Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

65F here

You'll be 20-30 degrees cooler tomorrow after the front passes thru.
Not sure how accurate that is, but I gotta have a "full jacket" on here now .

 

[MechanicMatt]

It’s sick warm here today, 58F. Tomorrow supposed to be 55F. Doesn’t feel like January, feels like April.

At first the older pup couldn’t have a thing to do with the little guy. But now they play like best buds.

For the spot near my house, I leave the trailer at home. It’s less than a half mile to my door.

I tried my best to emulate Dancan and set the running boards on the ground! My nephews truck has highway tread and with the soft ground I actually had to chain up to his truck and drag him to the pavement.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Just noticed I forgot the picture of the running board about an inch from scrubbing and a picture of the BIGGER nephew doing his thing. He gets pretty spoiled buy his step dad. That truck was in great shape when given to him and that 371 was damn minty when he passed it down to him. Lastly, (and thank God) he pulled some strings and got the boy in the union. Starts Monday! I told Christopher, keep your mouth shut and let them see how hard you can work not hear how hard you work!!

 

[JustJeff]

Right at freezing now. Ice is starting to build up on the trees. Scrounge!

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[Haywire]

My logging buddy hooked me up with a sweet pile of ends. Keep me busy for awhile.

 

[turnkey4099]

Moved about 1/2 cord wood from shed to porch yesterday and today. Tried to beat the snow storm we have coming in. In the past I would wait until I was about out on the porch then have to use thesnow blower to make a path around the back of the house to haul across (shed on wrong end of house). This year I decided to keep the porch near full (holds 4.75 clord when full). Snow started about noon and I should have enough in there to last until the snow goes away about early March.

My old Stanley type heatilator (shroud around firebox) is very inefficient so it takes around 7 cord a season.

Snow started about noon and soon turned into a blizzard. Only got about 4" of very heavy wet snow so it wasn't moving after hitting the ground but I still wound up with drifts across the drive. Looks like I'll be on the blower tomorrow to clear the drive. Then out to the pasture to make a path for the rider mower&cart so I can move big chunks to the splitter. I still have around 6 cord still to split/pile, just finished cord 10.

Saved from the snowblower...at a cost. Temp came up to above freezing overnight so I woke to 2" of saturated snow. No way would the blower move it. Shoveled it. Took two sessions and not pleasant as I was mostly just baling water - scoop toss...repeat. bad part was the lwo part of drive which collects a big water puddle so I was out there scooping soaking snow and ggetting shoes, socks, pantlegs soaked.

I sure did want to wait for it to melt but that was dubioous as we are in for some below zero temps tomorrow. If the ruts I put into it were to freeze I would be royally screwed trying to run blower the rest of the winter.

 

[JustJeff]

Ice starting to build up a bit. Hopefully it turns to snow.

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[Smacktooth]

Not scrounging for me, but as work exchange for my sons schoolin!

Last Sunday night a big oak, maybe 30” something dbh, fell across the driveway to my son’s preschool.

Teacher/owner forgot I was into firewood, and got her dad out there to cut it away from the road. Here’s how it was when I got there:

So I’ll be cutting it up into firewood as part of our work trade. She doesn’t have a woodstove yet but has been planning to get one, so maybe by the time this stuff seasoned she’ll have that together!
Got some done Thursday. It was a beautiful day, 50 and pure sunshine.

And a friend came out to practice some splittin.

saving the rest of the big stuff for the bigger toy that should arriving this coming week [emoji3060][emoji2956]



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[woodchip rookie]

You'll be 20-30 degrees cooler tomorrow after the front passes thru.
Not sure how accurate that is, but I gotta have a "full jacket" on here now .

When we passed through Charleston on the way to Roanoke from Cbus it was 82

 

[woodchip rookie]

My logging buddy hooked me up with a sweet pile of ends. Keep me busy for awhile.

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I swear I have seen that green truck in Baltimore, OH

 

[MustangMike]

That X-27 can likely split that straight grain oak faster than a splitter! I split a little Oak and Beech today.

 

[MustangMike]

Matt, you got 2 puppies plus the little one???

 

[svk]

-4 here. Other folks around had -35 this morning so we got off easy with -23.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Uncle Mike, One Puppy and one Jacque. Jacque is a Chihuahua mix that amazes me how smart he is. His skull isn’t big enough for how smart he is and how well he listens and behaves

 

[MechanicMatt]

My two boys, Jacque has been to the cabin twice and I can’t wait to bring Gunner!

 

[svk]

Well I spent the entire afternoon putzing around outside.

Started off by cleaning the chimney. The plastic bristle brush wasn’t as stiff as I’d like but it did knock quite a bit of crap out of the chimney.

 

[svk]

Then I messed around with saws for quite a while. Sharpened the chain on the 130 and put the new bucking spike on the 8500. Also (temporarily) put on the Tsumura bar.


These are ready to go. I’ll put them in the sauna when I’m through so they’ll be warm overnight.


Supposed to get to +17 tomorrow. With highs around 0 today it was a bit chilly for running saws.

 

[Haywire]

I like that Poulan.

 

[MechanicMatt]

She sure does look pretty with that bar on it Steve!

 

[JustJeff]

My two boys, Jacque has been to the cabin twice and I can’t wait to bring Gunner!View attachment 787644View attachment 787645

Your boy looks like my girl Ruby

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