Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Oak would be great, but it would be 15+ years before I see the benefit. I am unsure if I will be here that long.

Think long term, I'm gonna be here that long, and I'm old enough to be your Grandpa!

When I was a kid, my Dad took my brother and I up into the woods and we dug up small Maple, Oak and a Ash tree and planted them in the corner of our back yard for shade. I remember several people telling him that he would never live to see the shade, but they were wrong. It did not take that long.

Likewise, I transplanted a Norway Maple in my backyard several years ago (to provide some privacy), the tree is good size now, you won't move it again (w/o big equipment).

 

[beentown]

If you don't plan to be there long I recommend fruit trees and shrubs. Shrubs like blackberry, edelberry and hazelnut will grow faster and produce sooner.

Also, I am not a fan of silver maple so I would go with black cherry before it and that mixed with the blackberries will give you plenty of natural regrowth/spread.

Here because of all of our row crops planting food plots doesn't work until very late in the season.

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[JeffGu]

I am unsure if I will be here that long.

Well... you know there's no rule that says you can't plan out something really nice for the next generation... somebody will live there, even if it's not you!

 

[Oldman47]

Think long term, I'm gonna be here that long, and I'm old enough to be your Grandpa!

When I was a kid, my Dad took my brother and I up into the woods and we dug up small Maple, Oak and a Ash tree and planted them in the corner of our back yard for shade. I remember several people telling him that he would never live to see the shade, but they were wrong. It did not take that long.

Likewise, I transplanted a Norway Maple in my backyard several years ago (to provide some privacy), the tree is good size now, you won't move it again (w/o big equipment).

Mike you are a mere youngster. Heck, I expect to be around at least 15 more years and I have 5 years on you. So far blocked arteries (heart disease) and cancer are just memories for me.

 

[MustangMike]

So far I have steered clear of all them things, but I have spent a lot of time training. Always plan for the long term, you never want to be unprepared!

My Dad used to say that "Mother Nature gives you the 1st 40 years, after that you better work on it!"

 

[farmer steve]

not sure if they grow up in you zone Ryan but deer love persimmons. i'm sure there is a cold hardy type for your area.
edit. good firewood too.

 

[wudpirat]

Just a bunch of kids.
Turned 81 last Oct and still run my saws, s&s my firewood and keep the Smoke Dragon fed.
My Grandson, Mikey, sent me a pic of some wood I have coming tomorow. four rounds filling the bed of his P/U.
That kid is a moose, but I'm still wondering how he got them loaded.
I kid him about his choice of saws, a 170 and a 250. He comes to GP for the "BIG" saws, the 6400 and the 7900.
He has his PPE, so he's safe. Beat me out of another wedge, must have had a pinch bucking the last load.

Hey Dancan: My moto, "If it's free, it's for me".

 

[beentown]

Paw paws also.

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[svk]

Oak Trees are generally pretty hardy, and provide good mast food in the Fall. Apple trees are also good to have, but you may need to protect them till they grow (from rabbits & deer).

On low mast years around here the bear will destroy small oaks around me to get acorns from the top. I have pics somewhere of pin oaks bent and broken. Will look for them. I would think they would do the same to Apple.

 

[svk]

SVK, looked like you had some real nice fun cutting! Good deal!

It there are porkys any where near your hunting cabin, you shoot them! And if you have a dog, you shoot them twice!

It was a good time. Glad I won't have to fight those rose bushes any more!

 

[dancan]

Just a bunch of kids.
Turned 81 last Oct and still run my saws, s&s my firewood and keep the Smoke Dragon fed.
My Grandson, Mikey, sent me a pic of some wood I have coming tomorow. four rounds filling the bed of his P/U.
That kid is a moose, but I'm still wondering how he got them loaded.
I kid him about his choice of saws, a 170 and a 250. He comes to GP for the "BIG" saws, the 6400 and the 7900.
He has his PPE, so he's safe. Beat me out of another wedge, must have had a pinch bucking the last load.

Hey Dancan: My moto, "If it's free, it's for me".

Sounds like you have a great grandson there wupirat !!!

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[MustangMike]

Hey Pirate, pics or it didn't happen!

 

[nomad_archer]

Ryan I would plan to have stands or blinds in each of the different zones. One stand isn't going to cut it. Thr Different foods you are planting will be hot at different times. Plus the wind is another consideration. You are only working with 10 acres so undetected access is just as important as the trees you plant. I personally would plan to have stands closer to the house. Going clear to zone 6 is risking bumping all of the deer off your little piece of heaven.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This thing rocks! I cannot say what a difference this tractor is verse the 4010.

