Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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!

sorry i missed it, MM! ~

did it make it to P/R? any one of the 2 AS now has...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Just one half load today. About ran out of wood in the basement . April 10 and it’s snowing pretty good . I was trying to not have to bring more in but it’s going to be below freezing tonight but 60s next weekView attachment 980244
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the snow pix! BIG flakes....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Went out for a quick scrounge after work. The shortening days don't leave that much time but can stihl get a ute load. There were a couple of good sized peppermints down but the lumpy trunks suggested termites.

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The 241 did the tidying up of the tops and everything back to about 18 inches.

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Some parts were good, some not perfect quality but scroungers can't be choosers.

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workx for me!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

A change of pace from months of felling dead ash almost every Saturday, I did a little scrounging last week and skidded out 80' of dead red oak stems.
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The guys at the woodlot were so please to get the red oak, my cutting buddying and I did some more scrounging yesterday and skidded out a little over 150' of red oak stems. Only one dump trailer of 5 1/2 10' logs made it out yesterday due to the mud from the rain and the melting sleet. Forecast is rain again this week, so after church I loaded and hauled out what was left. Not pictured is a short log that I carried out with the tractor. No fears of a headache, I backed this load down the steep incline that kept the others at bay yesterday.
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May have to do some more scrouging in the future as it can be productive.

Ron

man! what a rig. like the dozer, too... plenty of tuggin' power....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

First row stacked in the wood shed after cutting some floor boards to cover the uneven after dark foot trap pallets View attachment 980337Sorry no wheel barrows were used.

looks pure wilderness to me! awesome Ln!! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yup I’m a few years ahead at the cabin and a year or two at home.

I’m going to be getting rid of the boiler at home too which I haven’t used in a few years (need to explain in a separate post) so I’ll just have the fire place and sauna stove.

sure do like mine ~

indoors and outdoors...

outdoors, other day

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My buddy came over today to help with firewood,

Best part is, he brought his two boys with him, so it was pretty easy to put a board in place and roll these big boys onto my splitters beam,

We ran some BIG oak through the 4-way,

and we over filled three of my half cord boxes with splits,

Not too bad for a few hours of work, and we didn't work steady either...

We have half of the downed oak cut/split/in boxes now, so next we need to go skid out the other half!

SR

hi SR - swell pix. big chunks. big team effort. dropped big oak few weeks back, corner edge of my city place... still waiting for u know who... to teamup (3-man team) and get it split. soon...

seasoning now

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Gotcha covered, Tex! Just don't look for any more this week. Might have to use the Bob K. rationing method or it's gonna be a week of reruns.

hi H-R - glad to see your techniques catching on!!! i see others now moving loads of wood, one wb full at a time...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Omg! I'm pooped. I used to be fit, but with 3 little kids I'm not currently.....so a 9 hour wood session has just done me in! And a smallish pile of large uglies... The 'risk a slipped disk or hernia' sort of size. Since I can't just have a bonfire I have to deal with these too, so it'll be a bit more work for the 365,
And a lot of chips. The rest of the wood is now in various insane sized piles at the back of the garden. My oh my semi bucked it seems to have expanded. I'm going to have to take quite a lot to mum's to make room. I've told my brother, help yourself from mum's! That's fair as her lives much closer and visits weekly and had been doing a lot of jobs, lots of decorating for her recently.... So I'll buy out my guilt with wood.
Vote now if you wish to see 39 wheel barrow loads of oak and Conifer, but mainly oak.

lol, and as i looked at LN's pix... i was thinking chips... as in fish n chips. stix and chips... lol

i bet few, if any, here on this site have ever had genuine English fish-n-chips like they made them in the late 50's/early 60's!!! i can assure you, them's was the good ol days! totally fantastic!

as kids, 4th grade, we almost always stopped at a fishNchips shop on our way to the swimming pool, once off the double decker... get a bag full of chips. Tuppence!!! 2-cents dash of vinegar, too....

a Shilling (12-cents then) would buy a swell meal... fishNchips. cod or haddock... or whatever else they had fresh from the N Atlantic...

Shilling back when...


buy a lot of hot, tasty fishNchips...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

More. More! We want more!!!

'No wood, No fire!!"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I don't think I've done anywhere close to that many loads in a day. I have pushed quite a few 700+ feet or more though when I scrounged from the neighbor's woods. Nicely done!

You'll hear the wrath from @Cowboy254 when he find out you forgot 5 pics. I won't tell him though.

i noticed a bit of British properness to his methods....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Gotta love captive nuts. I spend more time fiddling with my loose nuts then it took them to do the entire job

sure a lot of them running loose these days...

i would like to see more of them captive....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

enjoyed the cool pix! need to head out and twist some wrenches. try to get something done before the forcast storms hit! cleaned up the work area yesterday outside, etc. some of my tools are specialty items, matched pairs...

 

[svk]

sorry i missed it, MM! ~

did it make it to P/R? any one of the 2 AS now has...

Nothing juicy. He simply said who was responsible for the recent inflation and apparently the truth hurt someone.

 

[LondonNeil]

5 more today.

 

[H-Ranch]

5 more today.

Thanks to Neil for picking up my slack while I'm out. He's even rationing for you guys!

 

[SS396driver]

Only one load today . Be pulling wood out for next couple of weeks . Glad I’m retired

 

[sundance]

Only one load today . Be pulling wood out for next couple of weeks . Glad I’m retiredView attachment 980766View attachment 980767View attachment 980768

I envy y'all with all that nice equipment. Mine's pretty much all manual labor.

 

[MustangMike]

I hear ya, I have an ATV, a Pickup truck, some trailers, and wheelbarrows. I often skid logs out with the ATV.

 

[MustangMike]

I had lots of work scheduled for today ... and 6 more returns come in.

They get dropped off, they come in the mail, and by e-mail and fax.

Thankfully it is almost over, and I'm mostly caught up (except the one that was supposed to be here at 9 pm but got here at 10 pm!).

I'll have to work on it between my appointments tomorrow! It is a tough one with rental properties.