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Pine tends to creosote your chimmy fairly fast. Just make sure you clean it regulary. We're lucky to have the Ash and Maple. We have a lot of poplar and Hemlock too. Neither are the best for burning. We also have a few Yellow Birch near the cabin. It makes a lot of heat when it burns.

We have the same situation here in WI with the Ash Bore. Same 50 mile rule applies.

Northern WI is pretty well loaded with good fire wood. Near our camp in the Park Falls area, there is more Maple than I've seen in MN period. More Birch, more Ash...

Northern MN is tough to come by anything but pine and popple.

Yep, come up to Northern WI and get yourself a piece of Ash.

Here's a picture of a nice piece of Ash I got up on a project in Crandon,WI.

Gotta watch yourself up there...most of the Ash a guy gets in that neck of the woods comes from the Rez.



Believe me, nobody wants a piece of ash off the Rez.

Bet you'd end up with a rash on your ash.

Sorry Tom, I guess I did forget to mention the free beer and food. Maybe I would have had a date then huh?

Looks like everyone had fun at camp this weekend. Wish I could have been there.

I didn't make it either. I had to work, I tried to get out of it but...no go.

This was my original post which grew into something I could not have imagined back then.

This behemoth thread is 4 years old today.

Not just the thread but the camp itself too. 4 years later things are quite established and comfortable as they should be for a deer camp.

I want to thank Rick Bin for allowing this soap opera of a thread to exist here. I also want to thank the collective core of the campfire forums for the sincere support, interest and helpful suggestions and fun interaction within this thread over the span of 4 years.

As this site is an open discussion forum it is also open to heated disagreements and personal attacks etc. It happens quite often with certain topics.

Butt it hasn't happened here in this thread for 4 years. As vulnerable as the topic itself is, with a family hurting due to a loss, restructuring, strengthening bonds and sharing so openly family photos etc... It's quite vulnerable and open to insults and attacks. Yet it hasn't happened.

It's August 9 2011 today.

There's a lot of financial suffering nationwide, unemployment is high, the economy is in the toilet... A political mess, that's how we will remember these times in general.

It's depressing actually, people are irritable. There has been a recent and popular opinion suggesting that the moral core of the campfire has degraded from what it once may have been.

I disagree with this idea. I believe many of us are tired, tired of waiting for 2012 perhaps. We may be irritable, but our values have not degraded. We may have new members, some of which seem to be here only to taunt our conservative lifestyles and beliefs. But we haven�t become diluted because of it.

I took a glance before I started typing this and I saw around two million one hundred thousand views for this single thread. Four years old, over 2 million views and not a single attack.

The campfire forum values aren�t sick or dying. Are we sick of politics and the direction the country is going? Sure, but the core group here is still good people and I want to thank everybody for that.

I�m going to send Rick Bin a PM today and ask that he pull the sticky from this thread. I have a feeling it will stay around for a while regardless. Like a big ugly beach ball at a party it will likely keep popping up from time to time. But I would feel better if it wasn�t stickied to the top of the page here in deer hunting. The deer hunting section is one of my favorite sections of the campfire forums to visit and I think this thing has hung at the top of the page for too long.

Thanks very much everybody for putting up with this nonsense for 4 years.

Dave

Dave you do what ya do, just remember that many of us appreciate the hell out of you and Pam letting us all ride along on your coattails while you make your cabin into a camp.

Thanks

First of all I want to thank you and your family for starting this thread. Without it I wouldn't have met any of you, or grizzly bill.I was welcomed to your camp by your family, and was looked at goofy when I asked if could come back. The whole Chickenbuck crew are folks I would call great friends, which for me is rare because I'm a general grumpy bugger. With you guys, we got along from the start.

I remember the first day I met Uncle Dusty. The first day I met Muffy, it was like we had known eachother for years.

Thank you Shaws, all of you.

I

Happy Birthday Thread. Happy Birthday Camp Chickenbuck!

Dave, Pam and crew. Thanks for everything. (You know what I mean)

I will still be checking the thread out just as often and I'm sure all the other "chickenbuckers" will be too. Its been a great inspiring part of our lives for four years. Just because its not a "sticky" doesn't mean she is going away!

God Bless you and your family Dave.

BMT

Once a year Captain Dave gets mushy about this thread and how it has a life of it's own. Sticky or not, it isn't going anywhere. It means a lot to more people than he knows. Look how many people only have a few posts, and all their posts are on here.

Dave how does it feel to have cult following ?

Ahhhh...sniff, sniff, wiping a tear....everybody loves you, Dave.

Dave, I do not post much but, this is the main thread that I check every day. Thanks for putting up with the lot of us.

Oh stop teasing.

Forum hog phobia gets to me. Nobody wants to be a forum hog.

I can't begin to express my gratitude for Dave and the rest of the bunch for taking me in as a stray and giving me a sense of family. we only get one shot on this rock, its what we do with it that counts.