Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[mainewoods]

Every time I see that 4 wheeler Dan, it makes me want one even more. Pretty hard to imagine a more useful tool than one of those.

 

[dancan]

Ambull , those are factory dogs , usually labelled as a limbing dog .
Clint , the atv is handy like a tractor just in different ways , great if you have a woodlot with lots of trail but a tractor is a better work tool .

 

[square1]

If I can just figure out how to keep the chain out of the dirt it would make cutting a lot easier.

Come on up our way. I guarantee you can cut all day without hitting dirt once.

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Just went out to dump the ashes and take a piss. Well i couldnt stay outside any longer itwas so damn cold. With wind chill it is -45 celsius. Think its going to be an indoor sit at the stove kinda day.

 

[zogger]

Hmmm...teens and strong north wind, then turning to sleet/ice/snow for a day...scrounging will be wheelbarrow to wood stack, back to front door....that's the ticket, stack scrounging!

 

[SteveSS]

Looks good, what do they do with the cedar...?

One of the places that I drive past every now and again cuts lumber from it. Not real sure what the other places do with it. I've always assumed that it gets shaved up into pet bedding.

 

[stihly dan]

I've given up my quest to get dead wood from NH highways. Too many of the highway garages are using OWB's.

They will give you the real big one's. To much work for them. I got a nice 40 D ash over Christmas from them. They took all the branches and the smaller d trees.

 

[svk]

Supposed to be -13 tonight in Albany. We spent two winters here and the coldest we saw was -3 or -5, I can't remember which.

 

[hamish]

Just went out to dump the ashes and take a piss. Well i couldnt stay outside any longer itwas so damn cold. With wind chill it is -45 celsius. Think its going to be an indoor sit at the stove kinda day.

I called it an early day, good thing the fish weren't biting, its chilly out for sure. Tractor wont start, snowmobile took some coaxing to get going, wont even bother with the truck till tomorrow. Its only -41C with the wind chill here, good day to piss in the house.

 

[cantoo]

I moved snow for a couple of hours, managed to break a tire chain off. Finished the snow anyway and now working on the tractor in the heated shop. Teeshirt weather in there. Figured I might as well get the blown front light working, grease up the snow blower, fix the cable for turning the chute, replaced a broken shear bolt and whatever else needs done while it's warm in there.
My son had 2 sleds in there and there are repaired and gone now, I get the shop for the rest of the day.
Dang wind was so rough yesterday it blew the insulated stove pipe off my OWB. It just sits on there and has been on for 2 years, dented it and pretty much screwed it. Now the smoke is really swirling around and going into my wood storage tarp house. So I popped a piece of regular galvanized furnace pipe on it for now.

 

[MustangMike]

Just got done doing a tax return locally, and we looked out the window and saw a Bobcat slowly walk the border of his property, 2 pm on a bright sunny day!

It looked very healthy & normal, but I've never seen one out in the open on a bright sunny day like that before. The guy had lived there over 20 yrs and never saw one before! Darn cell phone took too long to come on to get a good shot.

Last year we had a similar sighting with a coyote on the other side of his property.

The guy has 10 acres, and I got my deer there this year.

 

[SteveSS]

One of the places that I drive past every now and again cuts lumber from it. Not real sure what the other places do with it. I've always assumed that it gets shaved up into pet bedding.

Confirmed. They shred it up into poultry bedding. Makes sense since there's a big turkey processing plant in the same town.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Spent the weekend down at my BIL and SIL house at the bottom of Jersey. He has a old Vermont Casting Resolute. He uses it as a back-up except when I visit. I had that ole girl cranking all weekend. My wife and her sister actually wrestled for the "warm chair". Can't say I minded watching those two rumble a bit......... sadly her sis is in crazy good shape and won. She is a personal trainer and even though my wife is in good shape and the most stuborn woman on the face of the planet, her sis out muscled her for the chair.

 

[Ambull01]

Anyone have experience taking down a fairly large log that's suspended from its splintered trunk about 20 ft up? I have to post the pic tomorrow. It looked mighty dangerous so I stayed far away from it.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Barber chair?

 

[MustangMike]

It is dangerous, send pics.

 

[MustangMike]

Matt, sound like the wind damaged stuff we got down hill from the outhouse.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Yeah the stuff I wait for the wind to finish off.

 

[Coro cutter]

Anyone have experience taking down a fairly large log that's suspended from its splintered trunk about 20 ft up? I have to post the pic tomorrow. It looked mighty dangerous so I stayed far away from it.

Without pics it's hard to say but sometimes you can Use another tree nearby to knock down the hang up or a chain or wire rope and a tractor to pull it over.
Sounds like a widow maker for sure
Can be rather dangerous
But can be brought down safely
And I'm sure many of the members here will have had similar experiences

BUT PICTURES FIRST....!!!

 

[Philbert]

C4.

Or one of these:
http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/remote-control-tree-removal.272986/

Philbert