And, another big dead Red Oak
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Enjoyed the pics, you have some nice looking RO up your way. The oaks are dying left and right here in IL as well. The drought in 2012 weakened them and opened up the window to bugs and fungal diseases. It's a boon for firewooders and tree service outfits but it's a shame to see. The bigger trees seem to have been hit the hardest too.
While the topic of spirits is brought up, my favorite is Crown Royal Maple...stuff is dangerous!
While the topic of spirits is brought up, my favorite is Crown Royal Maple...stuff is dangerous!
Crown Royal is in my top 5
I have not had the crown maple but I have a bottle of Knob Maple.
Knob maple is the best.
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Fordhighboy1
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Got a fifth of knob maple for a Valentine's present from the gf. Have yet to have a glass but I did pop it open for a whiff and heaven slowly drifted up to my nose from the bottle.
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Thats when I got mine. Taste it, you wont regret it.
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OK now, I've been told by some bonified experts that a real whiskey drinker will only take whiskey straight or mixed with water. I confess I do not qualify. Well, unless I am dared or something. LOL Fess up guys.
Real whisk(e)y should be neat or with a single rock or small shot of water to open up the flavors.
If you want to mix, buy Jim Beam or Jack Daniels or Evan Williams. DO NOT waste good stuff by adding a mixer!
I drink most whiskey neat but will add a little water to "cask strength" IE 120 proof and higher stuff. Otherwise it is just too strong to taste the good stuff.
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Oldman47
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Watering whiskey is as bad as watering beer. I enjoy rye or tequila straight if it is any good. I have had some nice single malt scotch and even some varieties of brandy, but brandy can vary an awful lot in flavors. Some I like and some taste terrible to me. You can keep the ice, it is for people who don't like the robust flavors that come out at room temperature.
The sawing threads quiet down a little over the heat of the Summer, but I'll add a quick post proving once again:
This "Man Plans - God Laughs"
I posted some pictures from a tour of my wood lot last Winter where I shared photos of a couple dead Red Oak with serious lean that I was avoiding due to risk of barber chairing. Here is one of them:
I decided that since I had more than enough dead Red Oak of the straighter variety, I'd just place my game camera with one of these leaners in the background, and maybe capture a spectacular natural felling. I pull my camera on the last day of the month to unload my pictures and categorize the keepers. Yesterday Scout and I pulled it down and got some nice video of this young buck feeding his velvet:
And, this much younger fawn following mom on a browse feast:
But during the two hours between 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm while camera was not in place, this happened:
Karma, cosmic entropy, Mother Nature joking around with me, or statistical proof that even a Six Sigma Operations will demonstrate an experiment design escape 3.4 times every million tries.
This "Man Plans - God Laughs"
I posted some pictures from a tour of my wood lot last Winter where I shared photos of a couple dead Red Oak with serious lean that I was avoiding due to risk of barber chairing. Here is one of them:
I decided that since I had more than enough dead Red Oak of the straighter variety, I'd just place my game camera with one of these leaners in the background, and maybe capture a spectacular natural felling. I pull my camera on the last day of the month to unload my pictures and categorize the keepers. Yesterday Scout and I pulled it down and got some nice video of this young buck feeding his velvet:
And, this much younger fawn following mom on a browse feast:
But during the two hours between 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm while camera was not in place, this happened:
Karma, cosmic entropy, Mother Nature joking around with me, or statistical proof that even a Six Sigma Operations will demonstrate an experiment design escape 3.4 times every million tries.
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We were out looking for mushrooms yesterday and the bugs about ate us alive.. That old oak was ready for the mushrooms We fid our Chicken of the Woods around dead or dying oaks.. Nice looking woods.
Weather is finally settling into some reasonable temps for working in the woods again. Saturday I cut on this big old oak a friend offered me. It was leaning hard toward her house, so she had a service take it down safely, but saved untold $$$ by imposing on a friend to cut it up and haul it away. Hmmmm,
I spent way too much time cutting there, and still have quite a bit of hauling to do. Can only get a small utility trailer around the back of her house. But, I'm home again, and Scout and I spent an hour or so cutting this big Red that also fell over the summer.
In case any of you are still following this thread, I use my felling wedges more often than not while bucking to keep the log from pinching my bar. The result, too often when I finally cut through the wedge falls onto my chain, and ends up looking like this:
Maybe I'm the only one with this problem, but if not, do you guys clean up your felling wedge edges? Or, just hit them harder when using them?
I spent way too much time cutting there, and still have quite a bit of hauling to do. Can only get a small utility trailer around the back of her house. But, I'm home again, and Scout and I spent an hour or so cutting this big Red that also fell over the summer.
In case any of you are still following this thread, I use my felling wedges more often than not while bucking to keep the log from pinching my bar. The result, too often when I finally cut through the wedge falls onto my chain, and ends up looking like this:
Maybe I'm the only one with this problem, but if not, do you guys clean up your felling wedge edges? Or, just hit them harder when using them?
panolo
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I'll take them to the grinder and just get a clean edge on them. There are cheap enough so I am liberal when I use them and if I nick one up no big deal.
