Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

I heated my house for 25 years with wood, and split by hand every year but one, the one is when they delivered Elm to me. I could not split it by hand, so I rented a splitter, and it would still not split that Elm. Ended up noodling it with the 044, and told them to never give me Elm again!

 

[USMC615]

The guy down the street is selling a couple of lots. On Monday they cut every tree on the lot and chipped the whole works while I was at work. I don't know why these developers cut down every tree on a lot including healthy, desirable species not in the building footprint. They then build a spec house and then pay to put in expensive nursery trees.

...that same asinine approach is found everywhere when it comes to developers and builders. Around here, they'll make lots look like barren wasteland with a turd spec house sitting on it, only to backfill the yard with a few Bradford pear trees and hit and miss with boxwoods or azaleas so it looks like the beginnings of a flower bed.

 

[farmer steve]

with it feeling like fall here i figured i pull the splitter out and work on some of last winters scrounge. mostly white oak with a little bit of ash. i'm still using my buddies DHT 22 T splitter and it does a fine job.

 

[wudpirat]

Oh, the joy of splitting Elm.
My advice is use a hydro and wear heavy work gloves.

As you were, carry on.

 

[mainewoods]

Been raining off and on since last Friday. 5 inches in the rain gauge, as of yesterday. It finally stopped this morning, and needless to say the woods are soaking wet. American beech, white ash and sugar maple are gonna be hitting the ground hard, starting tomorrow.

 

[mainewoods]

Starting right here and heading for that ridge.

 

[dancan]

Low 40's , been cold and wet here for 4 days , almost dry today , still keeping a fire all day with scrounged up spruce and pine from last year but it's soon to run out , might have to dip into this years spf pile before it starts to warm up .
Still changing winter tires to summers at the shop every day ......

 

[dancan]

I've even culled a fencepost or two into the furnace LOL

 

[Philbert]

I helped a friend remove some large limbs from his roof. Put the big pieces in my station wagon, but did not fill it up like Dancan or Ambull01, so no photos of the wood. Got to use a lot of toys though!

Philbert

 

[SteveSS]

On Monday they cut every tree on the lot and chipped the whole works while I was at work.

They do it here too, except they use a dozer and knock everything down and push it into a pile and strike a match. If you're lucky you can slide in on a weekend before they burn it and haul out a truck load or two.

 

[Philbert]

When I lived/worked up the UP, we would visit the slash piles left behind by lumber companies. They would leave them until winter to burn, and the locals would help themselves to stove wood, etc. Things were a bit more casual then, and if you left the pile as neat as you found it, and did not threaten to sue anyone, no one complained.

Philbert

 

[JB Weld]

They do it here too, except they use a dozer and knock everything down and push it into a pile and strike a match. If you're lucky you can slide in on a weekend before they burn it and haul out a truck load or two.

Same here in AR. I drove by a few massive piles on the way home today.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Have been super busy lately fellas. Making a bit of money too. Going to buy a mason dump and a skid steer this month. Skid steer this weekend and the dump probably by the 15th. And I have a about 10 giant hard maples at my buddies house that I have to take down. Gonna let me process them there then haul it to my house in splits. Skid steer comes with two buckets, york rake, snow plow and extra parts. Super excited, tired, and anxious to make more money!

 

[Philbert]

Going to buy a mason dump and a skid steer this month. Skid steer this weekend . . . Super excited, . . .

Who knew that life on the skids could be exciting?

(Congrats!)

Philbert

 

[benp]

When I lived/worked up the UP, we would visit the slash piles left behind by lumber companies. They would leave them until winter to burn, and the locals would help themselves to stove wood, etc. Things were a bit more casual then, and if you left the pile as neat as you found it, and did not threaten to sue anyone, no one complained.

Philbert

Once the said "permit" is acquired we do the same here. We have found/pulled some amazing things out of those piles.

It is kind of cheating when you drag a skid steer along with you to the site though.

@dancan, I'd be quiet about the fence posts. Some might need their fainting couch after reading that. Just saying.....

 

[MechanicMatt]

Hey Clint, you back to 100%?

 

[nomad_archer]

farmer steve you got a good buddy if you still have his splitter. I treat my splitter like my saw no one uses them unless I am there. To many knuckle heads out there. The only buddy I would give my equipment to is a professional arborist and well he has his own toys to play with.

 

[JB Weld]

farmer Steve you got a good buddy if you still have his splitter. I treat my splitter like my saw no one uses them unless I am there. To many knuckle heads out there. The only buddy I would give my equipment to is a professional arborist and well he has his own toys to play with.

I currently have my splitter loaned out to a buddy of mine. The deal is "You break it, You fix it". I am very picky about who I loan it to.

He is on notice though.....It will be back at my place on July 1. I have some big rounds to bust up and that trashy old Elm I scrounged.

 

[nomad_archer]

The deal is "You break it, You fix it".

Isn't that always the deal. Problem is lots of people don't want to fix it after they break it.

 

[farmer steve]

farmer steve you got a good buddy if you still have his splitter. I treat my splitter like my saw no one uses them unless I am there. To many knuckle heads out there. The only buddy I would give my equipment to is a professional arborist and well he has his own toys to play with.

and he has my ms 290 and a couple of my wrenches. he's my firewood cutter/helper in the winter.