Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[woodchip rookie]

@farmer steve do you have a close-up pic of the top right log thats in the bucket? I have some wood like that but not sure what it is. I have been told American Elm but it smelled like piss oak. But the grain looks nothing like red or white oak

 

[woodchip rookie]

In case you guys havent seen this....advice needed.

http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/which-file-guide.308834/#post-6222916

 

[farmer steve]

@farmer steve do you have a close-up pic of the top right log thats in the bucket? I have some wood like that but not sure what it is. I have been told American Elm but it smelled like piss oak. But the grain looks nothing like red or white oak

american elm pic.

rock or chestnut oak pic. hope this helps.

 

[woodchip rookie]

not chestnut oak

 

[JustJeff]

For the past 2 months, I've done a complete strip and repaint on my old 16' Naden. Still work to be done but the hull is finished. I used alkyd enamel with hardener so I hope it proves to be durable. I've, gulp, even turned down a scrounge because I've been so involved with this project. Back yard is too muddy to get to my split pile anyway and I hate moving wood twice...maybe if it's hard maple. Anyways the boat really isn't scrounge related other than I bought it with firewood money . But I thought you guys might find it interesting.

 

[svk]

View attachment 572786 View attachment 572787 View attachment 572788 For the past 2 months, I've done a complete strip and repaint on my old 16' Naden. Still work to be done but the hull is finished. I used alkyd enamel with hardener so I hope it proves to be durable. I've, gulp, even turned down a scrounge because I've been so involved with this project. Back yard is too muddy to get to my split pile anyway and I hate moving wood twice...maybe if it's hard maple. Anyways the boat really isn't scrounge related other than I bought it with firewood money . But I thought you guys might find it interesting.

Looking great!

 

[woodchip rookie]

Thats an interesting scrounge machine. You grabbing branches off the shore line?

 

[Cowboy254]

View attachment 572786 View attachment 572787 View attachment 572788 For the past 2 months, I've done a complete strip and repaint on my old 16' Naden. Still work to be done but the hull is finished. I used alkyd enamel with hardener so I hope it proves to be durable. I've, gulp, even turned down a scrounge because I've been so involved with this project. Back yard is too muddy to get to my split pile anyway and I hate moving wood twice...maybe if it's hard maple. Anyways the boat really isn't scrounge related other than I bought it with firewood money . But I thought you guys might find it interesting.

Wow, that's come up a treat! It must be love if you even turned down a scrounge. When do you hope to conduct the maiden voyage?

 

[JustJeff]

Wow, that's come up a treat! It must be love if you even turned down a scrounge. When do you hope to conduct the maiden voyage?

Two weeks from now is supposed to the first trip of the year.

 

[dancan]

Well , I put my saws away for the summer ,way too much wood in the piles , retire for the summer and relax , fire up the bbq and drink plenty of beers , I'm not gonna cut another stick , no siree bob ...


Then the phone rings , it's the fella that owns the property that I have access too , wanting to know if I could drop a few trees for him , he said he could crush it with the excavator but he thot I might want it .
Be right up I told him LOL

Nothing glorious but spruce is spruce and it's all mine
A bit of a mess but nothing complicated .

The last one .

All mine I tells you , all mine lol

Here's another use for brush , I laid it over a band of mud to keep from getting my boots full of it , lay it over the muck hole and it's like it's not there .

It's Good Friday and was a good Friday
Scrounge on ladies !

 

[farmer steve]

Well , I put my saws away for the summer ,way too much wood in the piles , retire for the summer and relax , fire up the bbq and drink plenty of beers , I'm not gonna cut another stick , no siree bob ...


Then the phone rings , it's the fella that owns the property that I have access too , wanting to know if I could drop a few trees for him , he said he could crush it with the excavator but he thot I might want it .
Be right up I told him LOL

Nothing glorious but spruce is spruce and it's all mine
A bit of a mess but nothing complicated .

The last one .

All mine I tells you , all mine lol

Here's another use for brush , I laid it over a band of mud to keep from getting my boots full of it , lay it over the muck hole and it's like it's not there .

It's Good Friday and was a good Friday
Scrounge on ladies !

good job there dancan.
i don't like gettin my feet muddy either. even for Oak!!!

 

[dancan]

Fricken comedians .....



I don't needs no oak , save that poor old oak tree .
Oak schmoak .

 

[jwade]

A few months ago a dead wattle fell over down the bottom of the property and I dragged the bits back up and dumped them in front of the woodshed. The intention was to break up all the twigs and whatnot for my kindling supplies - for which wattle twigs are just right. Unfortunately, I didn't get around to it immediately, along with everything else and grass grew about a metre high through the lot. It has been sitting there since, annoying me. Sunday was a showery day so no scrounging, but in between showers I pulled out the wattle bits and broke them up, then this morning I called in the mowing contractors to take the grass down.

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[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

Fricken comedians .....



I don't needs no oak , save that poor old oak tree .
Oak schmoak .

It's all good the next ash tree i fell I will take a pic lol
It's not all oak lol
the next 2 weeks are tho

 

[Cowboy254]

Scrounge on ladies !

Yessir!

Wait..what..ladies?

Whatever.

Man, I'm getting tired, I think I've been on the scrounge every day this week. I'm reaching the stage where I think I just about have enough wood. Sure, it's not oak so there's no need for jealousy from anyone....it's heavier than that .

People are starting to ask questions, they think there might be something wrong with me - at least, more wrong than usual. I was tired enough that I forgot to take progress pictures of today's scrounge and had to go back outside to take a coupla snaps. I think I might need a day off from scrounging. It's just that in a few year's time when I'm running out of wood, I'm going to look at pictures of Mt Cowboy and wistfully wish that I had cut just a couple more loads when I had the chance.

Here's today's work, a load of peppermint with some bonfire poles on top.



This area was levelled by the original owner of the property for a tennis court but it has become a combined bonfire/boat/Mt Cowboy/random wattle/swing set area. Perhaps one day it'll become a tennis court but there's a fair bit of wood to move first.



It's beer o'clock - which is 12.45pm.

 

[svk]

Thats an interesting scrounge machine. You grabbing branches off the shore line?

Done it.

Go to the eastern shoreline of large bays. The springtime high water pushes the flotsam high up on the rocks and the sun beats on it all summer. Lots of logs, branches, beaver wood, and dock wood is washed up and normally dry enough to burn right away.

You can also steal wood off beaver houses and dams.

Scrounging tip of the day lol.

 

[Philbert]

Have not been doing much scrounging, because I don't have much space to store wood.

But the other day I helped a neighbor clean up a city fence line, just to get some long 'sticks' that I could use to test the magnetic firewood measuring sticks I have been playing with in another thread.

Box elder, cedar, and ? (these are separate piles). Battery saw. It all burns.





Philbert

 

[woodchip rookie]

What are the 2 bigger logs on the bottom left with the really white wood?

 

[Philbert]

What are the 2 bigger logs on the bottom left with the really white wood?

I don't know. There are about 8 sections of these in the bottom photo. These were all 'volunteer' (weed) trees. Did not recognize the leaves. Really coarse, sharp, bark. Really hard, dense, heavy, wood.

Philbert

 

[woodchip rookie]

We have alot of that around here but not sure what it is.