Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JustJeff]

Buffalo chips make a fire...just sayin. Lol

 

[tfp]

Especially if you're scrounging ironbark! I do like my peppermint for general burning but did get my hands on a black ironbark once that the neighbour had planted years before and took down and it was . Whereabouts are you, roughly?

Peppermint? Haven't heard of that one. The narrow-leaf ironbark I get feels like you've picked up a green round when it's dry and cracked up. The heat it puts out and the time it lasts in the fire is just crazy.

I'm in SE QLD, but I have access to hunt and get firewood on 12000 acres out near Stanthorpe. The last load I got cost around $200 in fuel (damn Landcruiser), but since I was out there to camp and hunt and enjoy the nature, that was all good. If I was going for firewood only i'd have to take out a small truck and use the vehicles on the property to collect the wood. It's been so saturated for so long out there you need a 4wd for the main tracks and can't go off them at all.

Bringing back a load with every camping trip works fine for the 3 days of winter we experience up here I'm doing some experiments with green wood this year, so i'm getting everything cut and stacked during Spring and see what it's like come Winter.

 

[Philbert]

Those kind go on what I call my "uglies pile" and burn first at the start of the heating season, crooks, knots, twists, shorts, longs - anything that won't stack decently. . I just did fed the last chunk of this years to the stove yesterday

‘Ugly’ still burns!

Philbert

 

[GrizG]

‘Ugly’ still burns!

Philbert

It does... I burned ugly stuff today that I wouldn't put in a fireplace or stove... punky ash and maple, eastern white pine, eastern red cedar, and small scraps that have been sitting in piles for 2-3 years along with the tops of the ice storm damaged maple trees. I was there well after dark tending to the fire. Today was the second day of burning... I'll need at least one more day to finish it off. The burning is happening as I am finally back to the ice storm damage clean up. This as the weather has cooled and the burn bans are canceled--we had drought conditions for months, now everything is soggy... I noodled the big maple rounds so I could drag them up the hill on a hand truck. The ground is so wet at the bottom of the hill where the wood was that I'd surely get a vehicle stuck. I burned the debris on top of a large stump/root swell that had standing water around it! Back in August I felled a storm damaged oak tree at a friend's house and he brought most of the wood over a week or so ago... about a 1/2 cord. There is more at his house if I want to buck it and get it.

It was good to be running my saws and log splitter again after more than two months off for travel and other chores!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It was really nice this afternoon, and my wife wanted to split a load of slab wood that came off the BSM, so we got started setting everything up,

She really likes running the splitter,

The "self unloading" trailer really works good for this!

There wasn't a lot on that load, but it was just plain a nice day to split wood and then go check out the woods,

I have another bigger load to split, but that's for another day!

SR

 

[chipper1]

Internet picture.

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Looks like it could be Michigan.
Regardless, they had it tied down and a flag on it, good to go .
Guessing it was a paid job, why else would you haul cottonwood anywhere other than the dump, then again maybe he was taking the load and the trailer there lol.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Now I can’t find it.

In my quest to find it I found this.

 

[chipper1]

Got the rest of that Poplar clean up this evening. There is some small stuff that he cut into about 8" pieces. I told him I'd get it this weekend. It's won't amount to much, and likely get burned outside. Last load we cleaned up all the noodles from splitting the rounds. Easily handled by the ms400 with the 24" b/c in it.
After I finished up, there was a package waiting for me! Cloggers showed up early, and they tossed a beanie in the box. Kinda bummed I didn't notice them earlier, but I'll be trying them out this weekend.

Those are sweet, I'd like a pair, or 5 .

Got the Maple brushed out, cut into firewood, and hauled out, my neighbor(same one I helped with the leaning locust) is pleased about all the firewood. Sure if he was on here he'd be saying he got the most awesome scrounge. He'd also probably say he's thankful I cheat with all that equipment . He's also probably happy his neighbor wanted it down .

I did the right stem yesterday, today the left and the main.
The modded 242xp with a 16" did the limbing, then the modded 372xp with a 24". You can see the 372 in this picture, thats as far as I was able to make it with it.


Then the ported 7900 with a 36", the 36 wasn't enough to reach across much of the main, but the 372 had no problem with what it couldn't reach after walking around.

Anyone want the willow to the right, the large part of that will be coming down next week. She wants to save the rest so it will sprout out, I asked if she was gonna call it a willow palm . Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it's going to kill me driving by it everyday.

 

[tfp]

Got the Maple brushed out, cut into firewood, and hauled out

Good job on the cleanup. That yard just got a heap more sun.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

It does... I burned ugly stuff today that I wouldn't put in a fireplace or stove... punky ash and maple, eastern white pine, eastern red cedar, and small scraps that have been sitting in piles for 2-3 years along with the tops of the ice storm damaged maple trees. I was there well after dark tending to the fire. Today was the second day of burning... I'll need at least one more day to finish it off. The burning is happening as I am finally back to the ice storm damage clean up. This as the weather has cooled and the burn bans are canceled--we had drought conditions for months, now everything is soggy... I noodled the big maple rounds so I could drag them up the hill on a hand truck. The ground is so wet at the bottom of the hill where the wood was that I'd surely get a vehicle stuck. I burned the debris on top of a large stump/root swell that had standing water around it! Back in August I felled a storm damaged oak tree at a friend's house and he brought most of the wood over a week or so ago... about a 1/2 cord. There is more at his house if I want to buck it and get it.

