Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MountainHigh]

I still haven't found the time to get out scrounging for wood lately, but I did manage to scrounge these 4 out of the river yesterday Coho salmon about 6 to 8 lbs each. Going out for more tomorrow.

 

[MountainHigh]

When two trees love each other very much
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LOL - Great photo!

 

[dancan]

A man's gotta eat and stay warm , great scrounge !

 

[mainewoods]

I like scrounging for brook trout even more than I like scrounging for firewood. But remembering what's just around the corner unfortunately cuts into my fishing time.

 

[MustangMike]

Great catch there Mountain, I am envious! If I weren't so busy with the Cabin, etc I would be out bow hunting. The guy next door got 2 already, Buck & Doe.

We don't have fresh water fishing that productive around here, and Salmon is about tops!

 

[Sledneck_77]

Standing dead oak out behind the old man's house glad he heads to Florida for the winter or he would be keeping this!!

 

[svk]

The tree in the middle with the branches hung in the crown is the one I took last weekend. Never even noticed the "drunk" looking tree immediately behind it with a severe right lean until I cut the bigger one. Guess who's going to my buddy's OWB stack this weekend....

 

[dancan]

Them's nice lookin field rats Clint .
Even though it's fun to run the tractor it takes a bit of time to unload the utv and get it to the stacking area so I scrounged up some scrap and started to make a small RonCo Wh 0.5 to move wood around at the house .
This is what I have so far .

Made from a trailer that was scrapped and some racking that I have . The only new parts are the 10 screws that will hold the deck down LOL

 

[mainewoods]

Those deer were feeding on the ash tops I was cuttin', as fast as I dropped 'em. That was before the real snows came and I couldn't get around in the woods anymore. I borrowed the neighbors snowmobile and kept some trails packed down so they could get around easier to feed. I think I put out about 20 or 30- 50# bags of feed for 'em. Couldn't see letting them starve, as they weren't able to get to their food supply because of the 120"+ of snow that fell. I have seen 3 sets of twins and a set of triplets this summer, so they survived pretty good after all.

 

[wudpirat]

In my younger days, when I was hunting Down East, I hooked up with some wood people.
They said the sound of a chainsaw was like a dinner bell to deer durring heavy snow.
They would be onto the tops as soon as the log was cut off. On occasion they would drop some scragly
white cedar just to feed the deer.
Pay back came durring deer season.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

A couple days ago, I scrounged this load of red oak, it's "mostly" firewood logs,

and today I had to get it unloaded as I need the wagon empty for tomorrow. I used the tongs as the wagon was so packed I couldn't get a side off it,

The BIG 17' saw log, we chain sawed in half,

and put the two shorter logs on the BSM pile...

I didn't have time to cut/split the firewood pile today, but ill get to that S N enough...

SR

 

[Zeus103363]

Went cutting today. Finally got down deep in the pile. Some really big pieces as they had to be noodled to handle them.

All together I got 2 truck loads.

Load #2 for today

Kinda hurts my feelin's seeing a mini van carry more wood than my big dodge! .


Thanks

 

[Erik B]

Went cutting today. Finally got down deep in the pile. Some really big pieces as they had to be noodled to handle them.

All together I got 2 truck loads.

Load #2 for today

Kinda hurts my feelin's seeing a mini van carry more wood than my big dodge! .


Thanks

You have room in the back seat

 

[svk]

You have room in the back seat

And heap that pile! That big truck could carry much more!!!

 

[Zeus103363]

And heap that pile! That big truck could carry much more!!!

Back seat had my saws. I ran out of suspension travel. Love that dodge. Rides great, but that rear coil over shock suspension kinds stinks for carrying a load!!

oh, forgot, scrounged up some corn too. Deer season opens soon so I'm gonna have to stop cutting and start hunting!

Thanks

 

[MustangMike]

No baiting allowed here in NY, although a lot of people do it anyway, making in really hard on the rest of us.

 

[KenJax Tree]

Turned this

Into this

 

[Philbert]

I was going to make another post about passing up some more wood across the street. Tree trimmers were back.

But then I noticed that their trailer was getting kind of full, and only out of the goodness of my heart offered to take some of the larger limbs.

Got, maybe 1/5 of a face cord of birch, if I stack it loosely. But only had to carry it 100 feet. A respectable city scrounge.



Thought crossed my mind that I didn't need PPE to make the few cuts to re-size the longer limbs. Then I thought of the field day some guys on this site would have if I got nicked.
So, thanks for keeping me safe!

Philbert

 

[Philbert]

Turned this
Into this

Use square ground on full chisel to cut?

Philbert

 

[KenJax Tree]

Venison its what's for dinner