Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Yup exactly
What's even sadder is if the shop fees would have been $4.41 he would have just paid them
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KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Owned a few bidnesses, got a degree I never used, bailed out of a second one and learned the building trade, got sick of that after a decade so changed it up and became an application programmer and database administrator, and whilst I loved the $, wood always kept calling so hit the bush and am back building until I can get back to the bush. Realising I just love anything to do with wood and especially tipping trees over and the immense challenge of getting them into merchantable products profitably; it's quite a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Also there'll come a time the body won't let me play in the bush so I try to make the most of it while I can.
Here's a question for the panel - how many in here would scrounge wood full-time if the money was good?
Here's a question for the panel - how many in here would scrounge wood full-time if the money was good?
i raise produce Matt. i have a small farm market and wholesale what i don't sell there. sweet corn is my big thing but a little bit of everything else. i don't think deer like onions.
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I am a lead computer programmer. But any more I do more of the technical leadership and less of the actual programming. Its been an interesting change for me to go from building something to asking other guys/gals to build it for me like is.....
MechanicMatt
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Farmer Steve, he has about 40acres of hay fields and 200 of black dirt onion. The deer will be in the hay fields in about a hour and so will I
James Miller
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I make the padded mailer bags you can buy at the post office.
Pays the bills and let's me pick up a toy every now and then.
James Miller
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My neighbor said I could have these 2 oaks if I drop them. I had to tell him there beyond my skill set and comfort level. But there's a ton more oak scrounge if they happen to fall over.
Just a Guy that cuts wood
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You move them RVs lay logs on both sides of the drive way ... cable just in case looking at ... Steve could do it lol no wedge needed. I got wood to move to the basement
before the snow cheek back later
I would. If I could make the same money scrounging and selling firewood. But firewood doesn’t pay like welding does. I could make enough in a couple side jobs to buy cut and split wood from somebody else. But there’s something therapeutic about doing the wood. Maybe it’s the self sufficiency, or the primal knowledge that man has been scrounging wood to keep his family warm for eons. I just know the satisfaction I feel when I look at the wood stacked and know that my family will be warm.
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No way. I like runnin saws n stuff but after a whole day of scroungin I'm done for a couple days and want to do other stuff. I can just about scrounge enough wood for a whole winter in a week so I'm in no hurry. Not anymore anyway. The first year I scrounged I got all I could when I could. But now I'm atleast a year ahead so no hurry.
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Groms are sweet. I been riding since 06. I got a 96 Wideglide. Only bike I've ever owned but I started looking at sportbikes, dualsports and minibikes last spring.
MechanicMatt
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Big fat goose egg so far. Jumped a few walking in. Sadly found a dead one rotting away in the woods. But no deer during shooting hours yet. Uncle Mike is pushing them toward me now, I hope......
If mixed species firewood sold for $450 a cord instead of $150 I sure could do it as a primary part time job. If I bust butt I can scrounge, process, split, and stack over a cord a day but that is hard work. I feel I could do a cord a day indefinitely without burning myself out. The only problem is I usually have about 20 cords of mental inventory so my scrounge would dry up in about a month and then I would have to buy wood. I guess it wouldn't be bad if I could be the logger as well.
There is money to be made as a small tract logger if a guy wants to do physical labor. All of the loggers in the area run big iron now and there is only one guy who will do smaller tracts and he is constantly booked out 3 years.
Conquistador3
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Over 70% of the wood I scrounge requires cutting as well: mostly people who just want to get rid of a tree or two and had to deal with the local "expert" who either botched the work or no-showed or from the common wood that's sadly getting devastated by the local council's idiocy (long and painful story).
For me to do it full time as a work I would need to invest in some extra tools, such as a Toyota pickup truck, a trailer, a good quality log splitter with a good gasoline engine and an assistant I would't be tempted to murder with an axe after half an hour. I am not that young anymore and four arms work far faster than two. A tow-behind chipper would also be a bonus for cleaning up: it seems I am the only one still using ******* (as in bundles of small branches) for lighting a fire so there's not much use for small branches anymore.
So the money would need to be really good.
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With already having a big bike the Grom would be a good choice for shooting around town. I put 4500 miles on mine since I got it in May anything from running around town to living on the rev limiter for 5+ miles at a time. 9500 rev limit in 4th is still only 70 mph.
Just a Guy that cuts wood
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I think I started working around 5 years old lol.
Dad had a small welding shop so after school and weekends I was holding whatever he told me to . Built a lot of hand rails .. stairs .. window guards
I learned how to work as a team and have the next tool ready when he put his hand out. I know witch end of the rod goes in the stinger. lol
Started a welding business in 1988 moved to south Florida after Andrew . Got serious was already certified welder went to night school
became general contractor stayed with iron working tho . I didn't want to build houses.... structural steel in the condos and high rise buildings
Sold Eagle Iron works moved to Gettysburg and my hobby became my job Graphic art for the last 10 years
Dad had a small welding shop so after school and weekends I was holding whatever he told me to . Built a lot of hand rails .. stairs .. window guards
I learned how to work as a team and have the next tool ready when he put his hand out. I know witch end of the rod goes in the stinger. lol
Started a welding business in 1988 moved to south Florida after Andrew . Got serious was already certified welder went to night school
became general contractor stayed with iron working tho . I didn't want to build houses.... structural steel in the condos and high rise buildings
Sold Eagle Iron works moved to Gettysburg and my hobby became my job Graphic art for the last 10 years
I'm 82 and as retired as it is possible to be. I'm out there every chance I get. Summertimes 4 days/wk minimum. I only work 3-4 hours day though, just go until I'm tired. Haul rounds and stack them to be split (manually) in the winter. I'm so far ahead that I should be good for 15 years if I don't cut another stick. I burn a lot of willow as I clean up old willow groves for farmers and I can't force myself to just pile and burn with the brush.
Temp now is mid 20s with no wind, been that way for over a week and naother week of it to go. Be out moving more willow into the porch as soon as I'm done here.
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