Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[wudpirat]

That was a super scrounge, Didn't have to touch it, and a dump truck even

 

[svk]

Went Black Friday shopping. Scrounged up a pair of sneakers on sale for $25 and two bottles for pickled garlic for $2.99 each (that's damn near a "you suck" in my book).

 

[mainewoods]

How come there isn't any "black Friday" chainsaw sales?

 

[zogger]

How come there isn't any "black Friday" chainsaw sales?

vminnovations has some today. They do refurbs but people have had decent experiences with them if you are chainsaw savvy....just looked, depending on which grade of refurb, poulan pro pp5020av from 127 to 157, that's normally 200 bucks. They have five pages of saws and accessories today.

 

[svk]

Baileys has 25$ off $150 also.

 

[Philbert]

How come there isn't any "black Friday" chainsaw sales?

I saw a bunch.

Philbert

 

[NSMaple1]

My first-of-season goal I set for myself way back in the spring, of being two full years ahead in the put-up wood department by the time this winter set in & puts an end to my scrounging for the year, is going to come down to the wire over the next couple of weekends. Had a couple close calls the past couple weeks or so weather wise - hopefully I'll have a finish line shot to post before the year is over. If not, I guess it'll wait a year.

 

[dancan]

Gonna take a lot to shut me down during the winters attempt to do so ......

 

[NSMaple1]

I give myself the winter off from chasing wood. Too many other things going on, plus fighting the weather & short daylight = rest up time for next year. Of course, if it's an open winter and we get NO snow, that would likely change. Slogging through 3 or 4 feet of it though gets old in a hurry - for this old guy anyway.

 

[SteveSS]

I got a little time in on the saw today. This was a black oak trunk that had obviously dead for a while that I cut down and cleaned up. It had one pretty big limb that was still hanging on to life, so I figured there was bound to some good wood left on it. The pile doesn't look as big in the pics as it does in person and it sits close to 5 foot high at the center. As a bonus, I shoveled out two 15 gallon barrels full of really nice peat for my flowers and garden in the spring. This wasn't technically a scrounge since it was back on my own land, but hey...



Gratuitous product placement shot.



And this little gal was my helper. I was rather shocked to see her this late in November, but it was pretty warm today.

 

[mainewoods]

Just got 14" of wet heavy snow that stuck to everything. Not stopping me from twitching out more logs, but it doubled the difficulty factor. I shut down when we get around 3' cause it ain't fun anymore. Used to be, but being age challenged has started making it less enjoyable.

 

[mainewoods]

By the way, welcome SteveSS! I'm the guy that my island (almost) buddy warned you about.

 

[mainewoods]

Your land or someone else' land, it's still a scrounge in my book. That is a nice pile of wood, but it would look better without that creamsicle on top of it.

 

[SteveSS]

Haha....Yep. And it's probably going to sit there over night, (the wood, not the creamsicle) since my lower back is telling me that I done enough work today.

And thanks for the warm welcome as well. Nice to meet you.

 

[dancan]

I give myself the winter off from chasing wood. Too many other things going on, plus fighting the weather & short daylight = rest up time for next year. Of course, if it's an open winter and we get NO snow, that would likely change. Slogging through 3 or 4 feet of it though gets old in a hurry - for this old guy anyway.

4' of snow ...... I rarely get that buildup being so close to the Atlantic LOL
I forgot about how much a 2 hour drive inland changes things .
Last winter , all the scrounging I did was within 10 minutes from home and I never needed snowshoes even though it was a long drawn out winter with the repetitive snowfall events , the little bit of snow was perfect for me and my sled .
Watch me get shut down this winter

 

[dancan]

BTW , if I did a bunch of trenching I'd float this landmass down to the Barbados , then we could discuss porting AC units and what the best refrigerant ratio to mix was LOL

 

[cantoo]

I hauled home 2 wagon loads of logs tonight. Cursed and moaned the whole time, too wet where I'm cutting right now. The logs were so slippery they kept sliding off the forks. We're expecting some mild weather and it's going to turn to slop again so I thought I might get a couple more loads out. I should just stay out of that section of bush but too stubborn to stay out. Crappy weather coming so tomorrow I'm going to start working on another wood splitter.

 

[dancan]

Hey Ambull ! If you think I've got stuff , that Cantoo fella ........I can't keep up with LOL

 

[dancan]

Hmmmmmm , that scrounging thing , dancan ..... cantoo ..... not related , I swear LOL

 

[dancan]

How about this scrounge, was driving by with my 1997 fsuper duty dump truck and a tree service was cutting up a nice shagbark. He said I could have it, and dropped it right in my truck with a skid loader. Right place, right time.

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Notice how them tree service guys don't know how to cut wood at 16" or something that divides into something you like to cut so you can stack LOL