very nice, Bue.

Clem, it didn't happen wifout pichers.
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Post by: Flem on May 01, 2019, 04:45:38 PM: Ok, here is the Oregon Ash. I threw in some Mountain Maple that went for a hike and that sweet little Serviceberry, which was pure joy to carry.
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I really did not want to pick that stick up again, but I wasn't going to take a chance on the proof pic.
I got to admit, my shoulders are SORE :help:
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Post by: Srlbenn on May 01, 2019, 05:54:56 PM: Wise man once said " All good bow wood grows uphill from the truck " .