Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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stay warm square1, any pix of your windshield?...

TYVM! Staying out of the wind is huge. That's why the landing / splitting area got moved down into a swale a few years back. Single digits on a sunny day and I'm down to a sweatshirt over a wicking layer when working.

Built completely out of the angle iron from an old metal bed frame, a bit of left over aluminum sheet from a solar panel build, and the window from an old storm door. It might be warm enought this weekend to paint it blue! Even has a little dahboard area for coffee cup and wifi speaker

 

[Ryan A]

Drove past a home after taking the little one to art class this morning. They have been sitting around for a while.....no answer when I knocked on the door so I left a note.....

 

[KiwiBro]

What's the normal ratio of quality timber to square edged firewood when you're milling?

Am still working it out. Varies considerably. Big, quality log and small sized lumber = great recovery approaching 90ish%. Smaller log, bigger lumber, defects in the log = 50%.
Tension is a factor, especially in the saligna. Nobody wants to buy lumber when it comes off the log like this


Having Kermit, I do tend to mill some of the waste wood into smaller sizes to suit it than I would otherwise.

 

[Logger nate]

Mechanic friend was about out of wood for the shop he is renting, has burned 7 cords already. Ask if I had any wood available to sell, I said sure. And he offered to let me use his dump trailer Dug some scrounged red fir out of the snow and split it up, took a few pulls to get splitter going. Sure felt good to be out working up some wood again. Granddaughter here this weekend so we are watching chainsaw, logging and hunting youtube vidsHasn't been as cold here as what most of you have had, single digits at night 20’s during the day, 38 rain today, snow next 3 days. Few pics from this winter Pic my son sent me from Bozeman, wave clouds on top of the mountains

 

[rwoods]

Logger Nate,

Little granddaughters are a blessing. I have three - 2, 4 and 6. Watch videos of your choice with them puts it over the top.

Ron

 

[Logger nate]

Logger Nate,

Little granddaughters are a blessing. I have three - 2, 4 and 6. Watch videos of your choice with them puts it over the top.

Ron

Yes sir!

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Got the last nine rounds of nice oak split. Just those few pieces of rotty stuff I pulled out left to split. Not a lot of wood in them but what is will burn nice and hot.

 

[hamish]

Beautiful day, out firewood cruising

 

[LondonNeil]

Superb photos Nate, GD looks very interested in something...bottle being held behind the camera?

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Beautiful day, out firewood cruising

How old is that Ski-Doo?

 

[hamish]

How old is that Ski-Doo?

85 Tundra, we keep em alive up here, beats walking home or running Stihls.

 

[Logger nate]

Superb photos Nate, GD looks very interested in something...bottle being held behind the camera?

Thanks Neil. She’s looking at me of course

 

[woodchip rookie]

I need to start taking pics of the monster oak blowdowns on my gf's property. 40" oaks 80ft long layin on the ground. No way can I skid those out & even if I cut pieces off, getting the wagon full of oak out of there behind the quad will be challenging.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

I need to start taking pics of the monster oak blowdowns on my gf's property. 40" oaks 80ft long layin on the ground. No way can I skid those out & even if I cut pieces off, getting the wagon full of oak out of there behind the quad will be challenging.

Time to get some old iron or a compact. Skids pull well on snow. Be interesting to see if ya could pull and equal weight on runners. Bet it would surprise a few. Its amazing the huge saw logs my great gramps pulled with 2 horse team.

 

[MustangMike]

Had a cancellation today, so got to play with the 462 some more, just love it with a 20" bar.

Cut up some of the Black Walnut (pictured), and some Black Cherry (not pictured).

A neighbor with a the Black Cherry actually called to me when I was out there cutting up the Black Walnut.

Said if I cut it up, I could leave it there and get it in the Spring … Done!

 

[U&A]

Had a cancellation today, so got to play with the 462 some more, just love it with a 20" bar.

Cut up some of the Black Walnut (pictured), and some Black Cherry (not pictured).

A neighbor with a the Black Cherry actually called to me when I was out there cutting up the Black Walnut.

Said if I cut it up, I could leave it there and get it in the Spring … Done!

Nice looking saw!!

I have grown to not like burning black walnut to much. I mix in only one pc at a time now. It burns decent.

What about you? Ya fill the stove with it?


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[Deleted member 149229]

You guys burn “highly valuable black walnut?”

 

[U&A]

You guys burn “highly valuable black walnut?”

It has a little heat value .... [emoji1787]


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It has a little heat value .... [emoji1787]


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Similar to black cherry. I have some walnut but to me it stinks when burning.

 

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It has a little heat value .... [emoji1787]

I've sold a good amount of black walnut as firewood (limb wood, not highly valuable trunk wood ). It has a BTU rating close to white ash, and well above green ash & hackleberry of which people are very accepting, yet I've fielded comments similar to yours on black walnut. I kind of chalked it up to it doesn't stack tightly in storage (less pounds per cubic foot in the rack), or in the stove and has very thick (non btu laden) bark, characteristics which would mean shorter burn times. Does it really not produce heat? Have never burned it myself.
I've been told it has a beautiful greenish flame by fireplace users buring for ambiance rather than for heat. Maybe that's a better use.