Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Brufab]

I decided today to go out and get a load. I was supposed to work on cutting up my pile, splitting it, and filling the wood shed, but after I got back from town for a post office run, I decided heck with it, the truck was already warm, the snow isn't that deep yet and it was in the 20s and sunny so I'll go get a load to put in the wood shed.

I went back to one of my favorite firewood spots and someone with about 15 kids as been in there and pretty much cleaned it out, and left a big mess which bothers me because I like to leave my sites very neat.

Either way, this was probably The last load from that spot. Not the biggest load I've hauled, but I cant really load the truck very much because the driver side of the bed is only held on with hopes and dreams at this point.

I didn't take any pics of the full load for whatever reason but here are a few pics from my day.

That set of bear tracks was from this morning, looks like a decent sized black bear.

4wd on the ol superduty was making some clunking when engaged so I need to look at that.

Now to go finish splitting that load.

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That birch is gigantic atleast around where I'm at.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

cant carry a lot with that FLAT tire!!!!!!

Dozer doesn't and won't even know it's flat!!

SR

 

[Kodiak Kid]

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One of the bummer about converting round to square is that you loose a good portion of your cutter if you lessen the top plate angle, which I do because it holds up better in hardwoods and for work chains.
The way Mike is describing is the best way to not waste the cutter and thus get the most usage out of your chains, and to get a fast efficient & very smooth cutting chain.
I have a few more square chains to grind, if I remember I'll grab a round chain and take some pictures converting a cutter over to what I like for a work grind. I'd much rather grind them with the price they are getting for files right now, it's ridiculous how much they've gone up, sure hope it's transitory .

I'd appreciate some pics at your convenience Chipper.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

That birch is gigantic atleast around where I'm at.

Ive got a few up at the front of that load that was taking all of my 28" bar. I always put the biggest ones on first. We do get some nice birch around here, but most of it is usually sub 10" which is good because that stuff is freaking heavy.

 

[Vtrombly]

The echo doesn't make much Sawdust compared to the remingtons the saw log piles, all on 1 72lgx070G never touched it up, we even had to sweep all the fine dust and dirt the best we could off all the logs from all the dust that blew on them while my dad's house was being built on for 2 years and all the rotten decaying leavesView attachment 1027228

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Wow I thought you had that stuff down because of that huge pile of splits you had but there is still a ton of logs yet to go.

 

[Brufab]

Wow I thought you had that stuff down because of that huge pile of splits you had but there is still a ton of logs yet to go.

Those were pics from a few weeks ago, it's all split. But posted 'in the spirit of the thread' I had saw logs, saw dust, and stacked splits we cut all those logs and I could of raked up all the sawdust and I doubt it would equal what I made today with 8 or 9 20-22" cookies with the 404 063 chains.

 

[Captain Bruce]

Osage is near the best.

S.W. Ontario. Born and raised in the coastal forest of Lake Erie.......we have plenty of Blue Beech, with the rippled muscle trunks. Its the Osage Orange that hooked me. There is a specimen 4 miles down the road, thats a tower. We gather the twig fall, and blow-down limbs every Labour Day. They get saved for Thanksgiving Eve, in the Rumley Fireplace.....

 

[chipper1]

Watch till the end lol.

 

[turnkey4099]

Well that's brilliant and I never would have thought of that in a million years.

I found that many many years ago right here on this site.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I think the hottest wood I ever burned was wild Bradford Pear. It was difficult to ID so I'm not 100% on the name. Small trees scattered in the woods next to my house, the largest was about 4" at the base. I killed them with Triclopyr and left them standing but they never rot or fell over, just got rock hard. When burning they held their shape until the very end and glowed an intense orange. The rounds reminded me of nuclear reactor rods in my stove.

mesquite for me! i like cedar, too. gets quite hot!! that is why i scrounge cedar fence boards. and when doing work around my place, keep any cedar boards. then chainsaw them to abou 10" or so and camp axe into kindling... i also keep a trug of cedar #2'... for when and if mr Brutus gives me a bit of a cold fire. that cedar is just like the primer bulb on a saw... i scrounged the cedar... from up along the county line. good stuff, i do like it.

for me, mesquite is more so for cooking. i have about 5 acres of it...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It’s got a nice pop to it

i bet! and by the looks of it, it won't metal fatigue any time soon!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I bet it's an ear ringer .
Welcome to AS Terry.

Didn't look like it would it would be a problem, not like it was a small opening concentrating the exhaust towards the saw, well at least not any worse than many stihls do.

prob has? steel wool in it and an internal mesh wire to keep the noise down!!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I wish I could say that. My trees keep dying and I would rather have them on the ground then up in the air being a danger.

i bet we got plenty on the ground in the morning. limbs! we got a nasty front, high winds roaring thru rite now. i just raked the yard of the pine needles... few days ago. will have to do it again! and its not even pine needle season yet...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That's how I feel about all the junk mulberry, red oak, white oak, maple, cherry, hackberry, I'll keep a few around; but man, that black locust .

hackberry! mess up a fence line like too fast. and no fun to remove....

don't ask my how i know!!

they only get bigger!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

The main issue I have with Beech is they just don't drop their leaves they turn brown and just stay there!

If you have one near your stand, you will know what I mean. You often can't see what is on the other side of it.

sounds like Beech is a beech!!! lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You can send all the oak , cherry, maple my way Brett I’ll take it . Lol

lol i was just thinking as i read his post... not sure i have ever seen any oak i did not like !

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Didn't you get 23 pms asking you to send your email so you could get one, or the 21 pms asking for your support(read cash)and then you could be a supporting member.
I was thinking maybe we could see if we can get him one of the old AS hats .

you mean there is an AS store???

tonite's news shows the Astros' store all but sold out!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

They don't make chainsaw files anymore. I still have a few laying around myself as well.

guess i am going to be glad i got some extra Stihl chain files last time i was buying Sithl bars n chains....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

They (actually I ) did exactly that years ago when we added the Cooking Forum. The thread dried on the vine over there because the people who only visited the Off Topic forum wouldn't go to the Cooking forum. After foundering for a couple of years it was moved back to OT. I believe that was during your hiatus.

hi svk. well, i remember when the Cooking Forum was added. but did not know that the thread bounced between the two. it seems all but dead over in OT. folks still using cast iron, but guess not many eat dinner...

but for me, its like HH... dinner is not to be missed! lol thanks for the update.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

it might be back?

oic; sounds like the thread has a more liberal formality about it...