Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[rarefish383]

The ones from Bishop in this add say they have pole gaffs. Make sure you get tree gaffs, they are a little longer to go through bark. Last thing you want is to have your hooks kick out on you 60-80 feet up. First instinct is to bear hug the tree and slide all the way down. It'll take a month to pick all the little pieces of skin off the bark and try to stick them back in place. I know you've been talking about climbing for a good while, don't know what kind of training you've gotten? A little advice, when you are spiking up a tree, keep enough slack in your flip line so that your palms can comfortably touch the trunk in front of you, not wrapped around to the back of the tree, keep your butt back in the saddle, knees away from the tree. That throws your weight onto you gaffs, and pushes them into the tree. If you get your knees up against the tree, and body straight up and down, that makes the angle of the gaffs kick out from the bark/tree. On a tree of any size, it will be the inside of your foot against the tree, toes pointing out, heels in.

 

[KiwiBro]

Thanks for that info Joe. I have zero training, still getting the gear together, read a manual over this lockdown and keen to do some practical learning. Not looking to do anything but take down a few hazard (only just - not full on stuff) trees from time to time. That Bishop stuff looks like the bees knees, thanks, but not sure I can afford that sort of $ unfortunately, but it's given me some good clues about what to look for, so thanks very much for that.

 

[woodchip rookie]

And dont climb trees with spikes that you dont intend on taking down.

 

[mountainguyed67]

And dont climb trees with spikes that you dont intend on taking down.

I know the power company did this, to replace the old power lines. That was mid to late nineties, now because of what happened in Paradise, they’re installing poles.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I stopped getting emails when someone posts, as of yesterday. Not just this thread, about 2-3 other threads. I didn’t even go into settings. I don’t know what happened, I’ll just have to check back now and then.

 

[MustangMike]

I was pleased with my couple of hours of wood cutting today despite a couple of set backs.

My Asian 440 Big Bore was doing great … till I hit a nail! No way to see it, was deep in the round and must have been about 10' off the ground, no idea how it may have got there. The lot has always been vacant and it is about 50 ft from the border where you may expect such things.

Luckily I always bring backup, so my MMWS 462 got the call to finish up the work!

The second problem … I put air in the wheelbarrow tire, thought is was just low due to sitting for the whole winter, but the air did not hold. It is only a small little hill to the road, but if you put too much wood in it your feet were kicking out black dirt instead of you going forward, so I had to take a bunch of smaller loads.

That said, I pulled out a 1/2 cord of nice solid Ash for my Daughter, and there is still more left. It was good to get outside and run the saws and do some work! I need to start getting back in shape.

 

[Logger nate]

Or a 394, not even sure yet lol.

You going to convert it to side tensioner?

 

[Logger nate]

I was pleased with my couple of hours of wood cutting today despite a couple of set backs.

My Asian 440 Big Bore was doing great … till I hit a nail! No way to see it, was deep in the round and must have been about 10' off the ground, no idea how it may have got there. The lot has always been vacant and it is about 50 ft from the border where you may expect such things.

Luckily I always bring backup, so my MMWS 462 got the call to finish up the work!

The second problem … I put air in the wheelbarrow tire, thought is was just low due to sitting for the whole winter, but the air did not hold. It is only a small little hill to the road, but if you put too much wood in it your feet were kicking out black dirt instead of you going forward, so I had to take a bunch of smaller loads.

That said, I pulled out a 1/2 cord of nice solid Ash for my Daughter, and there is still more left. It was good to get outside and run the saws and do some work! I need to start getting back in shape.

Looks good Mike. How’s the MMWS 462 run compared to a stock one?

 

[U&A]

Big oak coming down on my road along with many others. The 3 in my yard (that i am keeping ) are 32”, 38”, 38” DBH if I remember correctly. This one has to be 3 of my son in diameter or close to it. He is exactly 42” tall.

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[James Miller]

And dont climb trees with spikes that you dont intend on taking down.

I had to fight with the powerline clearing crew about this. I've heard Maryland will fine you for spiking a tree that's not a take down.

 

[KiwiBro]

Big oak coming down on my road along with many others. The 3 in my yard (that i am keeping ) are 32”, 38”, 38” DBH if I remember correctly. This one has to be 3 of my son in diameter or close to it. He is exactly 42” tall.

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

MILL

 

[turnkey4099]

Well, well, this loaded tonight without needing a refresh. To be called slow, my service would have to double it's speed .

First real try at 'wooding' since out of the hospital. Down to Von's to clean up all the leavings from the burn piles. Put in an hour picking up and bunching the half burned stuff. For some reason unknown to any sane person I did not take a saw with me. Lots of partially burned deadfall that needs chopping up and piling. I could have made a bit dent in it in another hour.

The fire went beyond where I had planned and did a very good job of clearing out the rest of the grove. It saved me several days work by the looks of it. It also blackened every tree (5) halfway up so there won't be that much usuable wood. No matter as I already have the next two years orders covered.

End of the hour and wound up walking wounded. Carrying the last chunk to the pile, tripped and first thing that hit the ground was my nose. Bloody mess for about 5 minutes before it slowed down, pretty much soaked my bandana, a towel and the front of my shirt and pants. Amazing it didn't break.

Legs were starting to give out at the end of the hour.

 

[turnkey4099]

On a slow connection sometimes that reply box wont load and all you'll see is the attach files button.
Try hitting the F5 key on your keyboard to reload the page and hopefully it will come through OK.
Otherwise, if no F5 key, there should be a refresh button in your browser towards the top of the screen somewhere you can click on.

Thank you, that explains it. Sometimes I could, sometimes not. To call my service slow, it would have to speed up some.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

out for a walk yesterday and found this scrounge on side of roadway. 27" diameter! looks like a burn circle to me...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

thinking it could be quite versatile... wear a couple of hats. brought in some mesquite cooking wood week back or so, thinking some Texas strips over hot mesquite coals along with a couple cold just mite be a good wrap to an otherwise OK day...

 

[Jeffkrib]

I had one of these in the 70s was a fun little ride. I would go to the biker bars and the hard core guys seeing my helmet would ask what I was riding . Most likely to rag on me for riding jap. Which I did but I would say " A 61 Harley " they would get all excited and I would take them out to see it and there it was a Harley Topper . Sold it to friend who passed a few years ago but his son is in the process of restoring it . Mine was far from this nice . View attachment 818557

Is that a Harley Davidson or a “Hardly“ Davidson?

 

[svk]

out for a walk yesterday and found this scrounge on side of roadway. 27" diameter! looks like a burn circle to me...
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A little back history on that. It’s probably from a Walmart fire pit. The legs last forever but the metal “bowl” that sits on top rusts out in 3-4 seasons.

 

[svk]

Holey moley.

I’m not a napper. Yesterday I got home from work shortly before 6 and proceeded to nap from 6-10. Was up for a bit then slept from midnight till nearly 7 so you could say I was tired. Feel good now though.

Had 3 pages up catch up in here!

May do some more scrounging this weekend. There’s some more trees along/growing into the roadway on our private road. One is maple and the other is oak. Plus there’s several aspen logs that were cut last year that my neighbor told me to grab.

 

[SS396driver]

Is that a Harley Davidson or a “Hardly“ Davidson?

Harley made them for a few years early 60s and some dirt bikes and mopeds . The dirt bikes were Italian forgot the name of the company. They made golf carts to under AMF

 

[U&A]

MILL

Very possible. The big pc’s may just have to sit Just have to buy it. The bar and chain for it should be here by Friday. Just need to buy the mill. Stupid me is about to buy another saw. Could be mill money. [emoji2957]


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