G'day troops,
I feel that cutting wood out at the Lady Farm has been more like harvesting than scrounging, and I'm hitting the farm pretty hard. I only have a few weeks left to cut there and after Easter we will be away for a bit so I really have to go hard in the next week because it's likely to be all over after that. Well, I did some good old fashioned traditional roadside scrounging today. I took the Subaru into town for a service (100km away) and knew there had been some trees down along the way. There was one that I really liked but someone else had scrounged the bulk of it two months or so ago. They left a bit, though. I'm mindful that people put a bit of effort into scrounging and it is annoying if you cut stuff and someone else takes off with it. However, I figure that if they really wanted it, they wouldn't leave it sitting on the side of the road for that long. So it's Cowboy's.
When I had driven past previously, it looked like a small bit but when I stopped and got out, there was a little bit more there than I thought. Worth a stop at least.
What sort of tree was this?
@Plowboy83 would recognise the species, I'm sure. Then I saw that big round behind it. Probably too hard to split for the unmotivated. Check that colour.
Then I see the shortish log half buried under sticks and leaves. The woodchuck helped me out.
So that got a dose of the 460 too. Speaking of which, I really needed Limby. The 460 was struggling in this stuff with the bar buried, it is not as easy going as peppermint. Still, after all that, I ended up with a nice jag of wood.
Redgum is the preferred firewood of lovers, ski lodge guests and marshmallow toasters. Beautiful burning wood.