It was good to be running my saws and log splitter again after more than two months off for travel and other chores!

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I've been doing kind of the same thing. We are having a really nice and long lasting fall this year, so I'm trying to get a few jobs done around the place that I normally run out of time for, like cleaning up downed and standing dead trees on the property. I'm about half way done with the 1/4 mile of powerline right of way where everything got pushed to the side 3 years ago when we put power in. Anything thats decent is going into the wood shed I just built this year, and the rest is getting put into piles and burned.

I'm thinking about taking a break from all this tomorrow to go check on the logging site I've been cleaning up the last couple years for firewood. A buddy told me he had seen a bunch of people cutting back there when he went back with his boys a few weeks ago, and if thats the case I'm going to have to start scouting out a new spot.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I often come across brown bear bed's regularly in almost all the different strips of timber I cut, However, this one is particularly larger than normal!


A brown bear den on the other on the other hand. Is not that common to come across. About twenty yards away from the bears bed. I came across the bears den!


This particular brownie dug it's den underneath the root wad of an old windfall.

Cut safe, stay sharp, be aware and don't feed the bears!

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I often come across brown bear bed's regularly in almost all the different strips of timber I cut, However, this one is particularly larger than normal!
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A brown bear den on the other on the other hand. Is not that common to come across. About twenty yards away from the bears bed. I came across the bears den!
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This particular brownie dug it's den underneath the root wad of an old windfall. View attachment 1026051

Cut safe, stay sharp, be aware and don't feed the bears!

My dad logged south east alaska, mainly Prince Of Whales for about 35 years. Lots of bear stories, but I think my favorite is where the got to the site and one of the guys left the door open on a crew cab F350 and a pack of Oreos while they went into the office for a few mins. Came back out to six black bears in the truck, door shut, doors locked.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Black Birch has far more BTUs than White Birch. They are on opposite sides of Oak and Maple on the BTU charts.

I didn't know that! I figured they would be similar as far a BTU's. Then again, I'm not too familiar with hardwoods in regards to firewood. Nor did I know Alaska had Poplar/Aspen as there is none on the Island. The only hardwoods on the Island are black birch witch is very hard to find and sn abundance of black cotton wood. Witch around here, isn't good firewood at all, and we have a lot of shrub alder. The alder is great firewood, but a guys gotta spend a lot of time to cut a cord because its so small. I'll just stick to my forest fire curred big spruce snags. I think I've gotten a cord out of eight or ten rounds from the butt log a few times off some of the bigger snags! That works just fine for me!

This one yielded just over four cord. Or maybe it was just under four cord. But hey! Who's counting?


Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Squareground3691]

I didn't know that! I figured they would be similar as far a BTU's. Then again, I'm not too familiar with hardwoods in regards to firewood. Nor did I know Alaska had Poplar/Aspen as there is none on the Island. The only hardwoods on the Island are black birch witch is very hard to find and sn abundance of black cotton wood. Witch around here, isn't good firewood at all, and we have a lot of shrub alder. The alder is great firewood, but a guys gotta spend a lot of time to cut a cord because its so small. I'll just stick to my forest fire curred big spruce snags. I think I've gotten a cord out of eight or ten rounds from the butt log a few times off some of the bigger snags! That works just fine for me!

This one yielded just over four cord. Or maybe it was just under four cord. But hey! Who's counting?
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Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

Bone Dry

 

[JustJeff]

We got snow here yesterday. It melted right away but a wake up call that the old man is on his way. I've been burning Poplar for a week. Some of it almost punky and so light it feels like styrofoam. It's great for this time of year where I can light a small fire when I get up and two hours later, the stove is cold. House stays warm enough. Ash or maple would have the windows open!

 

[sean donato]

We got snow here yesterday. It melted right away but a wake up call that the old man is on his way. I've been burning Poplar for a week. Some of it almost punky and so light it feels like styrofoam. It's great for this time of year where I can light a small fire when I get up and two hours later, the stove is cold. House stays warm enough. Ash or maple would have the windows open!

Thats why I like Poplar. It's the perfect shoulder season wood. That and any shite little pine tree. Let em dry out good and toss them in. Few hours later they burn out and the house is nice and warm..

 

[MustangMike]

No snow, but we hit freezing here the last couple of days.

 

[Squareground3691]

No snow, but we hit freezing here the last couple of days.

Yup me too .

 

[chipper1]

Good job on the cleanup. That yard just got a heap more sun.

Thanks.
She was on the way out, and the owner was pleased, especially when she saw what it looked like inside .

 

[chipper1]

I often come across brown bear bed's regularly in almost all the different strips of timber I cut, However, this one is particularly larger than normal!
View attachment 1026047View attachment 1026046

A brown bear den on the other on the other hand. Is not that common to come across. About twenty yards away from the bears bed. I came across the bears den!
View attachment 1026050

This particular brownie dug it's den underneath the root wad of an old windfall. View attachment 1026051

Cut safe, stay sharp, be aware and don't feed the bears!

So browns like stihls? Lol .

My dad logged south east alaska, mainly Prince Of Whales for about 35 years. Lots of bear stories, but I think my favorite is where the got to the site and one of the guys left the door open on a crew cab F350 and a pack of Oreos while they went into the office for a few mins. Came back out to six black bears in the truck, door shut, doors locked.

That's some funny stuff.
Bet they never did that again.