Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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MustangMike said:
Delivered another cord this morning, and the customer is happy with the wood. She also wants me to take down two dead Ash trees for her, they are on a steep hill above her house. Luckily, both can be dropped in safe directions. Never hurts to score some addl work!

And best of all, I was given permission to hunt the property. It is in a high end area of horse farms and estates, lots of deer, but a tough place to find permission to hunt. I'm stoked!

On the home front, too much going on! The garden has been producing beans, broccoli and tomatoes on a regular basis. I installed a new sliding door off the deck, but the trim inside & out needs to be reworked. We are replacing the old Formica counter tops with granite on Monday, and the well has been erratic, so that is also going deeper on Monday, a big expense, but I figured it was coming so I planned for it. We are currently down 605', So I will have them go to at least 1,000 and see how things are. Two neighbors have very good wells between 1,000 & 1,200 ft, another scored well at 600 ft, but another one had to go 1,600 to hit. Very expensive to go that deep. Most drillers don't like to go past 1,000, and won't go past 1,200.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, this ain't gonna be cheap and there is no guarantee of success!

My son in law started rehab today to help recover from his heart attack, and things seem to be going as well as could be expected on that front.

I get a yield like this from the garden every two days. The Plumb tomatoes are near endless, and the Beefstakes have been yielding recently also.
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Wow, my well is 65' deep here, we hit water at 20'.
 
jakewells said:
you can scrounge the fence row but it comes with problems mowed a bank owned property today has not been mowed all year and i though i would scrounge on the property for any wood. all i found was this and they were not happy with me.
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Wait till winter, snuff 'em out. That would make a fine mount on any wall. Looks to be a good size nest. I've ran across a many of 'em in the deer woods here in mid Ga. A few of my brothers have big nests mounted on their walls. They look awesome intermixed with waterfowl, deer, and wild hog mounts.
 
USMC615 said:
That's an awful shallow aquifer tapped into. Are there any planted fields close, nearby that get sprayed with adjuvants, herbicides, miticides, etc? That's literally rain water/surface water shallow.
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Not necessarily surface water. My 200 foot deep well taps into a several counties wide aquifer. After the drillers broke through the hard surface area the well filled back to only about 60 feet deep when they were pumping it out at 20 gpm. I am near the top of a small hill with people 50 feet lower than my ground. If they hit the aquifer at the same elevation they would have a well filled to within 10 feet of the surface once they broke through. My soil is a heavy clay near the surface and water just does not penetrate it.
 
A lot of surface water near me, almost like underground streams, but they don't want you drinking it (like everyone did in the past). They want you to use an artesian well, my casing (which goes down to bed rock) is 110' (if memory serves me right). Originally hit at 525' (5 GPM), and they drilled to 605. My static level was 200', but that was almost 30 years ago, the water table keeps dropping. My pump is currently at 580' and I went dry in Nov, Jan and now again a week ago, so it is time to do something. For years I was good, but no longer.
 
@MustangMike had a great day up at the cabin. Saw 7 grouse, lots of bear scat, biggest was literally 15 yards from the cabin. Had the wife shooting her new double barreled .410. Kids did great with the .22 Even my six year old figured out the iron sights. My wife is damn good with the .22 crazy Latvian wife is some shot. I set up a bunch of old coleman fuel cans painted orange for the kids to shoot, mybwife shot the little white caps off. Iron sights to boot. Had a great time up there today, Warren had his ENTIRE family up, all three kids and all his grandkids.
 
evening scroungers. enjoying all the pics the last few days. except for stihly dan's trailer. i'm a cold weather scrounger. 95* here today and more this week. nomad_ archer, my buddy stopped today and told me when he was coming home from the races last nite there was a big rack buck standing in the road in front of my shop. when he stopped, he said it walked over and stood in front of my woodpile.:crazy2:(see guys wood is in the story.) :yes: have a swell evening fellars.
 
Those deer never seem to be around in hunting season. But on a side note I did get my 5B tag.

I am a warm weather scrounger unless you need some help farmer steve. Anything I can do to get out of the house in the winter is worth doing. I spent the evening splitting and stacking. Sweating my butt off. I did run the CS400 again today and adjusted the tune a little leaner and it is running great. Ran the MS271 as well with a 16" bar. Talk about a big smile on my face a 50cc saw with a 16" bar is lots of fun.
 
MustangMike said:
A lot of surface water near me, almost like underground streams, but they don't want you drinking it (like everyone did in the past). They want you to use an artesian well, my casing (which goes down to bed rock) is 110' (if memory serves me right). Originally hit at 525' (5 GPM), and they drilled to 605. My static level was 200', but that was almost 30 years ago, the water table keeps dropping. My pump is currently at 580' and I went dry in Nov, Jan and now again a week ago, so it is time to do something. For years I was good, but no longer.
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i got white sulphur water from my well its a little over 900ft deep.
 
image.jpg Also been doing a little splitting for next winters wood even tho it's still winter had some mean frosts about a week or so ago but started splitting after the frosty mornings had been and gone. I think there's a mixture of different woods here from different scrounges.
The trailer with no cage is just a yard trailer that doesn't go on the road just tow it around the yard for small scrounging jobs that get split straight away and then stacked
The trailer with the cage on is wat I call my delivery trailer. Both were under the conveyer belt from the splitter.then stacked away. Looks like gum spruce and northfolk and lawsonana image.jpg
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Then there's a few trees that I'm not allowed to scrounge but they are nice pictures image.jpgimage.jpg this last one below is two trees growing on each other which I thought was unusual. Wasn't allowed this one either. When you zoom in on this pic you can see better.
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