Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

I am not a fan of Bradford pears. They are pretty in the spring, but that's about it. They have gone wild here and they bloom in the spring, pretty, but useless. The wood is hard, with your woodworking skills, is it a wood that you would want to make something out of?

We had a lot of huge, dead, rotten trees here, from the 2011 drought. We paid to have them cut down, they were too dangerous for us to tackle.

 

[Mike CHS]

I have tried using some small pieces to turn ink pens and knife handles but it is too wild and never stops twisting (even when it dries). There may be a trick to making it usable but there are too many other stable woods to make the pear worth the effort. Not to mention it is not a pretty grained wood.

 

[Bruce]

My brother in Tn has one and he mentioned to me that it was honored by 20 something other states....so, transporting wouldn't be an issue as long as the state accepts it.....

Just have to make an appropriate route when you travel. Vermont has no CWP, it is legal regardless outside of schools, state offices and the like.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ms is an "open carry state"....so, there isn't a need to get one, unless ya have the desire to "conceal".....

 

[Mike CHS]

The Bradford Pear tree mess is all cleaned up. There was so many branches after they got cut up that I added 4 separate piles to the area around my burn pile. That way I can push small batches at a time into the fire with the tractor. There was almost a cord of firewood that I took to a neighbor since they have a wood burning furnace.

I was hoping to start burning this morning but the wind forecast was high enough that they weren't issuing burn permits. I was surprised when I tried to get a permit since there was no wind but evidently they had a better weather guesser than my TV one since the wind really came up today.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I fed 2 fires today and got most of the brush stuff burned today, by doing so....trying to get prepared as we can for hurricane season....I have to have some place to store the fallen limbs....they are much bigger than most trees and 50-75' in the air.....

 

[Mike CHS]

I went online and got a burn permit this morning and got all of the Bradford Pear debris gone. Teresa called the feed store in Alabama the other day and ordered another 1000 lbs of feed so I went down this afternoon and picked that up and wegot it all out of the bags and into the storage cans. On the way back I stopped at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant and got us a couple orders of Shrimp Spring Rolls so that was supper.

I have been cutting and giving the yearlings and their lambs some of the rye grass for the last several days to get them used to the lush growth since I wanted to put them on that field at least a few hours a day until the ewe that I lost track of has her lamb(s) in the nursery pen. I was surprised when I called them back into the other pen that they came.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Just Beautiful!!!....such a good contrast of colors.....

 

[Mike CHS]

Just Beautiful!!!....such a good contrast of colors.....

They were in heaven. The other group was let out on the deer plot graze that I put out in September. They were also happy.

 

[Bruce]

they are much bigger than most trees and 50-75' in the air.....

Those suckers are HUGE!