[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Wed Dec 21 15:30:33 PST 2016


That just might work.

Cecil


On 12/21/2016 4:01 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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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