[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

[Herb Metz]

We started a government sponsored (WPA planted) "shelterbelt" in late 
1930's; goal was to reduce wind in central/western areas of Midwest. Ten 
rows of 2' long sticks, 10' apart in each row, rows were 12' apart, just 
wide enough for good maintenance with a ten foot tandem disc, and half mile 
long. Outside rows were Osage Orange and Russian Olive, both good hedge row 
trees. Middle rows were elm, walnut, apricot, pine, cottonwood, etc.  This 
was adjacent north of our pasture; during northwest winter winds, the 
livestock would stay close by.   Trees were doing great when Dad retired in 
1968. Herb(GA)


-----Original Message----- 
From: Vaughn Miller
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 8:10 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Steve W.
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 2:59 AM
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> >
> > 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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