Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

[Mennoniteman]

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And I thought you said you weren't professional, that looks pretty professional to me, and no slivers on that one. It looks like you were out of wedges, how'd that turn out? Sometimes I will stack two or more wedges on top of each other, (one time my logger cousin had five wedges stacked on top of each other) or go for my big fat steel wedges I inherited from my dad.
But I handle our tulip poplars a bit differently, I let them grow to 18-22" DBH and sell them for $300-400 each, however, it costs me half to get them to the mill, but I never have to touch them, and road improvements and treetops are a free bonus (although I don't burn any poplar). Then if I need barn beams for myself, I use that logging cash to buy 8X8 air dried Doug Fir from an Amishman. But I miss the days of being out in the woods with snow boots on, wedges in my hip pocket, and a a big Stihl in my hand. We'd build a little fire out there and make sausages on a stick for lunch. From my viewpoint, you have got it made.

 

[George]

And I thought you said you weren't professional, that looks pretty professional to me, and no slivers on that one. It looks like you were out of wedges, how'd that turn out? Sometimes I will stack two or more wedges on top of each other, (one time my logger cousin had five wedges stacked on top of each other) or go for my big fat steel wedges I inherited from my dad.
But I handle our tulip poplars a bit differently, I let them grow to 18-22" DBH and sell them for $300-400 each, however, it costs me half to get them to the mill, but I never have to touch them, and road improvements and treetops are a free bonus (although I don't burn any poplar). Then if I need barn beams for myself, I use that logging cash to buy 8X8 air dried Doug Fir from an Amishman. But I miss the days of being out in the woods with snow boots on, wedges in my hip pocket, and a a big Stihl in my hand. We'd build a little fire out there and make sausages on a stick for lunch. From my viewpoint, you have got it made.

I botched the back cut on that one and I got scared, better to be scared than dead. I was going to leave it and come back in the morning with a fat steel wedge but then again, I didn't want my dogs up around that tree. I did something a bit unconventional for me, I went further up and dropped another tree into it, risking further complications, but it worked. Turns out the back cut wasn't botched as badly as I thought just not squared off leaving a heavy rounded hinge in the middle. I'm about ready to start figuring how much wood that I need and how much that I have cut.



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[George]

Being that I have yet to get my first job out of college, some have said that I wasted my college degree, which couldn't be further from the truth. I use my degree every day, Materials and Logistics Management from the College of Business at Michigan State University.





bunnies, birds, and copperheads.



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[Mennoniteman]

Being that I have yet to get my first job out of college, some have said that I wasted my college degree, which couldn't be further from the truth. I use my degree every day, Materials and Logistics Management from the College of Business at Michigan State University.

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I'd like to know, is handling copperheads more logistics or materials handling?
P.S. I have a doctorate in CS&HW, and the education has been worth a million dollars, I still use it every day. But I wouldn't give a bad nickel to take the course over again.

 

[George]

I'd like to know, is handling copperheads more logistics or materials handling?
P.S. I have a doctorate in CS&HW, and the education has been worth a million dollars, I still use it every day. But I wouldn't give a bad nickel to take the course over again.

CS&HW, that's deep. We were still using punch cards and fortran when I satisfied my cs requirements. Copperheads don't get moved or handled. As I split my firewood last July, I had to carefully take logs off the pile as to not harm the copperhead who was in the pile, somewhere every day. When the log pile got too small it moved on.

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[Mennoniteman]

CS&HW, that's deep. We were still using punch cards and fortran when I satisfied my cs requirements. Copperheads don't get moved or handled. As I split my firewood last July, I had to carefully take logs off the pile as to not harm the copperhead who was in the pile, somewhere every day. When the log pile got too small it moved on.

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I understand that some people enjoy reptiles, and I'm good with that, we have several people around here with some pretty impressive collections. For myself when it comes to the poisonous kind, like the old westerns would say, there's not enough room for both of us in this town.
(I guess you knew that CS&HW is common sense and hard work )

 

[George]

I understand that some people enjoy reptiles, and I'm good with that, we have several people around here with some pretty impressive collections. For myself when it comes to the poisonous kind, like the old westerns would say, there's not enough room for both of us in this town.
(I guess you knew that CS&HW is common sense and hard work )

No, I thought that you were the first Mennonite with a PHD in computer science.









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[George]

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[Native Hunter]

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It looks like you have been working hard. Some nice pictures G.

 

[George]

It looks like you have been working hard. Some nice pictures G.

Thanks, Native, 30 loads, happy frogs, happy sawyer.

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[George]

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[cutman]

Beautiful. We are in a burn ban in SC - once it’s lifted, I’ve got 100 acres to burn this year.

 

[Mennoniteman]

The ring of fire

 

[George]

About half of the burn unit carried fire, spotty or nothing on north aspects, with a decent burn on south to west aspects. A couple of my main objectives were resetting black berries and setting back black locust under my stand and creating a fire break, they were met.













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[gut_pile]

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[George]

Hot, dry, windy, perfect.






















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[Mennoniteman]

Hot, dry, windy, perfect.

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Totally impressive. The drone pictures make it look like a major disaster area! What time of day did you light it? Do you hire anyone to help control it or is that all on you?

 

[Native Hunter]

They need you in California to do controlled burns.

 

[George]

Totally impressive. The drone pictures make it look like a major disaster area! What time of day did you light it? Do you hire anyone to help control it or is that all on you?

Our burn ban ends at 6:00pm, that's when I lit. I am a one man burn crew. I'm heading up on a dog walk right now to see if I burnt down the whole neighborhood. I was back and forth checking both ends. I left at 9:30pm.

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[George]

They need you in California to do controlled burns.

I think that I would be pretty good at burning down mansions.

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