Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[U&A]

One of those yard carts with the plastic tub would be nice.

I absolutely LOVE mine. Holds 1200lbs. Can pull by hand or flip the handle around and pull with a tractor/UTV


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[H-Ranch]

One wheel or two wheeled wheel barrow?

After my traditional one wheel, wheel barrow broke,I switched to a two wheeled piece. Night and day difference in hauling loads for people like you and I who don’t have machinery.

Have my eye out for used gorilla cart or similar 4 wheel yard cart.

I have been using the generic, 30 year old one wheel version. Honestly, I do use it partially as my "gym" time and also to be low impact on my neighbor's property. She did comment the other day that her son thinks I'm doing a great job of cleaning up her woods and that's the impression I'm aiming for. It looked like a war zone after she had it logged - tangles of tops everywhere and ruts from equipment still visible.

I used it a fair amount after I had ACL knee surgery also. I believe it is great rehab to rebuild balance and muscles - and if it starts to go bad you can just set it down. Worst case is you spill a load and have to pick it back up.

I have a decent garden tractor trailer that I've used on my trails. If I had a two wheel wheelbarrow I would probably use it, but that would require an investment. My 79 year old dad converted his to a two wheeler a couple of years ago. So I think I still have a few good years left in me.

I do admit that I may borrow the FIL's Gator to reach the far side of the neighbor's property when I get to that point. We'll see. Photos will be involved either way.

 

[turnkey4099]

For me, there’s a design that have a flat deck, metal side grates that are also removeable. Might be an option for me personally? I also deer hunt on public land, a good option for strapping a climber and gear on to haul down a trail. Something like this....View attachment 822668

I have been using one like that for years moving splits from outside stacks to the porch/shed. They have a very annoying design flaw. The wheels do not set all the way out so the cart tends to tip over easily on slopes or sharp corners. Over the years I have gone through 3 of them, overloads, etc.

 

[KiwiBro]

Countdown until first sunrise in Level 3 is on fellas. I'm taking orders. What fish would you like for dinner tomorrow? Snapper, Kahawhai, John Dory, Kingfish?

 

[Cowboy254]

So now I've got 6 saws in my garage I have no room for, heck I don't have enough room for mine!

The problem is not that you have 6 too many saws but rather that your garage is too small .

I do admit that I may borrow the FIL's Gator to reach the far side of the neighbor's property when I get to that point. We'll see. Photos will be involved either way.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Theres a few gems floating around still. The chance to be able to harvest them even rarer.

I’ve seen red fir that big, black oak, and valley oak that big, and ponderosa pine nearly that big. I don’t know that I’ve seen cedar above 3 feet.

 

[dancan]

Countdown until first sunrise in Level 3 is on fellas. I'm taking orders. What fish would you like for dinner tomorrow? Snapper, Kahawhai, John Dory, Kingfish?

I'll send my Asian buyer over to pick , if you have lots they can send it to the market :/

Duelleys sure fling a lot of mud when you go where you shouldn't , the fender flares are still firmly attached but the running boards are a little bent .
All's fair in the name of scrounging wood

 

[woodchip rookie]

I'll send my Asian buyer over to pick , if you have lots they can send it to the market :/

Duelleys sure fling a lot of mud when you go where you shouldn't , the fender flares are still firmly attached but the running boards are a little bent .
All's fair in the name of scrounging wood

Been there. I packed mud in my mirrors one time so bad the mirrors got stuck.

 

[woodchip rookie]

For me, there’s a design that have a flat deck, metal side grates that are also removeable. Might be an option for me personally? I also deer hunt on public land, a good option for strapping a climber and gear on to haul down a trail. Something like this....View attachment 822668

I have this but its the bigger version. You dont have to flip the handle. Just put a ball on the quad and flop the handle over the ball

 

[chipper1]

@MustangMike , dang stihls always loosing fumbler bolts and breaking them off lol.
I think these ones were actually over tightened in an attempt to keep them in(after the others came out and did a bunch of damage to the matting surface) and they bottomed out and then broke, at least that's my guess.
Unfortunately the small piece of my extractor(all that's left after I broke it off a few times ) won't reach any further into the other broken screw and it's slipping. The "fix" for now is a wrap handle screw that goes into the bottom of a husky 372 tank(coarse threads) shortened a little so it doesn't bottom out and it will hold on the outer portion of the mount, it holds very well, but copious amounts of red loctite will be used!
Good luck on the projects.

 

[MustangMike]

I have never used a 2 wheeled one, but I think loading up a one wheeled one keeps you in shape!

Beautiful Pic Haywire!

Yea, I did mention to my Daughter there was a joke on the chainsaw website, she just responded that she was not surprised, the two in back of her have one! (They were the ones who contested her plans to rebuild the deck)!

 

[chipper1]

So I dropped this red oak leaner yesterday, it had a few spots on the lower stem that were odd and it tried to compartmentalize, and in a couple spots it was successful. I'll get a picture today, as I didn't see until late, but it has 3 cracks that are black where each one of the scars are on the bark all the way to the middle, I'm thinking it had been hit by lightening.
Here's the video that I took before my phone filled up , my wife got it on video from this point until I cut the trigger then her phone was full too , yes I'm cheap.



The rope is 3/4" and it stretched a solid 2', you can see the indentation it made in the ground, and the dirt on it in the next picture.

