Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[woodchip rookie]

Here's a quicker wood ID lesson. Its firewood.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Can't like that

Its killin me. The pile of wood across the street is as big as my house. Cherry, walnut, hackberry and honey locust.

 

[Cowboy254]

Right now it will be. I need to get that mess cleaned up. I dont wanna mow around that all summer.

Scrounge enough and you won't have to mow at all.

 

[dancan]

I had a couple of hours to spare this afternoon so off to the scrounging zone to finish the clump I went

Got it all done

There's plenty more to get on this little side road , even a nice spruce blowdown

There , pic links fixed .

 

[woodchip rookie]

Scrounge enough and you won't have to mow at all.

Then I got wood layin on the ground stayin wet. Nocando.

 

[JustJeff]

Me and my slow splitter and the fiskars are steady picking away at the rounds. We are winning slow but sure....except for a couple elm rounds that the splitter won’t touch.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I'm more impressed by the house and tractor. Sweet layout.

 

[LondonNeil]

I saw a rocket stove on a tv show and never having heard of one, I looked it up. I thought it was a neat idea and thought if it works good enough, it could replace the Coleman stove on my fishing trips because fuel is just laying on the ground instead of hauling propane cans. In reality I’m probably just amusing myself and need to get busy finishing my other projects!

its never as much fun as making your own, but these are neat. Stoves with a secondary burn! they do a firepit too. Although cost seems step.
https://www.solostove.com/solo-stove-lite

 

[James Miller]

Neighbor across the street asks me if I can look at his saw, and he hands me this gem...

I'd love to have a clean 011. Mine is ragged out and doesn' run right anymore.

 

[James Miller]

Scrounge enough and you won't have to mow at all.

I had to delete my quote cause you beat me to it. The less mowing the better.

 

[woodchip rookie]

If I can get it goin I would try to buy it but it was given to him by his FIL

 

[James Miller]

Technically mine is my FILs but he bought an ms250 to replace it . Now it just sits and collects dust.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Donr wanna fissit?

 

[James Miller]

I decided since I couldn't work on my own firewood I'd help my brother with some stuff for his out door put. I got half way threw the pile and found these guys. Decided I'd better split it all in hopes they freeze over night and proceeded to turn his yard into an ant grave yard. Total about a half hours work. I told him to split it last year but he's lazy.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I hate carpenter ants. They are tough. They just freeze in the log then come back alive in the spring.

 

[Jakers]

I hate carpenter ants. They are tough. They just freeze in the log then come back alive in the spring.

I always set the splits face up on top of the pile. the birds go nuts for the protein in the winter time

 

[Deleted member 149229]

I always set the splits face up on top of the pile. the birds go nuts for the protein in the winter time

When I’m running the splitter and find any I set them nest side up by the splitter and when I’m done the chickens love it. Plus they scratch thru all the bark around the splitter catching ants that made a break for it.

 

[James Miller]

The pieces with ants in are off to the side spread out by them selves. The ants are super lethargic or not moving at all. If they don' freeze tonight the birds can pick them off tomorrow morning.

 

[JustJeff]

its never as much fun as making your own, but these are neat. Stoves with a secondary burn! they do a firepit too. Although cost seems step.
https://www.solostove.com/solo-stove-lite

That’s really neat!

 

[Cowboy254]

Lousy day here today. Strong front going through with plenty of rain and prolly also a few flakes up high tomorrow morning. Though not a scrounging day, it looks like getting cool enough to justify lighting the fire. It has been set for about 5 months and has accumulated plenty of beer cartons, letters with identifying information on them, rubbish envelopes and other junk so it should go up well. As soon as it dips below 20°C in here, it's getting a match.