Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[zogger]

Did living in GA and the warmer climate make you soft yet? It's probably only mid 20s outside and I'm freezing lol. I think the summer took my manhood away.

Yes, you get used to where you live. I can cut in heat that would have a lot of guys here melting, but..no way can I handle the cold like they can. Heck, this is a firewood forum! Man, I burn me some wood in the winter! And as far as I am concerned, with this latest cold front, winter is here, heck with some calendar!

 

[Ambull01]

Yes, you get used to where you live. I can cut in heat that would have a lot of guys here melting, but..no way can I handle the cold like they can. Heck, this is a firewood forum! Man, I burn me some wood in the winter! And as far as I am concerned, with this latest cold front, winter is here, heck with some calendar!

lol. NC is freaking humid in the summer. Walked out the back door, around the house, then in the front and I was drenched in sweat. I imagine it's worse in GA

Amen. It's winter in MD too. Not winter like svk is seeing but winter nonetheless.

I'm going to finish splitting the big poplar logs and oak in the morning. I think a couple of the poplar logs are still whole because they're too big for the 24" bar on my father in-laws saw. Hopefully one of you guys can give me some advice on chainsaw/bar size to tackle something like that. I don't want to be out gunned again.

 

[CRThomas]

Thought maybe you guy's that scrounge wood, might share some of your scrounging methods with the seemingly growing crowd of newbie wood burners. From what I have been reading, they would be quite appreciative to hear how you score, and where you score. There is a lot of useful and interesting information scattered throughout the firewood forum. I thought it might be nice to share some of your experiences in one thread, for those who are just starting out and maybe those who are struggling a bit. Thanks to anyone who cares to share.

I free wood is plentiful less you live down town N.Y a fellow been on CL with some free Oak all ready split and dryed I had to go pick up my Grand Daughter at school happen to go by the place stop to see this wood that the fellow couldn't give a way so I stopped a lady came out said you the fellow who came to get the wood off our padio thank go no i just wanted to see the wood you couldn't give a way. you got a truck please take it no i have to my grand daughter up. i couldn't believe a cord and a half I told her take the free ad out and put in forsale $100.00 her husband called me last night they sold it for a hundred dollar that is strange no people are strange.

 

[CRThomas]

Agree, get landowner's permission even if you are cleaning up along the roadsides. The land owner still owns out to the middle of the road.

In Illinois on country roads the county owns 50 feet from the middle of the road both ways. I had to move a building 5 ft a water meter night light see how far they are from the road thats because they have to bee on your property.

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

We just got hit with our first real snowfall of the year on friday and man is it getting cold. The lake looks real coldbut probably wont freeze over for another month. Id post a pick of my scrounge on friday but you all laugh at me LOL.

The deck is about 50 feet and it sucks shoveling that so i might give the br600 a try

 

[zogger]

lol. NC is freaking humid in the summer. Walked out the back door, around the house, then in the front and I was drenched in sweat. I imagine it's worse in GA

Amen. It's winter in MD too. Not winter like svk is seeing but winter nonetheless.

I'm going to finish splitting the big poplar logs and oak in the morning. I think a couple of the poplar logs are still whole because they're too big for the 24" bar on my father in-laws saw. Hopefully one of you guys can give me some advice on chainsaw/bar size to tackle something like that. I don't want to be out gunned again.

Noodle from the end to the bucking cuts, several places. Use your axe/maul and golf swing/ baseball bat out chunks, split them right out. Eventually you'll have enough open space you can finish bucking down to the middle.

I had to do a 30 inch oak limb like that with a little homie tophandle when I first moved here. Tedious, but I used the saw and axe I had.

 

[PLMCRZY]

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We just got hit with our first real snowfall of the year on friday and man is it getting cold. The lake looks real coldbut probably wont freeze over for another month. Id post a pick of my scrounge on friday but you all laugh at me LOL.

The deck is about 50 feet and it sucks shoveling that so i might give the br600 a try

Beautiful, we will never see that in Texas.

Im about to head out myself to scrounge.

