Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

[George]

It looked a bit odd in that picture by the creek, but I see it now. Nice family, I'm sure you have a lot of fun with those two guys.

Thanks Mennoniteman, my beech log teetered down



and after I cut the firewood off of it



it teetered back up and out of the way. I figure that I'll mill it up in the creek bed after the snow melt clears.



My maple stash.





Yesterday I completed murdering trees in my new current work area, 4+ acres. I will now work to cut the deadwood down to the ground and then burn.



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[Travis Aasen]

George, you have some amazing land. What will you be doing with all the wood slabs you've made?

 

[George]

George, you have some amazing land. What will you be doing with all the wood slabs you've made?

Thanks Travis, I've got some ideas in mind for projects using the slabs and I may try to market some pieces.

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[Mennoniteman]

I wish all of my trees would co-operate like that. It looks like you have a few more sticks bowing down to the road that might as well be cleared before they come down at an unhandy time.

 

[George]

I was back in business yesterday on the north side of the ridge in my current work area. A couple of sharpenings and 4 tanks of gas and we went from this







to this. I'm cutting up dead wood to the ground leaving the standing dead wood. 95% of the larger visible living trees, >1", in these pictures have been hacked and treated with triclopyr. Prepping and flicking the Bic is the next step.









Tiny finally broke 50lbs at 18 weeks.



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[George]

Some days I go up there and wonder why I do this, two days ago was one of those days. I started out with a big dead ash that had to come down so that I could work in the area.






My big saw doesn't cut as fast as the saws on tv that have the car engines but it cuts pretty fast.



This log was fire wood quality.





I'm going back up today to organize and have a camp fire.



I have a big maple on a deer trail that I'm looking at for a stand. I have a couple of pear trees to plant and I would like to scratch in a little food plot.



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[George]

I raked a perimeter and out from around trees that will remain yesterday. It is illegal to burn from 6am to 6pm, at quarter to 6 the relative humidity was still around 40% so up the hill I went. I flicked my Bic




and lit the perimeter counter clockwise.





By quarter to 7 the fire was petering out as it was trying to converge in the middle.



All in all a decent burn about down to the soil.



This white oak is the center piece of the hill side.





One problem that I have burning this time of year.



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[lakngolf]

Man, there is no way I would flick a bic on that. For me it would get away and Smokey the Bear would not be happy with me

 

[Native Hunter]

If Tiny keeps growing we will need to change his name to X-Tiny.

 

[dogghr]

What is you criteria for doing a burn, ie RH, temp, wind direction and speed, dryness of tinder???? How big area was that? An acre? Would you burn before timbering or after?? You've always been a pyro, that why you been run out of Iowa and CO!!! Good stuff.
National forest here had controlled burn of several hundred acres here past weekend. Smoke ruined a perfectly cloudless day of which we have not had many. We can't burn between 6- 5, but they can. Not fair.

 

[George]

What is you criteria for doing a burn, ie RH, temp, wind direction and speed, dryness of tinder???? How big area was that? An acre? Would you burn before timbering or after?? You've always been a pyro, that why you been run out of Iowa and CO!!! Good stuff.
National forest here had controlled burn of several hundred acres here past weekend. Smoke ruined a perfectly cloudless day of which we have not had many. We can't burn between 6- 5, but they can. Not fair.

I like the tinder to be dry down to moist soil, winds yesterday and today were light and variable. Winds on these hills are always variable so I rake out my fire break all the way around. The warmer, the sunnier, and the lower the rh the better the chance of getting anything to burn. Today I readied my campfire and completed my fire prep and the humidity was down around 30% at 5:30 so my camp fire lived up to expectations. About an acre each day.















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[T-Max]

After watching your burns for a few years, I feel you would be bored with our Kansas burns. Just grass, low rolling hills, and consistent winds and whatnot...

 

[E_308]

30% RH would be a little western for me. I suppose in the timber that would burn about right. Hoping to light my CRP before turkey season, all I need is time and weather as usual!

 

[Native Hunter]

Turkey hunting should be fun for you this year after that burn.

