Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

If the price of lumber stays high through next winter I’m going to buy a mill and teach my son to mill the lumber. I’ve got a number of projects on hold but I’m not going to get raped at the lumberyard to get them completed.

You and me both. Was going to start building a shop this spring, but prices were nearly double what they were last year and that was high from the year before.

 

[GrizG]

Still a lot of clutter but it’s coming along! It was SUPER humid that’s why the floor is wet.

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This and my parents' 4 car 2 story garage, with another 2 cars worth of storage on the ends, is why I refuse to have more space... Yes my woodworking shop is cramped at times for big projects but it holds a finite amount of stuff. That means I have to get rid of stuff instead of storing it in perpetuity. For example, I really need to get all the chainsaws and the pole saw out of there and into the equipment shed, the chainsaw pants are dry and can be taken down, the dog crate can go in the store room, all the clamps need to be put back in their place, etc., while I'm working on the natural edge walnut slab counter top. That slab had/has a lot of tension in it and I had to rip it lengthwise to stop the cupping. Then there was a new crack and twisting... it's flat now. I hope it stays that way! The scrap walnut will be firewood! The ends will be cut to fit in the wall opening so much of the left side of the ends in the image with the highly figured end will be removed. I plan to make a template this week so I can cut the top to fit. Note that sanding swarf and shadows are giving the surface some odd looking spots that aren't really there!

while I'm working on the

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Looks like Alaska is a great place to fell trees, wide open and not much brush work. I'm usually felling in dense hardwoods, oak maple and popple. Alot of brush work on trees here in michigan.

Make no mistake! These Spruce snags Are being fell in an old clear cut. That's why it is such open country. When I get back to work. I will definitely be posting felling pics of steep ground, thick stands of timber, and forests of live standing OG Sitka Spruce. The pic's I've been posting felling snags are very close to home and simply fire wood pictures of "the scrounge" All the snags I fall are used for personal firewood in my community for some of my neighbors (mostly the elder neighbors) and I. I don't sell a stick of it! Although I should as plentyful as it is. Just recently I actually planned on to start salvage logging the burn for commercial firewood sale. That's why I was looking into a 50 plus hp tractor or bigger along with some other firewood processing equipment. Then I got a call to go back to work cutting timber professionally!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Still a lot of clutter but it’s coming along! It was SUPER humid that’s why the floor is wet.

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Nice and spacious! Wish I had built mine bigger. They are never big enough, regardless of size. They eventually fill up one way or another!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I’m sure you’ve mentioned it, but what killed these trees?

A 5000 acre burn.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Nice and spacious! Wish I had built mine bigger. They are never big enough, regardless of size. They eventually fill up one way or another!

Back when I built pole barns everyone I built them for said they wished they had gone bigger.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I’m sure you’ve mentioned it, but what killed these trees?

A 5000 acre burn

This and my parents' 4 car 2 story garage, with another 2 cars worth of storage on the ends, is why I refuse to have more space... Yes my woodworking shop is cramped at times for big projects but it holds a finite amount of stuff. That means I have to get rid of stuff instead of storing it in perpetuity. For example, I really need to get all the chainsaws and the pole saw out of there and into the equipment shed, the chainsaw pants are dry and can be taken down, the dog crate can go in the store room, all the clamps need to be put back in their place, etc., while I'm working on the natural edge walnut slab counter top. That slab had/has a lot of tension in it and I had to rip it lengthwise to stop the cupping. Then there was a new crack and twisting... it's flat now. I hope it stays that way! The scrap walnut will be firewood! The ends will be cut to fit in the wall opening so much of the left side of the ends in the image with the highly figured end will be removed. I plan to make a template this week so I can cut the top to fit. Note that sanding swarf and shadows are giving the surface some odd looking spots that aren't really there!

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Gorgeous!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

If the price of lumber stays high through next winter I’m going to buy a mill and teach my son to mill the lumber. I’ve got a number of projects on hold but I’m not going to get raped at the lumberyard to get them completed.

got a new phrase here around my camp: "guess i can do without that!"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Looks like Alaska is a great place to fell trees, wide open and not much brush work. I'm usually felling in dense hardwoods, oak maple and popple. Alot of brush work on trees here in michigan.

I Alaska pix!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It wasn't too bad. I think it was about 85°F. There was a pretty decent breeze and it was overcast until about 1:30. I went back home at about 2:30 so I was in the A/C for the rest of the day.

98f here by 4 pm today!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

There either manual push!

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Or there is power assist! View attachment 996105

There is no in-between! I recommend power assist because overloads are much easier to "handle"!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

lots of wheels on that wb.... H-R!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Today was supposed to be a fishing day. The open water forecast called for thick fog and 3'-5' waves. Lake Winnebago would've been rough with this wind also so no fishing.

I decided I would clean up the flower beds that my wife so desperately wanted and promised to take care of.
To be fair she does take care of our kids! I think the flower beds are easier! I ran 4 tanks through the KM110R. I bed edged, string trimmed and blew out the beds. I also string trimmed around the buildings for the first time this year.
It was a productive day.

but!!!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

lots of wheels on that wb.... H-R!

Just how I like a wheel barrow too!

 

[GrizG]

A 5000 acre burn

Gorgeous!!!

Thanks! Though I cannot lay claim to designing the crotch in that walnut tree.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Honda big red 3 wheeler my tool of choice. View attachment 996112View attachment 996114

WOW looks like a logging truck from early lumberjacking days....

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I Alaska pix!!!

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Ahhhhh! Denali!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Just how I like a wheel barrow too!

lol, i don't do wb's with only one wheel!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Dang bro!
Is that front tire on backwards, asking for others in this thread .

thank you chipper!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Works great been very impressed with it .

i have worked in wood/cabinet shops and we would measure the thickness... and plane sand it down... .002 each pass to 'file to fit!'

 

[Kodiak Kid]

lol, i don't do wb's with only one wheel!!!

Me neither. Those are for the Mrs. and her garden!