Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Deleted member 149229]

Before Florence-View attachment 677247After Florence View attachment 677248

That sucks. That was a lot of work.

 

[Cowboy254]

Found the woodpile here. View attachment 677249View attachment 677251View attachment 677250

Dammit. How much of did you lose altogether?

 

[Buckshot00]

Prolly 2 cords of ash. I'm retrieving it from the woods and drying it out.

 

[svk]

Oh man, that sucks!

 

[svk]

I don’t normally cut spruce but this little tree suffered a broken top in a snow storm over the past couple of years and wasn’t going to amount to much so I took it down.

Lots of sap in the trunk, should burn nice.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Prolly 2 cords of ash. I'm retrieving it from the woods and drying it out.

damn that sucks bad

 

[woodchip rookie]

Are there any climbers in this thread? I know there's climbing forums/threads but this is a good group.

 

[Cowboy254]

Prolly 2 cords of ash. I'm retrieving it from the woods and drying it out.

@KiwiBro recommends dumping your wood in the river to help it dry out faster (I guess you'd need some way of stopping it getting washed away). I can imagine how that might work by leaching out and diluting the woody moisture with more evaporable water perhaps. It might end up being the driest ash you've ever burned.

I hope you can retrieve most of it.

 

[Philbert]

@KiwiBroIt might end up being the driest ash you've ever burned.

(All fire wood ends up as dry ash).

Philbert

 

[chipper1]

Prolly 2 cords of ash. I'm retrieving it from the woods and drying it out.

Glad you found your wood BS.
Hope your getting everything else pieced back together too.

 

[chipper1]

Cough , cough ...

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?...at=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_osacat=0&_odkw=griphoist

I was thinking, that's when you need a skidding winch, but that will work too .

Today I decided to tackle a cherry lead that had been needing to come down for a while now. It had a branch that was half rotten and curved back and went through the crotch of a black locust, and it was pretty jammed in there. I've been wanting to climb it and drop the top of that branch above the crotch and then cut the other side and fell it. Well I didn't have an adult around so I just dropped it with a little help from the Japanese felling device(the Kubota). Ends up that I was able to pull it right through the crotch with the angle I dropped it, unfortunately it hung up in a small cluster go black locust. I blame @Cowboy254 for this as when I saw his picture I thought just pull it down if it doesn't come out . Well guess what I got to do today, that's right, just pull it down. As luck would have it the skidding winch was not on my tractor and there wouldn't be time to hook it up, got to keep things moving and I have ropes as well as a pulley .
I even ran limby today, you can see him in a few of the pictures .
Theres more pictures of the whole process in the link, quite a few pictures of how I cut without a mishap other than it hanging up which I knew was a possibility and wasn't really an issue to me.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wZP3T1kKPJfg6KREA

Here's the pull with the pulley, thanks full I have the tools I do .

Look there's limby.

 

[Circle B MN]

Current situation
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Doh! They had said there was a chance of that for the northern part of the state.

 

[svk]

Doh! They had said there was a chance of that for the northern part of the state.

I didn’t check the temp but it is well below freezing right now. Luckily that sleet was all we got.

 

[MustangMike]

Re: bar length on a 550 - Likely depends a lot on what wood you are cutting, what is good in soft wood may not be good in Hard Maple!

Re: Cowboy's tree - Be carful, assess the likely direction of fall, try to stay on the safe side, and always be alert. Start cutting from the bottom (use some wedges so you don't pinch a bar), and see if the weight of it will bring it down. If it is free hanging, then cut the trunk, and you may want to tie it off. Just remember the extra stuff, and be careful.

 

[MustangMike]

We had one cold day a few days ago, high 40s and low 50s all day, the heat went on. Next day, over 70!!!

 

[Circle B MN]

I didn’t check the temp but it is well below freezing right now. Luckily that sleet was all we got.

I got 28 degree here at the house. Finish off this coffee and get my butt out to the woodpile. Should be a nice one.

 

[Buckshot00]

(All fire wood ends up as dry ash).

Philbert

Good one.

 

[aheeejd]

Are you using 3/8 or .325? Also if you did a muffler mod and timing advance that would really sling a 20" nicely.

Using .325. I'll have to look into those mods. Thanks.

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[aheeejd]

It happens sometimes. Just bad luck, I guess .



Hot and humid, urk. Hard to get motivated to do firewood in those conditions. What's the wood you've got up there?

That is a sugar maple. When it was cut it gushed sap. I'd never really seen anything like it. Allot of sap came out

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[2412]

I looked at a new Central Boiler OWB yesterday. I was on my way to pick up the last load from this 36” silver maple that I cut last week. It was leaning toward the road. I cut off two large limbs that were on the road side, and I still had to pull it over with a rope.

I’m undecided on the OWB. It’s between spending the 12+K to heat the house and machine shed, or 2K for a Drolet furnace just for the shed.