Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Mold/mildew from being wet. It will dry but the powder may stay on there.

 

[Ryan A]

Thanks! It has been super wet over here on the east coast. Steady rain all last week....this oak is has a super wavy grain. Good work out with the maul.

 

[Cowboy254]

Some pics from yesterdays wood cutting effort, this was a white gum the owner wanted cut up and removed. It's a new property we have access to about 5mins from home, it's got a lot of nice peppermint and gum etc standing that we have been given permission to cut down. we are just working from one end of the property down to the other.

This particular white gum is still green near the base and probably half way up but the tips etc were nice and dry/dead and have been burning those last night, all I can say is WOW boy doesn't it put out some heat, I recon I got 1, 2, 3, 4,5 ,6 deg burns sitting about 2m away from the heater LOL.

Great work and pics, BFS!

Yeah it was 29/85 today, I wasn’t doing wood today. I even drove by some blocked up trees on the road and didn’t stop. May have to turn in my scrounge card if I don’t smarten up!

WTF? You drove past blocked up scrounge? Consider this your first and last warning .

 

[MustangMike]

Well, it was 87* F here today. Did light stuff in the morning, sharpen some saws, weed the garden a bit, do some stuff to the house. Then I decide to go for a bike ride, wife would not go due to the heat. I get almost home (about 1 mi away) and I see these guys trying to cut two 30" legs of a Sugar Maple with a top handle saw and a homeowner saw with a 16" bar. They are like trying to cut, and nothing is happing. So I had to stop, tell them they have the wrong tools for the job, and asked if they wanted me to return in about 1/2 hour with some real saws.

So, we agreed I would return, get home, change clothes, pack saws, felt like I was still doing Biathlons! I come back with my MS 710 and a MS 660 (both with 36" bars) and whack the stuff up in almost no time (no pics, they took it away as I cut it, 5 of em). They were very appreciative, but I can't tell you how much fluids I drank after that!

Then:
One of my local tree guy friends gave me a present today, Red Oak, Black Oak and some Beech.

 

[bigfellascott]

Dinners on ( lamb neck stew)

 

[bigfellascott]

Well, it was 87* F here today. Did light stuff in the morning, sharpen some saws, weed the garden a bit, do some stuff to the house. Then I decide to go for a bike ride, wife would not go due to the heat. I get almost home (about 1 mi away) and I see these guys trying to cut two 30" legs of a Sugar Maple with a top handle saw and a homeowner saw with a 16" bar. They are like trying to cut, and nothing is happing. So I had to stop, tell them they have the wrong tools for the job, and asked if they wanted me to return in about 1/2 hour with some real saws.

So, we agreed I would return, get home, change clothes, pack saws, felt like I was still doing Biathlons! I come back with my MS 710 and a MS 660 (both with 36" bars) and whack the stuff up in almost no time (no pics, they took it away as I cut it, 5 of em). They were very appreciative, but I can't tell you how much fluids I drank after that!

Then:
One of my local tree guy friends gave me a present today, Red Oak, Black Oak and some Beech.

How goods that Mike, free firewood dropped at the door, wish that would happen to me!

 

[Cowboy254]

Well, it was 87* F here today. Did light stuff in the morning, sharpen some saws, weed the garden a bit, do some stuff to the house. Then I decide to go for a bike ride, wife would not go due to the heat. I get almost home (about 1 mi away) and I see these guys trying to cut two 30" legs of a Sugar Maple with a top handle saw and a homeowner saw with a 16" bar. They are like trying to cut, and nothing is happing. So I had to stop, tell them they have the wrong tools for the job, and asked if they wanted me to return in about 1/2 hour with some real saws.

So, we agreed I would return, get home, change clothes, pack saws, felt like I was still doing Biathlons! I come back with my MS 710 and a MS 660 (both with 36" bars) and whack the stuff up in almost no time (no pics, they took it away as I cut it, 5 of em). They were very appreciative, but I can't tell you how much fluids I drank after that!

Then:
One of my local tree guy friends gave me a present today, Red Oak, Black Oak and some Beech.

That's a great day, Mike! I just pulled some stuff out of the garden and set fire to it today. Like you, I also weed in the garden. And watched my footy side smash Adelaide, that made it good, too.

Dinners on ( lamb neck stew)

That'd be a Le Creuset on top with some white gum in the stove there, BFS?

 

[Marine5068]

I wish. It’s just aspen. But it’s easy to drive to and load and will rot away if I don’t take it.

