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Last friday..I got dumb n decided to drop an ash....hot n humid.....well anyhow...here's my reward. Still waitin on the rain to quit so I can go out n get it split n stacked.....d@mn weather 
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Well I sold one of my bang sticks and picked this up on the way home.View attachment 674039
Go you good thing! Might need to upgrade the dawgs a little?
Yeah, and now you've got to update your signature with another saw!
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Spent some time splitting today. I never counted the logs for an exact number but I think somewhere around 150 logs that were 13'4" long and cut into 32" pieces so about 750 pcs. I stack 2 on top of each other and spent about 7 hours splitting this pile. Picture is taken from the roof top of my tractor. Works out to little over a minute per cycle, this includes moving the splitter, fueling up 3 times and dragging my old azz around. Pic was taken around 8 tonight and the sunset makes it look like it's already on fire. Picture is kind of distorted because I had to get on a bit of an angle to include everything. I start splitting at one side and the splitter will push itself around the pile but I do have to reposition it once in awhile if the walk gets too far. Works well. 
Went for a walk tonight. Down at the public boat landing someone had skidded an old chunk of virgin timber up on the side of the ramp. If I remember I’ll haul it home tomorrow night. About 12” diameter by 14’ long.
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Saw a documentary awhile back about guys that dive and salvage logs from the Great Lakes that sank during the great logging days. I guess the cold water and low O2 level in areas keeps the logs from rotting. I remember they took one log to a mill and took a test slice, it was bird’s eye maple, he got over $10,000 for that one log. Some of the logs they floated to the surface amazed me at the diameter size. I guess you get that with virgin timber.
Yup.
Around here it seems the loggers scrounged anything of decent diameter during the original log drives. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one larger than 16” in my life.
You can tell the really old logs (the loggers came through in the 19-teens) because the ends are rotted inwards versus fresher logs still are square cut. Sometimes you can even see how they were felled by axe.
Around here it seems the loggers scrounged anything of decent diameter during the original log drives. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one larger than 16” in my life.
You can tell the really old logs (the loggers came through in the 19-teens) because the ends are rotted inwards versus fresher logs still are square cut. Sometimes you can even see how they were felled by axe.
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Around here you can pick out the really old trees, not by their diameter but by the barb wire lines showing on the bark.
G'day troops, had a bit of scrounge action today 
. Had another recall notice on the POS Subaru, had to take it in to the dealer 100km away. On the way back there is a designated scrounge area of public land so if I really must take the Subaru in, I might as well bring the saws and trailer and stop in on the way home. The wood is a bit better in this area than I have back home. I've been out along this road before and got three nice loads of red box a while back. The road has deteriorated further and all the stuff close in has gone so I had to go a bit further, maybe a couple of km. Came across this on a small side track. Someone had had taken the top and put a cut on the left but must have got scared and ran away when it started to close up.
I could see there was a fair bit of weight at either end of the suspended sections and figured there would likely be a point where both ends would stay up. Put a few cuts in at round length intervals to find the spot.
There we go. Knocked a few ~30 inch rounds off and split them up (bigly). All Limby action today, no place for weenie saws here
. A bit of termite junk in the middle but plenty of good wood.
Not exactly sure what species this is since there are no leaves and much of the bark is gone. The colour in the photo below is a bit weird, dunno what happened there. There are some grey box and red gum around but this is neither. Not red box either and there were no peppermints there and the bark was wrong for that anyway. Maybe yellow box, the bark looks close. This is a yellow box area but I've never cut one. Definitely e.firewood.
I was a bit wary of getting stymied trying to get out so I didn't get too greedy trying to overload the trailer and I left a few bits for the next guy (didn't leave the saw though).
All loaded up.
A little over 1 cube of e.firewood aka mebbe yellow box.
Beautiful day today, best since before winter.
. Had another recall notice on the POS Subaru, had to take it in to the dealer 100km away. On the way back there is a designated scrounge area of public land so if I really must take the Subaru in, I might as well bring the saws and trailer and stop in on the way home. The wood is a bit better in this area than I have back home. I've been out along this road before and got three nice loads of red box a while back. The road has deteriorated further and all the stuff close in has gone so I had to go a bit further, maybe a couple of km. Came across this on a small side track. Someone had had taken the top and put a cut on the left but must have got scared and ran away when it started to close up.I could see there was a fair bit of weight at either end of the suspended sections and figured there would likely be a point where both ends would stay up. Put a few cuts in at round length intervals to find the spot.
There we go. Knocked a few ~30 inch rounds off and split them up (bigly). All Limby action today, no place for weenie saws here
. A bit of termite junk in the middle but plenty of good wood.Not exactly sure what species this is since there are no leaves and much of the bark is gone. The colour in the photo below is a bit weird, dunno what happened there. There are some grey box and red gum around but this is neither. Not red box either and there were no peppermints there and the bark was wrong for that anyway. Maybe yellow box, the bark looks close. This is a yellow box area but I've never cut one. Definitely e.firewood.
I was a bit wary of getting stymied trying to get out so I didn't get too greedy trying to overload the trailer and I left a few bits for the next guy (didn't leave the saw though).
All loaded up.
A little over 1 cube of e.firewood aka mebbe yellow box.
Beautiful day today, best since before winter.
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No place for weenie saws?!?! Thought I saw a creamsicle.G'day troops, had a bit of scrounge action today
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I could see there was a fair bit of weight at either end of the suspended sections and figured there would likely be a point where both ends would stay up. Put a few cuts in at round length intervals to find the spot.
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There we go. Knocked a few ~30 inch rounds off and split them up (bigly). All Limby action today, no place for weenie saws here
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Not exactly sure what species this is since there are no leaves and much of the bark is gone. The colour in the photo below is a bit weird, dunno what happened there. There are some grey box and red gum around but this is neither. Not red box either and there were no peppermints there and the bark was wrong for that anyway. Maybe yellow box, the bark looks close. This is a yellow box area but I've never cut one. Definitely e.firewood.
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I was a bit wary of getting stymied trying to get out so I didn't get too greedy trying to overload the trailer and I left a few bits for the next guy (didn't leave the saw though).
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All loaded up.
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A little over 1 cube of e.firewood aka mebbe yellow box.
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Beautiful day today, best since before winter.
No place for weenie saws?!?! Thought I saw a creamsicle.
That's funny stuff
.Seems the twist ratio managed to carry over for a while, just like a good oil thread
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I've delivered to the old checker plant quite a few times, as well as hauled a good amount of machinery/equipment and steel out of there. Not sure if the building is still standing or not now, been many yrs since I was on that side of kalamazoo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Motors_Corporation
Great picture Neil.
Sorry your dads not doing well, most of us here have dealt with that or will be
.Glad you where able to warm him for a bit
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I want it!
Noce haul bear.Last friday..I got dumb n decided to drop an ash....hot n humid.....well anyhow...here's my reward. Still waitin on the rain to quit so I can go out n get it split n stacked.....d@mn weather
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Looks like with the hurricane heading this way you better take any chance you can to get it done as you'll most likely see even more rain this week
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Very nice looking saw. New? Sure been happy with mine so far. I was trying to sell some bang sticks to fund mine too but no takers so ended up selling couple of saws. Not sure which is worse selling saws or guns, lol.Well I sold one of my bang sticks and picked this up on the way home.
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I had a 441 carb model. I liked the av but didn't care for the extra weight vs my old ms440. Still kicking myself for selling the 440.
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