 

[PLMCRZY]

Just left a ranch that is a gold mine for wood. They give horse back riding lessons to kids that are mentally challenged. I gave them a nice donation when we left. Said i could have as much wood id like.

 

[Axfarmer]

I got the splitter out about an hour before dark today and got a little done. The way things are going its gonna be a while to finish all my green wood.

 

[zogger]

Got a nice load of smalls this afternoon. Fun running the little bitty saw.

 

[dancan]

No scrounging for me today but I'm enjoying my scrounged wood , 23 with the breeze making it feel like 17 out there but it's 72 in here with the draft closed on the furnace

 

[mainewoods]

Ayuh, the 50's are gone, but the upper teens are fine with me. Just makes you work a little faster, and that puts wood in the shed. Perfect cutting conditions right now, but it bothers me that I can't go as fast as I used too. Gettin' old ain't for sissies.

 

[dancan]

Injury , just like age sure makes for a rethink on how things get done and how fast lol
Been burning spf during the day but this is the first cold night so the furnace just got fed some big hardwood short blocks for the evening

 

[stihly dan]

Ayuh, the 50's are gone, but the upper teens are fine with me. Just makes you work a little faster, and that puts wood in the shed. Perfect cutting conditions right now, but it bothers me that I can't go as fast as I used too. Gettin' old ain't for sissies.

But it sure makes you feel like one. Unfortunately for me, you are probably 50% older than me. Can't even imagine the pains I will have at retirement age.

 

[chucker]

I have felt old as of thirty, when the tractor went over pinning me under it with a broken leg & right fore arm with hip trouble laying on a short stump... be careful out there!

 

[svk]

My father in law got a beauty of a 12 point buck today. Two very equally sized bucks chasing a doe, he took the first one that came out of the brush. Just my tag left to fill.

 

[Ambull01]

Noodle from the end to the bucking cuts, several places. Use your axe/maul and golf swing/ baseball bat out chunks, split them right out. Eventually you'll have enough open space you can finish bucking down to the middle.

I had to do a 30 inch oak limb like that with a little homie tophandle when I first moved here. Tedious, but I used the saw and axe I had.

Hmm, didn't think about splitting them while they're attached to the log. I'll give that a try.

I bet you noodled with one hand too right?

 

[Ambull01]

Well I didn't make it down the hill to take a pic of the big poplars. Spent about 4 1/2 hours splitting up the dead standing oak at my in-laws. The little pieces were cut by my little Homelite and father in-law used his Stihl with 24" bar to cut the big stuff.

This damn thing was so freaking heavy! I'll have to work on my deadlift if I will routinely tackle stuff like this.

I split most of these and stacked them into the trailer. Not as heavy as the first but still pretty heft.

This is the stuff I cut. Split all these as well. Supposedly this is white oak yet I find it funny that it's slightly reddish.

After seeing what a 24" bar and chain can cut, I'm totally convinced I will never need anything bigger than that. I'll never need a saw bigger than 60cc either and that's probably more than really necessary. If this really is oak, I'm surprised how well my Homelite did cutting it. Of course the pieces aren't extremely large but I kept hearing how oak is a tough wood to cut but I don't think it was. Only issue is I cut the stupid things too small! I split them all up with a 28 ton splitter. The splits are pretty small because I want them to dry fast and I have a very shallow/small insert. With the small split and my short bucking job they look like Lincoln Logs lol. Worked my butt off moving the heavy rounds but I had a great day. If I could get paid to cut and split firewood I would be in heaven.

Tomorrow/today I'm hoping to get a new battery for the van and pick up those bucked up trees I saw the other day. There's piles everywhere right off the road, easy pickings.

 

[7sleeper]

Hmm, didn't think about splitting them while they're attached to the log. I'll give that a try.

I bet you noodled with one hand too right?

You don't have to noodle them all the way through. I usually noodle into the crotch/branch areas/ maximum middle of the trunk only. They are the parts that don't want to be split. Fine lengthy grain wood is easy splitting.

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[zogger]

Hmm, didn't think about splitting them while they're attached to the log. I'll give that a try.

I bet you noodled with one hand too right?

Hmm...don't think so, not that I remember. Not a fan of one handing a saw.