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Offline Crogacht

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First BL haul
« on: May 10, 2014, 07:26:09 am »
A couple of decent sized Black Locust trees came down on private land over Easter, and I got permission to cut them up, so that's what I did.

Probably 1 cord of firewood and 30 + staves once they're processed.



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Offline okie64

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 09:53:18 am »
Nice haul! Black locust makes great bows and firewood. I save it for the coldest days, it burns very hot!
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Offline Crogacht

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 06:03:21 pm »
Man it's tough wood though. We had a 14 inch chainsaw... it would handle 3 inch branches but that was about it. Had to go hire a nice new 20 inch beast, which did much better  >:D Still took quite awhile to get through the big rounds at the base.
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Offline Crogacht

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2014, 05:33:21 am »
Ok, well 4 Saturdays later and it's finally all split and loaded and back at the house. There are 37 staves, but some of them are massive and I'm pretty sure will be split in half again, some maybe into thirds.... maybe 50 - 60 staves once I've processed them properly. Also ended up with about 1.5 chords of firewood, so that's nice too.

Hopefully I can channel Huisme Mollegabet, Patron Saint of Black Locust  ;D... because this is going to last me a very long time  :laugh:  :o

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Offline Gsulfridge

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2014, 10:53:43 am »
Score!!!  Nice haul man.
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Offline stickbender

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2014, 10:55:34 am »

     Cool! 8)  Lucky you!  Nice Ammo box on your trailer, also. ;)


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Offline Shamusrobert

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2014, 07:51:07 pm »
Nice haul there, now you just need to find us some of that chert. ;)
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Offline Crogacht

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2014, 11:12:50 pm »
Oh I'll find it, don't you worry  ;D
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Offline Pappy

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Re: First BL haul
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2014, 07:26:54 am »
Looks like a nice haul,lots of bows in that pile. :)
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