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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #40 on: January 31, 2012, 07:49:29 pm »
It don't matter too much around here which one, Southern Pine Beetle, Enerald Ash Beetle, IPS Beetle, Black turpentine beetles, drought,  the result is the same; A lot of  dead timber.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #41 on: January 31, 2012, 08:34:33 pm »
I guess that the title of this thread really applies to East Texas.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2012, 08:51:45 pm »
I just cut three dead pines, which died, I'm  guessing, in 2011.  It still had brown pine needles on it, however some bark had dried and fell off.  It basically took a whole day to drag the logs out to a clearing and load onto a trailer.  Got some real nice boards out of it, so it was well worth the time and effort.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #43 on: January 31, 2012, 09:11:24 pm »
I cut these two beams for benches from two of these trees.  They are 4" thick, 19" wide, and 10' long.

 

 
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #44 on: January 31, 2012, 11:19:24 pm »
Those will make sturdy benches alright.  :)  Nice looking planks. What about pitch near the bark. Hate to gum up them Carharts. ;)

Now that I mention the Carharts. I had a good laugh when a fellow bush whacker bought a new pair of Carhart jeans for working in the bush with his brush saw. He was showing his new duds off one morning. He had them ripped out on the cuffs by the end of the day. :D ;) Me, I just wear a $24 dollar pair of Dickies and they last 3 years. Usually, the raspberry bushes wear the knees out. That's like walking in living sand paper.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2012, 12:01:33 am »
I know its not SYP related, but saw others expressing concerns for their regions. 

Here, we are losing our Elm and Locust - Black is all but gone, honey locust is right on its heels.  You can spot a locust a mile away....only "brown" top in all the green.  Starting to see some issues in the oaks too.  Seemingly random deaths in what appears a quite healthy tree.  The wild vines are getting out of control to the point of killing the host tree.  Its quite depressing.   :'(

But as said before, been going on for many moons.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2012, 07:11:39 am »
SD,

So what is a little pitch on the carharts?  Makes you look like that you have been working  ;D.

rwthom,

There are many enemies of trees, both bacteria, fungal, invasive insects, etc.  There is a war always going on.  Humans are probably the worst  :).
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #47 on: February 17, 2012, 09:01:14 pm »
Well, these five trees sawed out to 2500 BF., mostly 4/4 at 1 1/16" thick.  Maybe someone needs a fence or some horse stalls  :).  Some of it will be used to finish the columns on the front porch of my nephew's new house.

 

  
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #48 on: February 17, 2012, 09:07:00 pm »

Looking great there Danny  ;)  smiley_thumbsup ;D ;D ;D ;D 8) 8)
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #49 on: February 17, 2012, 09:43:22 pm »
Nice!! The sticker stacker did a mighty fine job of it to.  :)
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #50 on: February 17, 2012, 09:59:11 pm »
My sticker-stacker has a lot of experience stacking stickers :D. 
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #51 on: February 17, 2012, 10:14:26 pm »
We need to come up with a tung twister here, like the wood chuck diddy. ;D
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #52 on: February 17, 2012, 10:18:57 pm »
By the way, SD, one with 2 1/2 months of winter left, the daffodils were specially for you  ;D.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #53 on: February 17, 2012, 10:45:02 pm »
Had to go take a second glance.  ;D

Now one thing I did notice was the grass will soon need mowing. :)  :-X  ;)
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #54 on: February 17, 2012, 10:51:48 pm »
That's a fact.  I have not had any snow load issues with the new shed so far  :).  Forum member Red will be pleased to hear that  ;D.
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Re: The Death of a Southern Yellow Pine
« Reply #55 on: February 22, 2012, 01:37:23 am »
Nice touch with the daffodills WDH. You ae only about a week ahead of us here in NC. All of your posts take on epic status. Good Job...........
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