Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Haywire]

you know the rules: pics of the tectonic social distancing or it didn't happen

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

My caribou stayed put. Good test.

 

[dancan]

Gotta cut a trail in, I saw a spruce!
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Go lad Go !!!!

Got booted again....

Stop parking in the Hipster coffee shop parking lot when you go over to that vacant lot to scrounge some spruce !

 

[dancan]

I was at costco tonight , I scored a pkg of tp

BTW , there was pallets and pallets of tp .

 

[Be Stihl]

Ok I have found another oak fall, it still has leaves on it and they are dried up. Must have fell awhile back as it is spring here and no leaves have grown. Anyway, I have been calling these bur oak, which is in the white oak family. Does that sound and look right?

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[chipper1]

I was at costco tonight , I scored a pkg of tp

BTW , there was pallets and pallets of tp .

Quick, everyone to Nova Scotia .

 

[svk]

What a cluster****. I swear every project I do takes more than expected.

I turned on the water in the guest house last weekend. First time I turned on the kitchen sink, the handle broke. No problem I’ll take the one from the house as the wife wants a new one in there.

Grab a new faucet for the house. Go to take off the old one. First thing I notice is it’s leaking profusely so it’s shot too. Then I can’t shut off the water to pull it out as the 38 year old shut off valves have hardened seals so they don’t shut off all the way.

So I get new shut off valves today. Shut off the main water and put them in tonight. Can’t get the old faucet off cause one of the nuts is so corroded that a wrench won’t loosen it without rounding the nut. Of course I don’t have a deep well socket in that size.

Secondly the metal drain pipe/trap assembly was so rusted that when I spun the wrench, it literally poked a hole through it. So now the whole damn works is inop till I can get back to the store tomorrow.

I shouldn’t ***** too much as my dad built this place in 1982 and we’ve had to replace very little.

 

[H-Ranch]

Cheers to my old friend, black walnut. Another load is cut and waiting also.

 

[svk]

Highly valuable load there!

 

[Ryan A]

View attachment 813053I've had people guess at better then 2 cord in the trunk alone and another in the top.

Do you have access to a mill for the trunk?

 

[H-Ranch]

Do you have access to a mill for the trunk?

I don't have a mill, though I do know a guy who built his own log size bandsaw that doesn't get used. I may check in with him to see if he wants to sell it. He's a bit of a mad scientist and I think he loses interest in projects once he's completed them.

Either way, the stuff I'm cutting right now is the tops left from neighbor's wood lot that was logged a few years ago. So all the trunks are gone. There is one huge black walnut node where several branches grew out of that I thought could be interesting.

I did count 18 black walnut on my lot that are over 12" so I could sacrifice a few if I fell into a deal...

 

[mountainguyed67]

there was a saying the Blokes liked to use regarding the general, sometimes under the table attitudes about... the rich Americans

" ...under worked, over paid, over sexed... and over here !"

Were you stationed in England during World War Two?

 

[mountainguyed67]

View attachment 813053I've had people guess at better then 2 cord in the trunk alone and another in the top.

Three feet across at the biggest?

 

[mountainguyed67]

I wouldn't want to haul a 12' section of that trunk on my trailer and I can haul a cord on it no problem.

I have two 12 foot lengths of roughly 32 inch diameter black oak, I calculated them at about 4,400 lbs each. I need to move them 4-1/2 miles to the sawmill. One of these days.

 

[KiwiBro]

I have two 12 foot lengths of roughly 32 inch diameter black oak, I calculated them at about 4,400 lbs each. I need to move them 4-1/2 miles to the sawmill. One of these days.

I own a Lucas portable circular swingbade mill. The dealer in USA (baileys) will have a list of owners/contractors in each area and they could put you onto them. Might be less hassle for you to just have a lucas mill owner come out and knock out lumber or slabs from those logs. No transporting of logs, nor lumber, and you get to keep the offcuts and waste wood for firewood.

Used my mill today to cut two posts into crazy angles to use as legs for my coffee table project. Very versatile mill.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I own a Lucas portable circular swingbade mill. The dealer in USA (baileys) will have a list of owners/contractors in each area and they could put you onto them. Might be less hassle for you to just have a lucas mill owner come out and knock out lumber or slabs from those logs. No transporting of logs, nor lumber, and you get to keep the offcuts and waste wood for firewood.

Sounds like it’ll be more expensive. Also, this guy gives me the option of paying him with a portion of the lumber. Wouldn’t hurt to look though.

 

[Ando81]

Did that saw have an air cooled Volkswagen engine on it?

 

[mountainguyed67]

Did that saw have an air cooled Volkswagen engine on it?

Yup. It‘s one of these.

http://www.mobilemfg.com/portable-sawmills.html

 

[Ando81]

Cool, those engines have a sound of their own. It’s an impressive saw.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Cool, those engines have a sound of their own. It’s an impressive saw.

It’s my video, it was impressive to see it in person. I have other videos too, but haven’t uploaded them.

This picture is from the guy that referred me, he bought lumber to replace the siding on a cabin.

 

[Cowboy254]

Went out to the farm again this morning. Might be the last chance for a while, we're meant to get rain the next 4 or 5 days, with snow on the hills Friday and Saturday. Might have an excuse to light the fire .

I loaded up the last of the previous peppermint log and chucked in the small stuff for firepit wood.



I then found that I had a problem accessing my next scrounge log.



Stop following me! I don't have any food!



I don't know much about goats. If I don't give them any food then turn my back on them will I end up with a set of horns up the butt? I was taking no chances and walked backwards to the ute and got in, contemplating my next move. I decided to drive to a different log that wasn't covered in goats.



This is also peppermint, and was from the same tree that the big hollow peppermint log that I cut up two weeks ago.



Limby did the work today and should have more than a Ranger load once I have it all split.





I split up some but then ran out of time. Besides the goats might come back at any moment …