Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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Grand Vol said:
Well, my weekend will now be the fun time of clearing downed tree branches from my property.

And...

We have another day of this nonsense.
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I was amazed last night when you said ice storm. We've quit watching the news for obvious reasons, and I had no idea that it had gotten cold in other parts. Doesn't even seem like it's that time of year. Good luck on the storm and cleanup - stay safe.
 
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AM64 said:
Gotta love a little pyromania from time to time.
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When we moved into the current house there were ton of pine trees in the back yard. Shortly after some pine beetles moved thru and killed most of them. As those dead trees fell, all away from the house,we spent a lot of weekends clearing them and any collateral.

Learned to love the smell of wood burning, the simple nature of chopping up trees, and dragging them to the fire. Dad on the chain saw, me splitting any good pieces up for the fire place, and mom and sisters dragging the small stuff to the fire. Sitting down at the end of the day, muscles tired, smoke soaked into your clothes, sitting around watching and listening to the fire crackle.

Enough fell where we were able to put in a small garden in an otherwise wooded yard.
 
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LouderVol said:
When we moved into the current house there were ton of pine trees in the back yard. Shortly after some pine beetles moved thru and killed most of them. As those dead trees fell, all away from the house,we spent a lot of weekends clearing them and any collateral.

Learned to love the smell of wood burning, the simple nature of chopping up trees, and dragging them to the fire. Dad on the chain saw, me splitting any good pieces up for the fire place, and mom and sisters dragging the small stuff to the fire. Sitting down at the end of the day, muscles tired, smoke soaked into your clothes, sitting around watching and listening to the fire crackle.

Enough fell where we were able to put in a small garden in an otherwise wooded yard.
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When we moved to Chattanooga from VA, we picked out a nice reasonably flat wooded lot, found a builder, and settled on a house plan. I asked the builder to clear just the necessary trees and leave the rest as it was. What I didn't pay attention to was the number of pines - huge mistake. We later had some of them cut but in the back yard, but from about 50 feet behind the house we left just as it was. And then the pine borers came. We with two or three neighbors got someone to cut and haul the trees away - apparently most of the trees were still acceptable to mills. That's when I first developed a lust for a Bobcat - it was amazing what an experienced guy can do with one of those things. When you are permitted to burn in Hamilton Co drives me nuts because it never coincides with when you need to burn. I'm still working on the exit strategy back home to middle TN.
 
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LouderVol said:
When we moved into the current house there were ton of pine trees in the back yard. Shortly after some pine beetles moved thru and killed most of them. As those dead trees fell, all away from the house,we spent a lot of weekends clearing them and any collateral.

Learned to love the smell of wood burning, the simple nature of chopping up trees, and dragging them to the fire. Dad on the chain saw, me splitting any good pieces up for the fire place, and mom and sisters dragging the small stuff to the fire. Sitting down at the end of the day, muscles tired, smoke soaked into your clothes, sitting around watching and listening to the fire crackle.

Enough fell where we were able to put in a small garden in an otherwise wooded yard.
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The only problem I run into is a lot of the stuff I burn is hardwood. Plus, being in city limits, I have to use a burn barrel.


I still have a bed of coals in the bottom of the barrel sometimes two days later.
 
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@RavinDave

I was at a biomass power gen facility today. You deal with biomass or just biogas? They take wood mulch and use it for power gen, like 25MW at this facility. Never even knew they used wood for such. They get the wood from cleaned out forests. CA should think about it, but too late now...lol

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AM64 said:
When we moved to Chattanooga from VA, we picked out a nice reasonably flat wooded lot, found a builder, and settled on a house plan. I asked the builder to clear just the necessary trees and leave the rest as it was. What I didn't pay attention to was the number of pines - huge mistake. We later had some of them cut but in the back yard, but from about 50 feet behind the house we left just as it was. And then the pine borers came. We with two or three neighbors got someone to cut and haul the trees away - apparently most of the trees were still acceptable to mills. That's when I first developed a lust for a Bobcat - it was amazing what an experienced guy can do with one of those things. When you are permitted to burn in Hamilton Co drives me nuts because it never coincides with when you need to burn. I'm still working on the exit strategy back home to middle TN.
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Yeah. My dad loves to burn, so as much as he is able he gets a burn license.
 
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Orangeburst said:
@RavinDave

I was at a biomass power gen facility today. You deal with biomass or just biogas? They take wood mulch and use it for power gen, like 25MW at this facility. Never even knew they used wood for such. They get the wood from cleaned out forests. CA should think about it, but too late now...lol

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A lot of my uncles worked at paper mills. I know they used biomass for power generation. Whatever couldn't be turned into paper got burned/used elsewhere.
 
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LouderVol said:
A lot of my uncles worked at paper mills. I know they used biomass for power generation. Whatever couldn't be turned into paper got burned/used elsewhere.
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I betcha all those trees from Chatt tornado were brought here or to a similar one. There were thousands of them piling up on the landfill near Igou Gap, mulched of course.
 
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VolStrom said:
3 things I didn't know about you in this post:
1. You have a wife
2. You hate steak
3. You don't drink coffee

My God man, #2 and #3 equates to no wonder you're eff'd up in the head.
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The wife has been hanging around here for 33 years, and the only 2 cups of coffee I have ever had were way before I met her. 46 years ago for the coffee.
 
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1972 Grad said:
My wife is a steak lover, but I could live the rest of my life and not eat another one, and not miss it. I haven't ordered one when I eat out in several years, and only eat one at home when she cooks one. Plus, she buys expensive meat, not cheap stuff. I also don't drink coffee, so there's that.
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Weirdo. I rarely eat steak, but I do like it - prime rib is more my thing.
 
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1972 Grad said:
My wife said that filets are usually about $20-22 a pound here.
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I seldom look at the price of any meat I buy, it is what it is, but I'm not on a budget.
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I do tech and data for a living. The internet is a funny thing. Once it's out, it's there forever. I'm not sure they could cover it up.
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Are you saying my AOL chat room posts from 25 years ago are still floating around?
 
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AM64 said:
Weirdo. I rarely eat steak, but I do like it - prime rib is more my thing.
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Fresh Market has the best ground beef...Bought some Publix ground sirloin at like $9 pound recently thinking it would be good, and it did not close compare to the special at FM, which is incredibly priced on like Tuesdays.
 
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