Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

I guess my post on primer prices was deleted for political reasons! It is terrible when you tell the truth and mention who is to blame!

I see from the responses that at least it was read first!

 

[svk]

I guess my post on primer prices was deleted for political reasons! It is terrible when you tell the truth and mention who is to blame!

I see from the responses that at least it was read first!

Someone got behind-hurt because you insulted their president.

 

[JRM]

Not really scrounging, but still of interest to all you lumberjack type fellers. A quick shot of how they unload wood chips at the Arauco particle board plant in Grayling, Mi.

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I wonder how many guys have forgot to turn off their rigs for the ride. That looks fairly steep!

 

[Logger nate]

Itasca bar oil? How do you like it Nate?

Yes sir, good eye. I like it, seems to work better than most others I’ve tried.

 

[farmer steve]

Yes sir, good eye. I like it, seems to work better than most others I’ve tried.

That's all I've been running the last 10 or so years. Price really jumped since I bought a case last fall. Almost $4 a gallon when I was at my dealer last week. I try and stay a case ahead year to year. The 400 and 462 really like to drink it.

 

[LondonNeil]

Hey @LondonNeil , I'm so impressed with your 9 hours of wooding that I'm going to overlook your failure to take pictures of 5 of those wheelbarrow loads.

Looking at all those woodchips on your lawn makes me think of something I did last week. Our cedar clad house is being renovated and the cedar boards are being replaced with other stuff. They haven't seen any maintenance in 30 years and any treatment or oiling is no longer in evidence. I cut up about 50 boards with the 460 (de-nailed the boards first) using a toothed sawhorse that held the boards well. Now I have many years of cedar kindling which is good.

What to do with the chips and sawdust though? Could have just blown them off the concrete to make a mess somewhere else but instead I swept it all up and packed it down hard in a cardboard box then chucked the box in the fire. Got a few hours burn time out of it.

They get swept/raked up and then bin some and compost some, mixed with the grass cuttings and the ash from the stove. I try to do 2 or 3 green to brown or else is too dry and insufficient nitrogen.... But at times like this I've too many chips, hence they get binned.

I like the box and burn idea but how do you dry them?

 

[LondonNeil]

Five more

 

[rwoods]

I wonder how many guys have forgot to turn off their rigs for the ride. That looks fairly steep!

7 axles on the waiting trailer - must be some heavy stuff.

Ron

 

[gggGary]

Pasture dried out got everything I've cut in the racks now, Total of about 22 cord in there. 4-5 years of heating "in the bank". Neighbor's got 4 or 5 that need to be dropped and bucked. Neighbor 1/2 mile away; also 4-5 to go. Guys across the road have done 5 times more ash than I have. Woods are still full of standing dead.


Need to attend to other spring chores for a while.

 

[svk]

Funny that there's only deletions on one side of the table.

My friend's husband's name is Brandon and wears a LGB sweatshirt. People die laughing when he goes out locally.

 

[Logger nate]

That's all I've been running the last 10 or so years. Price really jumped since I bought a case last fall. Almost $4 a gallon when I was at my dealer last week. I try and stay a case ahead year to year. The 400 and 462 really like to drink it.

It’s good stuff, cheapest stuff here. Fuel and feed place I used to work for has it for $12. Hardware store has “cheap stuff” for $20.

 

[Logger nate]

Funny that there's only deletions on one side of the table.

My friend's husband's name is Brandon and wears a LGB sweatshirt. People die laughing when he goes out locally.

So AS is censored now too!?!? Maybe Elon Musk will buy them out too? Lol

 

[SS396driver]

Well I thought I was making headway on my wood piles. Butno they have to pull me back in. This was todays drops going to drop 30 or 40 more this week .

 

[U&A]

Trying a new way again. Laying the pc’s of bark down to make a “raised floor” kinda thing to keep the bottom pc’s of wood a bit dryer. Going to do double wide rower as high as I safely can and leave a walking Isle between that set and the one next to it. The wind blows through these woods pretty good and it comes almost parallel to the direction the wood stack is going with a slight angle to it so this oak should dry pretty nice.

Sent while firmly grasping my Redline lubed Ram [emoji231]

 

[turnkey4099]

I wonder how many guys have forgot to turn off their rigs for the ride. That looks fairly steep!

That's how we unloaded grain trucks and may still do. I haven't driven one for decades.

 

[turnkey4099]

Well nuts. Been over a week since I have run a saw. Weather has been constant wet then dry. All my sites need to dry out before I can get on them and 3 of the 5 are even on dirt roads. Thus I need about 2 days dry before I can even access them. Had 7" of snow yesterday that was gone in the afternoon. Been snowing all morning today and another storm predicted for Thursday.

I have 5 different places to work this summer. MOst of them just remove a few trees. one big one is clean out an old overgrown willow bush. That one will be years basically just cutting/piling trash for burning. 2 of the others is "could your remove all the trees at that old homestead? Those only have a few trees each. One won't take many trips. The other is the one with the 2 big trees I was working on. That one is going to take some time due to that one monster tree. I have 5 days in to it now and just finished cleaning the brush off the bottom of it and the general area. Tree is ready for felling but I suspect I'll do the other 3 (2 small) first.

Getting frustrated just sitting around the house doing nothing.;

 

[Aknutter]

Not really scrounging, but still of interest to all you lumberjack type fellers. A quick shot of how they unload wood chips at the Arauco particle board plant in Grayling, Mi.

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That's how the potato trucks were unloaded at the Frito lays plant in Allen Park, Mi.

 

[JustJeff]

https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/firewood-prosizer-laser-firewood-measuring-tool.353172/
Finally got to try out my laser chainsaw! Here's the link to Philbert's thread where I posted my thoughts on it. Haven't run my ms460 since my surgery last year. Fired right up on the 8th pull and second curse word! Felt great to give it a run in the big ash log.

Sent from my CLT-L04 using Tapatalk

 

[rwoods]

How long do you guys expect the dead ash to stay good in your wood pile? Around here it has deteriorated so fast standing, that the woodlot is nervous about stockpiling it for our next season.
Thanks, Ron

 

[MustangMike]

If you split it, debark it, and keep it dry it will last OK.

If it gets moist, it goes punky fast.