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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2015, 07:05:42 pm »
I got it busted in half after dark in the truck head lights.  It's still super heavy in 2 pieces.  It's a little over 8' long. 

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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #31 on: November 06, 2015, 09:30:04 pm »
Wow! I didn't realize how big that was in the first pics. That is a monster!
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #32 on: November 07, 2015, 12:34:26 am »
Oh my gosh Clint! You're a lucky dog! I would love to run across one like that!
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #33 on: November 07, 2015, 03:53:42 am »
Yeah the size of it is a shock :o.
Cool find, amazing how good it looks just a whisker down under the black outer...

That piece you gave me at the classic keeps coughing loudly and muttering 'Hey Del I'm up here' every time I walk under the shelf where it's stashed ::).
Not quite sure what to make of it, flight bow, ELB, NA.... so many bows so little time :laugh:.
The garage has been deweaponized for a few days :laugh: as we have fitters in installing solar panels and the access round the back is through the garage... should have been finished yesterday but they were missing some mounting brackets ::) (been there done that)
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2015, 07:34:02 am »
Just thinking of getting those into a truck makes my back ache.
Best of luck, Clint, with the projects that will spring into life!
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #35 on: November 07, 2015, 09:51:49 am »
Very nice Clint.  I'm interested to see how those turn out for you. Keep us updated
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Offline Onebowonder

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2015, 05:28:48 pm »
I officially HATE photobucket now!  Dang their eyes!  ....they won't let me see the black gold!

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Offline PlanB

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #37 on: November 10, 2015, 06:15:29 pm »
Just a suggestion to anyone hosting your photos elsewhere (like Photobucket)  and linking them into a forum.

If you want to reduce bandwidth, take your photos and reduce their size to 600 pixels wide before posting them. They will then be 1/10th the original storage size and bandwidth,  or less.

But they will show up at a good size on a forum, since most computer screens have very low resolution compared to a camera.

It will also speed up page loading for people viewing. Just a suggestion.

If you need a free photo editing program to make the pxel size reductions, a simple one I use is called "MTPaint," but there are also a million similar editors of varying complexity and cost, and it can also be done online at some websites. Hope that helps.

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Offline jeffp51

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #38 on: November 10, 2015, 06:16:59 pm »
yes, what do you have to do to see photobucket pics?  I have seen them missing from several threads.  What is going on?
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #39 on: December 11, 2015, 12:14:51 pm »
I finally got time to finish splitting the log.  I left them extra thick so I could chase a lot of rings to get rid of some of the checks.  They are 8' long.  A couple of them have bug holes.  Some have a bit of twist.  I ended up getting a decent little stack of pre-seasoned staves and a couple of billets.  Just need to dry them out now. 

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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2015, 01:18:02 pm »
Drool, Drool, Drool...
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Badger

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #41 on: December 11, 2015, 01:27:54 pm »
  If you can figure out which stump it was cut from and count the rings on some of the growth comming out of the stump you may be able to figure out how long it has been seasoning. That looks like some good merchandise!
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #42 on: December 11, 2015, 01:39:42 pm »
The stump was dead and didn't have any new growth on it.  The property was bought 12 years ago and nobody has cut any trees since it changed hands.  So it's at least 12 years minimum. 
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2015, 02:14:02 pm »
Score!
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Offline paulsemp

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Re: Black Gold
« Reply #44 on: December 11, 2015, 03:03:47 pm »
My personal favorite right there! I would take dead wood over live any day
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