Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

So far not as bad as anticipated, cleared about 8" this morning, but it is still cold & windy, and still coming down, so we will see. I think they got it much worse a few miles to the East.

The ATV is a beast compared to the old lawn tractor, and that 5' plow works nice.

Mid teens and very windy, but I dressed so well for it, I did not want to come back in!

 

[mainewoods]

Snowing at the rate of 2"-3" an hour with 40 mph winds - air temp *8. Only expected to get 2' in my neck of the woods, worse south of here. Already see 2 new blow downs up on the hill. Looks like I have some scrounging to do---------maybe tomorrow!

 

[Red97]

I think this will be my best score of the winter. The white building is my wood shed. Power line clearing I asked them to leave the logs in lengths. 6-8 2ft trees.

 

[1project2many]

I think this will be my best score of the winter.

Nice. What's that vine? It's pretty good size.
I pulled a bunch of dead Elm down that was covered in vines so I cut 'em and stacked 'em. They burned ok... as well as Poplar, anyway.

 

[Ambull01]

Check out this awesome score I found on CL!

"Sweet gum tree - was going to use for wood turning but would make good firewood, whole logs would need to be split. Come get it and haul it away and enjoy in your fireplace."

 

[MustangMike]

Be careful burning vines. If U burn Poison Ivy, it can get in your lungs and even be fatal. Large Poison Ivy vines are generally hairy.

 

[dancan]

Well , I'd like to thank them New Englanders for taking the bulk of the snow , I only got a couple of inches LOL
Sure gonna be easier to get into the woods this weekend , 1'+ of snow makes for a whole bunch more work .

 

[MechanicMatt]

I only got three inches of snow, looks like the guys to the east got nailed

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

Only about 6" here. Not that I'm complaining.

 

[1project2many]

This is what we got at work but the towns just south of us got more.

 

[svk]

Q: What do you call a savings account dedicated to purchase Osage Orange seedlings?



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A: Hedge Fund

Sorry for the bad humor. That just went through my head.

 

[Ambull01]

Q: What do you call a savings account dedicated to purchase Osage Orange seedlings?



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A: Hedge Fund

Sorry for the bad humor. That just went through my head.

Nice lol. You must be stuck in the house with a ton of snow outside.

 

[svk]

Nice lol. You must be stuck in the house with a ton of snow outside.

We've got patches of bare grass here lol.

 

[cre73]

Check out this awesome score I found on CL!

"Sweet gum tree - was going to use for wood turning but would make good firewood, whole logs would need to be split. Come get it and haul it away and enjoy in your fireplace."

Have fun splitting that, I picked up a big load at a local tree dump. What a pain even with the splitter. Started just burning the whole rounds in my shop wood burner.

 

[Philbert]

A: Hedge Fund . .

Or cash set aside for a big saw . . .

Philbert

 

[Ambull01]

Have fun splitting that, I picked up a big load at a local tree dump. What a pain even with the splitter. Started just burning the whole rounds in my shop wood burner.

Oh I'm not getting that stuff. I meant it as a joke. Tried splitting some sweetgum that I accidentally picked up from a roadside scrounge. Big mistake.

 

[zogger]

Oh I'm not getting that stuff. I meant it as a joke. Tried splitting some sweetgum that I accidentally picked up from a roadside scrounge. Big mistake.

Yep, cut to full length and trying to hand split, yeech. I did some big ones with the big splitter here when it was working, they split fine, just had to hatchet some strings off, but that is/was a mambo heavy duty splitter, too.

Anymore, sweetgum or elm, I am cutting roughly around 5 inch cookies off the main trunk, then letting them sit until well cracked, then busting them up into pie slices splits.

 

[Ambull01]

BTW, anyone know if @zogger is fully healed from his Jesus on a donkey reenactment?

 

[Ambull01]

Woops I was a bit late ^. Promise I didn't see his post above. I was interrupted from posting the above reply. I'm trying to see if a solar company will install free solar panels on my house and I pay them a reduced energy monthly charge. Sounds great to me. I'm not too crazy about my electricity company.

 

[zogger]

BTW, anyone know if @zogger is fully healed from his Jesus on a donkey reenactment?

Not even close, still hobbling. I keep wanting to walk the top part of my leg off the bottom part, it's like the kneecap wants to slide completely off. Just came in awhile ago taking hay out, about couldn't do it. It sucks, but, I'm still moving. Straight ahead on flat ground isn't too bad, kneeling down or turning sideways is sorta iffy. Almost fallen dozens of times.

Right up there in the top five of stupidest things I have ever done.