Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[NGaMountains]

Wow, nice find Casey!

 

[CaseyForrest]

Casey, I am getting tired just looking at all that wood. I hope you have lots of space because that is a lot of wood.

When this fills up....

Ive got all of this... I'm about halfway between the road and the cluster of trees directly in front of me.

 

[Haywire]

My friend came over with his Stihl today and helped me cut

 

[nomad_archer]

Outstanding Casey. How big is your lot?

 

[farmer steve]

Load one.....

Examples of what's there....

They have, that I saw, better than 10 crews working the neighborhood. I might start going door to door.

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that's a "you suck" scrounge if i ever saw one. did i mention you suck? great scrounge Casey.

 

[farmer steve]

My friend came over with his Stihl today and helped me cut

creamsicle power!!!!!!

 

[CaseyForrest]

Outstanding Casey. How big is your lot?

After an exchange of some property with the widow in front of us, we are just shy of 3 acres.

The lady in front of us and the neighbors next to us are family and this used to be their family farm. We are living in what was their sisters house. The farm house they grew up in is attached to the 99 acres behind us. Which also has scrounge-able wood. But its swarming with PI and I'm VERY allergic.

 

[CaseyForrest]

that's a "you suck" scrounge if i ever saw one. did i mention you suck? great scrounge Casey.

I wouldn't have fallen into it if it wasn't for the friend that lives in the neighborhood.

We had an ice storm last winter (maybe the one previous, I don't recall) and this area was hit hard with downed lines. Most of the lines run down the middle of the backside of everyone's property and this is an old neighborhood. So the trees are quite large. BWL wanted to trim after the storm and it got voted down. Looks like it got pushed through this time because its crazy. I saw 4 crews on 1 street, all within line of site with the next.

 

[MustangMike]

Funny about PI. We got tons of it down here, but I don't seem to catch it as easy as I used to, unless I really try! (do stupid stuff)

But at my 50 acres up in the Catskills, I have never seen it!

 

[cantoo]

I cut the last couple of trees on the lot I cleared for a house. I cut them at 7' and lifted them on with one of my Steiners and front mini boom. Little load of Birch.

 

[svk]

Good looking birch!

 

[CaseyForrest]

That little Steiner is very cool.

 

[chipper1]

Bass wood about a 1/4 step above willow or cotton wood

Nice, so gofer wood.
I did look it up and got distracted by other info before I could get to the but ratings.
I did learn a thing or two though lol. It's a "high friction wood" so it's good for starting fires with a bow and it has little wart looking things all over it. I've never seen it around my place, but I'm sure I will now.

 

[chipper1]

Well, 16th November is our wedding anniversary so what better way to celebrate than to give your wife a good hot load of hard wood!

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There's a lot to get through and my time most days is limited but I can sneak out and put a quick tank or two through the 460 several days per week so I should be able to make some steady progress over the next week or two.

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I can stuff 11 inch thick rounds into my firebox so all this branch material is perfect for no-splitting heat.

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The 661 is still an inpatient so the 460 (20 inch bar) is doing the job and doing it fine. We'll see how it goes when it gets to the main trunk. Dry blue gum is as hard as a cat's head so it will certainly get some exercise when the time comes!

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Congrats on your anniversary CB.
Nice load as well.

 

[tpence2177]

Possibly found a new place to scrounge. Looks like an acre of just rejects from a logging company. Its around an acre of just stacks of wood. Just have to find out who owns it. No crutches anymore so I may be back out cutting stuff this weekend lol.

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[chipper1]

East Lansing is on the east side of lansing. LOL! Not really near the airport.

I'm told it's a mix of oak, locust, elm and maple. Some of what I got tonight was oak, locust and silver maple.

sent from a field

Oh, bummer.
I saw that building in the background and it looks like one when you cut down from the airport to m43.
Looks very nice and as though the tree guys who cut it were trying to make somewhat similar length cut's.
Finally getting that locust you wanted . The honey is higher in Btu's, but will make you use more Btu's to get it split up than black locust.

Oh..... I'm taking the tractor back on Sat.

sent from a field

That was one of my top thoughts looking at the pictures, that's a lot of lifting into the trailer.
Are you able to leave it at your buddies right there.

 

[chipper1]

My friend came over with his Stihl today and helped me cut

What a cutie.
You ought to give him the 288 .

 

[chipper1]

Possibly found a new place to scrounge. Looks like an acre of just rejects from a logging company. Its around an acre of just stacks of wood. Just have to find out who owns it. No crutches anymore so I may be back out cutting stuff this weekend lol.

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That would make a great scrounge.
Glad your feeling better. Is all the swelling gone down now.

 

[tpence2177]

That would make a great scrounge.
Glad your feeling better. Is all the swelling gone down now.

Thanks! Not quite. My foot bruising and red right now and still slightly swollen but I've been able to walk with just a slight limp today only needed an Aleve and it wasn't really for pain, more for trying to get the swelling down further

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[jr27236]

Thanks! Not quite. My foot bruising and red right now and still slightly swollen but I've been able to walk with just a slight limp today only needed an Aleve and it wasn't really for pain, more for trying to get the swelling down further

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