Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Hi guys.

Closest thing I did to scrounging was moved the 1/4 cord of scrounged silver maple from my driveway to my backyard.

Leaving wood sitting on pavement sure does speed the drying process. Many of the pieces already are clanking like baseball bats. Storm was around July 20th.

Hey @chucker good luck scrounging up a bear tomorrow!

 

[MountainHigh]

I love animals! In my scrounging efforts last year i found a woonded, and dying baby opossum. Cared for her and now she is grown, and lives with us and we are blessed to have her. She is my side kick and in my lap most of the time. We named her Lucy.

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Now that's a real animal lover right there!
They say you can tell the character of a people by how they treat their animals. Zeus, you've brought a BIG grin to my face

 

[MountainHigh]

Nice to catch up here a bit. I've been too busy to split all my wood this year, so I've had to stack rounds under cover just in time for the first rains this week.



Wood Piles await.


Rounds under cover to get to next year


Enough wood split, dried, and stacked handy for the season


Great grape crop this year - snack time.
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Back to work - have a good one!

 

[Vtrombly]

@chipper1 Have you been coming up with any good scrounges lately?

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[dancan]

No wood scrounging but I made a wood scrounging cart made from scrounged up steel I had at the shop and a couple of tires I bought on sale

The new Ronco LH 3.0 !
Works great , I built it mainly for dragging brush but it'll work with stems and I'm gonna put a light floor in it so I can move splits .
Unloading is fast and easy

 

[Vtrombly]

No wood scrounging but I made a wood scrounging cart made from scrounged up steel I had at the shop and a couple of tires I bought on sale

Works great , I built it mainly for dragging brush but it'll work with stems and I'm gonna put a light floor in it so I can move splits .
Unloading is fast and easy

That looks sweet great fabrication skills going on there that's for certain.

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[dancan]

It's a little heavy on the frame part but it was the steel I had to work with and only had 6" of trim leftover lol
This one is for me and testing the "Proof of Concept" , I have an arborist that wants to see it already , I think we'll be testing it on a cleanup this weekend .

 

[Vtrombly]

It's a little heavy on the frame part but it was the steel I had to work with and only had 6" of trim leftover lol
This one is for me and testing the "Proof of Concept" , I have an arborist that wants to see it already , I think we'll be testing it on a cleanup this weekend .

Does it have a way to hitch that up to your atv looks like that would be great to pull around

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[dancan]

I have a welder and can pretend to know how to use it lol

 

[Zeus103363]

Now that's a real animal lover right there!
They say you can tell the character of a people by how they treat their animals. Zeus, you've brought a BIG grin to my face

Thanks! If you ever get a chance, and are open to the idea, they are wonderful pets!

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[Zeus103363]

Back to Scrounging, after a long hot summer its back at the start for next years firewood. This mornings scrounge was a white oak and a red oak. The white oak was the first ever "barber chair" for me. As i was finishing the back cut a breeze blew the tree backwards, pinched my saw, split up the middle and poped and jumped off the stump. Scary for me as it happened before i could react other than get back. Dont worry, the saw wasn't injured. The red oak fell as expected. Got a truck load and came home.

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[Erik B]

glad you are safe

 

[al-k]

Well it was 60 out this morning so I thought i would get some wood from down the road, about a 60' black birch that uprooted a couple of weeks ago. Didn't take long to get hot.There was a small maple that came down to .

 

[svk]

Looking good guys!

 

[dancan]

One of my customers that runs a small tree bizz was at the shop this morning , I showed him the RonCo LH 3.0 ,he looked at it , thot for a minute and said he wanted it now because he was doing a tree and brush job this afternoon , then he asked how much LOL
I gave it to him so he can test run it today and to get his input .

He just sent me a text , only hauled logs with it today , said he was loading 4x as much as his dolly and 2x easier , he's liking it .

 

[johnnyballs]

Back to Scrounging, after a long hot summer its back at the start for next years firewood. This mornings scrounge was a white oak and a red oak. The white oak was the first ever "barber chair" for me. As i was finishing the back cut a breeze blew the tree backwards, pinched my saw, split up the middle and poped and jumped off the stump. Scary for me as it happened before i could react other than get back. Dont worry, the saw wasn't injured. The red oak fell as expected. Got a truck load and came home.

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dont have pictures, but only had 1 barber chair happen to me...trying to drop a tall skinny red maple (15 inch dbh but probably 80 feet tall) ...made my face cut but my saw was cutting so good i cut through the notch just a little bit...never do that again !!!...no damage or injury but it sure does scare the crap outta you...

 

[peeworm]

Went and scrounged a little bit of wood today

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[MustangMike]

Made some more boards on Thurs, 4 more Shag Hickory (2" thick, 7' long), then started on some Red Oak. Made 2 boards 7' long, 2" X 19". Hickory is harder, but the Oak is wider, and really made my saws work!

The Oak is in the pic, cut a 7' piece from the log, and some of it remains after taking 2 sides & 2 full thick pieces from it.

 

[MustangMike]

I also literally found this "Barn Find" on a farm my cousin purchased (for re sale) at auction. Guess it was left behind. don't know what it needs or if it runs, but it does need a bad cleaning! Oh, it's an 034, didn't have one of them yet!

 

[chipper1]

@chipper1 Have you been coming up with any good scrounges lately?

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I managed to get this load after dropping the tractor off at a job. Then I went back and spread 30 yrs of sand, then went home and cut it all into rounds for next years pile. Since the day was still young and I had lots of energy left , I went to our church building and did some cleanup. Our old landlord sold the building at the beginning of summer and we just got it back so it was a bit overgrown.
Hoping to get a bit more next week after the holiday.