Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Philbert]

First post! I’ve been lurking for awhile but finally decided to join.

Welcome to A.S.!

Lots of BTUs in smaller wood!

Philbert

 

[dancan]

First post! I’ve been lurking for awhile but finally decided to join.
I have a friend logging part of their property. He said I can have everything but the massive trunks. I spent some time today collecting smaller cut pieces as my saw did not want to start.

Welcome aboard !
The official term on that small stuff is "Zoggerwood" .
It burns , has btu's and you scrounged it , you'll fit right in .

 

[dancan]

It's been a busy week just gone by . During the storm on Thursday I got a call from my neighbor that her mother had no power (she's Billy's widow that I used to give wood to) .
I headed over and fired up their genny to get some lights and sump pump running .
After about 15 minutes the genny quit , I got it fired up a second time and it ran smooth but I didn't trust it so I started a fire with wood I gave Billy and stayed to make sure the fire was going good and that the genny stayed running .

The fire of scrounged wood was fine but the genny , well it quit so I drove back home and grabbed one of my scrounged up gennys .
Loaded it in the tractor bucket and headed back in the rain and wind storm .

Got her up and running , good thing because they were without power for 28 hours .

 

[rarefish383]

First post! I’ve been lurking for awhile but finally decided to join.
I have a friend logging part of their property. He said I can have everything but the massive trunks. I spent some time today collecting smaller cut pieces as my saw did not want to start.

Welcome, where in MD are you, I'm in Mt Airy, Joe.

 

[dancan]

46 Merican on Thursday , a low of 2 Merican yesterday and today , still windy , 40 mph gusts so I took a break yesterday , truth be told , the "Honey Do !" list was long lol
Today I was going to take a drive behind the gate to see if we had more wood come down but around 10:00 am I get a call from Paul , the developer that gave me a key to the gate , he sez there's a bunch of blow overs that I can have if I want .
But , the reason for the call was that he wanted to know if I could drop a few trees so that our Powerco would connect a house .
"I"ll go look at it asap" I tell him .

Warmed up to 7 F but the windthrill drove it down to -21F .
It's no fun cutting on windy days and holding wood doesn't hold at those temps either but I got it done , polly 2/3rds of a cord
A couple of spruce , 2 small maple and the blocked up one is tamarack , not too sure how that one burns but I'm not fussy lol
Paul was surprised I cut it today , I told him I wasn't made of sugar and that he said he wanted it cut
A quick inventory check tells me we've got plenty to cut without going past the gate .
For example

 

[Flint Mitch]

Scrounged a good size Ash the county put down in my buddies neighborhood. Squatted the 1 ton a bit. There ended up being a bed full also I couldn't safely put on the trailer. His tractor and fork truck made loading much easier than unloading once I got it back to my house!

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[woodfarmer]

It's been a busy week just gone by . During the storm on Thursday I got a call from my neighbor that her mother had no power (she's Billy's widow that I used to give wood to) .
I headed over and fired up their genny to get some lights and sump pump running .
After about 15 minutes the genny quit , I got it fired up a second time and it ran smooth but I didn't trust it so I started a fire with wood I gave Billy and stayed to make sure the fire was going good and that the genny stayed running .

The fire of scrounged wood was fine but the genny , well it quit so I drove back home and grabbed one of my scrounged up gennys .
Loaded it in the tractor bucket and headed back in the rain and wind storm .

Got her up and running , good thing because they were without power for 28 hours .

Your a good man, dancan

 

[James Miller]

First post! I’ve been lurking for awhile but finally decided to join.
I have a friend logging part of their property. He said I can have everything but the massive trunks. I spent some time today collecting smaller cut pieces as my saw did not want to start.

Welcome to AS. Also wondering what part of Maryland your in as I can throw a rock and hit the Mason Dixon line from my place in PA.

 

[dancan]

Your a good man, dancan

Thanks , I just hope that when my time comes that I need help someone will pick up the slack , until then , I'll do my part to help when and where I can and to pull the slack up on the rope to the best of my ability .

 

[Hutchinsonkw]

Welcome, where in MD are you, I'm in Mt Airy, Joe.

Welcome to AS. Also wondering what part of Maryland your in as I can throw a rock and hit the Mason Dixon line from my place in PA.

Small world. I live in Taylorsville a few miles up the road. My zip is technically Westminster though.

Thanks for the welcomes everyone.

 

[1project2many]

It's been a while since I've posted. I hope everyone here is having good luck with their finds. I managed to stumble across two Red Oak trees, about 36" diameter at the base, freshly cut in the back yard of a house close to my work. It took a few weeks to get them out as I had to cut, split, and wheelbarrow all the pieces from the back of the house and down the driveway so I could load them onto my car trailer. This was the first year I had my Husky 238 working and it really did a great job compared to the Poulan Pro I've had since '06. Both of the saws have 16" bars so it took a little extra effort to get through the large pieces but it was worth the work.

Here are a few pictures of the score:

 

[Flint Mitch]

First post! I’ve been lurking for awhile but finally decided to join.
I have a friend logging part of their property. He said I can have everything but the massive trunks. I spent some time today collecting smaller cut pieces as my saw did not want to start.

I'm glad to see someone still buys a brand new truck and uses the bed for actually hauling stuff!

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[woodchip rookie]

You mean those jacked up trucks with 4ft beds that only haul groceries?

 

[Flint Mitch]

You mean those jacked up trucks with 4ft beds that only haul groceries?

Ugh... yes that bothers me highly....

My trusty F 350 with the 7.3 has pulled and hauled more than it's share in 300,000+ miles. Trans and T case have Been rebuilt to be bullet proof but other than injectors and injector cups the engine is original. It's rusty as he'll but AWESOME anyway!

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[Cowboy254]

COWBOY!!

Show me some pics of cutting down big timber into the bits.

Here I am! Here you go young feller.

The bucking cut followed by one or two vertical noodle cuts to the point that the bar on the bucking cut could reach. You're then able to cut off the remaining bit from either side.



Branchy bits. More or less hacking pieces off however far the bar will reach but keeping in mind that you want bits that you can stack in the end.

 

[ReggieT]

Here I am! Here you go young feller.

The bucking cut followed by one or two vertical noodle cuts to the point that the bar on the bucking cut could reach. You're then able to cut off the remaining bit from either side.

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Branchy bits. More or less hacking pieces off however far the bar will reach but keeping in mind that you want bits that you can stack in the end.

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That's, "working smart...instead of too hard!"
I like the wisdom of those cuts.

 

[Cowboy254]

I'm having a bit of trouble with my interweb so photo uploading is a PITA. Anyway, here are some more, 2016 blue gum this time...











Good times. Cutting big wood is fun. Tiring and time consuming, but fun. You're getting the quality BTUs too, and the lesser amounts of ash in the heartwood.

 

[KiwiBro]

May not work for everyone, but when making the noodle/rip cuts in big, dense logs, I sometimes put one or even two horizontally as well as vertically, before making the bucking cuts. It gets the pieces into a more manageable size without having to handle them again (they don't roll so well when they drop off the log so can be a pain to position for the next noodle cut if they come off the log too big for me to lift - which is a descending scale as the day wears on), except to put 'em on the splitter.

 

[nomad_archer]

Caught me a feesh this today with the heat wave 18 degree high temps.

 

[ReggieT]

Here are some pics from my recent scrounging. Pin oak, red oak, maple, and hackberry.
Most of this wood is on my cousins property and he's chomping at the bit to have a massive bonfire...so time is of the essence!!