Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

3” of rain and light hail overnight. No damage except to my screen tent which is going in the garbage anyhow after the third hatch of mosquitoes finally goes away.

Going to be 80 here today so I don’t know how much work I’ll get done. Better weather is on its way soon.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Hey Rob!!! This is the cool kids thread. cars,guns,whiskey,maple syrup and some times firewood and chainsaws. Mini GTG here on the hill around the 2nd or 3rd saturday of Novembrrrrrr.

Remind me!!!

 

[Stihl 041S]

Hey Unka Rob !!!

Don’t worry.
I’ve said NOTHING about The Incident........

 

[dancan]

Lol! Yeah I wish, I don’t really do much heavy lifting. I know where a nice red fir is that’s over 4’ across that I found last fall hunting, lots of wood there but think I’ll wait till my son can help me with it, he’s the heavy lifterView attachment 674970

Lol, my buddy Scott is the Sasquatch View attachment 675074
55” red fir, 15 blocks was 2 cords. Even he had to half/ quarter them to load. Not like your guys hard wood but still pretty heavy.

Every one needs a Donk !
I got's no Donk

Hey Cowboy , tap the elbow in the right spot and wow ...
Some days no pain in flexing in and out , now it hurts but there are times where it sucks .
Don't move it , no pain .
Left handed beer drinking if done slowly doesn't hurt lol

 

[dancan]

But at least Samsquish is my friend lol

 

[dancan]

Here's a rehash of Samsquish pics .
The 80's and skeeters will be over soon , new pics will be coming for sure

 

[muddstopper]

Lastest scrounge.

These trees where cut by clearing crews for the power company. 2 or 3 of those trees are close to 50-60ft long. White oak, red oak and a mystery tree I thought was a beech, but looking at it up close I aint sure. All firewood. I used my homemade skidding winch behind a tractor to get the trees out of the woods and onto the road and then just skidded them down the main hiway to my house. Broke the amsteel rope twice right in the middle of the road and on the last tree, I bent the safety hook rendering it useless. I have ordered a couple of tube type thimbles to install in the rope and hope that will prevent the hook from cutting the rope.

While I was getting the trees, I had to set halfway in the hyway with the tractor loader. I had a flagger directing traffic but I had one guy just about pizz me off. He stopped directly in front of the tractor blocking the road and almost in contact with the loader bucket. I started yelling at my flagger to tell him to get out of the way, I was winching off a steep bank and I wanted to pull up incase the tree took off down the bank and hit the tractor. He had me trapped in a bad spot because I had already winched the tree to the edge of the drop off and I really needed to move the tractor. After yelling some more for him to move he finally figured out I needed him to move and lurched ahead and then pulled off the side of the road getting out of the car. The worse went thru my mind but I pulled up and went back to winching as he walked up to the tractor. He started telling me about some trees the power company had cut across the road that was on his property, I told him I knew about them and was told I couldnt get them. On no he says. I want you to get them. They will just lay there until they rot and I was the only person he knew that could get them out. I guess he was referring to the winch. Of course, I will be glad to get the trees. I drove up his driveway yesterday to talk to him about the trees, just to make sure we where on the same page about me taking the wood, and on the side of his drive, just out of sight from the road, is a huge white oak that was cut down and left. I estimate probably 2 full cords of wood and I can drive right up to it. He wasnt home when I went to visit, but I am hopeing he wants that tree gone too. I also am willing to bet I break my winch rope again dragging that tree home.

 

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Great score.

 

[svk]

Bucked/pitched brush for a couple hours this afternoon. Both of my secondary driveways are now (finally) open except for the bucked rounds that are laid on the trail from the 5 trees that fell in the July storms. I’ll back the truck up to them and load them up tomorrow night.

4218 needed complete retune today but running better again. I really don’t get that saw but it’s running better than it has.

 

[svk]

I don’t think it hit 80 but was pretty warm. We also had extreme winds today. Wife and boys went to town and had three trees over the road that the older boys (ages 12 and 13) were able to tag team and drag out of the way.

That damn mosquitoes are STILL thick. I had to resort to the screen tent as soon as I got done cooking dinner.

 

[JustJeff]

That’s a great scrounge. I’m jealous, I haven’t cut, split or otherwise touched any wood practically all summer. It’s been such an ungodly hot year, I just haven’t had enough want to. That and I have a pretty good stash. Cooler days on the way and I predict a very colorful fall. Some trees are changing already

 

[cantoo]

Heat be damned this afternoon I split the last of the 32" rounds I had cut up already. My wife asked if anything needed to be done this week while I'm away. I told her I couldn't think of anything and then I showed her this picture. I really wish I didn't criticize the way she stacked the crates last year. I doubt that she is going to stack any wood especially after I told her I'm not going to no damn wedding next weekend, I've been trying to get out of it for months and she is finally listening. Looks like a bachelor weekend coming up for me. Those crates are 4'x4' and the splits are 32" long, it's a pretty fair jag of wood. If I was from Texas I would say maybe 100 loads in a pickup? Also delivered a small load of ash to a buddy because his supplier is way behind. 12' trailer and 13'-4" logs.

