Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[nomad_archer]

Enough snow melted so that I could get into the shed and get my mixed fuel out. Filled up the saw and fired her up for the first time since August or September. Saw sounds great. Now I need to find some wood to cut. I was starting to eye up the deck railings.

 

[svk]

Ahhh, protein.
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And come late June they will be good to eat again.

According to the old Finlanders, deer had eaten enough grass to flush out the bitter taste they acquire by eating buds and other low quality food during the winter by the time fireflies first show up in June.

 

[mainewoods]

Got good news yesterday. No damage to my heart muscle, cleared to go back to work this weekend, no restrictions. I got treatment in time to stop any damage. Very lucky!! I am back in the scrounging game again!!

 

[nomad_archer]

Wonderful news Clint.

 

[SteveSS]

Got good news yesterday. No damage to my heart muscle, cleared to go back to work this weekend, no restrictions. I got treatment in time to stop any damage. Very lucky!! I am back in the scrounging game again!!

Good to hear, Clint. Now you can get your scrounge back on when the snow clears out.

 

[SteveSS]

And come late June they will be good to eat again.

According to the old Finlanders, deer had eaten enough grass to flush out the bitter taste they acquire by eating buds and other low quality food during the winter by the time fireflies first show up in June.

And then in September it'll be time to start slinging pointy sticks at 'em and getting them on the grill.

 

[mainewoods]

The only restriction I have is MYSELF. And 3 ft. of snow still in the woods, with more on the way!

 

[SS396driver]

Very nice, but for clarification, I was talking about bikes with peddles!

what ride you got? I have a Specialized Crossroads that I ride on the Rail trail and a Cannondale Synapse carbon ultegra for road riding

If you are doing extreme workouts, water alone is not sufficient. While I do not like all the extra junk in gatorade, it does work. If I need to use it, I cut it 50% with water. When I ride (the bike) I generally use the Hammer products HEED & Perpetuem (50/50).
With water alone you will lack energy and you will cramp. Not one of the people I ride with fill their bottles with just water.

Kinda like the Nuun tabs that ya just drop into the sports bottle specially when its free. But I to cut the gatorade with water way to much sugar for my taste.

2 slices of white bread,jelly,your choice of flavor and peanut butter.again your choice,crunchy or smooth. and a glass of milk to wash it down.

I love peanut and almond butter but only fresh ground stuff. Store I go to has a grinder with dry roasted no salt or oils added nuts . Fun watching it grind it up but it looks a little like poo...

And yes I do scrounge . Got this on the side of the road with my Subaru wagon.

 

[SteveSS]

Hackberry?

 

[MustangMike]

I got a Trek EX-8 full suspension for off road and a Madone 7 (carbon) with D-3 A-3 Carbon wheels for the road.

 

[SS396driver]

I got a Trek EX-8 full suspension for off road and a Madone 7 (carbon) with D-3 A-3 Carbon wheels for the road.

Nice bikes . Been doing it about 3 years not to level that my friends or girlfriend rides but getting there, did my first metric 100 last spring .

Ambull01 its like anything else, its what you are willing to pay . Several of the guys I ride with have full customs that they part sourced . They wont even comment on how much they have in them.

 

[SS396driver]

Hackberry?

Have no idea ... free and it burns

 

[dancan]

Geez Clint, that's awesome news !!!!!
I'm glad you're back in the saddle !!!

Bruce Lee's energy drink was raw red meat and raw eggs in the blender.

Chuck Norris eats the blender ....... While it's plugged in, just sayin .

 

[MustangMike]

Good News Clint, but take er easy, & get back slowly.

 

[svk]

Took a ride to the hunting cabin this afternoon. Still a foot of wet greasy snow up there. Took me an hour and a half to go 3.5 miles of unplowed road.

Dropped 4 trees while I was there. But dag nabbit, the two big birches were already core rotted. Lots and lots of other birches up there that aren't that far along so gathering enough won't be a problem.

 

[Ambull01]

Took a ride to the hunting cabin this afternoon. Still a foot of wet greasy snow up there. Took me an hour and a half to go 3.5 miles of unplowed road.

Dropped 4 trees while I was there. But dag nabbit, the two big birches were already core rotted. Lots and lots of other birches up there that aren't that far along so gathering enough won't be a problem.

You should go into logging. From the sound of it you're Paul Bunyan with a chainsaw. I'm going more bucking tomorrow after a week off. Hopefully I'll be 1/4 as fast as you.

 

[Marshy]

Well, more rotten wood than I hoped in that tree but still managed to c/s/s about a 1/3 cord in a little over an hour and a half. Idk if I got falling the trunk on camera, some times I turn it off for just a min and forget to turn it back on. The highlight of it all was setting off a car alarm at the bar across the road when I took a cut. Vid to follow later, here's an ad left.

 

[svk]

After dinner the wind was right so I dropped a dying yard birch. There was an old bird house nailed to the bottom side of the tree when it fell and you guessed it, I somehow managed to hit both nails which apparently were spaced on 16" centers. Put that chain out of commission for now.

After that I finished bucking the logs on the mound that were buried yesterday. Then split all but ten rounds before I ran out of daylight.

55 mid day high and still 46 now. I'm on the deck in my t-shirt sipping that birch beer.

So far I've hauled 2 cords of splits out of the woods and have yet to touch the splits on the mound.

Tomorrow we will be dropping dead yard trees if the wind is right. Otherwise a few more wood lot aspen will be on the menu.

 

[svk]

The following three pictures were taken in the second week of March over the past three years.

2013

2014


2015

Pileated woodpecker doing some scrounging.

Wolf killed deer skull from last winter.


Not sure why it is forcing my last three pictures sideways....

 

[dancan]

24° here going to 11° tonight, plenty of scrounged wood ready for the furnace