Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Still 25 wheelbarrow loads, but a cord used to be measured as 4 Cowboy utes, 1/2 of a Dancan van, or 859 Zogger wood sticks. ;)
I've got a few hundred new wheelbarrow loads at the house now, here's one stick, 18+ft(maybe 20), gotta be a couple wheelbarrows in there lol. It's like black gold, black locust :sweet:.
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Got this one, then the wheelbarrow motor ran out of gas.
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Had to resort to the four wheeler/trailer set up when I started cutting off from the big trailer full of logs.
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And now it's time for a neighborhood bonfire/chili cookout. We are blessed with great neighbors on our private road.
 
Got this one, then the wheelbarrow motor ran out of gas.
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Had to resort to the four wheeler/trailer set up when I started cutting off from the big trailer full of logs.
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And now it's time for a neighborhood bonfire/chili cookout. We are blessed with great neighbors on our private road.
With the recent heat, I have personally witnessed the wheelbarrow motor sitting on the cooler full of ice and Yuengling,, in the shade. Sometimes on days off it only runs till around noon .
 
Anyone, I'm pretty stocked up; but if I had more time or there was some :envy: :envy: :envy: someone may be able to twist my arm :laugh:.
Black locust :sweet:.

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There is a guy up the road from me, he is letting a bunch just rot, has them stacked in 6-8 foot lengths, just letting them go to waste

Painful to see!!
 
What would you have ground it with, even the larger grinder I rent wouldn't have reached near the top of the flush cut and the roots on the one side were under the stump 🤔. It's out now and all filled in, drive repaired and the dam grade set so water will stay in the retainment (the elm was previously there to stop water) area I built so water doesn't rush across the drive. Still need to do the finish grade and add some more topsoil, that has to wait until I get rhe stump out of there. I made a cut from the center of the stump down the side into the roots all the way across it, then placed a steel wedge in the top and hammered it all the way in. The side it was on opened up about an inch, the other did nothing, now the wedge is firmly stuck in there. I'll probably just lift up one side and put a crap load of firewood under it, then raise the opposite side and do the sam. If I do that a few times it should break in half and lighten up enough for me to move it.

We got hit in 2019 too, lost about the same amount of trees in the front half of our property (around 20 😞). In that storm we were the last area that had any damage 😒. We are about 2/3s up the river valley and the wind comes across the valley and slams into our side.
That must have been a huge stump. I can get down about 8 inches with my grinder. If I want to go deeper than that I need to take the ground level down too to drop the stump grinder lower.
 
Been sitting three years already and anyone that knows black locust knows, it’s gonna take three decades for it to rot away…. Maybe longer
It won't be rotten in 30yrs, but the ark will be off it lol. I've cut quite a bit out of the woods here that was plowed when out place was built, covered in moss and dirt, but solid as a rock!
Why ain't you grabbing it up.
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I have just finished splitting the last of about and 8 cord stack of rounds that was cut back at the turn of the century. Most bark is off it but some is still tight. I have another 40 cord BL that was cut/split/stacked back in the late 90s. I haven't touched it since. That's for when I get old. I'm only 88 now.
 
It won't be rotten in 30yrs, but the ark will be off it lol. I've cut quite a bit out of the woods here that was plowed when out place was built, covered in moss and dirt, but solid as a rock!
Why ain't you grabbing it up.
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I’ve asked, answer was nope
 

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