Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[zogger]

Ten thousand posts in 1 1/2 years is pretty good. I had no idea there was that many fellahs into wood scrounging! Keep up the good work, you're a great bunch of guys! To all the newcomers, ask all the questions you want, I don't think anyone will bite your head off here, everyone is very civil on this thread. Sometimes we even discuss scrounging wood!!!!!

Epic thread man, thanks for starting it!

 

[nomad_archer]

Can't beat this view for dinner.

The only fish caught today

 

[Ambull01]

You mean face cord? 23 cord, prove it! haha j/k, where would one even store that much wood? That would be just over 3 years supply for me (if full cord lol).

You go through that much wood a year? I couldn't keep up with that kind of burn rate. I'm really hoping I go through less than 4 cords a year.

Coupla Bonus pics for Ambull. Here's what mid to south georgia looks like from the main road..they grow white fluffy things, miles and miles of them.View attachment 453894 The other side of the white fluffy fields is swamp, pine trees, moss and hogs about half the size of an old VW beetle..next pic is your new scrounge buggy, start saving the extra from your new job!View attachment 453892

Nice. Get an American Bulldog and start hunting them hogs. With my new job will come the Cummins, possibly a trailer, and about 10 acres of land that I'll be able to hunt and cut firewood.

 

[SteveSS]

My latest wood scrounging acquisition that I picked up the weekend before last. 1997 F-250, 460 BBF, 8' bed. I need to get a load thrown on her and see how she does. I might need to buy a gas station just to keep it in fuel.

 

[SteveSS]

Someone asked a few pages back about how far you're willing to travel for a scrounge. In this new truck......about ten miles.

 

[svk]

You go through that much wood a year? I couldn't keep up with that kind of burn rate. I'm really hoping I go through less than 4 cords a year.

No. Most of it goes somewhere else. If I burned full time I'd go through 12 cords softwood or 7 of hardwood not counting fire pits.

 

[svk]

Someone asked a few pages back about how far you're willing to travel for a scrounge. In this new truck......about ten miles.

Ah the famous big block ford. You can see the gas gauge move if you are heavy on the throttle

 

[SteveSS]

Ah the famous big block ford. You can see the gas gauge move if you are heavy on the throttle

Truth! I romped into it this weekend and watched it happen.

 

[svk]

Even the 351w's in those trucks are gas hogs.

Although with the big block you get the same mileage empty or with 10k load behind you lol.

 

[nomad_archer]

With that truck about 10 miles would be my max

Edit....I ment 10 feet would be my max

 

[dancan]

Looks like a city truck Steve Lol , get on over to a spring shop and get them to install some F350 front springs installed and a pair of airbags for the back and then make a rack for the back .
That way you could haul a cord in the back and a couple on a trailer

 

[svk]

Through several rain squalls my FIL and I got the roof 95 percent done today. I'm literally a jigsaw blade and about two dozen screws from completion. Just need to put a narrow strip on the right side and one chunk of cap on and she's all set. The bottom looks a bit wavy as I hadn't screwed it down yet in this photo.

Metal goes up easy but the time consuming part was the extra framing we did where the rooflines meet on the back side of this photo.

 

[USMC615]

Fellas, we like that hawg huntin here in Ga. They run rampant, open season all year round, and we slaughter their arses. Zoggs if you were on I-75 through mid Ga, at the Warner Robins exit, you were within 6 miles or so of my house. Here's one I busted a few years ago that was worth mounting. 400+ on the hoof and meaner than four hells. If any of you guys are through mid Ga, and can stay a day or two, wknd, let's get it on...hog heaven.

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[svk]

Fellas, we like that hawg huntin here in Ga. They run rampant, open season all year round, and we slaughter their arses. Zoggs if you were on I-75 through mid Ga, at the Warner Robins exit, you were within 6 miles or so of my house. Here's one I busted a few years ago that was worth mounting. 400+ on the hoof and meaner than four hells. If any of you guys are through mid Ga, and can stay a day or two, wknd, let's get it on...hog heaven.

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Mmm. Love hog meat. Although I'd imagine he was too rank to be tasty.

 

[svk]

Usmc, I may just take you up on that offer sometime.

 

[USMC615]

Coupla Bonus pics for Ambull. Here's what mid to south georgia looks like from the main road..they grow white fluffy things, miles and miles of them.View attachment 453894 The other side of the white fluffy fields is swamp, pine trees, moss and hogs about half the size of an old VW beetle..next pic is your new scrounge buggy, start saving the extra from your new job!View attachment 453892

Mmm. Love hog meat. Although I'd imagine he was too rank to be tasty.

We had almost all of him ground into sausage so the seasonings take some of the gamey taste out, or masquerade it I should say. It wasn't too bad. The smaller hogs are the sweet ones...cook up fine.

 

[svk]

We had almost all of him ground into sausage so the seasonings take some of the gamey taste out, or masquerade it I should say. It wasn't too bad. The smaller hogs are the sweet ones...cook up fine.

I got about a 90 lb hog in Texas several years ago. Those little bone in chops were absolutely superb.

 

[USMC615]

Usmc, I may just take you up on that offer sometime.

Hog huntin year round, and there's more than you can count at times, in the swampy hardwood bottoms, fields, etc. The ol' phrase 'breeding like rabbits' is an understatement when it comes to wild hogs.

 

[USMC615]

Through several rain squalls my FIL and I got the roof 95 percent done today. I'm literally a jigsaw blade and about two dozen screws from completion. Just need to put a narrow strip on the right side and one chunk of cap on and she's all set. The bottom looks a bit wavy as I hadn't screwed it down yet in this photo.

Metal goes up easy but the time consuming part was the extra framing we did where the rooflines meet on the back side of this photo.

View attachment 453909

That is a setup there...good looking cabin.

 

[svk]

That is a setup there...good looking cabin.

Started life as a roof covering a mobile home. It's come a long way!