 

[George]

After watching your burns for a few years, I feel you would be bored with our Kansas burns. Just grass, low rolling hills, and consistent winds and whatnot...

If a fire doesn't get your heart rate up you might need a toe tag.

30% RH would be a little western for me. I suppose in the timber that would burn about right. Hoping to light my CRP before turkey season, all I need is time and weather as usual!

It felt like a border line red flag day yesterday. I have yet to have to deal with spot fires on the other side of the fire break in leaves as you would with grass fire under such dry conditions. I had variable winds and 20 mph gusts.

Turkey hunting should be fun for you this year after that burn.

I'm still looking to get my first turkey, it should be good. I have 3 more weeks and 6 more burns before the season.

Thanks for checking in guys. I wish sometimes that I could be content getting something done but all I can do is fret over all that has yet to be done.

Yesterdays burn was all about killing stuff, 1 sycamore, 2 tulips, 1 elm, and a half dozen red buds is about all of the trees I raked out in this little area.








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[weekender21]

If a fire doesn't get your heart rate up you might need a toe tag.



It felt like a border line red flag day yesterday. I have yet to have to deal with spot fires on the other side of the fire break in leaves as you would with grass fire under such dry conditions. I had variable winds and 20 mph gusts.



I'm still looking to get my first turkey, it should be good. I have 3 more weeks and 6 more burns before the season.

Thanks for checking in guys. I wish sometimes that I could be content getting something done but all I can do is fret over all that has yet to be done.

Yesterdays burn was all about killing stuff, 1 sycamore, 2 tulips, 1 elm, and a half dozen red buds is about all of the trees I raked out in this little area.


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Looks great! I’m not going to get much burned this year but I have all of the equipment I need and most of what I want now. Need to deliberately prep for next year.


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[George]

Looks great! I’m not going to get much burned this year but I have all of the equipment I need and most of what I want now. Need to deliberately prep for next year.

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Thanks weekender, I have about 6-8 hours of prep for each 1 hour burn.

If Tiny keeps growing we will need to change his name to X-Tiny.

Tiny finally has climbed into the healthy weight category for his mixed breeding yesterday at 20 weeks and 58.6 pounds. He started out on the chart as being projected a 62lb adult dog and is now being projected a 96.4lb dog. My guess is that he will probably finish around 120lb.

New LiDAR imagery from KY GIS.



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[Native Hunter]

Thanks weekender, I have about 6-8 hours of prep for each 1 hour burn.



Tiny finally has climbed into the healthy weight category for his mixed breeding yesterday at 20 weeks and 58.6 pounds. He started out on the chart as being projected a 62lb adult dog and is now being projected a 96.4lb dog. My guess is that he will probably finish around 120lb.

New LiDAR imagery from KY GIS.

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Hey G, refresh my memory on the mixed breeding. I have forgotten about that..... What exactly is his lineage?

 

[George]

Hey G, refresh my memory on the mixed breeding. I have forgotten about that..... What exactly is his lineage?

Tank's mother was an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier (pit bull) and I figured his father was a mastiff of some sorts and because of the recessive dilute gene that his parents carried, I figured Neapolitan Mastiff.

Tiny on the other hand had both parents on site, an accidental hook up. I asked the people if they had any idea of the monsters that they have created. They had no idea, American Bandogge. Tiny's mother is a Neapolitan Mastiff and his father is a rather good looking and legit American Pit Bull Terrier.

Stretnutie Slovensky Bandog Klub 20.4.2013 Kezmarok - YouTube

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[George]

I usually drop in a couple of Kieffers this time of year when ever I go to the store.



My little order of 100 aromatic sumacs came in earlier than anticipated from ColdStream



so I just lost them in the fresh burn area in the vicinity of my new stand tree.



I cleaned up my top





and cutting down the dead preparing for the Bic.



I'll be tending roses today.





No more speculating as to what my neighbor's wolf pack is hunting.



I believe when you can show deer being run down and caught by dogs the case now falls under the purview of the State. I dumped it into the lap of my local Conservation Officer here this morning.



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