Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Get you some platform boots and grow a fro to complete the look!!! Coolest sawyer out there !!!!!

the 'look' is important!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I love that saw. Power to weight is incredible.

kinda like the Powerful Things on Modern Marvels nite before. one blip was Tugboats. 68' feet long and 5,000 hp!!!

needless to say, they were quite impressive!!! FOSS boats

5,000 hp! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

When you said 5'4", and something about Leg hitting ground, it made me think of one of my Dad's old expressions, but it was inappropriate, so I didn't say it.

; to add my 2-cents... i started a Reply... but DELETED it! .....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Not sure if you would have your best friend or your worst enemy holding the bar end of the saw

one thing u can be sure of in any event... it would not be me!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Where are the mountain views??? I see sky views.

just below the snow line where i am standing... looking up

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Oh yeah, just like I can move firewood twice as fast with 2 wheelbarrows!

hi H-R are your wheelbarrows 2 wheeled?

1 or 2, you do seem to move a lot of firewood...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That’s great!!

thot so, too! i liked seeing it. sorta makes me think i may have seen such as a kid when my Dad would take me and my brother with him into a hardware store. i remember the leather goods sections... fill the entire area up with those awesome aromas of new, fresh oiled leather... this, thats and whatevers, too...

no doubt at least some here can also remember those days

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yep a wise fella looks for 20” and under for firewood. I have to be desperate to take anything bigger.

i have some 20" more than 20 years aged. oak. still has lots BTUs in it

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

If I had a decent ax it would be heading your way Bob. Give a man an ax he splits for a day teach a man how to use an ax he heats his house for a lifetime.

Stihl has a couple i like....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Appreciate your military service.

I gather k-m is a USMC Veteran...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We do this with any wood we cook with, it confuses some people who have camped with us. They think cooking means a small fire, we build a big fire. They then say “I thought you were cooking”. Yeah we are, we cook over coals.

me, too. hot red coals. i oft say to myself when closing up fire in fireplace for the evening... 'hmm, nice cooking coals!'

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Meanwhile back at the 36" bar ranch. I just like all aspects of saws and firewood. The sounds the smells the comradery between all involved. Being in the woods, working hard and having fun. Having stuff to talk about as my life is very simple nowadays. Seeing guys cutting big wood, chips flying was always fascinating to me. 24" and 65cc was as big as me and my dad had. He sold his super 754 along time ago and I started looking for one recently now that he is retired and wanting to have fun with him before he's gone. Now I have 2 754s and a few more old remingtons. Making videos, cutting wood, felling trees, and all the thought and work that goes into safe felling is an adventure to say the least. Even if we only use it once the memory will last a lifetime. When the guys we know are gone that we enjoyed hanging out with we will be scrounging the memories we had with them.

i heard the word used this evening... talking about different groups, people connected and communities. online and in the real world, too...

the AS may be a forum, but it also has the flair of being a community, as well...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Some pics of me and the old man pretending we know what we're doing

thanks for sharing Bf~ swell photo essay...

no doubt about it, u seem to be a chip off the old block!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It's looking really good so far. Can't beat something that you made yourself that you can take pride in.

anybody can buy a tool, and i am not belittling that!

but to put together the craftsmanship to make a tool, one with pride and attention to detail... well crafted in its design and function... that is always

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I had a big oak that a friend gave me. I calculated that a firewood length bolt from the trunk was about 400-450 lbs. I had to quarter each bolt to get them to and into the truck. I split it all with a wedge and sledge. It made nice firewood but it was a lot of work!

sounds like it! got a couple of wedges... steel, plastic. don't use them too often - for the same reason!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This is mine.

listen to it hum! bzzzzz n cut!

nice

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Tonight I was about to settle in at 10, then I got an idea to run out and add more wood to the fire and get three wheelbarrow loads of wood for the house lol.
I don't know how many logs I put on, but I know the pile is at least 10' wide, 5' deep and 5' high.
Heard of face cords, federal cords, half cords and full cords, this is a bonfire cord.
I came back in the house at 12am . Oh well, I got a lot done today, and the temps are dropping from here on out. It's actually 39 here right now, that fire really warmed things up.

no need to bring in firewood tonite, currently 63f!

>but I know the pile is at least 10' wide, 5' deep and 5' high. this is a bonfire cord

doubt u would even use my scrounge today for kindling... lol thot: hope chipper don't see my post!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This was this morning, and then I added a few more sticks during the day.
Tonight I was about to settle in at 10, then I got an idea to run out and add more wood to the fire and get three wheelbarrow loads of wood for the house lol.
I don't know how many logs I put on, but I know the pile is at least 10' wide, 5' deep and 5' high.
Heard of face cords, federal cords, half cords and full cords, this is a bonfire cord.

we can't do things like that down in my county. such burns are Controlled Burns. have to call it in in the morning, location, name, #, etc. and be out by dark. and then call and cancel the burn by confirming that it is done and out. they don't take too kindly to irresponsible burning and setting the pasture(s) on fire!!!

smaller ones are an exception, though...

i have several i would have to call in. and one i would not. my big one would make yours look like a camp fire...
(that's why i have not lit it off!. lol) besides, i like the big piles....

well, u get the idea

 

[H-Ranch]

Heard of face cords, federal cords, half cords and full cords, this is a bonfire cord.

Must be a regional thing - around these parts that would be called an "OWB cord".

 

[farmer steve]

Made a sheath today first attempt. Still need to stitch it at the seam and attach the beltloopView attachment 957398View attachment 957399View attachment 957400View attachment 957401View attachment 957402

Now that's a knife. Nice job .