Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

Had to Run my husqvarna to clear the main trail going in. Had a few blow downs.
Uncle Mike, there are a LOT more to clear on our trails, didn’t have the saw with me then, left it at your cabin. Had to do some “wild driving “ to get over or around those blow downs....

 

[mountainguyed67]

Swedish candle.

I‘ve seen enough fire travel underground to be afraid of doing that, I’d only do it with good snow cover. The whole root system will burn out, and it’ll transfer to other roots it touches. Just a couple weeks ago there was a burn pile in the National Forest that transferred underground to a down tree, and had burned ten plus feet of it. There was another sixty feet to go, I cut out a section to stop it. It would have got to brush and standing trees.

 

[Haywire]

I‘ve seen enough fire travel underground to be afraid of doing that, I’d only do it with good snow cover. The whole root system will burn out, and it’ll transfer to other roots it touches. Just a couple weeks ago there was a burn pile in the National Forest that transferred underground to a down tree, and had burned ten plus feet of it. There was another sixty feet to go, I cut out a section to stop it. It would have got to brush and standing trees.

This was just a block I set in my fire pit. It was no longer connected to it's underground anchors.

 

[mountainguyed67]

This was just a block I set in my fire pit. It was no longer connected to it's underground anchors.

Oh. Okay.

 

[MustangMike]

Glad you and the family had a good time up there Matt, wish I were not so busy!

Hey, the last pic in the first set that Matt posted has a pic of our 55 gal wood stove, and the inverted RR track holder I use as a warming plate for the coffee pot. (The one with the black dog)

I've been meaning to get a pic of that!

 

[Ryan A]

Best thing ever for this. Besides something with a motor anyway.


https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gorilla-Carts-6-cu-ft-Poly-Yard-Cart/1000065359

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Looks good, but for $130 I’d like to see if I can get it on sale or in the off season or clearance. My old beat up wheel barrow will have to suffice for now.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I use this wagon. Not ideal, but it works.

 

[JustJeff]

I've used a 2 wheel dolly or hand truck to wheel a stack of rounds out of a backyard that I couldn't drive into. Keeps the center of gravity low but not ideal on rough terrain.

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

nice scrounge the other day. kinda fell into my lap! bit over the 'carry in' level. but, alas... dint have to go far for it either right across the street. no splitting req'd. plenty to split if I want it. maybe. this headed to wood pile. kinda stoked at all that great firewood so close at hand... but common here. quite common. oak firewood falls like the leaves in fall!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

kinda happy at this lil scrounge, too. my 'new' scrounged Lil Chief smoker... I picked up 'off the curb'. neighbor was giving it away. on neighborhood BB. right place, rite time! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

after some study, reviews and an indepth cleaning... and patinaing pre-test. Alderwood. have to give it A+ marks. as a Pacific NW guy, I can say... talks the talk, walks the walk. popular unit and bigger one with Alaskans. smoking salmon.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

that Alderwood is great smoking wood for fish. a fresh plate of fresh, never frozen Atlantic salmon... melts in mouth! what an awesome flavor!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

took a lot of prep work to get Lil Chief ready for use. safe and sane use! and testing. finally got the hang of it... had a nice campfire going while sorting things out....

 

[Cowboy254]

I'm sure we all have our pre-scrounge routines. I will typically sharpen the chains the day before, fuel and oil up the saws and get them in the Ranger the night before. One of the other parts of my routine is to oil the outside of Limby, or so it would seem.



Anyway, all the boys were loaded up to check out the mystery meat log that Mitch had set aside for me.



Ah. Candlebark.



Three logs actually. Some of the checking on the ends was wide enough to slide the handle of the X27 in and continued a foot or two down the log.



I peeled the worst of the bark off and got to work. The Timberjack earned its keep today, I was able to roll the logs with it to a position where I could effectively sit on one long while cutting the next.



Pretty quick work to this point. Only Limby got a look in, today.

 

[Cowboy254]

Candlebark has an air-dry density of 740kg/m which is similar to sugar maple. Also burns very cleanly but you do want to knock the bark off it because it is thick and about 105% ash by weight.



Since the cutting had been so easy I figured I might as well split it onsite. It was splittable but it is harder going than some other eucalypts like peppermint. I started to slow down a bit once I was half way through but having started I wanted to finish.





Then loading up the ute and trailer when pretty knackered already wasn't much fun but got there eventually. A little under two cubes loaded and prolly another cube or so split and I'll hopefully pick that up on Tuesday.



So, had enough fun for one day but stihl a nice day out.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Looks good cowboy, I did some cutting and splitting today too, was feeling pretty out of shape in the splitting department probably due to the fact I haven’t swung the splitter for 6 months.
Excellent weather here was 14c most of yesterday, around 18 today.

 

[Cowboy254]

Yeah, I was feeling a bit out of condition, too. Who'd have thought that after sitting on your arse drinking beer all summer, you wouldn't be at your best for your first proper scrounge of the season?

 

[turnkey4099]

Funny how that idiot accomplished things with the economy in 3 years that all the smart guys (both parties) were unable to do for over 3 decades!

I'll take the idiot for another term!

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You are ignoring the fact that Obama had the economy in a nice recovery already when T took over. It did keep going when T took over

 

[mountainguyed67]

I haven’t swung the splitter for 6 months.

No hydraulic splitters in Australia?

 

[KiwiBro]

36 Hrs into this pour. Nearly there.