Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[BillNole]

Large day here today , soaked in some of it .

Well , enough of the soaking , back to work !

More soaking please Dan!!! Much more of that wonderful soaking, please...

 

[dancan]

Well , I have to admit that it sure was nice to be out there in a tee shirt all afternoon for the first time this year ,50 and sunny
I was outta dead dry spruce , still have a fire every day and didn't want to burn more of next year's hardwood , we still have lows of 30 this week and next

 

[mainewoods]

Same here, 39 for a high today. Rain turning over to snow now. Only got 1 day without burning any wood. WTF!!

 

[dancan]

Same here , sucks , but I'm not complaining at all

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It was sunny 50's here today, a VERY nice day to be in the woodlot!

I managed to get a nice pile of oak split. WOW, much of this was VERY stringy and big crotches that were tough! The more I use this splitter, the more I'm impressed with it's power and speed!

With that done, I backed my tractor/splitter over to a small pile of Aspen and split that too,

LOT'S to go, but I'm gaining on it!

SR

 

[macattack_ga]

Load #3 in as many weeks.

How I got this load (and load #2)
CL. Person wanted to sell it for $100.
I emailed and said "if you get tired of looking at the wood I'll haul it off".
Not saying out right that I wouldn't pay for the wood but inferring it.
We agreed on $25. I'm cheap, not broke, so no big deal and he did help a lot in loading it.

I'm worn out.

 

[Revturbo977]

Got a little more today. Did some splitting too

 

[dancan]

There's got to be some stuff after the tree line ... I hope .
I did manage to find a bit of spruce .

Then I went back in and found some hardwood that the surveyors knocked down when blazing lines .
Drug it out of the woods to my yellow hardhat and then drug it to the UTV .

Yes , there's a yellow dot in the pic .

Not a big load today but it's wood that I didn't have yesterday

Gonna haveta mechanize to speed up production LOL

 

[Mike-M]

One of my many side jobs is launching boats for people who cant do it themselves for whatever reason. This morning I go pick up a boat, and at the house next door I notice a single 14" round at the curb, no one around. Didnt really think much of it, but when I came back to drop off the trailer 20 minutes later, there were 3 rounds sitting at the curb, still no one around. I knock on the door, its a pretty old guy whos selling his house and is throwing out his wood pile. It was about half a truck load varying from fresh cut to rotten oak.
To top it off, next week in taking down a couple trees in his yard for a few hundred bucks.

 

[benp]

Well I'm back to legit scrounging.

I was out clearing the trails and got two small partial sugar maple blow downs. I got 1.5 wagon loads.

I brought the phone back out with me after I brought in the first load and went out to finish.

I'm still eyeballing a really nice one but will wait until things dry out more.

 

[Gologit]

I usually don't mess with pine but this was too good to pass up. Root rot and a heavy wind took it down last fall and over the winter it de-barked itself. The only rotten spot was right at the bottom of the trunk, everything else was good wood.

This was a real bonus...where the tree broke was almost solid pitch wood. We shave that into thumb size chunks and use it for fire starter.

 

[Revturbo977]

I usually don't mess with pine but this was too good to pass up. Root rot and a heavy wind took it down last fall and over the winter it de-barked itself. The only rotten spot was right at the bottom of the trunk, everything else was good wood.

This was a real bonus...where the tree broke was almost solid pitch wood. We shave that into thumb size chunks and use it for fire starter.

One bigggg pine

 

[cantoo]

Got a couple of loads from my daughter in laws father.

 

[cantoo]

Did some playing in the bush today too. Just driving around with my Steiner and dropping leaners and dead trees to make it safe for the bigger tractor. Also making some old trails wide enough for my Kubota. Really getting tired of doing this to my coveralls. This darn 260 is driving my nuts.

 

[audible fart]

Damn, that little Steiner is cool!

 

[MountainHigh]

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Really getting tired of doing this to my coveralls. This darn 260 is driving my nuts.
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Oiler leaking or is it those *_____ flippy caps?

 

[MountainHigh]

Nice Tree - Good photo! I think that is a potential nominee for a coveted WoodChuckers Award
Please don't tell me you are also flinging those big rounds onto the back of a truck by hand before splitting them, or I will have to hang up my saws and head for my recliner for good

 

[MountainHigh]

Load #3 in as many weeks.

I'm worn out.

Nice srcounging!

 

[mainewoods]

And here I thought you guys had forgotten all about winter already.

 

[mainewoods]

Like the suicide knob.