[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

[Cecil Bearden]

I just cut down a bunch of it while clearing out a fence row. While I 
was pushing brush, the chainsaw crew would cut down the small groves of 
Bois DÁrc that would grow from one large tree. The roots will travel 
over 100ft then surface to start another tree.   I have had the roots 
search out connections in water lines over 20 ft away and separate the 
pipe.    There were no leaks in the pipe before, it just seems like 
these roots have a mind of their own.  I think they can detect running 
water in pipes from the vibration...  Crazy I know, but we have a lot of 
water lines near fence rows.  When Bois DÁrc gets started we have water 
leaks.  Now, I need a good cheap way to get stumps to rot.  Trying to 
grub them out with the trackhoe is time consuming and leaves a lot of 
rough ground to grade.   I am going to spray the fence row with 2-4D at 
least 2 times a year to stop the tree growth.   I can run about 12 more 
cows if I can get this brush killed....

Cecil in OKla


On 12/21/2016 7:10 AM, Vaughn Miller wrote:
> Bois D'Arc is know as Osage Orange here, and is great wood if you are
> burning for heat.  Common in fence rows and field edges it can be miserable
> to saw up.  The tops are very dense and thorny.
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>
>> I remember when we bought our first farm about 57 years ago, the fence
>> posts were Bois DÁrc posts about 2-3 inches in diameter. You had to get
>> one leg of the fence staple in a crack and hold on to the back of the
>> post to drive it in..    Usually the staple would just bend over.  After
>> the first winter, Dad figured out that Baling wire held better.  If you
>> doubles the wire around the back of the post you could  tighten the
>> fence up as you tied it up.  Over the next 10 years we replaced all of
>> the fences with steel posts.   There is a pile of those old wooden posts
>> still on that place.  They are just as hard now as they were back then!!
>>
>> Cecil in oKla
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/21/2016 6:10 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>>> Don't know whether the pellets would still pop and spark, interesting
>>> question.   I bet that stuff would beat the heck out of the pellet mill,
>>> though... hard as a rock!
>>>
>>> Dean Vinson
>>> Saint Paris, OH
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood
>>>
>>> Mike M wrote:
>>>> I agree Dean, perfectly safe in a air tight wood stove, only issue I
>>>> can think of is when you go to reload, it could throw some poppers.
>>> Wonder how it would do if you ran it through a pelletizer and fed it to a
>>> pellet stove ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve W.
>>>
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