Sure hope my stump is okay. It's about 14" on the stump.
You can see two of the three marks on the bark in this picture and the one above, and the third in the video at the very end. I thought the one was all part of the damage from loosing the limb until I looked at the stump, it really shows after I cut the stump flat(picture coming later).
I even split a few of the smaller rounds and loaded them into the woodshed so it's now 100% loaded other than the few pieces I robbed off the front last week, kinda like when I used to get all A's in school except, except, except.

 

[chipper1]

I have never used a 2 wheeled one, but I think loading up a one wheeled one keeps you in shape!

The first time I ever used a two wheeled one was on a landscaping job. I had just bought it and brought it to the job to move mulch, I filled it until it was overflowing just a little, but it was still pretty easy to move and it was all down hill so it would be easy right. Well it was easy to get to the grade and as I started down the grade I went to lean the wheelbarrow up hill a bit to slow down, well you can't lean a two wheeled wheelbarrow . I ended up taking a ride all the way down the hill with a huge load of mulch skidding all the way on the wet grass because I couldn't stop. The good thing was there were no obstacles or humans in the way and I was able to unload a bit onto a tarp and get it back up to where it needed to go and the rest of the job with the wheelbarrow went well.
You can load a lot into a 2 wheeled wheelbarrow whether it be mulch of firewood, just be careful on hills .

 

[Cowboy254]

Bonus pics of yesterday's scrounge - my phone decided to work today. This is the couple o' cubes of peppermint from Mitch's on Saturday morning.



My trailer full of scrounged peppermint just before going over to Ross's place.



Then there was half a Ranger load of peppermint which I topped up with some splits of blue gum from recent scrounges - which is not properly dry but if he needs to later in the season, he can mix a split in at a time in a hot fire with dry wood and it shouldn't go too badly.

 

[svk]

So I dropped this red oak leaner yesterday, it had a few spots on the lower stem that were odd and it tried to compartmentalize, and in a couple spots it was successful. I'll get a picture today, as I didn't see until late, but it has 3 cracks that are black where each one of the scars are on the bark all the way to the middle, I'm thinking it had been hit by lightening.
Here's the video that I took before my phone filled up , my wife got it on video from this point until I cut the trigger then her phone was full too , yes I'm cheap.


View attachment 822851
The rope is 3/4" and it stretched a solid 2', you can see the indentation it made in the ground, and the dirt on it in the next picture.
View attachment 822852
Sure hope my stump is okay. It's about 14" on the stump.
You can see two of the three marks on the bark in this picture and the one above, and the third in the video at the very end. I thought the one was all part of the damage from loosing the limb until I looked at the stump, it really shows after I cut the stump flat(picture coming later).
I even split a few of the smaller rounds and loaded them into the woodshed so it's now 100% loaded other than the few pieces I robbed off the front last week, kinda like when I used to get all A's in school except, except, except.
View attachment 822853

That is a neat shed, I kind of expected to see a Beverly Hillbilly come out of there!

 

[svk]

@MustangMike , dang stihls always loosing fumbler bolts and breaking them off lol.
I think these ones were actually over tightened in an attempt to keep them in(after the others came out and did a bunch of damage to the matting surface) and they bottomed out and then broke, at least that's my guess.
Unfortunately the small piece of my extractor(all that's left after I broke it off a few times ) won't reach any further into the other broken screw and it's slipping. The "fix" for now is a wrap handle screw that goes into the bottom of a husky 372 tank(coarse threads) shortened a little so it doesn't bottom out and it will hold on the outer portion of the mount, it holds very well, but copious amounts of red loctite will be used!
Good luck on the projects.
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That is SO frustrating. I mean, first of all how did they not realize it was loose? But secondly, why did Husky not develop something sooner to remedy this as it happens to many models.

 

[chipper1]

That is SO frustrating. I mean, first of all how did they not realize it was loose? But secondly, why did Husky not develop something sooner to remedy this as it happens to many models.

Not sure.
Lets get one thing straight, this is a stihl .

That is a neat shed, I kind of expected to see a Beverly Hillbilly come out of there!

Thanks.
The barn siding/wood matches the black locust bark, and the rusted steel roofing matches the red oak leaves in the fall winter and spring.
I had a friend over one time and he asked "has that always been there", that's exactly what I wanted, something that blends in and doesn't look like a sore thumb.
Here's the view out the back window.

And another angle to see the side door.
I plan on filling until the grade from near the woodshed meets the grade on the from where the picture was taken from, takes forever with my little tractor, but it would take longer with a shovel lol.

 

[svk]

Not sure.
Lets get one thing straight, this is a stihl .

OMG!!!! I just realized that. Wow, l had no idea LOL

Thanks.
The barn siding/wood matches the black locust bark, and the rusted steel roofing matches the red oak leaves in the fall winter and spring.
I had a friend over one time and he asked "has that always been there", that's exactly what I wanted, something that blends in and doesn't look like a sore thumb.
Here's the view out the back window.
View attachment 822869
And another angle to see the side door.
I plan on filling until the grade from near the woodshed meets the grade on the from where the picture was taken from, takes forever with my little tractor, but it would take longer with a shovel lol.
View attachment 822870

Great pictures. Gives a better feel for your yard. I like the layout as well as the drive through.

 

[Be Stihl]

Finally got a chance to cut up the chestnut oak that uprooted. I counted 110 rings at the stump at only 16”, very tight grain and heavy.

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[mountainguyed67]

Yea, I did mention to my Daughter there was a joke on the chainsaw website, she just responded that she was not surprised, the two in back of her have one! (They were the ones who contested her plans to rebuild the deck)!