From my Nice find while harvesting thread. The front row is Slippery Elm & Mulberry, 2nd row is Black Locust & the rest is American Elm. I also found 8-10 Osage posts piled in the fence line but I will use a tractor or skid loader to get them. My special assistant in charge of mechanical engineering thought that I wasn’t pulling my weight by running the saw & we should switch jobs. I told her I would show her a unicorn when we got done
My niece, she is 6 & was bored at grandmas, she volunteered to go along. Her older sisters 9 & 15 are the best helpers I can get. They never ask when are we going to be done, they just want to know what’s next.
Sorry to hear about the 6 year olds last time helping you out.....after you played that unicorn trick on her!
It was probably the last time anyway, I have never heard in my all of 49 years, a 6yo b*tch, moan & complain as much as she was after asking to go with me & help.
Haaaaaaa. Thats a good one right there JimBear you have about the same group of grandkids we do. 3 girls about the same age's. They bring us laughs, appetites and unfortunatily a nice batch of "the bug" when they have been at our place recently. Amazing how they love to snack/eat and be on the move all the time. Exhausting! Seeing their mothers taillights as they head home after a day with us is a moment..... Hee heee heeee. Enjoy
That’s my youngest niece, I see her & her sisters more than any of my other nieces, nephews or my grandkids. My grandkids are 5,4 & three of them at 18 months. I know what you mean about appetites, being on the go & bugs though. My immune system gets a workout every time I am around those three, they always give hugs when they arrive & leave, they are always going thru mom’s refrigerator when they are there which is usually 3-4 times a week, the oldest is usually in some type of sports or other school function & the youngest two are outside playing every chance they get.
The youngest often get things done for them. It's often easier for the older ones to do chores and things than try to explain everything. The plight of the youngest child. They can often end up "spoiled " quite unintentionally.
Jim, two questions. How did you come across barkless logs? And, I've never seen a trailer like that with wheels inside the trailer body, wonder what the 'reason' is for that design? More capacity I suppose.
That’s all dead standing American Elm, after about a year or so of dying the bark starts to loosen up after 2-3 years it starts falling off. Anything that hasn’t falling off peels right off by hand or with the help of a hatchet or pickeroon. This was an old golf cart trailer I think, my brother found the frame in the weeds somewhere & welded some old floor grates from hog confinement pens on it. It was a high school shop project. It has what I would call spring loaded torsion axles under it, I have never seen a rating on them. It does ride & pull nice when loaded. I think trailer design with stuff like this is based on what the builder has to work with or personal preference. Some of the other folks with a better grasp of engineering could probably answer your question better.
We have what I call Swamp Maple but I believe it’s actually some type of Poplar that will lose its bark also but it low btu : Then we have Cottonwood that will lose its bark also but it’s low btu, this one is about 5’dbh & probably pushing 90’ : Then we have American Elm, this one may get another year before it meets the saw, the bark just peels right off.
