Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JustJeff]

An arborist friend of mine uses a 261 as his climbing saw. I was giving him the gears about it and he said he cut himself one too many times with a small top handle.

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[GrizG]

My project for my sportsmen's club's clubhouse continues... Following are some walnut window stools (go inside the building... sills are outside!) that are ready to install. There are also a couple shots of a 10/4 walnut slab that I'm starting to flatten with a scrub plane. It's about 20" wide and 6 1/2' long. When the dimensioning is done I'll finish it like the window stools. I think I did okay with the stools as everyone who was there when I delivered them to the club house kept touching them and making favorable comments. A couple woman said they were nicer than any furniture they owned... thus putting pressure on their hubbies.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

My project for my sportsmen's club's clubhouse continues... Following are some walnut window stools (go inside the building... sills are outside!) that are ready to install. There are also a couple shots of a 10/4 walnut slab that I'm starting to flatten with a scrub plane. It's about 20" wide and 6 1/2' long. When the dimensioning is done I'll finish it like the window stools. I think I did okay with the stools as everyone who was there when I delivered them to the club house kept touching them and making favorable comments. A couple woman said they were nicer than any furniture they owned... thus putting pressure on their hubbies.

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Wow, that’s a ton o work!
id have just run it through the 25” sander, lol

 

[GrizG]

Wow, that’s a ton o work!
id have just run it through the 25” sander, lol

This stage goes pretty quick. I'm taking off thick shavings with the scrub plane... they have a thick iron with a convex iron and were commonly used by carpenters to "fix" framing issues back in the solid wood and lathe and plaster days. I use an old wooden carpenter's scrub plane to flatten studs prior to hanging rock. They come in handy for tasks like flattening rough cut slabs too... I'll use a jack next, then a jointer and then a smoother. The bottom will only see the scrub and jack.

Lie-Nielson scrub iron


The carpenter's scrub I use for framing touch ups.


Note the radiused iron. The sole is quite rough but it doesn't matter. This tool is for rough work!

 

[turnkey4099]

You're not having a great run this past week or two. At least it sounds like you got to cut something today.

Looks like I will be out there mosdt of the week now. Tomorrow for sure but Wed is looking shaky. Rest of the week is clear weather. I'll either haul another load to my 6 cord customer or cut on the willow bush. I found a good tree that is horizontal to the ground not dead and should yield close to a full load with almost no brushing needed. Just walk along bucking it as I go. main log is around 5' from the ground.

 

[timsmcm]

Wow, that’s a ton o work!
id have just run it through the 25” sander, lol

That's blasphemy telling a hand tool worker to use power tools. Dangerous i tell you. His head could have exploded.

 

[GrizG]

That's blasphemy telling a hand tool worker to use power tools. Dangerous i tell you. His head could have exploded.

No worries, I have a full assortment of hand tools, corded hand tools and stationary tools... I don't however have a jointer or thickness planner big enough for that walnut slab. I could bring it to one of several of my associates' commercial shops--one has a 30" jointer and 36" planner, not sure of the size of the ones at the other shop but they are big too! However, overall I think it will take me less time to prep the stock by hand and I don't have to work around their shop schedules. Besides, I haven't done any big pieces in a while so it's fun. Also, I ended up with big stationary tools in the past because I found myself taking on projects that overloaded the machines I had... Not sure if this will prompt me to find an aircraft carrier size jointer or not, but it may.

 

[MustangMike]

My work is more rustic and meant to look like it was not done by mechanical machines.

When I mill with the chainsaw, I try to go back and forth left to right as much as possible. It makes it easier on the saw and leaves a more interesting pattern.

I only belt sand it enough to not get splinters, I never fully remove the saw marks.

After all it is "Mustang Mike's Chainsaw Wood Furniture"!

 

[SS396driver]

Couple hour scrounge today . Went into the woods at the farm because they were having a horse thing today and needed the paddock I cut through to drag out logs . So an easy load . I have at least two more already bucked to load tomorrow.

 

[svk]

Hey guys. Scrounged up couple of hogs in Georgia and I’m on my way home now. Should be home tonight barring the weather. Girlfriend texted me and there is supposed to be several inches of snow in my neck of the woods over the next several hours.

I scrounged quite a bit of brass when I was down there too. I’m amazed at how many people don’t reload or even save the brass for someone who does. This pile is only about half of what I scrounged. And about 75% of it is not .223! I’ve got a case cleaner as well so this stuff will be looking good soon!

