Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

At MechanicMatt's Request:

 

[MustangMike]

Most of the wood was taken before I got to take a picture. They were taking it as fast as we could bring it out there.

 

[dancan]

Well , a sunny and hot day up here so a great day to scrounge up a bit of wood
My friend had his tractor ready with a logging winch .

We had to add some extensions to the cable to get to the trees , good thing I had the UTV skiddah cable and straps LOL

Pioneerguy600 showed up and we rigged up a couple of leaners then pulled them over .

We cleared the way to get to a big dying spruce and gave it a WestCoast Humbolt EastCoast style with an 026 .

Nice stump jump eh ??

We got pile of trees cut , some good for firewood , a couple of logs I can saw a few planks out of and a lot of bonfire wood .
The best part of today's scrounge is that my friend is gonna do the cleanup this week and get his son to junk up the firewood for me

 

[Deleted member 83629]

how is that scrounging that is logging

 

[USMC615]

Well , a sunny and hot day up here so a great day to scrounge up a bit of wood
My friend had his tractor ready with a logging winch .

We had to add some extensions to the cable to get to the trees , good thing I had the UTV skiddah cable and straps LOL

Pioneerguy600 showed up and we rigged up a couple of leaners then pulled them over .

We cleared the way to get to a big dying spruce and gave it a WestCoast Humbolt EastCoast style with an 026 .

Nice stump jump eh ??

We got pile of trees cut , some good for firewood , a couple of logs I can saw a few planks out of and a lot of bonfire wood .
The best part of today's scrounge is that my friend is gonna do the cleanup this week and get his son to junk up the firewood for me

Cool...nice, clear pics.

 

[dancan]

Jakewells , not my trees and I get the wood

 

[MustangMike]

It is all good!!!! Just keep the pics coming.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

nice scrounge through to muddy to do anything here , a man would get himself marred up past his stomach in this crap.

 

[dancan]

No mud season in sight for a bit here LOL

 

[mainewoods]

Reminds me of how much I DON'T miss limbin' spruce,fir and hemlock.

 

[dancan]

It is all good!!!! Just keep the pics coming.

Thanks Mike , I just grab my phone and take a pic when I get a chance , I miss a lot of stuff but hope to get a couple of nice ones so I can put a story together .
I've learned a lot by looking at other peoples pics and I hope others may gain from mine .
I can tell you that my friends 16 yr old was ear to ear smiles all afternoon running the tractor and winch .
Clint this fir and spruce is great , I don't have to do the limbin' or buckin'

 

[mainewoods]

My favorite kind of conifer!

 

[mainewoods]

 

[dancan]

Reminds me of how much I DON'T miss limbin' spruce,fir and hemlock.

I'm knot quite sure about what you speak of Clint ...

 

[MustangMike]

Now that is NOT a limbing saw!

 

[Deleted member 83629]

anything saw can be a limbing saw you just need strong limbs to limb with it

 

[MustangMike]

Exactly!!!

 

[nomad_archer]

I'm knot quite sure about what you speak of Clint ...

Holy smokes. That brings back the nightmares of the trees I took down in my back yard. I hope I never have to deal with those gain. All the pines on my property came down along with a huge maple. I truly dislike pines. There was something like 7 pines I took down that weekend. I have no idea why they were planeted they way they were.

Front yard before we started on the pine in the front yard and the maple on the side of the garage. This was just getting started. But there was a lot of limbing to do that day.

 

[svk]

Holy smokes. That brings back the nightmares of the trees I took down in my back yard. I hope I never have to deal with those gain. All the pines on my property came down along with a huge maple. I truly dislike pines. There was something like 7 pines I took down that weekend. I have no idea why they were planeted they way they were.

Front yard before we started on the pine in the front yard and the maple on the side of the garage. This was just getting started. But there was a lot of limbing to do that day.
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I don't mind true pines at all. Spruce can be a pain with those sharp little needles.

But I hate balsam! After years of cutting at my hunting cabin I finally don't have any that are an imminent threat to my cabin. Darn things get about 8" dbh and they start breaking off halfway up during a wind storm. I'm never letting one get larger than a Christmas tree within 100 feet of any building ever again.

 

[mainewoods]

Feedin' a skiddah with spruce, for the paper mills in the dead of winter, for 10 years, created a disdain for the " spiny conifer. Pretty decent workout limbing those "spine-iferous" ********for 10 hours, but they did smell great and the spruce gum is excellent. Skiddah took 10-12 trees to a turn, so you humped all day to keep up. One reason this one is still standin' in my yard!