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What to do with an acre of standing jack pine

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  1. North woods

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    image.jpg So I have an acre of jack pine I want to get rid of but know one wants it. Any ideas?
     
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    I am in sw wisconsin if anyone is interested
     
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    Start cuttin'.
    That's firewood.
     
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    Call local logging company's. They will buy it...
     
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    not sure what jack pine is look tall and straight. .. rough cut build?
     
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    My answer is make it "not standing" and then CSS :axe: :stacke: :fire:
     
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    Something like this? That's my good friend "Hurricane" Walter in the pic.

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    Seriously though I think if you thinned that out a little you'd have some real juicy timber there in a few years.
     
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    Called the local Buyers and loggers and no one wants it. If I had an outdoor stove I would burn it myself, everyone I know that has an out door stove says they don't want it. I could cut it myself but then have no good way to rid of it.
     
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    I'd feel fine burning a little in my stove but an acres worth would take me years to burn up. Mostly I'd like to get them down so they don't fall on my buildings but I still need a way to get rid of it.
     
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    no campgrounds near you? tons near me.. cut into 2 foot lengths sell as bonfire wood 20 a pickup load it would be gone in summer
     
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    Wish it was all red oak! My wife and I just bought the lot. Didn't want anyone to build next to us it is a town lot we now have a total of 1.993 acres in the village.
     
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    Thought about the campfire wood idea not sure if I would get buyers but its worth a try.
     
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    Yep, folks come up here to camp, 4 wheel, etc. and buy lots of wood bundles. How much effort do you want to put into getting rid of it? Doing like CbVT said would be the least labor intensive.
    Maybe sell an ax with every pickup load. Offer the "experience" of splitting their own firewood.
     
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    Cut the ones closest to the buildings and then CSS it into stacks next to the garage...crib the ends (very important) Shawn Curry can attest to cribbed stacks keeping falling trees off a garage...:whistle: :yes: then leave the rest stand...
     
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    ...or it looks like if a fellah wanted to go into the phone pole business, you hit the jackpot!
     
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    Toothpicks.
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    I burn lots of red pine in my indoor stove. It's not going to give you 8hrs of heat but it will keep the house warm. With the oddball winters we've had the past couple years it was just the ticket here. I clean my chimney once a year and there's no more creosote burning pine vs hardwoods. If you have dry wood and burn it right you won't find hardly any.
     
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    Where about are you in Wisconsin? I'd take every last stick of you were close to Menomonie, but I've a good feeling SW means nowhere near menomonie, at least nowhere feasible to move that.
     
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