Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[woodchip rookie]

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Love mine. one of the best tools I own.

I may need to invest in one of these.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Lemme go ahead and bust apart this pile of SPRUCE.

 

[farmer steve]

Nice looking truck.

What engine?

Best of Luck with it!

Thanks Mike. 6.2L.

 

[James Miller]

Thanks Mike. 6.2L.

How's it do hauling the camper? My buddies dad replaced there power stroke f350 with a 6.2 f250 and really likes it.

 

[farmer steve]

How's it do hauling the camper? My buddies dad replaced there power stroke f350 with a 6.2 f250 and really likes it.

So far so good. Mileage wasn't great but should be better after it's broke in.

 

[MustangMike]

Hey, hard to beat Doc Al, who is a real MD, ports saws, has a metal lathe in his garage, welds all kinds of metals, and also prepares excellent Italian Cuisine at the GTGs!!! Now that is hard to beat! Did I mention his Corvette???

 

[farmer steve]

Hey, hard to beat Doc Al, who is a real MD, ports saws, has a metal lathe in his garage, welds all kinds of metals, and also prepares excellent Italian Cuisine at the GTGs!!! Now that is hard to beat! Did I mention his Corvette???

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Hey, hard to beat Doc Al, who is a real MD, ports saws, has a metal lathe in his garage, welds all kinds of metals, and also prepares excellent Italian Cuisine at the GTGs!!! Now that is hard to beat! Did I mention his Corvette???

Corvette and mustang races at the next GTG ?

 

[LondonNeil]

So I got my annual gas summary yestrerday...that set me smiling 27% down from last year and compred to 2 years ago (and no stoves) I'm now using just under half the gas, oh yes. So I nice £365 saving despite running the house 3 to 4C warmer downstairs than I used to with just gas, and warmer for more of the day Factor in the 1/3rd of a cord I gave my parents and its more like £425, and that is with running out of dry wood and packing up buring about 6 weeks before it warmed up.

I left the house happy. I came back an hour later and as I came onto the drive way my rear mudflaps dragged all the way off the road....ohhh.

Ahh, I do seem to be a bit down at the back....'kin' hell its like I've suddenly slammed the car but forgot he front....in fact the front looks a wee bit tall.


Well, front shouldn't be that tall with that there.....



Ahh, the back is choc full! that's 2/3rds black locust/false acacia, the rest is UK Sycamore

Then today I got the toy saw out.


near pile is bone dry apple, far/larger pile is oak. the toy may be small but its my favorite, light and runs on fumes. 1/2 a litre (2 tanks) and I've bucked 1.5m3

I saved the bigger stuff for next time and the big saw. Thinking that I'd tune it up in readiness, it needed a chain sharpen I got it out and dug out my 2 in1 file. I was just about to start when i saw this


WTF?! oh well, the corner does the work doesn't it?? On the plus side, it makes a nice marker tooth so I know when i've gone round the loop.

 

[dancan]

Well , it was looking bleak this weekend for a wood scrounge , the woods are wet and the ground is soft so I didn't really want to haul the tractor behind the gate so I figured I'd scrounge up a load of rock for dry stacked wall at the edge the driveway

I got home around 2pm and unloaded the rock and got the wall all stacked , at 3:30pm I got a call from a friend asking if I wanted a bit of softwood ....

Nothing spectacular but free and all I had to do was load , spruce and fir and only a couple of miles from home

 

[bigfellascott]

Thanks Mike. 6.2L.

That's a beast of a engine! no doubt heavy on fuel I would imagine.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Here's the load of saw and firewood logs I scrounged today,

SR

 

[KiwiBro]

That reminds me to mention:

Trailers suitable for off (tractor)/on road (tractor and conventional car/truck/ute), capable of tilting/dumping and carrying logs (removable bunks) or firewood (removable cage), and hay (removable sides so it's a flatbed), are *$%^&HG##*& *&^%@# expensive. I'm not finding anything but rust buckets with threadbare tyres for anything under $5k here.

 

[Cowboy254]

So I got my annual gas summary yestrerday...that set me smiling 27% down from last year and compred to 2 years ago (and no stoves) I'm now using just under half the gas, oh yes. So I nice £365 saving despite running the house 3 to 4C warmer downstairs than I used to with just gas, and warmer for more of the day Factor in the 1/3rd of a cord I gave my parents and its more like £425, and that is with running out of dry wood and packing up buring about 6 weeks before it warmed up.

I left the house happy. I came back an hour later and as I came onto the drive way my rear mudflaps dragged all the way off the road....ohhh.
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Ahh, I do seem to be a bit down at the back....'kin' hell its like I've suddenly slammed the car but forgot he front....in fact the front looks a wee bit tall.

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Well, front shouldn't be that tall with that there.....

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Ahh, the back is choc full! that's 2/3rds black locust/false acacia, the rest is UK Sycamore

Then today I got the toy saw out.
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near pile is bone dry apple, far/larger pile is oak. the toy may be small but its my favorite, light and runs on fumes. 1/2 a litre (2 tanks) and I've bucked 1.5m3

I saved the bigger stuff for next time and the big saw. Thinking that I'd tune it up in readiness, it needed a chain sharpen I got it out and dug out my 2 in1 file. I was just about to start when i saw this
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WTF?! oh well, the corner does the work doesn't it?? On the plus side, it makes a nice marker tooth so I know when i've gone round the loop.

Looks like you need to upgrade the rear springs on the Skoda, Neil. I'm calling photoshop on that first pic, what's that blue thing in the top right corner?

 

[H-Ranch]

Another load from FIL's place. Mostly oak or oak-like substance with a few chunks of ash, maple, and poplar thrown in. The oak-like stuff is really weathered but solid inside.

 

[Logger nate]

Nice truck Steve! I like the body style on the new fords. Well might be a week or 2 before I can get to my favorite firewood spot Nice day for a drive though

 

[Logger nate]

Scrounged up a new climbing saw, was pretty much set on a echo 355t until Brett (chipper1) told me about the new 2511t Tried it out the other daySo lite! Not bad power for being so small. (No I didn’t use the ladder it was the homeowners).

 

[LondonNeil]

Blue thing top right? My neighbours daughters Vauxhall Corsa. Vauxhall is part of General Motors so you may have a Holden badged similar car? Oh hang on....ahhh very top right... Past the Corsa,...oh yes
. Despite it being a bank holiday weekend, it's utterly glorious weather, wall to wall sunshine and up to 27/28C today. We do get some glorious weather occasionally.

Maybe I should think about some adjustable springs. I didn't hear/feel it bottom on the stops, but it looks like it must have been close!

Disclaimer, No photo shop was used in the making of this firewood.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Scrounged up a new climbing saw, was pretty much set on a echo 355t until Brett (chipper1) told me about the new 2511t View attachment 650706Tried it out the other dayView attachment 650707So lite! Not bad power for being so small. (No I didn’t use the ladder it was the homeowners).

Would love to hear all about the 2511t Nate, I’m looking for a small saw to the spot the 009 held now that it’s retired.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Another load from FIL's place. Mostly oak or oak-like substance with a few chunks of ash, maple, and poplar thrown in. The oak-like stuff is really weathered but solid inside.
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Weathered on the outside but solid on the inside, that sums up the participants on the scrounger thread

 

[bigfellascott]

Weathered on the outside but solid on the inside, that sums up the participants on the scrounger thread

spot on Jeff, I'm weathered on the outside and solid fat on the inside