Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Holy crap, I'm rich, I'm rich!!!Well, not exactly, but I do still have a few PFERD square files left from the dozen I purchased several years ago.I've used a few, and given some to relatives and friends, but luckily still have a few new ones left!Glad I've always horded things ... bullets, gunpowder, chainsaw files and chain, saws, etc.

Everything seems to cost a lot more now.

me, too! lol... i only regret it when something does hit the trash, and the next day... could have used that!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

And 22 rimfire!

I used to get 1,000 large rifle primers for under $15.-, now you are lucky if you can find them for $150.-!!!

that's right! i still got a couple LR .22 boxes/500 i got at WalMart when they had a Guns & Ammo dept...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I’ll be down a few days . Was working the pile yesterday stepped on a piece of bark with moss on it . Wet moss is like ice went down and hurt my left hand and elbow . Nothing broken but hurts like hell . Glad I was just moving rounds and not cutting .

Have been working on my truck almost ready to scrounge wood with it . View attachment 1027078View attachment 1027079
These caps are extreamly rare . I paid $675 for 4 NOS 3 years ago . I could just about double my investment if I sell them .
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And a shot a few days ago .
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i was wondering how your truck was going? after that DIY paint job! i got a lil chevy 6 i built... i won't go into all the details, but will comment: it has a full length crank oil scraper in it... and the piston come above the block's deck!

truck looks great! nice colors, stock i am guessing.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I'm rich too lol.
I have quite a few files in my "inventory ", this is a few packages that were on the bench. The good thing is I also have the grinders. If I didn’t flush cut any stumps I could do a lot of cutting just with the chains I have that are new or ready to go, I still need to stock up on the picco chain though, I hate buying them because they are more than what I've paid for my standard 3/8x72dl, even more than many of the 84dl . The good thing is they do last a long time for me .
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i like files! got oodles. hard to do good metal work without files. i got big uns... down to fine Swiss files... wood rasps, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Sorry about the injury.
The truck looks great, can't wait to see a video of you guys tossing wood into it .

like a water pail fire brigade line....

' don't mar the (my) varnished wood!'

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

@pdqdl please do not do this....see previous post.

why not? or start a new one? a dinner post now n then surely can't hurt.. maybe we could do:

What's For Dinner? (and other stuff)

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Scrounged some maple and oak on the side of the road. Also got to try out my new light bar, balanced out great. I believe this saw is my favorite. Big enough for bucking and noodling but not too big for lighter work. View attachment 1027088

really?! all that just lying on side of road?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

@Sawyer Rob
So, a "self-unloading" trailer ? _ _ an old manure spreader ?
hahahaha

Anyways peeps,
I've got seven (7-ugh) chords of grey pine split and covered for winter. Wife and I have a drafty fireplace insert that we've been using now for 10-years. Geesh, the 10 sure flew by.
The wife runs hot, and I run cold, therefore i freeze my tush or wear long-johns. Can only chase the wife until out of breath, and she is agile as a deer.

The clutch in my older husky 394xp was so worn a spring fell out when I had the saw on side after a horiz cut to fall a dead redwood.
That spring lodged between clutch and cover and really raised a rukus with smoke billlowing. I smoked the cover through falling the dead nuisance tree.

I gave the above incident some thought, and headed to the saw shop to order some pieces and parts to nurse the saw further.
By chance, there happened to be a new Husky 395xp power head on the saw shelf, so without hesitation, I bought it w a 36" bar.

My son, age 33, got to cut the first chord worth of 28" pine rounds.
He sure tips them into the low stock trailer with ease.
I have not cut a chord of rounds yet with my new 395, but from what I have used it so far, my conclusion is:
_ _ _ I should have purchased a new saw 20-years ago instead of always nurse-maiding 30-yr old saws like 2100cd's & 394xp.

All in fun.

So hey, y'all, I spruced up the front driveline on my Ford E250 Van.

nicely done! bet it looks cool spinning! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yup! and if I ever get over my lazy spell, I'll have my "supersized, self unloading" trailer ready!! lol

SR

WOW! should do well off road, off grid with that snazzy tow truck!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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

bet that tow truck won't even notice. i had to work on air in flat tires today. big rigs, small rigs flat tires suck!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It is working just fine on my computer.

retried, not selectable. not in ur post nor in a reply. i guess i can just analog on over. what forum is it in? Firewood?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Is possible, but I tend to leave things alone unless I get a report. SVK seems to think that would serve no good purpose.
Myself, I read there often. I'm pretty convinced you regularly eat better than I do on special occasions.

well, i see no reason not to have such a thread over in the Cooking Forum. some threads show up...

>SVK seems to think that would serve no good purpose.

did he get promoted? [lol] i don't think no DELETE button in GM ck in severs any good purpse, too. he din't say that! he just asked u not to. some threads pop up and one wonders if there will even be a reply. then bit later past 10 pages...

seems simple enuff

Cooking and Recipes
-What's For Dinner (New)

no need to move anything...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Cut the logs into 8' lengths and loaded them up. Let me tell you loading 8' logs by yourself is murder.

sounds like RR ties!!! maybe worse....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You think that's gonna stop that dozer, or Rob

that's what i was thinking, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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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nice pix! looks like freeze up is bit like that river... just upahead and round the corner!

 

[Cowboy254]

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.

Stanthorpe, eh? Cowgirl is from Toowoomba which she reckons has the climate that is the closest to Victoria in all of Queensland, and she could be right.

Yep, peppermint, narrow and broad leaf, named for the smell you get when you crush the leaves. Nice firewood, very little ash and easy to cut and split. About 800kg/m density. Very common around here but drive 50km up the road and the trees are all different.

I love ironbark. There is some a bit to the north of us but unless you own the property it grows on, it is difficult to get. The state forests it grows in are generally not allowed to be scrounged from so you can't really get it. To illustrate for our northern scroungers, post a pic of a bit of ironbark in a wheelbarrow full of water to demonstrate the BTUs contained therein.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

FOR THE THREAD FELLAS
(Helped my dad get a few cords stacked today)
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And since I didn't get a deer or a turkey last Saturday, I still managed to scrounge up some meat
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hi Bf- in chekcing ur wood pile, i did not see one stix out of place! i like those T-post ends. i got similar for my pecan. moved the rack so did some prep work to the rust in the slide on ends. rust converter. that went well.

wondering - how do u put up all that meat? wrap it in freezer paper? i thawed out some venison pan sausage today for dinner tonite. i wondered if it would be bit flat. it was some of the best meat i have ever eated! very tasty. so tasty... i plan to mis the rest of it with beef burger and make burgers n fries with it. i still have half left of the package... and 2 maybe 3 in the freezer. plan to 50/50 all of it... venison pan sausage, yard egss, warmed over poppers and potato chunk fries! umm i mean

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Out with the old, in with the new...I got a new used wood stove, the best part is that it was free. It's a Jotul F500, which seems like a pretty nice wood stove from what I've researched. It's a lot nicer than the old Earthstove that it replaced. It's pretty air-tight and has a side door in addition to the glass door. That's a pretty nice feature and says it can take 24" long pieces.

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The old Earthstove put out a ton of heat, but didn't seal up that well. It was also designed for a 7" pipe and I modified it for 6". The reduction in size meant it took awhile to build a draft. It also wasn't the best for leaving you a bed of coals in the morning. I'll keep it for now and possible install it into my shop if/when I expand that building.View attachment 1027185

real nice S_r! i like it....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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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definitely thread theme appropriate... and stuff! the yard reminds me a bit of wcc's ops...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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

SR

what did he say? the dozer won't have any flats!!