Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Knob Creek maple is the best followed by Beam IMO but I really like the Beam line in general.

 

[svk]

The commercial syrup guy I know uses a reverse osmosis machine.

He is very much against the "pumps" that suck syrup out of the tree. He said its hard on the tree and the syrup quality is lower.

There is a specialty cleaner that he uses that is made for the syrup industry. You can actually leave a small amount in the bottom of your tanks and lines over the off season.

 

[1project2many]

I prefer grade B which is the darkest, thickest, richest syrup and comes last. The very beginning of the season yields light amber which is the most commonly sold "real" type of syrup followed by Grade A medium amber, then dark. Light amber is so light that is basically disappears when you pour it on pancakes.

Grade B is not of lesser quality it's just a different name for the last stuff.

FYI VT is first in line to change syrup grading.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryol...-so-long-grade-b-making-sense-of-maple-syrup/

 

[svk]

FYI VT is first in line to change syrup grading.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryol...-so-long-grade-b-making-sense-of-maple-syrup/

Cool! I haven't bought any since this change so good to know.

 

[Marshy]

Knob Creek maple is the best followed by Beam IMO but I really like the Beam line in general.

I didnt know Knob made Maple flavor... Have to try it. WT Honey is good stuff, dangerous too because it takes great straight slightly chilled.

 

[El Quachito]

Recent scrounge score. Farmer dropping entire woods for fresh farm ground. Sad but easy cutting. forgot to add pictures of his other woods which are now stump piles and brush. One day I'm going to show up to cut and it will be dozed [emoji20]

CLEARING for farmland? Amazing. We have been building subdivisions and fast food joints on our farmland here in California.

 

[Tjcole50]

Sad really is... over 50 acres going to the ground...

Used to be 20 ish acres there

Today's score. For some reason 3rd shift beat me down last night and I only got one load not even a completely full one either [emoji20]

 

[svk]

They were cleaning trees off a drainage ditch bank near my house. A couple dozen trees laid down on Monday night. Aspen and some other type of darker bark that I'm thinking was elm but it was getting dark. All nice 6-12" stuff. Came by yesterday and the whole works was chipped and the pile of chips left on the ditch bank.

 

[Tjcole50]

Wow.... your avatar is awesome ... Arnold straight beast mode a log in commando haha!
right behind my brother in laws house they dropped 20 off acres and he was noticing they weren't any logging trucks. So finally he drives back and they turned the entire woods into mulch... f'n mulch......

 

[El Quachito]

Trees are valuable to a lot of us--most people don't own too many at all--and to see stuff wadded up in a burn pile or chipped makes me shake my head.

 

[Tjcole50]

Just the overall beauty of woods and it's ability to heat my home if managed properly as well as a hunting spot. I press hard every year to buy roughly 8 acres off the farmer behind me he has about 27 acres of woods but won't budge. I fear he will try this and it would completely ruin the setting of our homes. We're all on 2 acre lots with the woods behind us were in a clearing. We're about 350 feet apart but nobody infront or behind us for miles n miles. Like to keep it that way and harvest off my own property would be a dream come true for me

 

[SteveSS]

They were cleaning trees off a drainage ditch bank near my house. A couple dozen trees laid down on Monday night. Aspen and some other type of darker bark that I'm thinking was elm but it was getting dark. All nice 6-12" stuff. Came by yesterday and the whole works was chipped and the pile of chips left on the ditch bank.

Wow.... your avatar is awesome ... Arnold straight beast mode a log in commando haha!
right behind my brother in laws house they dropped 20 off acres and he was noticing they weren't any logging trucks. So finally he drives back and they turned the entire woods into mulch... f'n mulch......

 

[El Quachito]

Is it legal to do free style clearing there or do you need a Timber Harvest Plan or other permits like in my state? Just curious.

 

[svk]

Is it legal to do free style clearing there or do you need a Timber Harvest Plan or other permits like in my state? Just curious.

Who are you asking?

 

[El Quachito]

Was aimed at Tjcole50, but I don't actually know his location...

 

[svk]

They were cleaning trees off a drainage ditch bank near my house. A couple dozen trees laid down on Monday night. Aspen and some other type of darker bark that I'm thinking was elm but it was getting dark. All nice 6-12" stuff. Came by yesterday and the whole works was chipped and the pile of chips left on the ditch bank.

They must have come back. There's 6-8 bigger trees piled across the ditch from the chips. Wondering what's happening with those.

 

[Tjcole50]

Ask svk all they can say is no! As far as clearing it appears there is no rule. This is 3rd section of woods with 15 min of me being dropped to the ground. I have only lived here for 3 years . I wish I were in the financial position to just buy someone out on that instead of farming it. Hopefully in 6-7 years I will be in a position to buy woods and leave it standing forever while heating and hunting

 

[svk]

Ask svk all they can say is no! As far as clearing it appears there is no rule. This is 3rd section of woods with 15 min of me being dropped to the ground. I have only lived here for 3 years . I wish I were in the financial position to just buy someone out on that instead of farming it. Hopefully in 6-7 years I will be in a position to buy woods and leave it standing forever while heating and hunting

I've got more than I need in my wood lot. But if I did I'd be all over it.

 

[MustangMike]

Be happy it is becoming farmland. Farms have mostly disappeared around here. The neighborhood I live in used to be an apple orchard. Had one Apple Tree in my backyard, but even most of them have since died. Almost all the farms have gone under and been built on. It actually goes back to NYC condemning the lands for Reservoirs near the turn of the century. Prior to that, Borden's condensed milk was made right here in Brewster. There is still a masonry Arch next to the stream where they used to cool the milk.

 

[dancan]

Zog , sorry to hear about your bust up , use the donkey to drag wood next time , it's more productive LOL
They're changing the grading system up here for syrup up here as well to the new grading system .