I'm just above sea level so it's pretty flat.I cannot imagine having ground that is level enough to mow 84”, it would be scalp city at my place!
I'm just above sea level so it's pretty flat.I cannot imagine having ground that is level enough to mow 84”, it would be scalp city at my place!
50-50 Wheat & Oats for Deer.What we’re y’all planting?
Yeah, the black walnuts don't offer much unless you're looking for something to come out from under a lawn mower at about 300 MPH and hit you in the shins or take out a window from 100 yards. We had a large tree in our yard when I was a kid. I found the green ones quite useful for batting practice, if not a bit smaller than a normal baseball. They make a wicked stain on anything that crushes that outer husk, though. The tree was next to a shed, which had a tin roof. Sounded like a large caliber rifle firing when they fell and hit that roof. I guess you know whose job it was to clean up the leaves and nuts out of the yard. My mom decided she wanted some walnuts from that tree. I broke three pecan crackers trying, and she changed her mind. Hickory nuts are quite tasty, too, but probably 2x the trouble of black walnuts. I'll buy 'em in a bag if I want some, LOL. The hybrid walnuts aren't so bad, and have a lot more 'meat' in 'em.I’ve got a device that’s been used for pecans and should handle walnuts. They’re not dired out enough yet - the shells flex into almost a “not-today” smile. I did manage to crack one, not a lot of meat as you noted.
In the first run a few weeks ago, 10 walnuts gave me enough to flavor two bowls of ice cream. The squeeze may not be worth the juice. Too bad, walnuts are my favorite.
No, won't burn the house down, but there's a lot more turpentine and resin in pine species that will leave behind a lot more soot (because it doesn't burn as hot as hardwood). While it may not burn the house down, you may occasionally ignite the soot in the flue, and that can be a little hair raising when you hear it the first time. It CAN damage a flue if that happens and isn't quickly extinguished, but most flues are triple wall these days and not likely to fail (which is exactly why they're triple wall). My step-dad's folks wouldn't let a piece of pine anywhere near their woodstove. Pretty much exclusively ash, maybe a little white oak for fuel. They'd light it with a few splinters of fat pine kindling, but only enough to get the fire started.Nothing wrong with softwoods, let them season like any other wood and they will heat your home. Burn times won’t be as long as there are less BTU per cord than other species. The old wife’s tale of using pine in your wood stove will burn your house down has been debunked time and time again.
Yup, same as in Green County Pa, at my grandfather's farm.What wood are those posts? They don't look like the Black Locust we used when I was growing up in West Virginia
What is the normal price on around bale like that?20min ride on some Farm to Market roads, picked up another lost load, round hay bale. I like free!
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Another nice score20min ride on some Farm to Market roads, picked up another lost load, round hay bale. I like free!
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Correction: Normal price 80 to $100What is the normal price on around bale like that?
Whattizit?!?!? Kind of like Christmas in October.....Unloaded this little fella…I guess they did not have a smaller pallet.
I was thinking more like Halloween… Trick or Treat?Whattizit?!?!? Kind of like Christmas in October.....![]()
I thought this would be more appropriate than inflatables for the front yard this year…I was thinking more like Halloween… Trick or Treat?
How do you go about digging them out? My 'success' rate is closer to 50%I had some trees in the back yard that decided to grow in the wrong place. I figured I'd try moving them rather than just butchering them. I have about an 80% success rate doing this, so I'm hoping they all make it. The one was big enough I needed my little orange friend to move it.
Noice!I thought this would be more appropriate than inflatables for the front yard this year…
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