Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[zogger]

Big wood there Zog !!!!
We went back out tonight to finish up the cutting project .
2 more piles of stems when we were done .

No oakzillas for us but we did have another ugly birch to drop .

It was a good evening and there's a possibility that the homeowner wants a few more cut , we'll know after the weekend .
Scrounge on gentleman !

Nice action shot! man, I used to like me some birch, ain't any around here. I cut what I think was a river birch like 12 years ago or so, but not sure. haven't seen any more.

Ya, whenever I finish oakzilla and get back to lesser trees, meh, toothpicks..heheheh It's like running the 394..after that, pick up any other saw and it is a light trimmer...

 

[stihlman27]

That brings up a question I have as far as scrounging. Is it legal to pick up wood dropped by the power company without permission? I have been driving by some piles but I can't place who owns the land it's on. In the past I just stopped to ask or left a note. Now if I want to get technical the town owns from the road 5 or 10 feet back but I'm not sure and I don't want trouble in the town I live in.

If its laying down I'd take it there's a difference if your taking wood that is still standing compared to stuff that is already laying or is dropped. No need to let good wood go to waste. That's just like that wood I got the other day when I did my post the whole tree blew over root and all and it was on rail road ground well the tree came down across the dirt road and all they did was cut it in half and push it aside to let it rot.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Nice looking birch! Running saws and making chips and noodles is what it's all about. If you bring some wood home well that's even better.

you got it! made some noodles today...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Nice looking birch! Running saws and making chips and noodles is what it's all about. If you bring some wood home well that's even better.

today's scrounge was just down the road from my place... on up a spell... over by skid road... some already bundled that wasn't yesterday... that helped... and some fresh... deadfall, too! have had my eye on it past week or so...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

all loaded up and about to head on down the mountain to the mill.... and camp. [no, that load is not fotoshopped!]

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

once we cleared the high ridge lines... the going got easier... we mozied on in to the camp... and could see we had our work [yet to be] cut out for us! .....



today's scrounge and also the last one, too.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

in old tradition... out came the saws! my mouse that roars... did real fine today. no complaints here! powerful and effective... only begins to describe what it can and will do!!! yep!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

it was a swell day for an easy scrounge! oak oak and more oak! it comes down here constantly... and generally is 'free firewood'... bit warm... the area in front of camp... registered 114.9F on digital temp... and its accurate to what the house reads... on the $. 99.9 in the shade. it was not a day for the faint ed! even fired up my 'new' front yard camp fire, too...

115F in the direct sun??? naw, never too hot for a camp fire!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

my urban logging tow tug running swell. ck'd its fluids first...


new tube in tire doing super well!



a lil petrol! ~


that gasoline is crystal clear... all the way down. just an optical illusion...

soon we were on our way... and the tug was pullin' like a mountain diesel loggn truck... a genie 18 wheeler!!! 5-speeds, 3 ranges! umm oops, I mean 8 wheeler! 5-speeds, 1 range!! but one sweet machine as it was acquired on a full scrounge, too. no freebie, gimme... scrounged right off side curb one Sunday morning...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

we ain't waitin' for no truck stop queens... this rig is running on schedule... hauler ~



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[husqvarna257]

Started year two on the oakzilla project. Moved some big rounds to the back splitting and stacking area. This dude has been ornery. I checked out the face of the main trunk right where the big branches started to branch off, eight hearts! Every split just about has been a mutha and a half. Sledge and wedge, or to be fair, sledge and old truper maul for a wedge, to get it started. Ain't much straight grained in this guy. The only good part now is most of the bark and cambium pith slices right off, the interior heartwood is slap fulla BTUs. HAHAHA, the other day I got in a fight with a big gnarly knot, one hour later I had three pieces that would fit in the stove! more HAHAHA, that's my world record " #^^&*&*!~!! you, you $^&**!, one of us is gonna die" moments. Of course, 95 F and 70% humility had something to do with it... Coupla pics of moving a mambo, and my ultra scrawny azz....

Yep I love it when I split oak by hand and the wedge is half in and I sledge it again and the wedge bounces back out a foot or more in the air. Best part of it is the winter day when you burn that " #^^&*&*!~!! you, you $^&**!, Now you know you won that one

Yea Zog, I was gonna say, there are times when your noodle should say it is time to noodle! And nothing does it like square file!

X2

 

[amberg]

we ain't waitin' for no truck stop queens... this rig is running on schedule... hauler ~

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I like that shade!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yep I love it when I split oak by hand and the wedge is half in and I sledge it again and the wedge bounces back out a foot or more in the air. Best part of it is the winter day when you burn that " #^^&*&*!~!! you, you $^&**!, Now you know you won that oneX2

that's funny! sometimes I will pull some stix out of the wood pile and think the same thing... hey, I remember you!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I like that shade!!

[ blush ]

 

[dancan]

One trailer load , it's been given away , sez he'll have it cut up tomorrow (he's 82) , wanted to know how much he owed me , I told him that I'd send the bill in the mail and I'll be by with another load soon LOL

 

[zogger]

we ain't waitin' for no truck stop queens... this rig is running on schedule... hauler ~

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hahahaha! I like the cabrella!

 

[zogger]

I've been working both ends of the main trunk of oakzilla, working towards what passes for the balance point, a couple big branches it fell on. Got what was sticking out left over of those two branches cut the other day and moved tonight (of course some is underground, driven in by the fall), so down to this, around 4-5 more big rounds. This is the upper end, eight hearts, count 'em. I'm blocking underneath as much as possible as I do the rest, still a few tons suspended there.

 

[dancan]

Looks like if you cut it thin enough it'll split itself LOL

 

[zogger]

Looks like if you cut it thin enough it'll split itself LOL

the whole trunk is twisted and those knots. Hardly got a straight split out of this tree except for some of the medium branches, and even those had knots. Ya, it looks cracked, but once you go in, man..corkscrew, gnarliest oak I ever saw.

This isn't the largest diameter tree I have tackled, I did some elm (just a piece of the trunk) that was six foot diameter before, with a big crosscut. Made thin slabs for tables. That got to be a lot like work...this is the most massive tree though, by a huge margin.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

the whole trunk is twisted and those knots. Hardly got a straight split out of this tree except for some of the medium branches, and even those had knots. Ya, it looks cracked, but once you go in, man..corkscrew, gnarliest oak I ever saw.

This isn't the largest diameter tree I have tackled, I did some elm (just a piece of the trunk) that was six foot diameter before, with a big crosscut. Made thin slabs for tables. That got to be a lot like work...this is the most massive tree though, by a huge margin.

generally speaking... I like huge margins!