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Test: Let's see if these pictures uploaded
The other night we had a dumping of wet, heavy snow, rare for here. I've counted over thirty broken branches in the Juniper trees. I guess turning then into firewood could be considered a project, mostly I'm practicing uploading pictures.
Edit: Well that didn't go so well, it said they up loaded successfully, wonder where to?
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How to upload a PICTURE
1) CLICK ON THE PICTURE ICON (looks like a little tree)
2) A box pops up – Click on the image that looks like a magnifying glass
3) A new box will pop up – now Click the UPLOAD tab (if you need to upload a new image)
4) Then click on the BROWSE button (will open up your computers folders to find image)
5) Select Image to upload (you can repeat this too) You have your own online folder
6) Now you have your selelcted pic or pictures in your own personal folder
7) Click the tree icon again and in the pop up folder just CLICK THE PICTURE you want.
Note: I have set it that when you click on the picture icon you folder pops up first displaying all your uploaded pictures FIRST instead of just the UPLOAD box. Feedback on this please.
The logic is you could just upload a lot of pics at once the use them in your future post as needed so your folder showing you uploaded pics opens first for future reference.
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Well….you guys named the topic firewood, and I'm not good at pictures, so thought I would get back to the firewood topic
I've spent the last few years developing a tree species that doesn't have bark, and is square. Trunks run 10″ X 10″, and are similar to the oak type of wood. The wood sections, I cut them about 18″ long, split easily, and you end up with 4 5″ X 5″ X 18″ long logs after splitting. No bark mess, burns to a fine ash that cuts cleanout time in half. Makes for a pretty neat looking wood pile!
At least – thats what I have my neighbors believing!! I've been cutting up the 160 year old beams from the old barn, and heating my house with them. Efforts to sell them on E bay, Craigs List, and local ads, sold only a few, so I'm getting some good out of them and not just throwing them away. Hey…you did say firewood…right??
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The ones I'll be trimming off the trees have a strong oder but burn hot and long, Juniper trees. The thing about these is they grow to twenty to fourty feet tall in about twenty years, then live as long as 1,000 years or more. Signs of repeated lightning strikes and breaks like this snowstorm can give a clue that a tree is old, but sometimes hard to tell. An old logger friend once told me some good advice. When cutting Juniper trees take note of wind direction, then cut from the other side. Hundreds of years of dirt and sand blown into the bark can dull a chainsaw right quick
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Sometimes even cutting from the other side doesn't help much. I used to own property in northern Arizona and had some scrub cedar on it I wanted to cut for firewood. The very first cut took out the chain. Threw a roostertail of sparks! That stuff was almost as tough as the petrified wood that was also all over the property. The only way to cut it was with a carbide blade in a circular saw. I gave up on the firewood notion pretty darn quick.
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Firewood… Firewood??….. I got firewood…. EVERYWHERE…. anybody want firewood, just bring a chainsaw and trailer. Little pissy jackpines growing like weeds. They took over. They pop up every year. Grow real fast. Burn real fast. There are much more admirable types of pine on the property, but they just don't seem to pop up as the jackpine does. Probably got a couple thousand of the little freaks anywhere from 1 to 5 feet tall and 1/2 to 2 inches round that I didn't get cut down in time. I got to wade through them just to get to the bigger trees that make respectable firewood and fenceposts. Their older brothers and sisters are slated for the chopping block. At least you can get logs out of those…. Firewood indeed…
People are hilarious...
I'm supposed to choose and be in one of the 2 parties. And NEITHER is worth a damn!
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Just testing the picture uploading .
. BTW Nice old truck & suntan Bob, I take it you are sick of winter as well. 
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