Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Kodiak Kid]

I always love the "must be licensed an insured".
I like to send them messages and do a bit like on the "Highly Valuable Black Walnut" videos.
Since some may not have seen it yet lol.

Oh man that's too funny! Never seen that before!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Don't be burning this stuff!!


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Lol!! So let me get this straight! The house owner is trying to sell that tree while getting paid to have it removed in the process? Is that correct?

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I'm guessing they think someone is going to come and pay them to remove that tree? I'm always amazed by the fakebook/craigslist tree people...unless the tree is made of gold, I'm not climbing it without being paid.

Thats what I'm say'n!

 

[Brufab]

We had oak and popple removed off my dad's 2.5 acre build site by a local logger. My dad got about 3500$ which was enough for 30' of 18" culvert pipe and gravel driveway access. He brought back the mill tickets. He also cut the tops up for welfare wood and took that and probably kept some veneer grade logs for himself to sell later. The oaks were huge and more work than we wanted to do so it all worked out in the end for both parties involved

 

[djg james]

LOL, I know that feeling and have more crsp in my garage, barn and cellar to irk the crap out of my wife. It is getting time to do a major cleanout and keep it that way.

Yes, it seems like I'm doing more cleaning out than actual projects. Some waiting 2 years.

 

[JimR]

Yes, it seems like I'm doing more cleaning out than actual projects. Some waiting 2 years.

Same here.

 

[djg james]

I'm really loving this warm 50 degree weather but not the ground thawing out again. I managed to split up 3 huge bucketloads of wood this morning before needing a break and lunch. Then the rain came. All next week it is going to be near 50 in Mass. Happy New Year

Warm here too, but muddy.

 

[djg james]

No military service. I do have a 12' Jon boat .

I guess I should have said I'm a member of the National Civilian Navy (NCN) and am a Captain of a twelve footer 12 v 36# thrust crappie boat (ship) deployed in cruising the coastal waters of our local inland lakes. Does that count?

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Just some fyi for ya KK. No first hand experience with the LS.
https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_tractors_built_by_LS_for_other_companies

Good info! Many big name tractors are manufactured overseas now. No getting away from it, and while many claim to made in USA. They are simply assembled in the USA, but actually made overseas. I haven't heard anything bad about LS and I'm not one to jump on the big orange or green or whatever ban wagon because of a name, but hey. Thats just me. To each his own.

 

[bob kern]

The day will come when your shoulders tell you enough is enough.

Yep. That day came and went a while back. Never thought i would need a splitter. Boy was I wrong.

 

[bob kern]

Funny stuff.
I used to watch guys struggle to unload skidded steel coils off the side of the flatbed. I'd ask if they wanted help, they'd get pissy and say I do this all day, to which I though, maybe it wouldn't take you all day if you'd take a little advice . I had rubber strips on my trailer, set one on the forks and the skid stays right on the fork to the edge, don't have to try 20 times to move it . That's the difference between working in a few plants receiving, and unloading at hundreds of places every yr for many yrs, you get plenty of exposure to different, and sometimes better ways of doing things.
And when you're as small as she was, you're gonna need as many "cheats" as you can get.

The dumbest person alive is the one who thinks they have nothing left to learn!!

 

[farmer steve]

Lol!! So let me get this straight! The house owner is trying to sell that tree while getting paid to have it removed in the process? Is that correct?

Yes, pretty much. They want there cake and eat it too. I did find this about possibly the most valuable one.
"A remarkable story in the New York Times from 30 December 1976 talks of a black walnut tree that went up for sale with 17 others. It was considered by the hardwood industry to be the “most perfect and valuable black walnut tree in the nation”.

The head of Atlantic Veneer Corporation, Hermann Meyer was the winning bidder of “the perfect tree” and valued it at $30,000, having paid $80,000 for all 18 of the trees.

The tree was estimated to be between 180 and 200 years old and had 57 feet before its first limb and was 130 feet in length and 38.4 inches in diameter."

 

[WoodAbuser]

Happy New Year!

 

[djg james]

Yep. That day came and went a while back. Never thought i would need a splitter. Boy was I wrong.

Yes, same thing I said. When I have a round too big to lift, I take 3 or 4 wacks with a maul. If it doesn't start, I noodle it. Everything else gets run through the splitter.

 

[user 158015]

Happy New Year

 

[Squareground3691]

Happy New Year everyone, hope the saw gods bring ported saws to everyone Lol , stay razor sharp , keeper in the wood , be safe .

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Well this was a first. Moved my chain grinders from the unheated shed to the heated shop today. Got them plugged in and threw a chain on one and kicked it on. Phone rang so I stepped away to answer and head a loud pop and then the grinder get really loud.

 

[Brufab]

I guess I should have said I'm a member of the National Civilian Navy (NCN) and am a Captain of a twelve footer 12 v 36# thrust crappie boat (ship) deployed in cruising the coastal waters of our local inland lakes. Does that count?

Hell yeah bro! It sure in the heck does

 

[Brufab]

Well this was a first. Moved my chain grinders from the unheated shed to the heated shop today. Got them plugged in and threw a chain on one and kicked it on. Phone rang so I stepped away to answer and head a loud pop and then the grinder get really loud.

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Did it throw those pieces across the shop? If so that may have been divine intervention that the phone rang.

 

[Brufab]

Yes, pretty much. They want there cake and eat it too. I did find this about possibly the most valuable one.
"A remarkable story in the New York Times from 30 December 1976 talks of a black walnut tree that went up for sale with 17 others. It was considered by the hardwood industry to be the “most perfect and valuable black walnut tree in the nation”.

The head of Atlantic Veneer Corporation, Hermann Meyer was the winning bidder of “the perfect tree” and valued it at $30,000, having paid $80,000 for all 18 of the trees.

The tree was estimated to be between 180 and 200 years old and had 57 feet before its first limb and was 130 feet in length and 38.4 inches in diameter."

Wow that much in 1976, that's big time money for then and with prices adjusted for today that has to be close to 100k for 1 tree