 

[svk]

It looks like I got a real good reason (or maybe 50 of them) to buy a 300 blackout upper now lol

 

[turnkey4099]

Looks like I will be out there mosdt of the week now. Tomorrow for sure but Wed is looking shaky. Rest of the week is clear weather. I'll either haul another load to my 6 cord customer or cut on the willow bush. I found a good tree that is horizontal to the ground not dead and should yield close to a full load with almost no brushing needed. Just walk along bucking it as I go. main log is around 5' from the ground.

Well that went sideways in a hurry. Truck came back from the shop day before so I loaded all the wooding tools and headed out to the willow bush this morning. didn't make 3 miles when the oil pressue started down. Turn around and back home with the warnings and lights coming on as I was almost home. WTF? That i why I sent it to the shop to be fixed. Odd dthat they didn't know it wasnt' working as my place is 4 miles out of town. That should have happened before they even got here.

Called them to pick it up again. Put all the tools back in the car and went out to work on a nice tree that is horizontal to the ground the full lenght. I can't see the main stem as the "top" where branches split out was sticking out of some kind of thorn bush = not wild rose, this st uff has nasty thorns about an inch long with stems 6-8' long and branches all tangled up. 3 hours and dead tired but the top all done and around 1/2 load of rounds. Branches were mostly big and I bucked probably over 80' of them just walking along dropping them. Never had a tree so cooperative before. last rounds were approaching 20".

I dunno what I am going to do about the thorne brushl. Try to pile it and te pile will be 8' tall after only a few stems.

 

[SS396driver]

I love cut and burn wood . Should have a full truckload if it tomorrow. On my way out I cut up a huge dead fallen oak that was off the ground no bark big ass drying cracks some of the rounds split by themselves as I cut them . I took some small stuff for tonight . Also some real dry what I believe to be hickory . Had to get some wheelbarrow action shots

 

[SS396driver]

The wood was so dry I quartered it up and was able to put it in the back of the bed by myself .

 

[ozark52]

That wood is as good as it gets. I did a little over 4 cords of oak like that this spring.

 

[bob kern]

No worries, I have a full assortment of hand tools, corded hand tools and stationary tools... I don't however have a jointer or thickness planner big enough for that walnut slab. I could bring it to one of several of my associates' commercial shops--one has a 30" jointer and 36" planner, not sure of the size of the ones at the other shop but they are big too! However, overall I think it will take me less time to prep the stock by hand and I don't have to work around their shop schedules. Besides, I haven't done any big pieces in a while so it's fun. Also, I ended up with big stationary tools in the past because I found myself taking on projects that overloaded the machines I had... Not sure if this will prompt me to find an aircraft carrier size jointer or not, but it may.

I appreciate both. I have hand planes, draw knifes bit and brace etc. and use them. Love my power tools tho too. There is a place for both. I see it necessary to keep hand tool skills alive.

 

[timsmcm]

Hey guys. Scrounged up couple of hogs in Georgia and I’m on my way home now. Should be home tonight barring the weather. Girlfriend texted me and there is supposed to be several inches of snow in my neck of the woods over the next several hours.

I scrounged quite a bit of brass when I was down there too. I’m amazed at how many people don’t reload or even save the brass for someone who does. This pile is only about half of what I scrounged. And about 75% of it is not .223! I’ve got a case cleaner as well so this stuff will be looking good soon!
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That's as good as money in the bank my good man.

 

[bob kern]

My project for my sportsmen's club's clubhouse continues... Following are some walnut window stools (go inside the building... sills are outside!) that are ready to install. There are also a couple shots of a 10/4 walnut slab that I'm starting to flatten with a scrub plane. It's about 20" wide and 6 1/2' long. When the dimensioning is done I'll finish it like the window stools. I think I did okay with the stools as everyone who was there when I delivered them to the club house kept touching them and making favorable comments. A couple woman said they were nicer than any furniture they owned... thus putting pressure on their hubbies.

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Nice work sir!

 

[Be Stihl]

I love cut and burn wood . Should have a full truckload if it tomorrow. On my way out I cut up a huge dead fallen oak that was off the ground no bark big ass drying cracks some of the rounds split by themselves as I cut them . I took some small stuff for tonight . Also some real dry what I believe to be hickory . Had to get some wheelbarrow action shots View attachment 982699View attachment 982700View attachment 982701View attachment 982702View attachment 982703

That oak has a head start on seasoning, nice. That last picture looks just like the shag bark hickory around here.


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[GrizG]

Nice work sir!

Thank you!