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Pecan score

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  1. Chud

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    You should plant another partner for it. Surely you could get a cold hardy cultivar through mail order. Probably too late to get a bare root tree, but an option for next winter. I planted a couple bare root Pecans and one got crushed from a fallen cherry limb. It sprouted suckers and I pruned it down to one and have a small pecan tree again.
     
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  3. Chud

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    Pecan fever baby :dancer:
    A big pecan limb broke out of a tree along my daily commute last week. I thought I would stop by and offer to clean it up. Before I stopped to offer assistance the homeowner chopped it up and piled it beside the road. I passed it Mon and Tue and had time today to stop and ask for the wood. First time cold knocking for :woodsign: Got a Taco load
    Homeowner rando lengths, but it’s Pecan.
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    PNW moss on it
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    When it rains it pours
     
  4. John D

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    First time is the toughest. :salute: Gets easier from now on. :yes:

    Idve just about knocked the door down for that!
     
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    I'd love to if I could find one and if my brother (who now owns the home place) takes care of it. To find something that would survive Zone 5 (central WI) isn't easy. Wish me luck.
     
  7. Chud

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    Pecan, pallet and a 4 wheel drive a country boy can survive. Had to go back and get a little more off the stumps. You never know it might be my last time getting Pecan. :stacker:
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    The guy that has to dig the stumps out asked for them to be left 3’ high, but I thought that was more than necessary. I mean it a track hoe ffs.
     
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    So you left him 12"? :rofl: :lol: :doh:
     
  9. Chud

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    There’s a big sugar maple stump that is pushing 3” :cool:
     
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    Getting to the end of the Pecan logs and phew I’m tired of smelling pecan. I was cleaning ivy vines off the log and found a booby trap.
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    Been there for sure, sucks to see. Once was in an orchard, crotches had that high tensile wire to train limbs. Didn’t take long to pack up and leave. :headbang:
     
  13. Chud

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    Lost the point on roughly 5 teeth. It pretty much ended my firewood flow once I stopped to sharpen. Bummer since the weather was as perfect as can be for this time of year.
     
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    Yep, been there. We got lucky on so.e pecan, tree house had been built in it. Looked like the kids were bored hand had a big box of nails up there with them.
     
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    Guilty as charged.:emb:

    There's a huge red oak behind my mom's old place where I grew up. Bring lots of extra chains if you happen to cut it down! :whistle:
     
  16. Chud

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    It is done
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