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Don't ya love it when they fall so you can trim and delimb without having to bend over.....
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This one was leaning pretty hard to the right. So I made the backcut leaving meat on the left of the hinge

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Love it when a plan comes together.

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Don't ya love it when they fall so you can trim and delimb without having to bend over.....
f5305e7b63d696e4c6001c5f7f175c19.jpg


This one was leaning pretty hard to the right. So I made the backcut leaving meat on the left of the hinge

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Love it when a plan comes together.

sent from a field
What's that grey growth in the middle of the tree? Lol
That's some good board wood for sure
 
No scrounging for me today , had to work the selling wood pile .

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My buddy was splitting with my Super Split while I was blocking then when I had a big enough pile of rounds I'd run the splitter and he'd throw the splits in the truck , we got 5 loads done today and he's got enough rounds for 2 more loads .

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Well , I guess it was kind of a scrounge because all of the little trimmed off bits are going to come home with me , waste knott want knott lol
 
Awesome scrounge day!!!!! Change of plans regarding tearing apart the old stove today. Ok, I'm in the woods.

I went after the big Sugar Maple from the pictures I posted yesterday.

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First round of cutting and splitting done. The scrounging gods have smiled on me again with another great Sugar Maple. I've never been this lucky.

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There were 3 loads from what's cut and split, along with the sugar maple top on the trail, and an elm that I found in my way as I was boon docking my way in.

The Elm and I am pretty confident it is elm because it laughed at the Fiskars.

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An gorgeous day!!!! On to round 2 of cutting and splitting.

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The 1 was hollowed out and 2 had a little bit of rot in the center that looked like brown mud. For the most part all of the wood was still excellent. You can see I stopped for the day were it was hollowing out.

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Some of the rounds were big and one yielded 10 splits.

2nd round all split and only had to noodle one quarter. I got 2 loads out of this.

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I got 5 loads out today and the tree is only half cut up. There are another 7-9 loads of Sugar Maple in that immediate area and I can park the trailer in the same spot.

This stuff tried me and I'm wore out. It had a bunch of burls on it which made splitting a challenge to say the least.

Fantastic day though.
 
Big easy ash today but this is the last tree I cut till I get real saws. The little 33cc14" poulan isnt enough for bucking but too big for trim/limb. The crappy 50cc/20" is ok but getting parts is harder than Stihl. I bent the bar. If it were a Stihl I could have went to the Ace that was literally within sight of the tree I was cutting and get a bar. I need a 30cc(ish) top handle and a 70cc 24/25" (ish) for bucking.
 
No scrounging for me today , had to work the selling wood pile .

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Well , I guess it was kind of a scrounge because all of the little trimmed off bits are going to come home with me , waste knott want knott lol


What's up with the orange tail on your saw, I seen the Stihl dealer had a bunch on the shelf yesterday too, do you use that as a gauge to cut your firewood at or?
 
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