Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[rarefish383]

Looks good buddy. Someday I'll only have 4 saws.

I’d be extatic if I only had 4 on each of ten shelves.

 

[rarefish383]

Anybody ever cut down a tree that had been hit by lighting? I cut down a sugar maple for a buddy on Sat night and the tree had a healed crack on one side but it was the hardest wood I've ran across. It was like cutting a 36" piece of ironwood. It died this summer so it wasn't like it had been standing dead. It literally was sparking the whole time until you got 25' up the stem.

In 50 years of commercial tree work we’ve taken down lots of lightning struck trees, from minutes, to days after they were struck, with no change in the wood. No petrification. Lots of big Tulip Poplar, some that the sap boiled so fast they blew 20’ long logs a block away. Big Oaks and Pines too. The last was a 40+ inch white pine that was right at 100’ tall. I was going to limb it out. I got about 60’ up when the wind started blowing, and the trunk twisted, and I could see daylight through it. Came down ASAP. Threw the tree across the field. When I bucked it up, from the strike to about 20’ up, all the wood fell apart like it had been split. So it was splintered for a good 40’. “I“ don’t “know”, what could cause any condition to harden the wood. I’ve heard lots of homeowners that cut up struck trees on the ground say it was like concrete, my assumption is they hit big chunks of dirt in the log. I’ve also heard people say lightning struck wood pops and spits, ive never experienced that either.

 

[rarefish383]

Someone up state wants my 111s. He's offered a few choices. Mastermind 2188, 2095, 2100 husky, jonsereds 90, and a few others. Not sure what to go with. I'd like a more modern big saw.

Welcome back old buddy! Thought you fell off one of the square sides?

 

[rarefish383]

@farmer steve, my new trailer is just about one year old. I had a couple yards of crusher run on it, and it gave a little groan and stopped going up. Battery dead. Does your trailer battery charge from the truck, or do you have to charge it periodically? I always had to charge my old one.

 

[sean donato]

@farmer steve, my new trailer is just about one year old. I had a couple yards of crusher run on it, and it gave a little groan and stopped going up. Battery dead. Does your trailer battery charge from the truck, or do you have to charge it periodically? I always had to charge my old one.

Should charge off the truck, but you may still need to charge it from time to time.

 

[sean donato]

Sounds like a great deal. I like that timeshare trailer deal, think I'm going to start selling those myself . Speaking of trailers, the jack for the 25' I'm building just came, it almost made it out of the box . A nice set of zinc coated chains are scheduled to arrive tomorrow(wish I could reschedule that so the guys didn't have to be out on Sunday), and my hitch is supposed to be here by Tuesday. Now if I can get motivated to do something on it in this heat .

It's a good for my uncle at the moment lol. He's had it all sumer save when I had it to do my roof. One lod of logs on it and some dirt for for wife. He's been cleaning up and loading scrap at his work, supposedly the extra money is going right to the trailer payments, so I haven't been pushing really hard to get it from him.

 

[farmer steve]

@farmer steve, my new trailer is just about one year old. I had a couple yards of crusher run on it, and it gave a little groan and stopped going up. Battery dead. Does your trailer battery charge from the truck, or do you have to charge it periodically? I always had to charge my old one.

Mine charges from the truck Joe. I had to charge it one time after it sat for a looong time. Stihl on the original interstate battery from 2002. Make sure all the grounds are clean. Double check the solenoid as that was the only thing that went bad on mine. Check for any loose wires inside the controller.

 

[panolo]

@farmer steve, my new trailer is just about one year old. I had a couple yards of crusher run on it, and it gave a little groan and stopped going up. Battery dead. Does your trailer battery charge from the truck, or do you have to charge it periodically? I always had to charge my old one.

Got mine last year as well and have never had to charge it. It should charge from the truck.

