Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Zeus103363]

While you slackers were out splitting firewood . . .


Philbert

And I was complaining about changing a fuel pump! That rite there is show'nuff work! Those guys would be happy to get a tree length splitter!


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[mortalitool]

Bit of splitting has been going on. Almost done here then I'll move the splitter back to my house to do an estimated 6? Cords worth of rounds.

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[svk]

Scrounged up a grinder and cut off wheel tonight. Boy does that absolutely kick the pants off using a hacksaw or even a sawzall. I had the old axle out of the wood hauler trailer in 10 minutes and pick up the new one tomorrow.

 

[zogger]

Tell us the truth now. You're going to miss the old girl when she is gone. Or, at least everything after will be a piece of cake. I have never cut anything like that but I have cut a lot of twisty, knarly, stringy, knot covered white oak that has grown in relatively open areas. Salute.

Well. I liked it when it was alive, it was astounding, and shaded the whole yard nice. After they (boss and bucket truck guys) hacked it so much it killed it, meh, I'll be glad when the processing is over, and can get back to more normal sized trees.

 

[zogger]

How many cords in total in that tree @zogger

Total. all said and done, over ten, how much more, not sure. I dumped two big trailer loads of branch ends when they first 'trimmed" it, just to have some place to walk in the yard and to be able to mow the lawn. I still got five cord from what I cut up then.

 

[zogger]

While you slackers were out splitting firewood . . .


Philbert

Dang proud to be a slacker with an aluminum canoe! hahaha!

Man, that looks a lot like work, wonder how long it took, man hours, to build it.

 

[dancan]

Well , when scrounging, one hopes that all goes as planed , but , that is not always the case .
The last birch of the backyard scrounge , this guy that's leaning in the back .

As you can see from the stump it was already a leaner , fetched up real good in another birch at the top , we gave it a tug but had to reset the chain low and gave it another pull .

Well that didn't work , we hoped it would roll out so I went back in and cut a block out and pulled some more .

No dice

Well , after lots of

We ended up with

And a 15' row that's ready to plant potatoes in LOL

 

[chucker]

YUM! fresh spring toes with winter pea's and an iceberg lettuce salad... birch firewood to cook by cant get any better then that.

 

[svk]

Put up a cord before the splitter ran out of gas. Needed to drop the pickup load before dark anyhow so I'll grab gas on my way.

 

[husqvarna257]

Another craigslist teased this am. Saw an ad for older oak, a fair amount was in the picture and I checked how far away it was and that wasn't bad. I go to contact the person and the ad is being removed by poster. Before I had a OWB I saw plenty of ads, now it's not there. ARGH. And that ad was less than 24 hours old.

 

[LondonNeil]

I know how you feel, bit like that myself tonight. Last Friday I had a day off work and was at home in the garden enjoying some sunshine and tidying. On the wind I hear a mid size 2 stroke...hmm..is that a saw? i think. I carry on with my work. The noise continues. I continue to wander....and try to work out what might be coming down. Then I here the unmistakable sound of a chipper. Its a tree service at work. I finish up and walk down the street folloeing the noise and soon see a guy at work in a rear garden, up top of a large tree. get to the front of the house to see the lorry and chipper and a pile of.....oh, its Eucalyptus, about to go in. That's not bad actually...hard wood I'd not get given i suspect and euc, although wet and pithy, is a change from pine and smells nice. I await the return of the groundy who i guess is coming as I see leaves/branches approaching. 'Would you like somewhere to dump what isn't going through the chipper?' i say. it turns out the tree is just getting a prune and no logs, but 'Take a flyer and give us a call' says the groundy, passing me a flyer he grabs from the cab, 'we'll have some logs for you next week, we are felling a few trees round here.' Great. So Monday I text and remind him, got a 'Yep will definitely have some for you this week'. Fab.
So here we are, Friday night. Zip. Nada, Zilch. Not a twig. oh well.

 

[dancan]

If they're like the tree guys I know , next week means any day within a 365 day stretch , sometimes longer LOL

 

[Hoosk]

Got some ditch wood...good from far, far from good. I wouldn't have bothered, but I already bothered the neighbor about taking it and it's near the house....so it will go in the campfire.

 

[dancan]

Well , the fella that Jerry and I gave the 2 1/2 cord of pencils , he's got them all cut up .
He used my electric Makita that I lent him because he couldn't pull a gas powered saw fast enough to start , he's 84 and tickled pink with the wood , sez he'll take more if I get some .

 

[svk]

Speaking of electric saws. I scrounged this up today while looking at an old trailer frame to ressurect:

The can is full too.


@Philbert do you want that saw for the museum?

 

[dancan]

That's kinda funny , I was looking at Amazon earlier today , lectric Dolmar looked to be a fair price .

 

[Philbert]

@Philbert do you want that saw for the museum?

That's very generous of you!

Not trying to start a saw museum - only want a few, working models (although, I do, sort of, collect chains . . . )

Philbert

 

[svk]

That's very generous of you!

Not trying to start a saw museum - only want a few, working models (although, I do, sort of, collect chains . . . )

Philbert

It comes with a luxurious 3/8 low profile chain for your collection.

 

[Ryan Groat]

Man it has been a long time for me. This summer has been crazy. I thought you would be interested in my latest build. I designed this log grapple earlier in the summer, and today I finally got to build it. Let me know what you think.

 

[cantoo]

I decided that I might as well cut the big cedar down on the 2nd lot I was clearing. I might not be doing this job next year when it needs to come down. Very little rot at the bottom, got 2 nice 12' pieces out of it before it split into 3 stems. Excavator moved in today and with 2 trucks made short work of the big pile.