Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[LondonNeil]

@KiwiBro alder not many people bother with, elm is rare here, and sycamore.... American sycamore is what we call London plane, Europeans sycamore is quite different, so what's yours? Our sycamore is easy to split but only moderately dense, dries easily though.

 

[Cowboy254]

Here it could mean a 'midnight autos' escapade - put the car on blocks and steal the wheels.

Can tell you're a Kiwi.

The old man has a 32ft Island Cruiser moored up in a marina in Brisbane. He lost the key to a padlock that was important in some way. Casually asks the neighbouring bloke ( a New Zealander) if he has any ideas. Bloke comes back with two long screwdrivers, wedges them in through the loop, separates and busts the side out of the padlock. Looks up at Dad and says "There's a bit of Maori in all of us".

 

[Cowboy254]

Serious weather system has come through and has interfered severely with scrounging. Look out @KiwiBro , you might get the arse end.

Stihl, it has allowed Cowboy to demonstrate to Cowgirl the benefits of scrounging. Blue gum left, peppermint lower centre and right.

Go you good thing !

 

[KiwiBro]

@KiwiBro alder not many people bother with, elm is rare here, and sycamore.... American sycamore is what we call London plane, Europeans sycamore is quite different, so what's yours? Our sycamore is easy to split but only moderately dense, dries easily though.

Thanks. I think they're American. Greenish trunks, wet, very white wood. The elms are white wood too but relatively very dry.

 

[KiwiBro]

Serious weather system has come through and has interfered severely with scrounging. Look out @KiwiBro , you might get the arse end.

Stihl, it has allowed Cowboy to demonstrate to Cowgirl the benefits of scrounging. Blue gum left, peppermint lower centre and right.

Go you good thing !

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Yeap, starts tomorrow but hits bigly Sunday. But our North is still in drought so hanging out for it. However will be too much too quickly as always seems to be the way.

 

[abbott295]

You know the liquidamber you say you will plant is sweetgum to us; another hard to split species and it drops spiky gumballs too. Yes there are more than one species of liquidamber; your mileage may vary.

 

[chipper1]

Scrounged up a motor for the 98 Honda odyssey yesterday.
The little hatchback didn't mind too much .

Even saw some nice wood stacked out east of Ohare Airport. Some of those stacks are around 18' high lol.

Saw this 350 on the way back, while I'm typically into Chevys more than fords, when they have Shelby on them there's a good chance they'll turn my head a little. Besides I figured Mike may like the pictures.

 

[turnkey4099]

Sorta good day...well, 3.5 hours of it. MS362 fired right up and did some chip throwing cutting big limbs and blocking some of it. got the main stem ready to buck up but needed to clear some more brush. Brush cleared and back to the 362. I could not get a pop out of it making repeated tries during further brush clearance.

Finally got to where I could pull the starter cords and the blasted saw won't start

Taking a break tomorrow and going on the small locust job. I need to flush cut my stumps and rig a few trees to pull. The small saws can handle most of that.
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Truck still in the shop; I might have to resurrect the 1990 F150 I bought "just in case". It's been sitting for 3 years now.

 

[farmer steve]

Sorta good day...well, 3.5 hours of it. MS362 fired right up and did some chip throwing cutting big limbs and blocking some of it. got the main stem ready to buck up but needed to clear some more brush. Brush cleared and back to the 362. I could not get a pop out of it making repeated tries during further brush clearance.

Finally got to where I could pull the starter cords and the blasted saw won't start

Taking a break tomorrow and going on the small locust job. I need to flush cut my stumps and rig a few trees to pull. The small saws can handle most of that.
s
Truck still in the shop; I might have to resurrect the 1990 F150 I bought "just in case". It's been sitting for 3 years now.

Where did you set the start lever when you tried to start it the second time?

 

[KiwiBro]

You know the liquidamber you say you will plant is sweetgum to us; another hard to split species and it drops spiky gumballs too. Yes there are more than one species of liquidamber; your mileage may vary.

Thanks for that. We've got a few already and like them. Might mix up the species though. Will have to take a close look at what's growing in pots ready to plant out. Those gumballs produce a zillion seeds so I know we are not short of juvenile trees potted up and ready to plant, but the rest of the property is a mix so might try to go that route if can find a ready-mix when it comes time to plant.

*edit* just checked and there are about 100 of 'em potted up that came from this tree outside the shed


No guarantee they will all be such a lovely red in the fall but that's fine if not.

 

[Cowboy254]

Where did you set the start lever when you tried to start it the second time?

I was wondering that too. Leave it on 'Run' rather than 'Start' if you're restarting it warm.

 

[dancan]

So, you didn’t have one of these when you were a child?

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Had one for a day or so but when we got one of these it was game over !

 

[KiwiBro]

Had one for a day or so but when we got one of these it was game over !

Reminds me of a fave saying - when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

 

[dancan]

And if a hammer won't fix it it's an electrical problem

 

[Logger nate]

State park campground had a couple spruce they wanted taken down. One was still green but rotten at the base, other one was dead and leaned toward fence and road, both about 34”. Wasn’t room to fall green one the way it leaned so cut top out then pulled stem the other way
Base of top made little hole
Ground was a little soft, my plan to keep top off dirt and get rope off didn’t quite work, lol
Dead one
My son did good, even missed the fence


Originally they just wanted them on the ground, they called after we were done and ask if we wanted the wood

 

[Haywire]

Spent the afternoon doing some trail clearing. Still pretty brown up there, the Larches are just starting to green out. Plenty of snow still up on Blacktail mt.




These old trees grow straight to heaven...

 

[Logger nate]

Spent the afternoon doing some trail clearing. Still pretty brown up there, the Larches are just starting to green out. Plenty of snow still up on Blacktail mt.

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These old trees grow straight to heaven...
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Nice area! Great pictures! Take your helper?

 

[SS396driver]

Had one for a day or so but when we got one of these it was game over !

Dude at least you could use an American hammer

 

[muad]

Scrounged up a motor for the 98 Honda odyssey yesterday.
The little hatchback didn't mind too much .
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Even saw some nice wood stacked out east of Ohare Airport. Some of those stacks are around 18' high lol.
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Saw this 350 on the way back, while I'm typically into Chevys more than fords, when they have Shelby on them there's a good chance they'll turn my head a little. Besides I figured Mike may like the pictures.
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Nice hatch!

Would love to have one of that vintage, but the wife always made fun of me in my 2000 Si (EM1 in EBP). She would say, "Big man in a little car" in the voice of Chris Farley from Black Sheep.
I always loved the late 90s, early 2000s Civic hatches. They're so light, that will little work, they can be quite quick.

 

[muad]

Spent the afternoon doing some trail clearing. Still pretty brown up there, the Larches are just starting to green out. Plenty of snow still up on Blacktail mt.

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These old trees grow straight to heaven...
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Gorgeous.

I love the mountains.