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Offline nativenoobowyer86

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2011, 12:17:19 pm »
OMY!  if i didnt live so far north (northern ontario) , id be there in a flash.  I get sick of lookin at all the conifers and poplar! some real bow wood would be a nice chnge.  :)  as well as some biscuits a gravy! :D
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Offline DEllis

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2011, 01:19:45 am »
WOW! I wish I could come down and help ya chop all that up..........don't forget a canadian friend who's looking for a nice long yellow stave eh? ;D
Darcy :)
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2011, 01:28:58 am »
Hey yeah we need osage up here! Snow, shovels, ice and Pine, great eh? Anywho, closest thing we have to what you got is a bit of hickory on the lake, deep in the woods too.  :'(
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2011, 01:52:53 am »
Wish it weren't so expensive to ship north of the border.  I'll see what I can do for you guys.

George
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Offline Gus

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2011, 04:05:47 am »
I knew I was gonna have trouble sleeping tonight... ;D

Better get some shuteye... can't be late.

-Gus
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Offline gstoneberg

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« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2011, 07:32:00 am »
Me too, and I'm too old to get excited... 8)

George
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2011, 11:35:29 am »
If your friend really wants to get rid of the osage you should pick up a qt of "Stump Killer" at Lowe's or Home Depot. If you don't spray the stump it will sprout back and start another tree.

I thinned the trees in part of my woods. On the first part I just cut trees, almost everything sprouted back. On the next part I sprayed each stump with stump killer, nothing sprouted back.
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #22 on: July 02, 2011, 05:18:05 pm »
He must be treating the stumps, there's nothing growing back on any of them.

After a rousing breakfast we headed over to Thomas' place.  Gus jumped right in with the chain saw



We ended up cutting 3 trunks out of that tree, what I thought was a 4th trunk turned out to be cedar elm.  This one fell just like we wanted...



but it stuck in the elm tree next to it.



Thomas brought down the Kubota and drug it out.  We then used the tractor to load the wood in Gus' truck and my trailer.  I took a picture of what I brought home.



We're all pooped, but there are some good bows in there.

George
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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #23 on: July 02, 2011, 07:10:41 pm »
"Were all pooped,but there's some good bows in there"   
you can say that again. I feel your pain. Literally.


Nice haul there George. Looks like nice stuff
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Offline JW_Halverson

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« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2011, 07:26:14 pm »
I dunno what pains me worse....not getting in on that wood or not getting in on the biscuits and gravy. 

I was taught what good B&G could be and my fellow Northerners can't seem to get the hang of the gravy worth a damn.  We won't even broach the subject of biscuits (or the toilet paper tube turds they seem to want to call "biscuits")

And the best of it all, getting together with fellow treebenders!  Must have been good.
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Offline Gus

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2011, 08:08:49 pm »
Yes Sir...

The Trees were Big, Beautiful and Straight.
Did a bit of splitting yesterday and the wood is healthy and clean.
Tools functioned flawlessly for the most part... :)
Met two Good men of like mind and had a great day doing noble work.
It was a Lovely drive out to where the trees were.
The land owner's hospitality was TOP Notch.

But most of all...

BREAKFAST WAS AWESOME!!!!   >:D

Thank You again George and Ciripano.
Hope we can do it again soon!

Best Regards,

-Gus
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Offline gstoneberg

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« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2011, 08:12:48 pm »
John, wish you could have been there.  Gus and Cipriano, glad you were.  Mary makes exquisite biscuits, always from scratch, and this batch was wonderful as usual.  The sausage was graciously provided by the hog that joined us at the last Cross Plains knapping get-together.  I actually made the gravy, while Mary was doing something else.  Seemed edible.  Cipriano texted me some pictures, he  captured me watching (and taking a picture of) Gus, who was working hard.  That was probably a common sight that morning.



We had one log large enough that we split it before moving it.  Man was that an experience.  Splitting green osage is not my idea of a good time. 



Thank goodness the guys were there.  Gus ran that chain saw like a lumberjack and Cipriano picked up logs I couldn't even move.  I was sure thankful when Thomas said we could load with the tractor.  I need to go get the logs out of the trailer, but my butt seems welded to this lazy-boy this afternoon. :o

George

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Offline bubby

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2011, 08:23:49 pm »
well maybe if ya get up real early >:D
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Offline criveraville

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2011, 10:51:52 pm »
And all with a horrible tooth ache!!!!!!!!! Man does it hurt!!!  :(

Breakfast was delicious :D

Another great time with Georgy and nice getting to meet Gus... Good food, good folks, and good logs 8) Does it get anybetter than that??
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Offline Stretch

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Re: Future Bows
« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2011, 12:20:43 am »
Quote from: gstoneberg on July 03, 2011, 08:12:48 pm
I need to go get the logs out of the trailer, but my butt seems welded to this lazy-boy this afternoon. :o

George

I saw in your pics that you're a Cherokee driver.  I knew there was a reason I liked you.   ;D

I typically unload logs from my trailer by tying the logs to a tree and pulling the trailer out from under them. 
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