Oh my God! Just read a couple pages of the nutella thread. Fighting the urge to go jump off the nearest bridge and end it all, right now.
It is great wood. It's well worth it to go that little bit out of your way to get it. Heck, it may be the best firewood on your land, and you might not even know what your missing? Unless you've got locust, ironwood, shagbark, or hedge on your land, it's better pretty much everything else.
I saw a crazy statistic about how fast beaver teeth grow. They need to chew on trees to keep their teeth from getting too big. Beavers can die if they don't chew on stuff. Their teeth will grow too large and they then can't open their mouths enough to eat. So any tree within rage is fair game.
I'm gonna wait and see what happens-- maybe it will surprise me and make it through. My property is going to be logged sometime before August. I will have more firewood than I will be able to cut just from the tops--including 30 shagbark hickory. I am curious to try that beech, though.
Beech is a great healer. I have one out back that I carved with the wife 26 years ago with our initials and a heart around it. Looks like a WWII anchor tattoo now. But that bite is through the cambium and I think it's doomed. I hope I'm wrong. The great thing about Beech is that it spreads like crazy from its root system and once the canopy is gone, i.e., after being logged, there will be chit loads of saplings 10' tall to thin out in 3 years. In 80 years you'll have lots of beech just like those. I read once the purpose of life is to plant trees under which the shade you will never sit. Here's your chance without digging.
Thanks Eric! Hickory is another one of those woods I have not burned yet. I haven't burned any oak yet, either. I've got some oak cut, but it takes so long to dry. Maybe in 80 years when my Beech trees are grown, my oak will be ready to burn.
Well 80 years isn't too long to wait. I'm sure by then my grandchildren will still be waiting for the Lions to win their first Super Bowl.
You said a mouthful that time! I watched the Lions win that big one in 1957 and have yet to get excited about them since. Came close when Barry Sanders was playing but they foolishly drove him out. They keep having one or two stars but it takes a whole team and that is something they have never learned. We've renamed them to the Loins.
I've been a Lions fan since I was old enough to throw a football. They suck, and will prolly always suck. But I still watch every game that I can. Couple of things about Lions fans: they have patience, and they know how to handle disappointment!
I'm a bigger fan of the Packers than the Loins. Don't watch much college or NFL now except when it comes time for the playoffs. I'm running 100% in my predictions too as I predicted the Pack would beat the Loins and then they'd suffer another defeat to the Seahawks. So I guess we could say they didn't disappoint me.
Don't give up the Lions. It wasn't all that long ago that the Patriots were known locally as the "patsies". Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
Well.... I hope all us Pats fans really appreciate this extended run. I know I do. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
