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- North Central, Florida
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- Kubota L-39 GST TLB, Kubota L3130GST, Massey 1030 HST, Kubota ZD-21 ProDecK, Two Euro VW TDIs
We ran the upper crown branches and leaves through a commercial Vermeer chipper with a four cylinder Perkins diesel engine for large piles of mulch.
I took the large trunk sections and built a 10 foot high backstop for our rifle range that is about 30 feet wide and an excellent stop for our 300 yard target practice range.
I took the lesser limbs from 6 inch to 12 inch in diameter and we burned them, trying to burn down the stump so I don't have to dig out the entire rootball with my backhoe.
Around here in our Live Oak hardwood canopy, laurel and white softwood oaks are weed trees that are the number one cause of death for the old Live Oaks. We remove as many laurel and white oaks as we can to keep the Live Oak canopy from being destroyed by the weed trees growing up through the canopy and blocking out the light to the Live Oaks.
As far as firewood goes for our woodstoves, we only use dead Live Oak limbs that are as dense, hard, and heavy as concrete.
Live Oak burns slow without flame leaving red hot coals for hours on end without contaminating the flue with cresote, plus they leave a minimum of ash residue.
The softwood laurels burn fast and furious with heavy flames leaving zero coals and tons of ash with a dangerous heavy buildup of cresote in the chimmney.
You could light a seasoned load of laurel oak in the Vermont Castings Defiant stove in the morning and it would be black, out, and cold by noon. Do the same with Live Oak and it would be nice, red, and toasty after dinner.....
I took the large trunk sections and built a 10 foot high backstop for our rifle range that is about 30 feet wide and an excellent stop for our 300 yard target practice range.
I took the lesser limbs from 6 inch to 12 inch in diameter and we burned them, trying to burn down the stump so I don't have to dig out the entire rootball with my backhoe.
Around here in our Live Oak hardwood canopy, laurel and white softwood oaks are weed trees that are the number one cause of death for the old Live Oaks. We remove as many laurel and white oaks as we can to keep the Live Oak canopy from being destroyed by the weed trees growing up through the canopy and blocking out the light to the Live Oaks.
As far as firewood goes for our woodstoves, we only use dead Live Oak limbs that are as dense, hard, and heavy as concrete.
Live Oak burns slow without flame leaving red hot coals for hours on end without contaminating the flue with cresote, plus they leave a minimum of ash residue.
The softwood laurels burn fast and furious with heavy flames leaving zero coals and tons of ash with a dangerous heavy buildup of cresote in the chimmney.
You could light a seasoned load of laurel oak in the Vermont Castings Defiant stove in the morning and it would be black, out, and cold by noon. Do the same with Live Oak and it would be nice, red, and toasty after dinner.....
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