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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Aha, I can see you are an educated gentleman who knows his Aussie predators
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I'm cutting a bit Monday. Going to need to break out the winter weight oil.
Just let the saw warm up a minute or two before you put it to the wood, it will be fine!!!!
I think I've cut to about 20 below. First few minutes are chilly then the jacket gets unzipped.
I've worked in a hooded sweatshirt at -5. Still was sweating.
I've worked in a hooded sweatshirt at -5. Still was sweating.
through my logging years/adventures there have been days in the dead of winter when you try to start machinery at -30+ below .... warming up for 2 hours from a dead start frozen oil using a propane pig to be able to work for 3 hours to be out of the deep bush before total black out! howling winds with the fridged bite of a rabid wolf stinging like no other! don't miss them day's in the least! 6 to 10 cord of pecker pole's did not beat me this day!
G'day scroungers, I got out to the Lady Farm today. Bad news for her but good for me, she's now going to be stuck there (thank-you Family Court) until at least May which gives me some more good scrounging time. I'm just about done scrounging for the time being anyway, I'm pretty weary, it's getting warmer and I have scrounge coming out of all sorts of places 
. I have brought home 15 trailer loads in the last 3 weeks, 5 cords worth which is more than we burn in a year. We'll be heading up to Queensland for some fishing next week and then Christmas as well. After that it'll be too hot to scrounge, in fact, I've been very lucky that it has been mild enough to scrounge for the last month. And I still have about a year's worth of manual splitting in front of me. You can see the head of my little bearded clam dragon perched up the top again.
The big bluegum is in the background. Now that it looks like I might have some time after it starts to cool off, I might get some milling gear to make some table tops. Anyone know a good website where I can find the sort of information I'll need?
I moved further along the ridge in search of peppermint BTUs. These logs were smallish but there was some termite free wood there. About this much.
I moved on to where I had seen a good looking dead stander. He fell over just after I got there, good timing!
You generally expect that with dead peppermints standing among other trees, they're going to have termites to a greater or lesser degree. Generally from a medium sized tree like this you would expect to get some good BTUs out of the upper trunk and branches and then have to split out the termite middle out of the middle and lower trunk. It is not a good sign when the branches disintegrate upon hitting the ground and termite cr@p goes everywhere which is what happened with this one.
Still, I did get some good wood out of this, splitting out the worst of it, then will re-split what remains next to the deadly meat ant nest and they can go to town on the white ants. This load will go into the 'burn first' pile. I'll let it sit out over summer then chuck a tarp over it in May and it'll all be good burning by then. It's about 1/3 of a cord in the trailer.
. I have brought home 15 trailer loads in the last 3 weeks, 5 cords worth which is more than we burn in a year. We'll be heading up to Queensland for some fishing next week and then Christmas as well. After that it'll be too hot to scrounge, in fact, I've been very lucky that it has been mild enough to scrounge for the last month. And I still have about a year's worth of manual splitting in front of me. You can see the head of my little bearded clam dragon perched up the top again. The big bluegum is in the background. Now that it looks like I might have some time after it starts to cool off, I might get some milling gear to make some table tops. Anyone know a good website where I can find the sort of information I'll need?
I moved further along the ridge in search of peppermint BTUs. These logs were smallish but there was some termite free wood there. About this much.
I moved on to where I had seen a good looking dead stander. He fell over just after I got there, good timing!
You generally expect that with dead peppermints standing among other trees, they're going to have termites to a greater or lesser degree. Generally from a medium sized tree like this you would expect to get some good BTUs out of the upper trunk and branches and then have to split out the termite middle out of the middle and lower trunk. It is not a good sign when the branches disintegrate upon hitting the ground and termite cr@p goes everywhere which is what happened with this one.
Still, I did get some good wood out of this, splitting out the worst of it, then will re-split what remains next to the deadly meat ant nest and they can go to town on the white ants. This load will go into the 'burn first' pile. I'll let it sit out over summer then chuck a tarp over it in May and it'll all be good burning by then. It's about 1/3 of a cord in the trailer.
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I think the tree saw 'limby' coming, and knew the gig was up.
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I spent 15 hours driving yesterday and had lots of time to think about all the work I have to do. decided that I needed to get some of the logs home before we get this batch of bad weather they are raving about. This morning I put the rear tire chains on and tonight after work I headed back to the bush. It was a little colder out today so the ground was pretty stiff. Of course it is still warm around the bush and muddy everywhere but I was keen by then. I managed to get 3 loads hauled home and piled up just after dark. I've decided to stack all the different sized logs and the ash and poplar separate this year. It will save me time when I'm cutting stuff into rounds and splitting. I have about 8 more loads of ash ready to come out. The darn poplar is pretty much a waste of time but that was part of the deal I made with the land owner. I said I would get rid of the poplar, there are tons of trees blown over and partway down. A couple of the sections aren't even safe to walk thru because of all the leaners and widow makers hanging everywhere. When it freezes I just gonna walk in and start at one side and just keep cutting until all the poplar is cut then I will go in with the rear grapple and haul it out from one end. Think I might cut most of it into 16" stuff for campfire sales, just going to stack it off the conveyor and sell it by the dump trailer load to a couple of local camp grounds. They just want cooking fires so poplar is fine as long as it's kept dry. I'm planning on buying a couple of corn silage wagons with rooves on them to keep everything dry. I'll cut openings at the bottom to get the wood out. I hope we get some good freezing weather and just enough snow to make sliding logs easier and cleaner so I can get some work done. I'm off work between Christmas and New Years so wood is gonna catch hell.
My 2 Grandsons are praying for snow, 1) so they won't have school, and 2) so Grandpa will take them sledding!
Might work ok once it's in a warm saw but getting summer weight oil in the saw can be a challenge, I've had to squeeze the jug just to get oil out at -10. My Dad used to get the red bulk oil, good stuff. I sure like my 562 too, amazing throttle response it's like it knows your going to squeeze the trigger and just revs up
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heat sure feels good from the scrounged wood 
Well new to me, it's a 95 PSD, 5speed, one ton axles, longer front leaf springs with shackle reversal (rides nice), billet turbo wheel, 4" exhaust, 6 position tuner, and lots of other things, didn't really need it but was one of those deals I couldn't pass up. Anyone want to buy a rust free 94 Chevy pickup?
pics of the Chevy?
Darn it, more sub zero weather coming which means no chance of unfrozen wood for my splitting tool shoot out.
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