Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MountainHigh]

UR making me jealous Mountain, ... looking forward to seeing those pics!

Here's a teaser from a typical Fall day a few years back during the salmon run. Some nice mid sized fish.



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Wood shed nearly full / 11+ cords undercover. I'm starting in on this stuff now:


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Cleaning up my crop of Hot Russian Garlic:



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Lots to be thankful for!

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[Sawyer Rob]

I was back at my "scrounging" site today... A friend of mine is trying to get some tornado damaged oaks out, and they have to come up a STEEP hill. A lot of the sticks are 40' long!

so I've been skidding them out for him with my tractor and FX90 skidding winch and there's a LOT more saw logs and firewood to get,

So, I've been separating the logs as I skid them and I brought a NICE 17' saw log home, along with a load of firewood as I can have "anything" I want, for helping him,

He needs money, so I have a nice pile of saw logs ready for him to sale, i'll bring more of them home to my mill, along with my next load or two (or three) of firewood...

SR

 

[nomad_archer]

I have been busy building the new home for my chsinsaw and other things. 12x20 shed. Shingles are done except for the ridge vent. I am having the pro's put it on since I do not want to get on the peak. It took all I had to run the shingles on the 7/12 roof with roof jacks. Shingles came out well. I just cant get the ridge vent on. I am no roofer.

 

[svk]

I have been busy building the new home for my chsinsaw and other things. 12x20 shed. Shingles are done except for the ridge vent. I am having the pro's put it on since I do not want to get on the peak. It took all I had to run the shingles on the 7/12 roof with roof jacks. Shingles came out well. I just cant get the ridge vent on. I am no roofer.

Looking good. What kind of door(s) are you putting in?

 

[dancan]

Well , I've been busy on mechanization .
I was at a standstill for a bit after I got this together .

Got back to it when these showed up .

So this is where I'm at now .

I need to make a steel run so I can finish the 2 bunks for the logs .
It's completely adjustable and it'll fit in the utv disassembled LOL

 

[stihly dan]

trailer tires shouldn't have better tread than the vehicle pulling them.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Time to split some "scrounged" oak!

I have a nice pile going, will work on it some more tomorrow...

SR

 

[zogger]

trailer tires shouldn't have better tread than the vehicle pulling them.

When the trailer will consistently be holding a lot more weight, seems like they should be better quality/higher rating, etc.

 

[MustangMike]

Well we finally had a fairly cool day here in NY, and someone wanted some wood, so I split a full cord by hand. Mostly I used the Fiskars, but for the tough stuff I had a couple of wedges and a 16 lb sledge. I'll get um one way or the other.

Pulled wood from 2 sites, and to not overload the Escape, I put 2/3 of a cord on one trailer and 1/3 on another. Got home on time to shower and take the wife out for dinner, then went out again and delivered the wood. Just got home a few minutes ago. This cool air makes me feel young again, I don't even hurt!

The big trailer is all Chestnut Oak, the smaller one has Maple & Wallnut.

 

[MustangMike]

I love this thread, everyone posts great pics of all kinds of stuff. I just wish we would hear from the original Clint again. I sent him a PM after it seemed that he gave someone a like, but no response.

 

[nomad_archer]

Looking good. What kind of door(s) are you putting in?

I am building double doors out of t1-11.

 

[dancan]

Utv logging this morning .

Now that I've got some food into me and the utv unloaded , gonna go out again and see if I can find some more
Scrounge on gentleman .

 

[dancan]

I got told this morning where there were a few tops of yellow birch and maple I could have so that's where I went after lunch .

Small load but still free btu's and just over a mile from home so back in time for beer and supper

Scrounge on gentleman .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My wagon is getting empty, but my pile is growing!

That big one is headed to my BSM, I expect to get some really nice lumber out of that one!

SR

 

[svk]

Flagged 19 yard perimeter trees tonight for winter harvest. All but three are ash or birch. Trees keep on dying but the Norway pine and red maple keep on backfilling the open sky, which is fine by me.

 

[svk]

Every time I see a dead, downed, or dying tree on my land or along public land on roadways I make a note in my phone with location, description, and estimated fraction of cord. I'm now up to 35 cords so at this point only hardwood is being added to the list. All of this with the exception of a few cords on my land is drive up accessible.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My helper came over today, first thing we did was to get the 17' log off my wagon and chainsaw it into two 8' 6" logs. It will make it's way to my BSM later, I'm betting there's some NICE lumber in those two logs!

With that done, we started blocking up everything else left on the wagon,

Until it was all cut into 20" lengths,

Then we started splitting it up,

With some of them quite big, so they had to go through the 4-way a couple times,

Until we finally had it all split,

Now, to find the time to go get another load of firewood logs!

SR

 

[DFK]

Sawyer Rob:
That splitter..... Does it have a pump and run off the PTO or does it run off the hydraulics from the tractor?

Thanks
David

 

[dancan]

No wood today but I got a bit more welded up on the RonCo ver.1.0 loghauler .

Painted pics tomorrow.

Real nice day's work and pics SR !!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Sawyer Rob:
That splitter..... Does it have a pump and run off the PTO or does it run off the hydraulics from the tractor?

Thanks
David

It's powered by a PTO pump and it really kicks azz! I love my "self propelled" log splitter! lol

SR