Beautiful 40° day (5° “metricated”
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I love the old Allis Nick; I had one a few years ago that I slung a mid-mounted mower deck underneath. Then I ‘loaned’ it to someone; last I heard it was used to launch and retrieve a boat at the seaside somewhere.
She’s a good runner! Lives outside year round, was parked November 1st last year and had a couple feet of snow on it the past few months, but started on the 4th or 5th crank
Walter, wanna “loan” me a few engines?
Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick?
Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick?
Haha, just the small branches, I have 5 logs from this tree alone that I will be milling and hopefully a year or so from now will supply me with plenty of steam toy bases.
What you see in the wood pile is circled in red, the rest was saved. I have lived with these 2 black walnuts above my driveway for 5 years now. The first spring I trimmed them WAY up and wanted to save them because they are over 80 years old, maybe older BUT I am absolutely sick of walnuts all over the driveway, on the cars and the squirrels hiding them everywhere possible. This tree has been half dead since I have lived here, the bottom is losing bark, it’s infested with ants and it only gets about half its leaves and fills a large rolling garbage can 3 times with walnuts every year. Even with all these flaws, it was not an easy decision to take it down.
And by the way, I get $125/face cord for that humble firewood
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Did you heap the snow up there on purpose
@Nick ; just in case you take a dive off the ladder
Did you heap the snow up there on purpose @Nick ; just in case you take a dive off the ladder
Kids (and my) sledding hill
and yes, that was use #2 just in case 😂
(Worked good so I didn’t have to carry out the other half of the ladder... those wooden ladders are not light!
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Nick...I am Far from a tree identification expert....but it appears you are turning a Black Walnut tree into humble firewood heating fuel?...please say it isn't so Nick?
Haha, just the small branches, I have 5 logs from this tree alone that I will be milling and hopefully a year or so from now will supply me with plenty of steam toy bases.
What you see in the wood pile is circled in red, the rest was saved. I have lived with these 2 black walnuts above my driveway for 5 years now. The first spring I trimmed them WAY up and wanted to save them because they are over 80 years old, maybe older BUT I am absolutely sick of walnuts all over the driveway, on the cars and the squirrels hiding them everywhere possible. This tree has been half dead since I have lived here, the bottom is losing bark, it’s infested with ants and it only gets about half its leaves and fills a large rolling garbage can 3 times with walnuts every year. Even with all these flaws, it was not an easy decision to take it down.
And by the way, I get $125/face cord for that humble firewood
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Nothing wrong with humble firewood, my family farm has been heated exclusively with it for 50 years.
I am paying $50 to $65 per face cord here in Michigan for oak, that's what we like...has lots of BTU but my stove will burn most any wood dryer than 15% water prefured around 9%
I would go $150 on a face cord (delivered) of black walnut... No idea what the BTU are as it never occurred to me to burn it, we call it black gold around here... Think I see a few candle sticks, ink pen blanks and turning stock in there somewhere...lol
Just teasing....shoot.. I heard them poor folks in Texas was burning there furniture to keep warm in the 100 year storm.
I have never gone less than $125 on the black walnut (no delivery, they drive here and I help them load). I start at $125/face cord on my oak, usually around 15% moisture, always tested under 20%. When the selling slows down I drop to $115 or $100. My house was $96 to heat during the coldest month this year, so all my firewood gets burned by others. I have quite a few repeat customers and run out every year as they like that I keep my pieces all at 16” and split it small. I love to cut and split firewood, just don’t have a use for it
I have helped on full size sawmills powered by steam, but this will be my first attempt at milling my own... I bought a Granberg Alaskan Chainsaw Mill a year ago, so should be fun to try... If anything, I’ll have some very nicely cut firewood 😂
This is how full a face cord will fill your convertible (tossed in, not stacked)
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Face Cord....that's something that I had never heard before. Had to Google it 
Technically it is not a legal unit of measure according to the state of MN. When I talked to them about selling, it has to be sold as 1/3 of a cord
