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Brought home some prime stuff

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  1. James Dean

    James Dean

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    Load of red oak from my awesome in laws. I split it up and left it in a pile earlier this year and am amazed at just how dry it already is. Didn't stack it up there because I kept putting off loading down my little ranger. Will get stacked later this week. They sure have been good to me. [​IMG]

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  2. yooperdave

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    Good job.
     
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  3. Mag Craft

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    Yep that is some nice BTU's that is for sure. I am afraid the best any of my in laws could do would be some old cottonwood and I have enough of that already.
     
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    My FIL asked me if we wanted a willow trunk that the power company left behind on a line clean up...:doh:
    About cut my tongue in half :zip:
    :rofl: :lol:
     
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  5. justdraftn

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    Very practical....

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    Great score on the Red Oak, it may seem that the wood is drying well, and it is. It just needs three more years of that. Enjoy!
     
  8. James Dean

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    The window stickers were found on our vacation in Daytona Beach..... I had to have them lol

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    I gotta look for one of those stickers.
     
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    I love me some red oak. Usually it's a joy to split too.
     
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    Red oak is great! Seems like most of the storm damage wood I acquire is Red oak here in SC.


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    Well I'd say you've got a good set of inlaws... nice of wood too that they set you up with...:thumbs:
     
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    Good catch - If there were only 1 kind of wood to burn, I'd want red oak. Well, maybe hickory then red oak. Heheh
     
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  14. My IS heats my home

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    Load up that ranger! Show us what she's made of...

    Never mind, I just saw the sticker :p
     
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    It occurs to me that it is actually a glass half full message....IF
    as opposed to "Honk WHEN........".
     
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    Nice score man :thumbs: and some great BTU'S :fire:
     
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  17. James Dean

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    Y'all behave about my ranger lol best 1300 dollars I've ever spent.

    I will say when it's loaded down like that it makes the most awful grinding noise from the rear end like scrubbing when it bottoms out. I gotta be careful with how much black Betty brings home.

    I know some people are on weird terms with their in laws but I couldn't ask for better ones. They've been good to me. My father in law is actually a timber harvester. He's been in the woods since he was a late teen. I help him with firewood all I can because I know the last thing he wants to do is fool with wood when he gets off and gets home.

    I'm smoking some ribs tomorrow so that oak may pull a double duty...

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