Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

wondering - are they still doing leaf stem carvings at those GTG's?...

Not so much the stems,

but maybe this is more what you meant.

 

[MustangMike]

Steve, you give that 462 a workout yet???

 

[James Miller]

You're gonna need a lightweight bar .

The 111s is an investment. What I can get it for is way under what it's worth. Probably come out for GTGs and maybe if I run into a tree that makes me go, i really could use a saw that will pull 40+inches of 404 and not break a sweat. The guy also has some old sand cast poulans.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Steve, you give that 462 a workout yet???

I don't think so. he is taking his time with it. run it, but maybe B/C not on it yet. or undecided. I am thinking he might go for a 28" bar??... well, I guess time will tell. nice saw, though! besides, he said he don't want to dirty it up... just yet. lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

down scale on the scrounging bar... picked this up Sunday... hand held and walked the trailer down the street, and had my lil dog with me, too... he came to help. 7 min walk and we had these pieces. some pecan in there, mite smoke up some ribs with it. maybe some chicken if I get a warm day. going to cut it up with my newly upgraded 40-yr old e-saw!

pretty happy with this 'just walk it in' load of oak/pecan. you know my motto: 'no wood, no fire!'

that bigger pce of oak just fell out of the tree. good sized oak tree. lying right next to the road... I snagged it the next morning as it was getting late the evening I first spied it. got no objections... lol ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

and this pile of sweet cedar fencing came in as a scrounge from you know who! what a gal!! ~

will make another nice tub or two of cedar kindling. 1/2" square or so, 8-10" long. I have pine twigs for kindling, lots. some small oak. but imo... nothing is quite as nice as dry cedar kindling to get a fire going.

soon to be processed:

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Not so much the stems,
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but maybe this is more what you meant.

thanks chipper - I like carrots, and I like that vid, too. will be making some carrot leaves soon. I can see many applications for them...

 

[farmer steve]

Steve, you give that 462 a workout yet???

Not a workout but had a few big mulberry rounds that i noodled yesterday. worth every penny. now i gotsta find me some big trees.

 

[KiwiBro]

For giggles, I measured the slope red dragon came from. A smidge over 50 degrees.

The chute before it kicks up at the top is 36 degrees.

Got over 900’ of 1x4 from the butt log. There were three logs from red dragon. I milled the third, highest log also but it suffered too much trauma on impact and had 4” hairline stress cracks across the grain, so a bit of a write off. I hope the second log, which I haven't opened up yet, didn't suffer the same fate.

Have just retired my 32” tsumura bar bc the groove is too worn out. Clutch cover on dolly cracked also. Discovered one of the spare blades I bought with the mill is a basket case and I suspect beyond rehabilitation so will need to buy another blade. Been an expensive week or so.

 

[KiwiBro]

Spent a bit of time burning up some 2 stroke. 60 logs 13'4" and cut to 32" for my owb, about 300 rounds. 160 logs 13'4" cut to 16" to sell, about 1600 rounds. The 16" ones I cut last weekend are buried under the snow.

My back and wrists are sore. ​

How come the piles look so small in pictures?

Also cut a load of trees down to plant a seed for the next batch of logs in my yard. Now that these logs are all cut up I can leave the rounds sit until it's wet out or warmer to split them, don't need them until next fall. I can spend the rest of the winter in the bush cutting down trees and hauling home to stack up. It's going to look full in my yard soon my buddy is also going to start hauling logs to my place to store them. I have a bunch of rotten poplar logs to use as bunks to keep everything off the ground. ​

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Slick operation cantoo. Are you forking the logs off trailer onto the bunks then bucking them straight from that?

 

[James Miller]

Not a workout but had a few big mulberry rounds that i noodled yesterday. worth every penny. now i gotsta find me some big trees.

We should pick a day and get the big one by the pond.

 

[farmer steve]

We should pick a day and get the big one by the pond.

Might check out how wet is is down there today. Been a sloppy mess just about everywhere . Big ash tree across the street where we cut the other year.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Put the first wagon load of splits in the shed for next winter. Took a minute to get the splitter going. It was cold and the gas is from last year. I'll burn off whats in the tank then drag the splitter to the gas station with a gas can and fill them both up. I'll try to split one wagon worth on work days then hit it hard on my days off if its not raining.

 

[panolo]

Jealous of you guys. -16 this am with another 6-8" of snow coming tonight and than another 6-8" this weekend. It doesn't blow hard enough to clear off many areas and stuff just don't seem to run that nice under 10 degrees. Gonna be a month until I can get out there and have any fun.

 

[bigfellascott]

I like the dead standing or on the ground if it's not rotting. Here's some hard maple/sugar maple I burned last night since we were talking about it.
Pretty sure the sugar maple and the peppermint are both "sweet" burning woods .
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Nice Chipper - what sort of burn times do you get out of a piece of it?

 

[bigfellascott]

Jealous of you guys. -16 this am with another 6-8" of snow coming tonight and than another 6-8" this weekend. It doesn't blow hard enough to clear off many areas and stuff just don't seem to run that nice under 10 degrees. Gonna be a month until I can get out there and have any fun.

I don't know how you can live in a place like that, I don't mind a bit of snow but I'm lucky as it usually only lasts a day or so once it falls and we only usually have 3 or 4 falls a year and most of the time they are only 3-4" but occasionally we get 15" but not often. Nice to look at but don't want to have to live in it 24/7 if I can help it.

 

[chipper1]

Nice Chipper - what sort of burn times do you get out of a piece of it?

I don't know how long one piece of any wood burns because I normally put at least 3-4 in at a time. When I'm burning coals I'll set a piece on top and leave the damper wide open, a nice chunk of hard maple will last an hr like that and then there will be nice coals left from it. Outside temperature will change the duration of a burn in my stove dramatically. On a warmer day(few degrees Celsius) I can leave the house in the morning around 5am with a good fire going and I will have lots of large coals at 5 that evening, when it's down below zero I may get 4-6 hrs before its at the same stage.

 

[rarefish383]

View attachment 716564Theres a good chance one of these shows up shortly. It's only 40cc bigger then the 7910.

Wow, you'll have me out CC'ed. I think I had 3 saws that were over 100CC's and sold them all. I thought I had a 130CC David Bradley a couple weeks ago, but when I picked it up it was one of the little 77CC models.

 

[chipper1]

thanks chipper - I like carrots, and I like that vid, too. will be making some carrot leaves soon. I can see many applications for them...

I thought you may benefit from that BL .
Make sure you get us some pictures when you try it tonight .

 

[James Miller]

Wow, you'll have me out CC'ed. I think I had 3 saws that were over 100CC's and sold them all. I thought I had a 130CC David Bradley a couple weeks ago, but when I picked it up it was one of the little 77CC models.

I've been working on getting the 111 for awhile now. I thought about the 1050 you mentioned but had given my word if the saw was still for sale when tax returns came back I'll take it. Doesn't everyone need a 6 cube saw in there collection?