Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JustJeff]

While I’d like to say I lumberjacked it into the woods dragging a sleigh, I bought this at a lot I did however, cut a cookie (a Christmas cookie) off the bottom with the junkyard homelite. So do I get my man card back? Lol. I find they suck up water better with a fresh cut.

 

[farmer steve]

Thanks for sharing your wood story!

I feel your pain. The bottom of our stove door is almost exactly the same as the height from the floor as the door opening itself. So if I put a big bit in front of the stove and it just blocks the door from opening, I know I'm probably going to be carrying it outside again to take half an inch off it. Annoying when that happens.

WHAT???? A Cowboy post without pics.

 

[dancan]

Nuthin here to see folks , move along ...

 

[farmer steve]

Nuthin here to see folks , move along ...

Your right. Don't wanna see that white crap.

 

[rwoods]

Today's cutting:

15 of these:


And this:


Ron

 

[KiwiBro]

couldn't slab that? But I guess a table doesn't provide heat for those that need it.

 

[dancan]

Your right. Don't wanna see that white crap.

It was green grass here 2 days ago lol
This afternoon the wife said "You should go to the pit and get a load of wood " I'm pretty sure the truck started itself before I said "OK" lol

I split up a load of Juniper that we cut several years ago .
Feck I hate knots when I hand split .

Even busted muh favorite splitter

 

[James Miller]

Your right. Don't wanna see that white crap.

Theres good money to be made dealing with white powder.

 

[rwoods]

couldn't slab that? But I guess a table doesn't provide heat for those that need it.

I hated cutting up the straight portion of the trunk for firewood. It was the a little over 12’, 55” on the big end and 48” on the little end, but I don’t have a mill. None of the sawmills around here will take something that big; also too big for the guys with the potable mills. The power company left a good two feet on the stump. Potential was there for a 14 foot straight saw log or a possible veneer log. If there were a market we could do a lot more good if it was turned to cash.

Ron

 

[dancan]

I got a small load , wood for the week so I won't have to touch what I have here at home , I hate burning fresh wood

Was 34F yesterday , 9F now , stay warm my friends !

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Glad 90% of my wood is oak, 18* tonight. Ground is finally forming up but the downside is 50* and rain Friday.

 

[crowbuster]

same carp here. My buddy still has corn and beans to harvest. He' not the only one either.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

same carp here. My buddy still has corn and beans to harvest. He' not the only one either.

I would say around at least 50% of corn and soybean is still up.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Neighbors behind too. Has just under 400 acres of beans out. Snows just gotta shrink a little and he could take em. Had a massive repair job to get his combine up again. (Shoe pan, fan, fan housing top and bottom). Musta had to wait for finances to do it. Cause it sat all summer. Then of course all the bearings and crap that needs patching as ya go. Finished but this is the same combine that left him sitting last year so... Who knows.

Bad year for him sprayed late weeds really went nuts. Stupid water hemp and ragweed that's roundup resistant. Guys with fields next to his spray over a bit to try and keep his weeds at bay!

 

[cantoo]

Got the electric motor off and the gaser installed on the conveyor and working good. Princess Auto engine and clutch. Built a plywood box to cover it and put it back in the field until next spring. Next on the list is the dump trailer I bought at an auction last summer. Want to build a toolbox on the hitch and install a pump in it for the hoist. I might build a sub frame under it to raise it up high enough to dump onto my splitter table too. The Japa processor is still on the tractor so maybe I should do it first.

 

[H-Ranch]

From the neighbor's house @Cowboy254 style (my driveway is upper left in photo #1). They had a couple trees pushed over with a bulldozer for construction prep. This was a dead ash. An apple and a multi-stem maple still to pick up. 10year old daughter helped load and wanted to build a "wall" across the back of the trailer so I let her. That's the free for nothing trailer I got off Craigslist a few years ago.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

From the neighbor's house @Cowboy254 style (my driveway is upper left in photo #1). They had a couple trees pushed over with a bulldozer for construction prep. This was a dead ash. An apple and a multi-stem maple still to pick up. 10year old daughter helped load and wanted to build a "wall" across the back of the trailer so I let her. That's the free for nothing trailer I got off Craigslist a few years ago.View attachment 689102
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Tell your daughter that’s a very nice stockade fence.

 

[Jeffkrib]

I got a small load , wood for the week so I won't have to touch what I have here at home , I hate burning fresh wood

Was 34F yesterday , 9F now , stay warm my friends !

Dancan When you stay ‘stay warm’ .... how warm is good? 33c where I am

 

[Cowboy254]

WHAT???? A Cowboy post without pics.

Sorry FS, I forget myself.

It was green grass here 2 days ago lol
This afternoon the wife said "You should go to the pit and get a load of wood " I'm pretty sure the truck started itself before I said "OK" lol

I split up a load of Juniper that we cut several years ago .
Feck I hate knots when I hand split .

Even busted muh favorite splitter

The English oak I picked up earlier this year was like that too. The unbranchy bits split like a dream but where there was even a small branch that grows out from the centre, it was a pain.

From the neighbor's house @Cowboy254 style (my driveway is upper left in photo #1). They had a couple trees pushed over with a bulldozer for construction prep. This was a dead ash. An apple and a multi-stem maple still to pick up. 10year old daughter helped load and wanted to build a "wall" across the back of the trailer so I let her. That's the free for nothing trailer I got off Craigslist a few years ago.View attachment 689102
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Almost looks like a sneaky stick or two of cherry, looking at the bark. Or is that something else?

I've decided that neighbour scrounges are the best scrounges.

 

[dancan]

Jeffkrib , looks like I'd be living on that southern tip lol
5F here this morning , weather guessers said it would go down to 10F