 

[tdiguy]

I didn't know this thread was here... Scrounging is where most of my wood comes from. Luckily, a buddy of mine has an excavating company. His dad just piled it up and burned it, saving the customers on equipment time. Thanks to him, and some of his customers, it will take me a few years to burn what i have gotten cut this summer!

 

[farmer steve]

I didn't know this thread was here... Scrounging is where most of my wood comes from. Luckily, a buddy of mine has an excavating company. His dad just piled it up and burned it, saving the customers on equipment time. Thanks to him, and some of his customers, it will take me a few years to burn what i have gotten cut this summer!

glad you found us. just so you know!!!!!

 

[LondonNeil]

Lastest scrounge. View attachment 675319

These trees where cut by clearing crews for the power company. 2 or 3 of those trees are close to 50-60ft long. White oak, red oak and a mystery tree I thought was a beech, but looking at it up close I aint sure. All firewood. I used my homemade skidding winch behind a tractor to get the trees out of the woods and onto the road and then just skidded them down the main hiway to my house. Broke the amsteel rope twice right in the middle of the road and on the last tree, I bent the safety hook rendering it useless. I have ordered a couple of tube type thimbles to install in the rope and hope that will prevent the hook from cutting the rope.

While I was getting the trees, I had to set halfway in the hyway with the tractor loader. I had a flagger directing traffic but I had one guy just about pizz me off. He stopped directly in front of the tractor blocking the road and almost in contact with the loader bucket. I started yelling at my flagger to tell him to get out of the way, I was winching off a steep bank and I wanted to pull up incase the tree took off down the bank and hit the tractor. He had me trapped in a bad spot because I had already winched the tree to the edge of the drop off and I really needed to move the tractor. After yelling some more for him to move he finally figured out I needed him to move and lurched ahead and then pulled off the side of the road getting out of the car. The worse went thru my mind but I pulled up and went back to winching as he walked up to the tractor. He started telling me about some trees the power company had cut across the road that was on his property, I told him I knew about them and was told I couldnt get them. On no he says. I want you to get them. They will just lay there until they rot and I was the only person he knew that could get them out. I guess he was referring to the winch. Of course, I will be glad to get the trees. I drove up his driveway yesterday to talk to him about the trees, just to make sure we where on the same page about me taking the wood, and on the side of his drive, just out of sight from the road, is a huge white oak that was cut down and left. I estimate probably 2 full cords of wood and I can drive right up to it. He wasnt home when I went to visit, but I am hopeing he wants that tree gone too. I also am willing to bet I break my winch rope again dragging that tree home.

nice score there muddy, will it all be firewood? if so, would it not have been easier to drag to roadside then buck to something like 8' lengths to load a trailer or tractor bucket? i mean, do what works for you, i'm just trying to understand why you skidded so far when it sounds a bit tricky.

 

[muddstopper]

This wood was on the side of a main road. To buck and split there would have been out of the question, just to much traffic. I had to wait most of the summer to get the wood because I couldnt round up enough people to flag the traffic. It took about 15 min to make a turn, except when I broke the rope. I seldom buck wood on site since I usually scrounge trees that someone else is cutting down and they usually have equipment on site to load with. I will buck into 10ft logs and load on my dump trailer using a excavator or loader and haul home and dump. I can haul a lot of wood home and process later in the time it will take to buck, split and load and then unload one load and get home with it.. Plus skidding and hauling logs means I have to handle the wood a lot less. All the wood piled up behind those logs I skidded home in tree lenght and bucked when home. I just take the tractor and push the rounds into piles until I find time to split. Just and example of how I load and haul logs.

 

[rarefish383]

Went up to the hunting camp over the weekend, to mow my 7 acre field. Rained too hard to mow, so went to an auction instead. Brought this one home, Savage Model 1899H, Saddle Ring Carbine in 30-30. Made in 1912.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Went up to the hunting camp over the weekend, to mow my 7 acre field. Rained too hard to mow, so went to an auction instead. Brought this one home, Savage Model 1899H, Saddle Ring Carbine in 30-30. Made in 1912.

Nice score.
Do some research on that before you start running modern factory ammo through that. The bolt on those locks at the rear. It's not nearly as strong as the more cloned/imitated Mauser bolt with the front locking lugs.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Went up to the hunting camp over the weekend, to mow my 7 acre field. Rained too hard to mow, so went to an auction instead. Brought this one home, Savage Model 1899H, Saddle Ring Carbine in 30-30. Made in 1912.

Very fine......Marbles sights?

 

[Stihl 041S]

Nice score.
Do some research on that before you start running modern factory ammo through that. The bolt on those locks at the rear. It's not nearly as strong as the more cloned/imitated Mauser bolt with the front locking lugs.

The 30-30 isn’t loaded hot......
And the 99 is fine with pressure.... chambered in 308.........
They are slick rifles.
You can use Pointy Bullets