Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[mainewoods]

Sawed up right on the wagon is pretty sweet. A lot of people would have welcomed a load of poplar like that after running out last year. You sure are good to your helper Rob!

 

[zogger]

Sawed up right on the wagon is pretty sweet. A lot of people would have welcomed a load of poplar like that after running out last year. You sure are good to your helper Rob!View attachment 368427

Yep, last winter polar vortex proly caused a lot of rethinking on wood snobbery in some places.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Hey, NO snobbery going on over here! If it burns, I burn it! lol

We have a good system figured out, I cut the tree's down, my helper limbs them and I winch/skid them out. Then I grabble them up over the wagon,

and he cuts them into firewood lengths... It works really well, goes quite fast and takes quite a bit of the work out of that part of the job... Plus, it makes the "splitting" job MUCH easier too, as there's NO lifting the rounds up onto the splitter!

Thanks guys,

SR

 

[BillNole]

...I have found on many occasions, asking your neighbors can land you some darn good firewood and some darn good friends.

A lost art for sure... It s

 

[mallardman]

Some more dead ash that needed to come down at my sportsmens club. Still have to drag about 2 cords of sapling poles, 3"-8" across over the hill to haul home and cut up and have another 30 or so to cut down. Once that areas cleared there are 2 large beech trees that need to come down that have grown to close to where the trap birds are thrown.


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[mallardman]

Just found this splitting that wood above. Looks like someone's aim wasn't very good on the rifle range.


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[7sleeper]

.308 ?

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[mallardman]

I would guess some 30 caliber.


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[dancan]

Saturday was a nice day up here so I hopped in my original woodhauler and went for a scrounging run .
I've been getting the stuff that's close to the road so not much dragging involved

I think all of the live red maples that I've cut so far have been rotten in the centre .
I do drive slow on this road to locate leaners , dead ones and ones further in for this winter with the help of mechanization .
For example .

Leaning one over there and

Two tall dead ones over there

Don't worry , I made sure I had a load when I went home .

Wish I had all the all the fancy stuff SR has .

 

[mainewoods]

With all that ground clearance left ,you had room for the leaner if it weren't for that saw. Ever thought about bungee strapping it to the roof rack to maximize your load?

 

[Toxic2]

Been pretty good scrougin after hurrican aruther eh dancan. im in nb and got probably over 10 cords of maple and birch just from that storm. not to mention the 6 cord of tammerack that blew over on my property..

 

[dancan]

Good btu's in that tamarack !

 

[mainewoods]

We always called it hackmatack up here and never cut it for firewood. I guess that goes with the territory when you're a 90% + forested state. Not snobbery, just large quantities of higher BTU wood available. But you take what you can get,when you can get it, and be thankful for it, be it hardwood or softwood.

 

[NSMaple1]

I scouted up a huge one last weekend. Hopefully I will get a start at hacking it up this weekend. Will try to remember to snap some pics - Arthur packed a pretty darned big wallop in spots, think this one is the biggest ugliest mess I've gone at.

 

[Wayne68]

This is a pretty easy wood scrounge. A storm blew though and knocked a bunch of trees down all around my work area . Fell on top of some of my wood stacks but none of them fell down, yet

 

[mainewoods]

Sorry you had to experience a bad storm like that. But wood coming to you is about as good as it gets. Nice "scrounge"!!

 

[Wayne68]

Ya the storm only lasted about 15 minutes but managed to knock down at least 20 decent trees on that bush lot. Might have to take some of the logs to the mill though because i think it would be a shame to just cut up the nice stuff to burn.

 

[Wayne68]

The clean up begins

 

[Marshy]

Nice setup.

 

[MustangMike]

Yeah, nice toys, I happy as a pig in crap I finally got an ATV last week, which should help a lot.