Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[woodchip rookie]

earensplitterloudenboomer....is that like a muzzle brake on a 338?

 

[James Miller]

earensplitterloudenboomer....is that like a muzzle brake on a 338?

Its basicly a muffler delete. The white oval is the exhaust port seen from the deflector mounting surface. I your 338 can maintain 13k rounds per minute I guess you could compare and let us know.

 

[Cowboy254]

Had to take the Subaru into the dealer today due to a passenger airbag recall. Naturally I took the trailer and my biggest saws. I was hoping an old friend was still there, unmolested by other scroungers. Here it was when I saw(ed) it last.



Here it was today. Someone has had a go at it but gave up when the going got a bit hard. Most of the branch it was resting on is gone and the small stuff at the top end has gone.





The log was suspended on branches on the ground. I cut one round, split it, then used the bits to prop it up along its length. Here's the test cut to see if I had cocked it up or not.



There is a first time for everything.







I was able to split most of it by hand (with some difficulty, but I need a little exercise) to a size I could lift into the trailer without busting a nut and noodled a couple near the branch. I'll split it down further to wood heater size another day. The bark was pretty thick, maybe two inches and having dried a little over summer it generally came off fairly easily.



I was driving out when I remembered that I hadn't taken a pic with it all loaded up so I stopped on the way out especially.



This wood is very heavy, the Subaru groaned the whole way home. We settled on red box as a diagnosis eventually and it is way denser than the normal stuff I cut. About 1.5 cubes all up including what is in the back of the Suby and the front footwell. A good start to scrounging season even if I won't be able to move for two days after.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Why did you crawl out of the passenger side?

 

[woodchip rookie]

View attachment 639277 I your 338 can maintain 13k rounds per minute I guess you could compare and let us know.

The 338 wont see 13K rounds in its entire lifetime.

 

[turnkey4099]

Today went better. 4 hours, cleaned up a about 10 burn piles, pulled down one big branch that blew down last winter Got a small rick of good 10" rounds. I'm jsut stacking them on site, have no use for them yet. Started on another big branch that broke off but lodged almost vertically, had a few problems and finallyi pulled it down.

MS361 is one nice saw. Had only been run at the dealers to start it the first time, been sitting on the bench for a few weeks. Barked at me with first pull and fired up on hte second.

I thought I was done in that area but saw a burn that I had missed on my way out. I'll get that one first on my next expedition and then it is fun part of felling trees.

Even came home still able to walk. That garden wagon made a bit difference.

 

[bigfellascott]

Looks like nice wood Cowboy, I was out the other day and cut a load of Stringy, that's beautiful wood to burn too.

 

[bigfellascott]

The 338 wont see 13K rounds in its entire lifetime.

She'd be a smooth bore by the time it did

 

[bigfellascott]

Don't go over firing that heater with the Red Box, she's good for punching out a lot of heat and burning out fireboxes fairly quickly compared to other wood here in OZ. I tend to mix my woods up a bit to avoid killing the heater too soon, I might run a bit of stringy and box together or peppermint etc.

 

[woodchip rookie]

She'd be a smooth bore by the time it did

and I would be missing my right arm. And be deaf.

 

[bigfellascott]

and I would be missing my right arm. And be deaf.

And very poor[emoji1]


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[woodchip rookie]

even reloading my own

 

[chipper1]

Had to take the Subaru into the dealer today due to a passenger airbag recall. Naturally I took the trailer and my biggest saws. I was hoping an old friend was still there, unmolested by other scroungers. Here it was when I saw(ed) it last.

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Here it was today. Someone has had a go at it but gave up when the going got a bit hard. Most of the branch it was resting on is gone and the small stuff at the top end has gone.

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The log was suspended on branches on the ground. I cut one round, split it, then used the bits to prop it up along its length. Here's the test cut to see if I had cocked it up or not.

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There is a first time for everything.

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I was able to split most of it by hand (with some difficulty, but I need a little exercise) to a size I could lift into the trailer without busting a nut and noodled a couple near the branch. I'll split it down further to wood heater size another day. The bark was pretty thick, maybe two inches and having dried a little over summer it generally came off fairly easily.

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I was driving out when I remembered that I hadn't taken a pic with it all loaded up so I stopped on the way out especially.

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This wood is very heavy, the Subaru groaned the whole way home. We settled on red box as a diagnosis eventually and it is way denser than the normal stuff I cut. About 1.5 cubes all up including what is in the back of the Suby and the front footwell. A good start to scrounging season even if I won't be able to move for two days after.

Very nice load CB.
That little subie had a workout today as did you .
I saw a nice 2000 forester today that needed a motor, very tempting, but I managed to scrounge up a trailer load of projects elsewhere.

And yes, even some on the front passenger side .

 

[James Miller]

even reloading my own

That' why you keep an M44 mosin beside it. Shoot all day,wow people with 5' of flames If you touch it off after dark and that steel but plate will still dislocate your shoulder or break your colar bone if you hold it wrong.

 

[svk]

Very nice load CB.
That little subie had a workout today as did you .
I saw a nice 2000 forester today that needed a motor, very tempting, but I managed to scrounge up a trailer load of projects elsewhere.
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And yes, even some on the front passenger side .
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I see a few nice yellow and green ones in there but I have too many saws lol.

 

[chipper1]

I see a few nice yellow and green ones in there but I have too many saws lol.

You know what I say, sell one buy two or three, or a trailer load .
There's a couple 55's in there too, I know you like working on those .
One looks to have a CP cylinder on it , and the other has a scored cylinder, might be able to make one out of them.

 

[svk]

You know what I say, sell one buy two or three, or a trailer load .
There's a couple 55's in there too, I know you like working on those .
One looks to have a CP cylinder on it , and the other has a scored cylinder, might be able to make one out of them.

Maybe I need to deliver that saw to you in person on my southbound trip....

 

[James Miller]

Very nice load CB.
That little subie had a workout today as did you .
I saw a nice 2000 forester today that needed a motor, very tempting, but I managed to scrounge up a trailer load of projects elsewhere.
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And yes, even some on the front passenger side .
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turning into Guido Salvage I see. Any poulan 4000 in that pile.

 

[chipper1]

Any poulan 4000 in that pile.

There's a variant of it here, just didn't pay a lot of attention to it except to notice it.

 

[Cowboy254]

Looks like nice wood Cowboy, I was out the other day and cut a load of Stringy, that's beautiful wood to burn too.

I'm looking forward to burning it but it'll need a fair while to dry out. Wood from the same tree cut and split in Oct still has a lot of moisture in it, will need another summer or even two. We have some red stringybark scattered down here. Most people turn their noses up at it because it isn't red gum (which is the only stuff people around here will buy to burn) but red stringy is meant to be of the same density. I got 5 cubes of red stringy 4 years ago from a tree that was taken down at the local school and it was great. Bugger all ash in the wood but had to knock the bark off it.