Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Ambull01]

This is an old pic but I split the half rounds in the top right today. Fiskars tore through them.

 

[Ambull01]

Finally got a pic of the poplar I've been slaving away at. Fiskars really tore this stuff up. I know poplar is sub par firewood but there's a lot of it, it's free, and right in my in-laws yard. They also have a log splitter, various motorized vehicles, mother in-law always makes me breakfast/lunch/snacks, etc. Too good to pass up.

 

[Ambull01]

The Fiskars and the start of my poplar pile. After swinging it for 4 hours, I really feel I could split all day long with it. Super light and really fast. Almost feels natural in my hands. I was alternating my rear hand (lefty and righty swings). I could never do that with a maul, I've tried.

 

[nomad_archer]

Nothing wrong with free poplar. Not the best wood but it will burn. Free and easy wood is good wood in my book. Sounds like this meets that criteria. Plus you are getting fed sounds like a win win situation to me. I have some poplar in my pile because it was easy and there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[mainewoods]

Wife used the splitter while I worked the Fiskars. Guess I looked like I was having a lot of fun because she walked over and wanted to try it.

Smart move acting like you enjoyed splittin' by hand. Tricked the wife into trying it and you got the splitter. You're learnin'!

 

[MustangMike]

Is there a huge difference with the snow tires? My car is RWD too. Very light weight on rear end, lots of torque and horsepower. In essence, really bad in snow. I can break the tail end loose on wet roads real easy.

My mustang is Super Charged and has 530 Hp, the Blizzak tires make a huge difference in the winter & in light snow, but U got to know how to drive in it.

 

[Ambull01]

Nothing wrong with free poplar. Not the best wood but it will burn. Free and easy wood is good wood in my book. Sounds like this meets that criteria. Plus you are getting fed sounds like a win win situation to me. I have some poplar in my pile because it was easy and there is nothing wrong with that.

After I'm done with this poplar, I think I'll try and restrict myself to pine and hardwoods. Love the smell of pine, really easy to split, sounds like it dries quick, and mainewoods just explained how I can use pine cones as fire starters. No one seems to want pine here so should be readily available and I can use it for mild temps plus help get the hardwoods started.

Smart move acting like you enjoyed splittin' by hand. Tricked the wife into trying it and you got the splitter. You're learnin'!

lol. Well I really was having fun. Haven't split in a while and missed it. No sore muscles today so loving the Fiskars even more. The kids wanted to swing the Fiskars too but I was a bit nervous about that. You ever read Tom Sawyer/Huckelberry Finn? I don't remember which one. Tom/Huck had to paint a fence so he pretended he was having a blast doing it. Soon he was able to charge the neighborhood kids to paint it for him.

 

[Ambull01]

Only had an hour to scrounge today. Worked my butt off for that hour though. Here's a pic of the roadside scrounge I've been talking about.

 

[Ambull01]

This is all I could get. Fiskars split this up pretty good.

 

[Ambull01]

In the van with the Fiskars looking at his spoils. Looking at this, I need to build something to put these rounds in. One may roll out the window.

 

[zogger]

In the van with the Fiskars looking at his spoils. Looking at this, I need to build something to put these rounds in. One may roll out the window.

Great scrounge! freebie by the side of the road and it sits there? Amazing!

You could maybe just lay in some scrap plywood all around, sides and back, might help with potential window busting. Add a screen mesh divider behind the driver seat, too, or more plywood there, some sort of at least almost functional "headache rack".

Of course as soon as you get a trailer and strap your loads down, that should fix all that plus haul more.

 

[3000 FPS]

Some good looking wood for free and along the road. I would be making time to get it all.

 

[svk]

Is there a huge difference with the snow tires? My car is RWD too. Very light weight on rear end, lots of torque and horsepower. In essence, really bad in snow. I can break the tail end loose on wet roads real easy.

HUGE difference going from high end z-rated tires to Blizzaks for snow travel.

 

[Ambull01]

Its been sitting there for a while, probably because there's no easy way to get it. You have to walk in and carry it all out. Great exercise. There's rounds like that along the whole road. Going to take a day off this week and do an eight hour scrounge

 

[svk]

Nice pics @Ambull01 looks like you will be easily a year ahead by the time 15' rolls around.

 

[dancan]

Ambull ........Looks very familiar LOL

I used a bed liner from a truck in my van , cut to fit and a piece of plywood as a divider .
Scrounge on !!!!

 

[dancan]

I was gonna go cut up the stems that I have roadside but I decided to cut up some of the stems that I already had home .
Cut and load the bota bucket .

The next year stack is growing .

 

[Ambull01]

Great scrounge! freebie by the side of the road and it sits there? Amazing!

You could maybe just lay in some scrap plywood all around, sides and back, might help with potential window busting. Add a screen mesh divider behind the driver seat, too, or more plywood there, some sort of at least almost functional "headache rack".

Of course as soon as you get a trailer and strap your loads down, that should fix all that plus haul more.

Pieces of plywood sounds like a good option. I was thinking I needed to secure the pieces together but all I need is a barrier to protect the windows. I still have the second row seats in there so nothing should be able to hit me.

Nice pics @Ambull01 looks like you will be easily a year ahead by the time 15' rolls around.

I hope so! Would be nice to get ahead and not worry.

Ambull ........Looks very familiar LOL

I used a bed liner from a truck in my van , cut to fit and a piece of plywood as a divider .
Scrounge on !!!!

lol I know. When I first saw your UTV loaded up with wood in this thread I thought, if he hauls firewood in a van I can too. I'll see if there's a junk yard or something to get a bed liner.

 

[cantoo]

Made a couple of skids up to hold 24" ash for the owb. A buddy borrowed my splitter for abit so I just cut up some smaller stuff. Plan to split anything over 7" dia at least in half. Wife complains if it's too heavy.

 

[Red97]

I'm not really scrounging its more of a scramble. Built and installed my owb last winter and could not get ahead with work and snow just got a wood shed put up 2 weeks ago I have about 1 face cord cut and stacked.

Here is my haul today, 3 limbs off of a giant hard wood,