 

[panolo]

In 50 years of commercial tree work we’ve taken down lots of lightning struck trees, from minutes, to days after they were struck, with no change in the wood. No petrification. Lots of big Tulip Poplar, some that the sap boiled so fast they blew 20’ long logs a block away. Big Oaks and Pines too. The last was a 40+ inch white pine that was right at 100’ tall. I was going to limb it out. I got about 60’ up when the wind started blowing, and the trunk twisted, and I could see daylight through it. Came down ASAP. Threw the tree across the field. When I bucked it up, from the strike to about 20’ up, all the wood fell apart like it had been split. So it was splintered for a good 40’. “I“ don’t “know”, what could cause any condition to harden the wood. I’ve heard lots of homeowners that cut up struck trees on the ground say it was like concrete, my assumption is they hit big chunks of dirt in the log. I’ve also heard people say lightning struck wood pops and spits, ive never experienced that either.

I thought about dirty wood as well but it was clean. It's in 8' logs now so I'll see if I can tell still when we buck and split it. It's mixed with a few more sugar maples so my opinion won't be biased.

 

[svk]

Old wives tale said that if you burn lightning struck wood in your home, your house would burn down. I’ve only dealt with a few lightning struck trees and made sure the wood went to people without indoor wood burners cause I don’t want that karma on my record lol.

 

[SS396driver]

No scrounging lately but I'm clearing out my wood pile area to make room for a temp garage till I get a metal workshop built next year hopefully .Rhino shelter commercial grade 10 year warranty it 22x24x12 big enough for two trucks and a motorcycle or two

 

[SS396driver]

Also had a new service put in at the rental property

 

[SS396driver]

@MustangMike . Haven’t seen any dead dear in my woods yet I have a stream and apple trees so they are here all the time . Saw these 3 bucks about 1/4 mile from my place . Two 6 pointers and a big 8 pointer

 

[svk]

Also had a new service put in at the rental property View attachment 925582View attachment 925583View attachment 925584

Just a word from my experience, make sure you get the temporary garage staked down about four times as thorough as you think you’ll need it to be as high winds can really mess those up and damage whatever’s inside. Unfortunately I’ve been there.

 

[SS396driver]

Just a word from my experience, make sure you get the temporary garage staked down about four times as thorough as you think you’ll need it to be as high winds can really mess those up and damage whatever’s inside. Unfortunately I’ve been there.

I’ve had two . It’s going to be anchered to 4x6 timbers that will anchored down with Helical screw piles. Same as I will use for the metal garage. Reason being not considered a permanent structure

 

[Ryan A]

Someone up state wants my 111s. He's offered a few choices. Mastermind 2188, 2095, 2100 husky, jonsereds 90, and a few others. Not sure what to go with. I'd like a more modern big saw.

Good stuff! Keep us all posted on what saw you end up with. Love to see it!

Not well versed in the red heads but the 2188 or 2095 would be a bigger, more modern saw than your 111s.

 

[James Miller]

Good stuff! Keep us all posted on what saw you end up with. Love to see it!

Not well versed in the red heads but the 2188 or 2095 would be a bigger, more modern saw than your 111s.

The 2188 and 2095 would be 80 and 90 cc class saws. 111s is 110 or 111cc. Both newer saws would be 4 to 5 pounds lighter and more then enough to run a 32 or a little bigger. My 7910 is about tapped out at 32

 

[farmer steve]

No scrounging lately but I'm clearing out my wood pile area to make room for a temp garage till I get a metal workshop built next year hopefully .Rhino shelter commercial grade 10 year warranty it 22x24x12 big enough for two trucks and a motorcycle or two View attachment 925580

I guess my nephew is hooked on car shows. Had to take him to the York Hot Rod show Friday. We saw all the cars in your sig, The Lark wasn't a ragtop though. Saw my dream wood hauler.

 

[LondonNeil]

Oh my! Would you use it if you had it!?

 

[Philbert]

Saw my dream wood hauler.

Too nice to haul anything in! Even me!

Philbert