Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

The bark did not look quite like Ash to me, but it could just be the pic or location (I had a tree guy tell me the Ash up at me property does not look like what he cuts).

After looking at the smaller pieces again, and the cut ends, I'm going to agree with you, it does look like Ash.

 

[95custmz]

There's only one way to tell. Cut that sucker down and split the rounds. Ash will split real easy, Hickory not so much.

 

[svk]

Dropped a few dead branches withy latest scrounge an electric saw and poles saw attachment. Still new to the tree types does anyone know what this one is?View attachment 599075View attachment 599076View attachment 599077View attachment 599078

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I think it's ash. There's a PDF out there somewhere that will tell you the sub species based on the leaf arrangement on the branch.

 

[farmer steve]

I think it's ash. There's a PDF out there somewhere that will tell you the sub species based on the leaf arrangement on the branch.

here's the app. http://leafsnap.com/

 

[Ranchers-son]

How do I update my account to view the 3rd party hosting photo's ?

 

[svk]

How do I update my account to view the 3rd party hosting photo's ?

You don't. Photobucket started charging a monthly fee and most people told them to faw-q. So there's lots of holes in older threads that had photobucket links.

 

[Ranchers-son]

Thanks

 

[svk]

https://treedoctor.msu.edu/ash/ashtree_id
Here's one ash ID sheet. There's a better one I'll try to find though.

 

[coryj]

CL ad for Walnut and Ash. Zoom in on the picture and you'll see the ash has a tree house in it. Lots of lag bolts, electric fence insulators, chain from swings.

I took home a load of mostly Walnut from the branches. The trunk is still there.


Need to figure out how to deal with the ash. The farm hand mentioned a big John Deere and dragging it away from the house.

The owner said there's lots of firewood for me to cut on their 350 acres.

 

[MustangMike]

Tree cutter for 350 acres is a nice score, maybe get hunting permission also???

 

[JustJeff]

Don't cut too much or hanging a tree stand will be tough! Lol.

 

[dancan]

Hmmm , 350 acres , I'd buy a case lot of chain and sacrifice every one for the keys to that gate lol
You could always get a flat deck to haul that shrapnel laden ash to your house and then run a CL ad for free wood

 

[MustangMike]

I have a loop of carbide for stuff like that!

 

[JustJeff]

Another 3 racks filled tonight. 2 to go. Running the saw and bringing home free wood is the fun part. All this splitting and stacking sucks!

 

[coryj]

Tree cutter for 350 acres is a nice score, maybe get hunting permission also???

That's the plan. There's a healthy goose population that no one hunts and only the farm worker deer hunts. So hopefully I can get permission for deer and geese.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Here's some pics from the weekends scrounge. State forest offcuts, this was longed only a few weeks ago.
The wood was pretty dirty, I got to run the 28" bar on the 7900, with a new chain it cut with authority, more authority than the 20" bar sharpened by me (what does that tell ya). Think I'll look into buying a grinder soon.





Had to noodle the big logs, no chance of splitting. The kids have some noodles to make a mess with.


Created a big stack along my boundary.




Neighbours have a artistic wood stack to look at for the next two years ( hope it doesn't collapse).

 

[woodchip rookie]

Anybody else in the U.S. had a fire in the stove this early? Just installed a new-to-me nc30...high of 63 here in central Ohio tomorow...down in the 50's tonight. All the windows still open in the house. Good thing too. The previous owner put some kind of oil all over the stove and it stinks. I cleaned every bit I could off but still some residue

 

[woodchip rookie]

Test burn

 

[turnkey4099]

Anybody else in the U.S. had a fire in the stove this early? Just installed a new-to-me nc30...high of 63 here in central Ohio tomorow...down in the 50's tonight. All the windows still open in the house. Good thing too. The previous owner put some kind of oil all over the stove and it stinks. I cleaned every bit I could off but still some residue

I'd never done it on a used stove but for a new one, light it up for a few hours before bringing it in the house.

 

[turnkey4099]

Here's some pics from the weekends scrounge. State forest offcuts, this was longed only a few weeks ago.
The wood was pretty dirty, I got to run the 28" bar on the 7900, with a new chain it cut with authority, more authority than the 20" bar sharpened by me (what does that tell ya). Think I'll look into buying a grinder soon.

Rather than a grinder get one of the higher end clamp on guides that sets all the angles. Most improtant when hand filing. Throw files away when they get dull. It took me too many years before I finally learned that second step. I have both a grinder (cheap one) and the file guide. I can do a loop of chain a lot faster with the guide than than the grinder.