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hard not to like either of those two green tractors!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Had to reshare my children's camp cutting for those that didn't see the thread. It was kind of a pain cutting around PI and rose bushes but man was there a lot of good hardwood. I burned nearly 8 tanks of fuel between the two cutting sessions.

Red elm
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Sugar maple
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American elm
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Black cherry
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White birch
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More maple
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More maple
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seeing is believing... awesome logging pix! enjoyed the show! show us it all being split up, and the woodstack, too...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Got a chance to take a run out to the scrounging zone this afternoon

We've got one section cleaned up so I figured that it would be a good time for a walk into 3 other patches of woods right around where we are setup .
The first stop I made was a large pine blowdown that the owner asked if I could run a saw through it when I was close so that he could get rid of it later .

It's about 24" at the stump , it's been down for years but it still had bark on it at the base so I went up to Ryobi size and cut a few blocks .

Plenty of good wood and man does it ever smell of turpentine
Jerry showed up so off we went for a walkabout , we found a couple or three days worth of wood in 4 other areas right handy so no having to relocate gear
We still had a couple of hours to be productive so we finished up the last of the dead standing spruce .

Well , there was 3 stems of maple that the surveyors left us , love them surveyors

Was that a Tree Farmer or a Porter ?
Not including the stuff we portered out we did winch up a bunch as well .

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good name! good haul! good pix! good show! good job! now for the splitting and stacking pix, plse..... - BL -

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Just a bunch of kids.
Turned 81 last Oct and still run my saws, s&s my firewood and keep the Smoke Dragon fed.
My Grandson, Mikey, sent me a pic of some wood I have coming tomorow. four rounds filling the bed of his P/U.
That kid is a moose, but I'm still wondering how he got them loaded.
I kid him about his choice of saws, a 170 and a 250. He comes to GP for the "BIG" saws, the 6400 and the 7900.
He has his PPE, so he's safe. Beat me out of another wedge, must have had a pinch bucking the last load.

Hey Dancan: My moto, "If it's free, it's for me".

"Turned 81 last Oct and still run my saws, s&s my firewood and keep the Smoke Dragon fed."

hey! - that's good news then... for many of the rest of us! I need to add u to my Turnkey sign:

if wudpirat and Turnkey can do it, don't just stand there... git to woik! lol

 

[chipper1]

Started 2 days ago on this one , half what I cut is free for me

That's a monster Greny.
I "liked" the post because it's you doing it, not me LOL.
Great pictures.

 

[chipper1]

Oak would be great, but it would be 15+ years before I see the benefit. I am unsure if I will be here that long.

If you get a minute just throw a few in.
The biggest deer I see are going between the oak and corn, and travel a good distance to get to oak nuts.

On low mast years around here the bear will destroy small oaks around me to get acorns from the top. I have pics somewhere of pin oaks bent and broken. Will look for them. I would think they would do the same to Apple.

We don't have much of a problem with that around these parts. Although one did tear up a bunch of bee hives 6 miles from me, rare though to have them this far south.

I was thinking of both you guys when I ran down to Ft Wayne today.
I went right by the Kubota dealer in Charlotte.
SVK you might recognize this intersection, I-69 and 80-90 at Freemont IN.

Scrounged up these today. Don't see that bottom one everyday.
This was on my way back in the rd at the intersection of m-50 & m-43, I just pulled up to it and stopped for the stop sign and grabbed it.
What's a scrounger to do.
And this on the way home from church yesterday. I even got it all split up with the Fiskars and in the wood rack in the house.

 

[Ryan Groat]

If you get a minute just throw a few in.
The biggest deer I see are going between the oak and corn, and travel a good distance to get to oak nuts.


We don't have much of a problem with that around these parts. Although one did tear up a bunch of bee hives 6 miles from me, rare though to have them this far south.

I was thinking of both you guys when I ran down to Ft Wayne today.
I went right by the Kubota dealer in Charlotte.
SVK you might recognize this intersection, I-69 and 80-90 at Freemont IN.
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Scrounged up these today. Don't see that bottom one everyday.
View attachment 487762 This was on my way back in the rd at the intersection of m-50 & m-43, I just pulled up to it and stopped for the stop sign and grabbed it.
What's a scrounger to do.View attachment 487763
And this on the way home from church yesterday.View attachment 487764 I even got it all split up with the Fiskars and in the wood rack in the house.View attachment 487765

I will definitely plant a a few, just not the whole lot in them.

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