Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[troylee]

Just got a "huge" sugar maple off craigslist. Hope her "huge" is the same as my "huge".

 

[farmer steve]

today's scrounge was part of a hickory tree limb that broke off. the pic is the first limb i got off the hickory tree in the spring. today's was almost as big.then a huge oak, down dead and off the ground for years. that overloaded the F-150.then a very large ash that went down in a windstorm. not bad for 4 hrs.

 

[Marshy]

today's scrounge was part of a hickory tree limb that broke off.View attachment 380819 the pic is the first limb i got off the hickory tree in the spring. today's was almost as big.then a huge oak, down dead and off the ground for years. that overloaded the F-150.then a very large ash that went down in a windstorm. not bad for 4 hrs.

Not to break your ballz too much but, the hinge in your avitar is disgusting. I'd be ashamed to put that on here. Nice Hickory though. Do you take it home as rounds or split it before it goes in the truck?

 

[farmer steve]

Not to break your ballz too much but, the hinge in your avitar is disgusting. I'd be ashamed to put that on here. Nice Hickory though. Do you take it home as rounds or split it before it goes in the truck?

so is your spelling. that started out as a good cut on a big dead ash in the middle of a big woods.someone decided to string wire on that tree years ago. i hit the wire part way through and couldn't do much about it. i didn't want to leave a 1/2 cut tree in the woods.i know it's not pretty but the tree came down safely. except for the one chain.

 

[Marshy]

so is your spelling. that started out as a good cut on a big dead ash in the middle of a big woods.someone decided to string wire on that tree years ago. i hit the wire part way through and couldn't do much about it. i didn't want to leave a 1/2 cut tree in the woods.i know it's not pretty but the tree came down safely. except for the one chain.

I never was a good speller.

Good thing I cut and split a lot better than I can spell.

 

[chucker]

I skidded this one home last night, on the streets. It was less than a mile, I only saw a few other cars.

? kinda like Shelby stenga. from "ax men" style hey!! "watch out for cars"!! ? "what cars(going even faster in the atv)" lol

 

[SCBBQ]

I went out after work this afternoon and scrounged up some more wood in the buffer lot by the pool. I pulled wood up by the access lane and took pics before I loaded. I only had about 45 minutes and daylight was running out quick. I cut some smalls from the last tree we took out the rest is small trees and limbs that damaged by the storm. I ended up with a little over half a pickup load of oak and about 1/4 pickup of pines that were down or leaning as well. I didn't get pics of pine that I will use in the fire pit. I think we can get about 1 more good load of oak from lot.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Here's an oak I skidded home, right down the road. lol

SR

 

[svk]

Here's an oak I skidded home, right down the road. lol

SR

Show off.

Lumber or firewood?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Firewood!

SR

 

[Ambull01]

How did you guys first learn how to ID wood? I seriously need to get up to speed quick.

 

[chucker]

O-J-T is the best teacher....with the help from them that knew their stuff!

 

[Ambull01]

O-J-T is the best teacher....with the help from them that knew their stuff!

that would be nice. Not an option however. I'll have to buy pocket guide or something.

 

[MustangMike]

I have a tree book, the internet can be good, but the best is having someone who knows with you when U encounter the various trees in UR area.

I still don't know all of them, but I know most of them.

They are a lot easier to ID when leaves are on them. Then U learn the bark and the look of the wood, and U go from there.

 

[troylee]

O-J-T is the best teacher....with the help from them that knew their stuff!

What is O-J-T?

 

[MustangMike]

On the Job Training!

 

[troylee]

gotcha

 

[3000 FPS]

I just moved to a new area about a year and half ago and I would ask some of the people who have lived here all their life about the trees. I looked up some on the Internet and learned some from this forum. You can also take a leaf or small branch to a nursery and see if they can identify it. So far I have learned the most common trees in this area.

 

[dancan]

I don't worry too much about what hardwood species when scrounging because they're all better than burning pallets . There's not that much variety up here , the only thing I'll separate out of my hardwood pile is popple which goes into the sppf pile .

 

[nomad_archer]

On the Job Training!

Thats about it. The more you cut and split the more you will learn. I can tell usually tell what is what by looking at the splits in the wood pile. Poplar, red oak, ash, maple they all have there own bark and grain pattern. The more you do it you will learn. I dont usually worry to much about hardwood species they all burn pretty good.