Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Buckshot00]

Today's haul ash.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Never cut hickory

 

[MustangMike]

Never cut hickory

It will slow your saw like few other trees will, but I think the Shag Bark is tougher.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I have a (virtually) endless supply of ash. No need for hickory.

 

[Logger nate]

Well was able to get splitter out today and split a little wood, started pretty good after sitting for a few months, sure like that splitter, nice to be working with wood again also decided it was time to get some tires for the wood (horse) trailer since one blew out just sitting there ordered some new ones from Walmart, don't really like Walmart but hard to beat $56 for 10 ply shipped to your door.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I been splittin by hand for a week. Nasty twisted ash.

 

[svk]

On the road yesterday and today. Wishing I could scrounge along the interstate!

 

[woodchip rookie]

Ohio is like that also...dead ash everywhere along the interstates

 

[svk]

Ohio is like that also...dead ash everywhere along the interstates

That's where I am now. It's incredible compared to how hard I have to work for quality wood back home.

 

[JustJeff]

Hey I found my scrounge pile and my boat on the same day! Warm 8 degrees (51F) is melting the snow quickly. That 4 1/2 ft page wire fence is my snow gauge.

 

[muddstopper]

Got my first scrounge of the year. bradford pair. Cut down and sawed up and he even helped me load it. Also had a little dead walnut to throw on top. Took me longer to hook up the trailer than it did to haul this load.

 

[jasper nl]

Got my first scrounge of the year. bradford pair. Cut down and sawed up and he even helped me load it. Also had a little dead walnut to throw on top. Took me longer to hook up the trailer than it did to haul this load.

Bad year i have the same problem

 

[muddstopper]

bradford pair isnt my favorite wood. Hard to split and burns fast once dry. Splits will have more splinters than anything I have ever seen. Kind of like stacking razor blades, but if someone wants to fall it, buck it and help me load it, and its less than a mile from my house, I'll take it.

 

[svk]

Is it any good for smoking food?

 

[KiwiBro]

Got my first scrounge of the year. bradford pair. Cut down and sawed up and he even helped me load it. Also had a little dead walnut to throw on top. Took me longer to hook up the trailer than it did to haul this load.

Got any woodturners nearby?

 

[muddstopper]

cant answer about smoking with it. I got a neighbor that grabbed a arm load and says he's going to try it so I guess we'll see. It might do pretty good, I believe bradfords are grafted onto crab apple root stock, so it might be like smoking with apple wood.

As for wood turners, The John C Campbell Folk school is about 4 or 5 miles from me. They do all kinds of wood crafts there. https://www.folkschool.org/

 

[Country bumpkin]

Cut a dead ash on neighbors lot today before they sell it. Love free wood close by.

 

[crowbuster]

Speaking of free wood close by. They are logging a small woods 2 miles from my place. Got word today that I can cut all the tops after they are done logging. And it is dry here after our 5-6th mud season this winter

 

[Country bumpkin]

Speaking of free wood close by. They are logging a small woods 2 miles from my place. Got word today that I can cut all the tops after they are done logging. And it is dry here after our 5-6th mud season this winter

Sounds like you hit the jackpot on free wood!!

 

[Country bumpkin]

It will slow your saw like few other trees will, but I think the Shag Bark is tougher.

We have mostly shag bark here. Love the smell of hickory.