Loblolly maximum row width?

[Rocky_Ranger]

Hey I ain't proud, I come from the South so down here we eat what we can catch if'n we is hungry    Armadillo is best in chili and not on the grill though, I could get used to some hog in the ground or in a smoker.  Wish I could get up to piggy roast, or down to the piggy roast.  I am usually close to some fine eatin' somewhere.... 

[WDH]

Lynn,

You need to get one of them New Brunswick hogs.  I am told that they feed them shrimp and grits  .

[SwampDonkey]

 

They're happy hogs to.

[Magicman]

Ain't gettin' my Paula Dean "Shrimp and Grits....cause there weren't none left......

[Brian Beauchamp]

Fire is a tool just as much as the axe is...and you'd better know what you're doing with each beforehand or you'll be paying for mistakes later. I mentored a crew of college kids working on their Capstone project a couple of years ago. Their initial plan was to implement prescribed fire on a loblolly plantation in year 11...until I informed them it would more likely turn out to be a 'site prep' burn for a replanting in year 12. I took them to an 11-year-old plantation in SW Arkansas to show them firsthand what I was talking about...low-branching trees with needle-covered vines tangled up into the canopy acting as ladder fuels that would annihilate the stand if fire was allowed into it...almost no matter what the burning conditions. They quickly realized they'd have to adjust their plan and also realized that when implementing any management regime, the tool used must be the one that best meets the objectives of management.  Sometimes the tool gets favored in lieu of the objectives.

Anyway...random comment of the day. 

By the way, Pullinchips, were you a member of the Clemson crew that supposedly cut down a large pine during the 2004 (or 2003 maybe) Conclave with a crosscut saw?

[WDH]

By the way, Pullinchips, were you a member of the Clemson crew that supposedly cut down a large pine during the 2004 (or 2003 maybe) Conclave with a crosscut saw?

I would like to have seen that!

I am a Conclaver from more ancient times.  Georgia in 1976, Stephen F. Austin in 1977, Clemson in 1978, and Arkansas in 1979. 

[Rocky_Ranger]

How about NC State in '74, Mississippi State in '75, and UGA in '76?  The earth was flat back then, and, apparently, had more beer 

[WDH]

Well Rocky, if you were in Georgia in 1976, we shared some of the same competitive ground .

[Rocky_Ranger]

Yep.

[Raider Bill]

I love listening to you elderly  guys reminisce about the good old days!

[Pullinchips]

Yep, that was down there in starkville!  I did not personally do the sawing but was fully aware of it happening all while it was going on.  When the tree hit the ground it was the funniest thing seeing those guys wander out of the pitch black woods cross cut in hand. Both those guys were good buddies of mine.  What shcool where you with?

Hey i was the guy that did pole felling for Clemson and missed the stake by 180 degrees (i have to admit i am a lot better with a saw though, and everyone else was to drunk to do it). 

Oh yea then there was the mistake by a factor of 10 on the timber estimation where i blew everyone out of the water on the timber cruise.     Pretty funny to think back about how dumb you actually are in school.

-Nate

[Pullinchips]

Oh and before anyone asks i did not count trees that weren't there, I made an error in my calculations which either was not didviding by 10 or 100 or something.  I figured it out at the time but today i have no idea what i did, kind of force forgot that whole thing? Heck i could have guessed and said there were 1000 tons and stayed in the truck and been closer than i was.

-Nate

[SwampDonkey]

There's always a know it all logger, or jack leg out there to confront a green horn just finishing college. I did a cruise for a fellow who is friend of the family. He was very pleased at the work put into it and all the info he wanted and more. He hired a guy, and from sitting in the truck he figured the whole cruise was out to lunch. Some of these guys don't want someone to present honest figures so they can low ball landowners. But, as he was cutting the ground and moving the wood he come to realize the cruise wasn't bad at all and told the landowner he was wrong to have doubted it. I knew what he said because the owner gave me feedback as to what was going on besides being friends of mom and dad anyway. He always praised me up ever since. 

[Pullinchips]

I would lov to have said mine was right on the money but like i said i was way off due to an error in my calculations when trying to blow up the cruise from 1/10 acre plots to acres then to stand total.  Yep you would have wanted me to be buying your timber at that moment (lumpsum)!   

[Brian Beauchamp]

Yep, that was down there in starkville!  I did not personally do the sawing but was fully aware of it happening all while it was going on.  When the tree hit the ground it was the funniest thing seeing those guys wander out of the pitch black woods cross cut in hand. Both those guys were good buddies of mine.  What shcool where you with?

I went to OSU, but I wasn't there that year because we had an SAF golf tournament going on at the same time and I was the Chair, so I had to be there for that. Funny, yes, , but it, along with the overabundance of drunkenness, about put an end to conclave for good. The next year everyone pretty much straightened up at SFA...and the next at LA Tech when I went to recruit for some cruiser positions I had available...except for the potheads from Tennessee. Nothing like watching the crosscut competition and having some moron come puke at your feet. Needless to say, I didn't give him a business card to call me later for a job.

Had a great time at both conclaves I went to though...hope they can make sure they keep it going for everyone. Some of those smaller forestry programs just don't have the resources to host an event like that.

[VT_Forestry]

I was at conclave at Tennessee, Florida, and last year at Alabama A&M.  Had a great time at them all...sometimes a little too good    There is a photo floating around somewhere of me at Tennessee doing underhand chop shirtless...it was coooold too