[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

[charlie hill]

Cecil,  I don't know what it is but the rail road company here has something 
they
spray on right of ways that will kill anything I've ever seen.  I sure am 
glad
we don't have those things here.

While you are reading Cecil,  I saw a trick online today that might help 
with your water
troughs.  I don't know, maybe it gets too cold there for it to work but here 
it goes.
They said to take plastic 1 gallon milk jugs and fill them about half full 
of water and
about half a cup of salt and make sure it dissolves well.  Put the lids on 
the jugs and
float them in the trough. 1 for a small and more depending on the size.  The 
salt water
in the jug supposedly won't freeze (depends on how cold I guess) and keeps 
an area
the size of the jug open.  It didn't show the animals drinking so I just 
assume they push the
jug down and drink.  Might be totally useless but I thought I'd pass it 
along.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil Bearden
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 8:29 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

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
>>>
>>>
>>> -----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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