Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[James Miller]

Do you hunt there or scrounge there?

A friend has a cabin on the edge of the park on a little dirt road called Pea Patch Lane. More a place to get away as its 180+ mile drive to get there. Should be out there in a few weeks I'd like to stop at the ranger station and see what's involved with getting a wood cutting permit to scroung stuff for the fire pit.

 

[PSUplowboy]

A friend has a cabin on the edge of the park on a little dirt road called Pea Patch Lane. More a place to get away as its 180+ mile drive to get there. Should be out there in a few weeks I'd like to stop at the ranger station and see what's involved with getting a wood cutting permit to scroung stuff for the fire pit.

Should be 10 dollars/2 weeks/ 1 cord if it's like Potomac. You can either mail it in or drop cash off. I cut a little on Snaggy, never tried on Savage. Hope they set you up-seems like some are more helpful than others.

 

[Buckshot00]

Stack #6. Silver and red maple, oak, red cedar.

 

[James Miller]

Should be 10 dollars/2 weeks/ 1 cord if it's like Potomac. You can either mail it in or drop cash off. I cut a little on Snaggy, never tried on Savage. Hope they set you up-seems like some are more helpful than others.

I stopped at the ranger station once before for maps. There's supposed to be a B52 crash site you can hike to around there.

 

[PSUplowboy]

I stopped at the ranger station once before for maps. There's supposed to be a B52 crash site you can hike to around there.

Yeah that gets talked about at work.
http://digital.whilbr.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16715coll7
Ground is steep in Savage forest. The topic of stalking elk there gets kicked around.

 

[dancan]

Did someone say 99 ?

An old featherlite , got it from the owners son , maybe a box of shells through it .
308 and has the brass shell counter .

Did the pics work ?

 

[farmer steve]

Did someone say 99 ?

An old featherlite , got it from the owners son , maybe a box of shells through it .
308 and has the brass shell counter .

Did the pics work ?

pics are working. saaaaweet gun Dan.

 

[JustJeff]

Stack #6. Silver and red maple, oak, red cedar. View attachment 556651

Some people don't care for silver maple but they must be burning it wet or green. I find once seasoned it makes a fine burning wood that coals nicely and gives a good burn time as well. Around here everyone wants nothing but sugar but they can't all be sugar maples.

 

[dancan]

Thanks Steve , I'll talk to the son about the gun to write down the story behind it , the father was a guide , avid outdoorsman and a writer , it was a gift to the Father but the old man prefered his trusty 303

 

[svk]

I love silver maple. It burns silently with very few pops, coals nicely, and is possibly the fastest drying wood I've ever seen once split.

 

[dancan]

Silver Maple , light years ahead of balsa lol

 

[Buckshot00]

I know one thing it is easy to split and there is quite a bit of it behind my house. Just found another storm damaged silver maple today.

 

[dancan]

Silver maple is a great carving wood when green .

Nice grain , cuts nice and smooth but really gets hard when dry for such a "poorly" rated wood .
Biggest I've seen around here is about 6" , growing up I knew it as "Du bois de crapeau" or "Crap wood" lol

 

[James Miller]

Yeah that gets talked about at work.
http://digital.whilbr.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16715coll7
Ground is steep in Savage forest. The topic of stalking elk there gets kicked around.

I'd like to make the hike out to the site my brother would go with me but the other two guys that go to the cabin with us probly wouldn't want to walk that far. We see deer black bear and turkeys often out there. Wish I could throw a big bore revolver on my hip some of those bears are mighty big. But Maryland's carry laws are a topic for another area of AS.

 

[Buckshot00]

Forgot to say it is free.

 

[Buckshot00]

Silver maple is a great carving wood when green .

Nice grain , cuts nice and smooth but really gets hard when dry for such a "poorly" rated wood .
Biggest I've seen around here is about 6" , growing up I knew it as "Du bois de crapeau" or "Crap wood" lol

That's pretty cool.

 

[dancan]

Pretty easy to do, I've made a lot of gifts from scrounge firewood lol

Mighty Mouse Logging LLC

 

[PSUplowboy]

I'd like to make the hike out to the site my brother would go with me but the other two guys that go to the cabin with us probly wouldn't want to walk that far. We see deer black bear and turkeys often out there. Wish I could throw a big bore revolver on my hip some of those bears are mighty big. But Maryland's carry laws are a topic for another area of AS.

MD carry laws SUCK. Bears are pretty common around me-at home in PA they were hardly seen. They're not too tough unless they have cubs-you can run at them and get em moving usually. It makes for a good laugh. I'd never attempt it, though, if I saw cubs or anything huge. I've only had one (mother with 3 cubs) get me puckered when she came to the base of a tree I was in during bow season and act like she was coming up. I did see one by my house that I thought was a loose angus -it was pretty large. I got about 10' from it in my pickup and realized what it was and was pretty stunned. I think a lot of folks shoot those small game tips at them during bow, but those tips get tangled up in their hair and then you lose the tip and arrow. They ruin a lot of deer hunts around here.

 

[rarefish383]

Did someone say 99 ?

An old featherlite , got it from the owners son , maybe a box of shells through it .
308 and has the brass shell counter .

Did the pics work ?

Yep, I've 9 of them

Thanks Steve , I'll talk to the son about the gun to write down the story behind it , the father was a guide , avid outdoorsman and a writer , it was a gift to the Father but the old man prefered his trusty 303

Yep, I have 9 of them, 1908 26" octagonal barrel in 303 Savage, 1912 with Malcolm scope in 22 HiPower, 1919 250-3000 take down in mint condition, 1926 take down in 303 Savage, 1940 in 300, 1950 in 250-300, 1951 in 250-3000, 1952 in 300 savage, and 1968 DL in 308.

 

[svk]

Yep, I've 9 of them


Yep, I have 9 of them, 1908 26" octagonal barrel in 303 Savage, 1912 with Malcolm scope in 22 HiPower, 1919 250-3000 take down in mint condition, 1926 take down in 303 Savage, 1940 in 300, 1950 in 250-300, 1951 in 250-3000, 1952 in 300 savage, and 1968 DL in 308.

Beautiful!!!