A senior Canadian from Ontario

HI RuralKanuck, welcome, glad you have joined us,the more the merrier
You'll meet members from around the world which makes SFa unique place to come to whenever the spirit moves you
Enjoy yourself
Sue in Buffalo,NY
 

@RuralKanuck Hello, nice to have you join us, very sorry for your loss.

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Welcome here!!!!!!!!
There are many forums full of interesting posts and there are lots of great ,smart, and unique people here every day.

I joined a few months ago and am very grateful for this website. I live in rural New York and the photos Peppermint Patty posted look just like a kubuta trail through one of my wood lots that is on a slope at about 2,200 feet above sea level.
 
Southwestern Ontario, could be Wellington, Waterloo, Oxford, Chatham Kent, Essex, or a number of other counties. Welcome. JimB .
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
I am very interested in your posts. I have 3 woodlots and received excellent advice from the Cornell Co- operative Extension when I moved up to my farm.
Every 7-8years I have 2 woodlots culled out and one of them has a spring and that is where the deer bed down.
I built my barn with wood from the lots.
https://cals.cornell.edu/cornell-cooperative-extension
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I will be writing much more on this subject in the coming months on my forestry thread, at this point I only remove damaged or dead trees from the hardwood portion of my bush prefering to leave it as 'natural' as possible. Feel free to tell us of your efforts in that thread
 
Welcome, I am a bit slow on this...but I think you will find a lot of interesting folks from all over sharing perspectives and comments...

I live in the middle of the USA...State of Missouri, I was raised in the mountains of Colorado, and I still visit their often.
 
When my woodlots are culled, they,of course,consider the attrition wood first and then they leave the tree tops of what they cut down and my neighbor collects the tree tops for a few big out door fire pits. Of course they have to notify the local fire department that this is a controlled burn.

I used ash wood , from my largest lot, for my barn and was advised to use left oil from my snowblower and my lawn mower to treat the wood for permeance but I only seemed to have enough used oil to coat about 3 feet around the bottom of the barn a few times. It still is in Very good shape, about 35 years old, 30 by 60. I need to find a photo of it.

I saw plenty of beautiful wildflowers in the woods, and particularly they seemed to be mostly along the paths and a dug out road. Boy that ash was hard- I needed to measure every plank and cut them with a circular saw, and got up a whole 60foot side one day- my husband , whe he got home from work , thought someone had helped me-he forgot I has taken a balloon construction course as part of a Pennslyvania State University Certificate I had, in Agriculture, before we moved to NY. The local farmers immediately welcomed me to this farm community that held two other female farmers.

When we have dreams we have to act on them. This was one of the main dreams of my life, to buy a farm and raise livestock.
But when my husband became ill, that part of my dream was over but I managed to get more dreams and goals and we all need things that interest us, enough to keep us going and to look forward to... even if they are a little beyond our comfort zone, sometimes.
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
When my woodlots are culled, they,of course,consider the attrition wood first and then they leave the tree tops of what they cut down and my neighbor collects the tree tops for a few big out door fire pits. Of course they have to notify the local fire department that this is a controlled burn.

I used ash wood , from my largest lot, for my barn and was advised to use left oil from my snowblower and my lawn mower to treat the wood for permeance but I only seemed to have enough used oil to coat about 3 feet around the bottom of the barn a few times. It still is in Very good shape, about 35 years old, 30 by 60. I need to find a photo of it.

I saw plenty of beautiful wildflowers in the woods, and particularly they seemed to be mostly along the paths and a dug out road. Boy that ash was hard- I needed to measure every plank and cut them with a circular saw, and got up a whole 60foot side one day- my husband , whe he got home from work , thought someone had helped me-he forgot I has taken a balloon construction course as part of a Pennslyvania State University Certificate I had, in Agriculture, before we moved to NY. The local farmers immediately welcomed me to this farm community that held two other female farmers.

