I was driving to the bank one day and on the side of the road were branches cut off a tree by the power company. On the way back I stopped to inspectigate (like any good scrounger would do) and discovered the branches were WAY bigger than they looked from the street. 18" diameter cut in 8ft long pieces. Just the few branches the power company took off this tree was a truckload full. It was cold so there were no leaves to tell what it was but the tree was still alive and the wood was dark/oak looking but I knew it wasnt oak by the bark and smell of the wood. Several days later I tried to split some of it. Dead giveaway that it was a redish maple breed of some sort, the trunk of the tree being 3 times the diameter of the one in your pic. They had spraypainted a blue dot on the tree, and idk about the rest of the country but around here, a spraypainted blue dot is the mark of death. I got sick the next day and was down for a week. The next time I got to it the entire tree was gone. Stump and all.
He likes the apple, but he don't like my sled!?
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Had 3 hours to scrounge this afternoon in the timber. Here’s a pic of 1 of the 3 little stacks I got worked up before dark. 35 degrees, very damp, but no wind, so comfortable. This was a dead standing “phone pole” about 60’ tall. My guess is Red Elm, but I wouldn’t put a lot of money on that bet.
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