Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[dancan]

I did get a store bought cone,Dan. Tried several plastic barrels and they worked good but didn't last too long on the rocky ground I have. Figured I would give one a try. Thick, very tough piece of plastic. Overpriced perhaps, but it sure works good in thick growth and around stumps. Saves cutting small trees out of the way to make a lane. Slides right around 'em, from any angle. Haven't had one "hangup" yet. You certainly notice the reduced drag when the cone is on a tree length twitch. The design was well thought out, in my opinion.
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Hmm, I pointed a young fella that has a small treeco to a portawinch last year when he was asking me how to solve some haulout problems he was having on a cleanup job , he bought the winch and the cone , he loves them both .
Now that I have confirmation that they work from a second source , I guess I'll have to save up some bottle money

 

[LondonNeil]

Oh so google photos playing up. Odd, others can see it....google photos plays up in a new weird way! okay fingers crossed it plays ball this time.

 

[KiwiBro]

Oh so google photos playing up. Odd, others can see it...

Hmmm, that's interesting. Can those who can see that first image served from google photos please let us know your country? I ask because I'm trying to figure out what Google is doing and even though I tried routing through UK and US proxies, I couldn't see the image. So I'm scratching my head a bit how they are doing the filtering. Does anyone know? I believe Dancan had some similar issues with google a while back too? I can't recall how his good self solved it.

 

[Cowboy254]

Hmmm, that's interesting. Can those who can see that first image served from google photos please let us know your country? I ask because I'm trying to figure out what Google is doing and even though I tried routing through UK and US proxies, I couldn't see the image. So I'm scratching my head a bit how they are doing the filtering. Does anyone know? I believe Dancan had some similar issues with google a while back too? I can't recall how his good self solved it.

On occasion I've been able to see pics shortly after they've been posted then half an hour later the big minus sign. Don't know what that's all about.

@LondonNeil , it looks rather like blue gum (e.globulus). The bark looks typical and the wood looks the normal pale yellow/brown. It is the most commonly introduced species outside Australia and does well in cool climates with plenty of rainfall. The grain is often interlocked which makes splitting difficult but a lot of plantation and introduced blue gum is of significantly lower density (like 700kg/m versus 900kg/m for 'wild' trees) and growing faster might make the grain straighter and easier to split. I'd debark it before you burn it if you can. Any more pics?

 

[dancan]

I had one of the ax pics that I put up in the resto thread not work at all on one website but work everywhere else so I don't know ???

Neil , that don't look like spruce to me .

 

[Philbert]

Too easy, Neil!

You named your eucalyptus 'Neil'?!?

(I knew a man with one wooden leg named 'Smith' . . . . don't know what the other leg was named . . . )

Philbert

 

[Jeffkrib]

Now days I just open the picture, screen shot and crop the shot, then paste it in with the text. No third party hosting and no data lost in the future.
LondonNeil, do you see much Eucalyptus in the UK, I don't recall ever seeing any when I was there on holidays. My guess would also be Blue Gum as seen in Tasmania.

 

[chipper1]

Hmm, I pointed a young fella that has a small treeco to a portawinch last year when he was asking me how to solve some haulout problems he was having on a cleanup job , he bought the winch and the cone , he loves them both .
Now that I have confirmation that they work from a second source , I guess I'll have to save up some bottle money

You starting tonight Dan.

 

[chipper1]

Today I went and split some bigger oak rounds still building up for the winterView attachment 596352 View attachment 596353

Looks like some nice oak to me .

 

[cantoo]

Took my grandson, a Steiner, some saws and a set of trains to the Mike McGlynn Memorial last weekend. He had fun.

 

[LondonNeil]

Google definitely is a weird one for photo hosting. I could see the photos from device not logged as me. Had the same before, move a set of photos to a shared folder, paste links from there, some work and some don't. Redo the links later and more work. Odd.

Eucalyptus isn't common but it's not an unusual sit in gardens. Wherever variety it is it tends to be fast growing so light weight. It'll burn ok, but be gone quickly. I'll take a few more snaps for you all.

 

[LondonNeil]

For Jeff, Kiwibri, Cowboy, and anyone else that want's to guess (there is no prize, and I can't even confirm a winner, but hey what the heck)

that bit is about 6" diameter, so fast growing judging by the rings. its medium density but freshly cut I believe. No sap oozing, very faint pleasant smell, very faint.

BTW, trying somethng different on google photos, I've just 'copied the image' and pasted. hope it works [edit, it didn't, now doing the 'copy image address' and pasting via the image insert button]

 

[chipper1]

For Jeff, Kiwibri, Cowboy, and anyone else that want's to guess (there is no prize, and I can't even confirm a wnner, but hey what the heck)

that bit is about 6" diameter, so fast growing judging by the rings. its medium density but freshly cut I believe. No sap oozing, very faint pleasant smell, very faint.

BTW, trying somethng different on google photos, I've just 'copied the image' and pasted. hope it works

No images buddy.
Just take a screen shot and then post that.

 

[Philbert]

For Jeff, Kiwibri, Cowboy, and anyone else that want's to guess (there is no prize, and I can't even confirm a wnner, but hey what the heck) . . . .BTW, trying somethng different on google photos, I've just 'copied the image' and pasted. hope it works

My guess: the universal 'Do Not Enter' sign post tree!



Philbert

 

[LondonNeil]

Now how odd is that, in chipper's quote of my post I can see the images!
I'll edit now, the photos should appear shortly for all...with luck.

 

[svk]

Now how odd is that, in chipper's quote of my post I can see the images!
I'll edit now, the photos should appear shortly for all...with luck.

I am sorry if it was already mentioned, but why don't you just use the photo hosting provided by AS?

 

[LondonNeil]

Never tried it, is there a guide somewhere?

 

[svk]

Just hit "upload file" button right next to the "post reply" button.

 

[LondonNeil]

 

[rarefish383]

Test run?