Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[USMC615]

Well I now have a two saw plan. The cs400 cleaned up nice. I put a new chain on it and a side from some tuning it will be a good saw. I need to learn how to tune a carb now. On the the positive side, it sounds like it is running rich. I checked the piston and it looks great Just need to figure out what is rattling around in the muffler and to find out if it is normal.

As it was when I picked it up.
I got the saw and 3/4 or better gallon jug of bar oil for $75.

All cleaned up.

Nomad, if you'll just send that pretty thang my way, it'll keep my 370 company...lol. I'll pay ya for your troubles, promise ya. Good scrounging on that one, fer sher. Enjoy the day, happy 4th.

 

[JustJeff]

Scrounged my first vertical wood today up until now it has all been horizontal. Oh the possibilities!

 

[USMC615]

View attachment 434069 Scrounged my first vertical wood today up until now it has all been horizontal. Oh the possibilities!

Nice.

 

[dancan]

Scrounged my first vertical wood today up until now it has all been horizontal. Oh the possibilities!

I sure hope you cut that stump flush and took it home with you ,,,,,,, LOL
That your spread ??? Nice solar array

 

[JustJeff]

I sure hope you cut that stump flush and took it home with you ,,,,,,, LOL
That your spread ??? Nice solar array

I cut a slice to hang on my moms fridge. Lol. Not my place, some neighbors who have a couple dead trees for the taking.

 

[cantoo]

Welded a couple more hitches on my skidding plate. Only use the outside ones for small stuff, they are mostly to hang the chains off of to keep them handy and separated. Hauled a load home yesterday. Cut enough trees down today for another load and a half, got one home and stacked in the log pile.
Nice load on the trailer 7' off the ground.

 

[Eagleknight]

I been working my way through my scrounge pile more this week. With it raining so much in Ohio. I haven't been able to do much. It is more of a pain to cut stuff out of a pile it seems. Working on my third row of skids.

 

[svk]

Started the weekend with grilled shrimp and scampi. Yesterday we enjoyed a smoked brisket at a friends house. Today I'm making steak breakfast tacos and later we shall enjoy my slow cooked pork on Cubans and banh mi sandwiches. Hope everyone had a fun and safe weekend!

 

[MustangMike]

Thanks, it went well. Got to see both Daughters and all 3 Grand Kids, had some nice dark beers and a great burger, and hit almost no traffic (to my surprise). The Mustang was locked at 80 MPH on cruise control for about 3 hrs each way, and I got 22.7 MPG, not bad for that speed! I may have got 23, but I had to show a Camaro my tail lights! Just drop it into 4th at 80 and mash the gas, you will see 120 in not time. Then you let off, as everyone knows it is over!

 

[cantoo]

I cut firewood all summer and it gets pretty warm so I do my landing a bit different than the loggers around here do. I pick a spot in the bush near the edge that has lots of tall trees around it with a fair bit of undergrowth. I then clear that area and use it to drag a trailer or 2 worth of trees in at a time. This keeps me working in the shade where it's much cooler. I make 5 or 6 skidding trails into the landing so I can drag a few trees from each section at a time. I usually start cutting as far away from the landing as reasonable for skidding. Area I'm working right now is about a 5 acre section, neighbour on one side, stream (dry all summer) on the back and ends up in a swampy area that can only be cut in dry summer, other side is the field. Bush is mainly cedar, a few maples with ash sprinkled throughout it. I'm removing all the ash. They are up to 26" across but I'm leaving some of these as they seem pretty healthy yet. I'm trying to find a cheap bandsaw mill. There was poplar and thorn trees around the edges but I removed most of them last year. I'm getting close to finished the easy part of this section, hauling the bigger stuff out. Next will be going in with my buzz saw and cutting the small stuff up right in the bush. I will then go around with the loader and collect the rounds by hand and dump into my dump trailer. When I started you could hardly walk thru the bush, trees were lying every which way. It's starting to open up now and in a couple of weeks I will clean out some trails for the 4 wheelers to drive on.

 

[Philbert]

'Scrounging' or 'harvesting'?

Looks like you have more of a 'crop management' situation there!

Philbert

 

[svk]

Yesterday was hot and humid. Spent the entire day outside and I wisely chose to hydrate without alcohol until sunset. Stayed warm over night but the humidity dropped so I mowed the lawn thus morning. Pretty muggy again so we are hanging out in the AC.

 

[cantoo]

Philbert, I call it scrounging because I don't own the land and made a cashless deal to access it. A big corporation owns it and because they just built a large turkey complex beside my house they allow me to go in and remove firewood. Kind of the ultimate scrounge, 50 acres of bush that hasn't been logged in 35 years. Lots and lots of ash that is dying quickly, I'm just trying to stay caught up to it. 100s and 100s of poplar too but I've given up on it for right now, too much work for the btu return. I clean up everything around the bush that falls onto the crop land and clean up the corners to get them a few more acres for crop production. I plan to remove the cedar and they will be able to bring in an excavator and gain about 4 acres for a cheap price. They also own 10 acres across the road that is 90% ash, I'm afraid to even go look at it.
In the past I had to pay for firewood to be dropped off or I bought the tops from a logging operation and haul them out myself. This is a much better deal because it's right behind my house. I can run back and bring home a load after supper.
The 1st picture used to be the view from my barnyard. The 2nd and 3rd pictures are the view now. There is rumours of a 26 barn complex going there so I'm getting all the wood I can while I can.

 

[Philbert]

Philbert, I call it scrounging because I don't own the land and made a cashless deal to access it.

Then that certainly qualifies as 'scrounging' to me! I thought that it was a wood lot that you owned. Sorry for casting any doubt.

Philbert

 

[cantoo]

My family used to own it 35 years ago We had 550 acres back then. Dad got sick and we sold it all off but 10, I now own that 10 but sure wish it was more. We sold 540 acres for under $100,000, the last time it sold I heard it was close to $3 million, have no idea what it would be worth now with all the barns included. My wife keeps saying "why are you cutting so many logs we have enough for 3 years" I tell her rich people change their minds all the time, I'm getting it while I can. And it keeps me away from her Hunny do list.

 

[svk]

Isn't that the truth. Between the land my and my wife's family used to own or could have purchased for cheap I could be retired and own my own Caribbean island.

 

[Philbert]

Our family never owned much land. But if I had bought Apple computer stock in 1977 . . . . .

Philbert

 

[svk]

"Lieutenant Dan invested my money in some sort of fruit company"....

 

[MustangMike]

Hey, my family used to own land on both sides of the GW bridge. My Aunt was hit by a car, and my Grandfather mortgaged the properties to pay for two of the best NYC surgeons to cut short their vacation and operate on her. Then the depression hit, and he lost everything, but my Aunt, who they said would never walk again, walked till she died at 93. IMO, my Grandfather did the right thing.

One of my ancestors is buried in Trinity Cemetery, and you really had to be someone to be in there.

But hey, I grew up Middle Class because my parents worked their fingers to the bone, and went 20 years w/o a vacation. That kind of work ethic does not seem to exist any more.

 

[nomad_archer]

Now, now Mike some of us young'uns still know how to work. There just isnt many of us left.