Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[SS396driver]

Had enough of wood today decided to do something I was putting off. The fender and cowl on my truck the color was off . Couldn’t notice it till it was in the sun so when I put it together in the garage it looked fine . I was baffled as to why it was so off until I painted the ammo box a few weeks ago . This time I read the label and found it was the can of paint for my 68 Golden anniversary truck . I must have just saw the gold drips on the can and assumed it was the right can . Real stupid mistake on my part . So I’ll be painting them on Monday Shame too as the paint really went on nice and had a great shine

 

[Squareground3691]

Giant sea scallops, on the iron tonight

 

[mountainguyed67]

My friend with the property near mine says his buddies with Toyota 4WDs went out that way last weekend

6:51

 

[Cowboy254]

Morning fellers,

Got the rest of the Monstromint uglies/longs/shorts/unmentionables processed into what could be neatly stacked in the shed (about a cord), some on the stack out the front and the unsalvagables Jenga stacked at the end of the stack. I got a second pallet for the uglies and started part of a fourth row at the back.





I'm planning to get back to finish off the rest of the Monstromint tomorrow now I have made some space to unload it.

Scrounge on

 

[svk]

Giant sea scallops, on the iron tonight View attachment 1087584

YES!!!

 

[svk]

A few minutes short of 12 hours to get this guy up to temp.

I like big butts, and I cannot lie.

 

[Lee192233]

The brisket turned out well.

Too bad for Woodabuser, the five of us ate all of it. I guess he should've driven up for some!

 

[davidwyby]

Added an Aussie splitter the other day for this Aussie Euc. Added some I felled a while back to my hoard today.

 

[davidwyby]

Bunch of Euc dropping on my channel

Been experimenting this winter with getting it to hinge

 

[Cowboy254]

Added an Aussie splitter the other day for this Aussie Euc. Added some I felled a while back to my hoard today.

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Now you're talking!

 

[Cowboy254]

G'day again fellers,

In an unexpected twist, tomorrow came around a day early and I went out to finish off the Monstromint. Bandy (the farmer) had pushed up the remaining tops into a pile. There were a few nice peppermint rounds in there that I cut last week that are now buried but that's ok. It's been 9 days since I was there and he figured I wasn't coming back. Only had the two remaining rounds left plus the 'platform' I had noodled horizontally. Had to think a little to work it out, stihl a lot of weight in it.





I won eventually. Then had to noodle the big chunks down to liftable size.



How are these noodles?



TBC...

 

[Cowboy254]

Ended up with this in the trailer. Overloaded. Well, a bit.



This in the ute. A few of those bits are actually fairly dry so will go in the fire in the week or so.



Scrounge on

 

[Cowboy254]

I don't know exactly how big Oakzilla was but I feel that the Monstromint was a worthy adversary and probably comparable in size.

What was this,



this,



and this,



is now this,



and this.



10 trips and 25 cubes or 6.5 cord later.

Scrounge on

 

[WoodAbuser]

I don't know exactly how big Oakzilla was but I feel that the Monstromint was a worthy adversary and probably comparable in size.

What was this,

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this,

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and this,

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is now this,

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and this.

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10 trips and 25 cubes or 6.5 cord later.

Scrounge on

How much wood do you need for winter?

 

[VT Hillbilly]

Good mornin' to everyone! I figured I would post these pictures,take last Sunday, May 28th.This is at one of what my girlfriend,Sue and I refer to as an "Undisclosed Location". We have a $50 yard sale boat that we dragged down in here about 6 years ago. I had been wanting to put a boat in there,since I was a young man.Finally made it happen! Anyway....we trek/ slog in there only twice a season, and keep 6 to 10 of the native Eastern Brook Trout, per outing. There are 9 "Square Tails" (as we call 'em up here) and they provided us two fantastic meals. We are headed to another "Undisclosed Location" this morning as well. Overcast,drizzle and 54F. They should be hitting! Have a great day to all!

 

[chipper1]

Managed to scrounge up some trees to drop, no cleanup, got it started and done yesterday.



Before looking toward the south/wires, of course the wind kicked up out of the NW, and they were all leaning south on top of that, so I used the skidding winch to get them to comply rather than being able to just push them with the bucket.



Got it done though.
The owners nephew is living here and is putting up a new 30x40 pole barn, he also plans on getting an OWB, so he'll be burning all the wood. After watching me cut with my ported saws, he was intrigued, since his 435 didn't cut the same way lol. Who knows, maybe he'll be posting on this thread some day soon, he's gonna need lots of wood for that boiler!

 

[svk]

I don't know exactly how big Oakzilla was but I feel that the Monstromint was a worthy adversary and probably comparable in size.

What was this,

View attachment 1087705

this,

View attachment 1087706

and this,

View attachment 1087707

is now this,

View attachment 1087704

and this.

View attachment 1087703

10 trips and 25 cubes or 6.5 cord later.

Scrounge on

Are you talking about Zogger’s oakzilla? That was about 5 foot DBH. I have a picture of me standing on it somewhere when I went to visit him.

 

[sean donato]

How much wood do you need for winter?

All of it.....

 

[mountainguyed67]

How much wood do you need for winter?

Yes

- @Cowboy254

 

[H-Ranch]

After watching me cut with my ported saws, he was intrigued, since his 435 didn't cut the same way lol.

My guess is that he could benefit more from a chain sharpening session than a ported saw. But hey, nothing says you can't send him down both rabbit holes!