True. But it also makes good kindling and camp fire or fire pit wood.
I have lots now.

 

[bigfellascott]

That's a great day, Mike! I just pulled some stuff out of the garden and set fire to it today. Like you, I also weed in the garden. And watched my footy side smash Adelaide, that made it good, too.


That'd be a Le Creuset on top with some white gum in the stove there, BFS?

Nah Cowboy it's just a K-mart version from memory ($20) does the same job though (have owned Le Creuset) can't see any great difference in the results to be honest, other than the enamel on the outside seems better on the good stuff but that isn't something I was concerned about to be honest, for the $$ it's excellent value ( I have 4 different styles of the K-mart version and all have been excellent so far.

 

[Marine5068]

Is it a scrounge if I cut wood I don't want, can't sell, can't give away? Heard over coffee this morning that a neighbor a few miles over the hill had a hybrid poplar blow down. I came back from my usual 4 hour stint at Von's working willow to clean up the area and stopped by. Yep, a big poplar, around 24" dbh down in a crop of garbanzos. Retired couple woking to clean it up (saw just the wife). I asked if they or anyone they knew wanted the wood. Nope. I offered to cut up the log and haul off the wood at my usual horrendous price of "no charge" - I'm in it for the excercise. What I will do with hte wood is a good question. Add it to the willow stock I guess. I have heard it has an unpleasant odor when burned.

I did sell a very small batch of willow for campfire yesterday ($20. I wantednothing but he insisted) Him and daddy will be back for a bigger load later on.

It makes good craft/woodworking wood, similar to pine in that way.

 

[Erik B]

That's a pretty nice one! The Disston looks a good bit bigger. I talked to the seller a little while ago and the price is out of my range, so I passed it on to a collector friend. I might still try to get one of the little 3.5 HP Disston Bows, he has 3-4 of them. What model power head is that?

I believe all of the saws this person has are Mall saws. No idea on the model.

 

[MustangMike]

How goods that Mike, free firewood dropped at the door, wish that would happen to me!

Right now, they are cutting more downed trees around here than they know what to do with, so in some respect I'm doing him a favor by taking it.

Realistically, one hand washes the other. When he drops off a saw to me at 8PM with a broken brake flag, it is ready for him to pick up in the AM, I have brake flags in stock. These guys appreciate stuff like that. Plus, he is just a great guy. I should have taken a pic of his beautiful Red Kenworth Logging Truck! He is real good with that grapple, he could win lots of prizes at the arcade!!!

 

[LondonNeil]

We all seem to have gone hot and humid, same here then torrential rain and thunder storms all night long, had a 30-40 minute spell where the lightning was so close together entire sky was just constantly lit! Thunder showers forecast for next 4 days.

 

[JustJeff]

Looking at the long range here, it’s supposed to be “August” hot for the next 4 days and then cool down for next weekend. My firewood is done for next winter so I’m not touching a stick until it cools a bit. Today my daughter and I are going to try out our boat project and see how bad it leaks.

 

[svk]

View attachment 654448 View attachment 654449 Looking at the long range here, it’s supposed to be “August” hot for the next 4 days and then cool down for next weekend. My firewood is done for next winter so I’m not touching a stick until it cools a bit. Today my daughter and I are going to try out our boat project and see how bad it leaks.

Another beauty there. What make is this one?

 

[Cody]

Scrounging? What is that? Certainly not something to be done in 97 degree weather! NW Iowa and it's still May, late May, but &(^*%*%$#**$#($$%*#*#%(.

Sorry guys, I don't like heat unless it's coming out of my stove and I can open a window to cool off!!!

 

[JustJeff]

Another beauty there. What make is this one?

It’s a sea king. Made by Starcraft I think for Montgomery Wards. Just fixed up a 1971 Johnson 4hp for it but I don’t like it. I have a 6 hp waiting in the father in laws garage that I’m going to go through. Anyways we took it out this morning and it didn’t leak so I call that a win.

 

[panolo]

New arrival to the stable. Made it safe and sound. Thanks @chipper1 !

 

[LondonNeil]

25C and think it was about 75% humidity but it felt more...way more. In the garden with my toddler and 9mo so i grabbed the fiskars and split 8 or 10 rounds of cypress while watching them....eek I was a mess. sweat monster.

 

[James Miller]

New arrival to the stable. Made it safe and sound. Thanks @chipper1 !View attachment 654515

Wonder if yours was the one going out the same time as my 7910.