Or at least trim the brush off it first...
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Got word this week that the place I have all the wood is being sold, closing end of next month.
Moved 5 cord out the last few days, and still have some Red Oak and Pig Nut Hickory I plan to mill! I will be busy, as usual!
Moved 5 cord out the last few days, and still have some Red Oak and Pig Nut Hickory I plan to mill! I will be busy, as usual!
Don, tell me you didn't cut those big beautiful White Oak rounds with a 50 cc saw with semi chisel???
My farm access is rapidly running out, with the keys being handed over on Tuesday. I feel that I have enough wood for now and other people might benefit more from my wood cutting fetish. Rosscoe is still likely to be a bit short this season so I went out to the Lady Farm today to have a scout around. I went to the area where I had the threefer a couple of weeks ago and dropped 7 or 8 smallish to mediumish peppermints. My early photos are taking their sweet time to come through so instead I'm going to post what I did next once I'd stopped dropping dead standers. I saw a log that I have looked at and dissed previously. It clearly had been down for a fair while and I had assumed that it would be rotten. However, when I had a closer look today I saw that it was one trunk of a double trunked peppermint and was held off the ground by the other trunk. I also reckon there's going to be one PO'd wombat once I start the saw.
It was good all the way through.
It wasn't a full trailer load, maybe 2/3 of a cube. I need to have something to show for the trip.
The first rounds are going in the fire tonight.
It was good all the way through.
It wasn't a full trailer load, maybe 2/3 of a cube. I need to have something to show for the trip.
The first rounds are going in the fire tonight.
I didn't cut up the trees I dropped, I just knocked them over so I can cut them up tomorrow and Rosscoe can shuttle the rounds to the trailers without getting sconed by a falling tree. I hope he is wearing his big boy pants tomorrow since he's going to be packing wood all day . (in the trailers).
. (in the trailers).
Couple more. The 661 did all the damage today. Looking forward to getting all these cut up tomorrow, I think maybe 3 cubes. We'll see.
These two were about 15m apart, leaning in opposite directions, landed one on the stump of the other.
Looking forward to tomorrow
These two were about 15m apart, leaning in opposite directions, landed one on the stump of the other.
Looking forward to tomorrow
Do wombats try to kill you too?
For those of you who don't know a wombat is a bit like a cross between a bear and a wild pig. They will rip your gear box out if your unlucky enough to run over one
Hey cow boy why do even bother with a small saw like an ms460.
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sunfish
Fish Head
Yes I did. Ported 50cc saws and well sharpened chain though.
The wife's giving me the evil eye
My wife's evil eye is stuck. I don't even pay attention to it anymore.
Good thing you clarified.Pile of firewood to keep the house warm this winter
O yeah, they're deadly. Just look at this savage individual wrapped up in his blanky (if you dare)
Hey cow boy why do even bother with a small saw like an ms460
Dunno why I bother keeping it to be honest, Jeff. Must be getting sentimental.
Actually, Limby is a better option when dropping these even though they would have been 10-18 inches mostly and the 460 could have done it with the 20 inch bar. But the bark near the base of these trees is pretty shaggy and the bigger dawgs get better bite. The 460 might get some love today
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ReggieT
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You are a good guy Cowboy, really looking after a friend by the sound of it. Work him like a b**** tomorrow!
Are you going to do a 'farewell farm' Monday evening scrounge?
Are you going to do a 'farewell farm' Monday evening scrounge?
Got the where and what this morning , it's in there .
Lots of black spruce , a bit of red , some fir and 4 sticks of maple .
Here's 2 of the 4 lol
I got about 35' x 125' done today , 6 tanks of mix through the 241 , got about 2 hours left of cutting tomorrow and it's finished
The developer was happy , he liked the way I stacked the poles so easy for him to find , I didn't go for much Zoggerwood on this one , pretty much 4" and up so not much time spent delimbing
Polly be 5 cord total on this one .
Lots of black spruce , a bit of red , some fir and 4 sticks of maple .
Here's 2 of the 4 lol
I got about 35' x 125' done today , 6 tanks of mix through the 241 , got about 2 hours left of cutting tomorrow and it's finished
The developer was happy , he liked the way I stacked the poles so easy for him to find , I didn't go for much Zoggerwood on this one , pretty much 4" and up so not much time spent delimbing
Polly be 5 cord total on this one .
No Oak or Locust? Never mind, next time perhaps.
Not a snowball's chance of that anytime soon lol
What I don't have in quality I'll make up in shear quantity
Not a snowball's chance of that anytime soon lol
What I don't have in quality I'll make up in shear quantity
You're a scrounge machine. But imagine how much faster you would have been if you were using a bigger saw
. All that cutting and trimming, I dips me lid to you.Roscoe and I hit the Lady Farm today and did some serious damage. I'm knackered. We met at 8.30am, started my saws at 9am after some fartarsing around fueling up and talking about wives and stuff and finished the unloading at his place at 4pm. Most of the wood needed to be carried or thrown up to 50m, albeit downhill. Might have taken a couple of throws for the bigger stuff. I dropped a couple more dead peppermints and cut them up for good measure and my initial estimates of 3 cubes was very, very conservative. Under promise and over deliver, as they say. I'll start posting pics tomorrow but now it's dinner time and I skipped lunch due to scrounging (fair enough, I reckon). Food o'clock.