When we have dreams we have to act on them. This was one of the main dreams of my life, to buy a farm and raise livestock.
But when my husband became ill, that part of my dream was over but I managed to get more dreams and goals and we all need things that interest us, enough to keep us going and to look forward to... even if they are a little beyond our comfort zone, sometimes.
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Please see mt post My Managed Forrest plan in SW Ontario about my efforts on my 30 acres pf bush over the last 25 years. I will be adding a bit more info there over the next few weeks, I sided my new (in 2000) house in my own pine and built my large garage and workshop with it also!
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
When my woodlots are culled, they,of course,consider the attrition wood first and then they leave the tree tops of what they cut down and my neighbor collects the tree tops for a few big out door fire pits. Of course they have to notify the local fire department that this is a controlled burn.

I used ash wood , from my largest lot, for my barn and was advised to use left oil from my snowblower and my lawn mower to treat the wood for permeance but I only seemed to have enough used oil to coat about 3 feet around the bottom of the barn a few times. It still is in Very good shape, about 35 years old, 30 by 60. I need to find a photo of it.

I saw plenty of beautiful wildflowers in the woods, and particularly they seemed to be mostly along the paths and a dug out road. Boy that ash was hard- I needed to measure every plank and cut them with a circular saw, and got up a whole 60foot side one day- my husband , whe he got home from work , thought someone had helped me-he forgot I has taken a balloon construction course as part of a Pennslyvania State University Certificate I had, in Agriculture, before we moved to NY. The local farmers immediately welcomed me to this farm community that held two other female farmers.

When we have dreams we have to act on them. This was one of the main dreams of my life, to buy a farm and raise livestock.
But when my husband became ill, that part of my dream was over but I managed to get more dreams and goals and we all need things that interest us, enough to keep us going and to look forward to... even if they are a little beyond our comfort zone, sometimes.
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Ashwood is nice. We had some on our last property. It IS very hard wood and is easy to cut since its grain is so straight. Itā€™s often used for axe and knife hands due to it hardness and grain . I like the shimmer it has between the grain too when cut at the right angle. It stains really nice too.

You took a ballroom construction course?
That sounds interesting. Did you one day plan on building a ballroom? Do you dance?

Iā€™ve helped build sheds and built a cedar greenhouse by myself.
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Sorry for the loss of your husband?
 
WOW< that is a very nice Greenhouse!
Yes, I LOVE to dance but the course was on balloon construction
What Is Balloon Framing? Advantages, Disadvantages, Types, & FAQ | House Grail

Balloon fraing and construction is used a lot in new barns in NY-

I designed the barn myself and we got lots of penny saver adds, as soon as we got a mailbox up , and I could deterimne how much a 30 by 60 barn would cost over 30 tears ago. My Budget was hopefully only $5,000.

The most expensive part was determining how many roof trestles we needed that were also compatible with the type of snow we get. We paid nothing for the tin roof, because a few months after we bought the farm, our friends from NY called us in NJ to tell us the older barn's roof had caved in.It was an old Gable barn but we didn't consider to refurbish it because it was quite far from the road, and It took us a few weeks to get the old barns tin roof off of it and we used that on the new barn.


We had to some leveling landscaping done but that also didn't cost much nor take too much time, and I do not think I figured that cost into the $5,000. The hardest part was my husband and I getting a large double sliding door into the runner on the west side
so that hay wagons and other farm equipment could be temporarly stored in the barn in the summer and also still have room for the livestock and horses.

But went over the $5,000 by a few hundred dollars because we put electric into the barn as well as a pump that was attached to our main water well. I have always had it insured too but I know it would be far more than the insurance to ever replace it now.
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This is one example of balloon construction.
 
Hi, Rural Kanuk. I'm of French Canadian descent. For my grandparents, English was a second language, French was first. Going to Montreal, and again hearing that French accent brings back memories. Toronto was cool, too. One thing I know about Canada, if you say anything bad about Wayne Gretzky; they'll never find your body.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Hi, Rural Kanuk. I'm of French Canadian descent. For my grandparents, English was a second language, French was first. Going to Montreal, and again hearing that French accent brings back memories. Toronto was cool, too. One thing I know about Canada, if you say anything bad about Wayne Gretzky; they'll never find your body.
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Originally from England sadly I know little French and dont follow much hockey having spent the time over the years working up to my rural hideaway in the woods over the aprox 50 years in Canada!
 
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