Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Cowboy254]

@Cowboy254 Does peppermint wood burn like the leaves smell? If so that must be quite fragrant.

Nice to see the X27 kicking across the pond(s). Looks like some stringy wood

G'day, no the wood doesn't have a peppermint aroma, that's only in the leaves. The smoke does smell quite nice though. I've wondered about using certain eucalypt species as smoking wood, they're all different and no doubt some will be better than others. However, like Australians regard anything that is not a eucalypt as junk for firewood, we also typically only go for hickory, cherry, apple etc for smoking and regard eucalypt as no good for that. I doubt it is so clear cut in either respect.

The wood isn't stringy though and is one of the more splittable eucalypts. Not uncommon to split a 20" round with one motivated hit from the X27. Not much good for lumber but great firewood, between oak and locust for density and very little ash.

 

[Cowboy254]

G'day fellers,

I hit the Monstromint scrounge again today. I realised this bit is where the trunk separated out into four different stems, about 20ft up. That's Limby for reference and a good chunk of it had split off and you can see the edge of it to the left.



Each of the four stems was 20in plus. The termites had a look up two of the four.



So I got stuck into this



And then, behind it, this today



All 460 action today. I don't use it much, but every time I do I am reminded of what a capable saw it is.

TBC...

 

[Cowboy254]

Here's what I did in the first go before doing some loading. As always, you don't want to go leaving cut rounds behind, so it's cut some, load some.



That filled the trailer



Then there was this



That filled the ute



I reckon I'm a little more than half way through the limb material and that's about 7.5 cubes or 2 cord already. Then there's the trunk which is another cord. I'm working to get as much of it home as I can before anyone else finds it. I ran out of light to unload and split tonight and my one wood customer has requested a load so tomorrow, my spare time will be spent unloading and splitting today's scrounge and taking a load to her. Thursday, though, it's on again

Scrounge on

 

[WoodAbuser]

Here's what I did in the first go before doing some loading. As always, you don't want to go leaving cut rounds behind, so it's cut some, load some.

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That filled the trailer

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Then there was this

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That filled the ute

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I reckon I'm a little more than half way through the limb material and that's about 7.5 cubes or 2 cord already. Then there's the trunk which is another cord. I'm working to get as much of it home as I can before anyone else finds it. I ran out of light to unload and split tonight and my one wood customer has requested a load so tomorrow, my spare time will be spent unloading and splitting today's scrounge and taking a load to her. Thursday, though, it's on again

Scrounge on

You have shown me the biggest peppermint candy stick I have ever seen.

 

[bob kern]

What are your plans for the board? Seal it right away.

I'm thinking a Lazer engraved verse for a wall hanging.

 

[svk]

Pretty sure it has a replaceable tip, I'd have to look for sure, it's been sitting there a while, need to put it on a 550 and run it.

Soon, you know they take those pics all the time, they only show us what they want us to see .
Got a good ran Saturday night, the girls had a little fun down there.
My youngest had her brothers muck boots on(he's 6'1" now so they're pretty tall)she had to clean them up as she got a bit of water in them. Glad they're having fun. Later Sunday they went to a beach a few miles from the house, it was up to 75, but I'm sure the water wasn't .
All this was gone by Sunday evening, we may need to do something about that lol.
I got a bit more dirt moved onto the top of the dam after these were taken, and I spread some topsoil on the back side/sloped area. I needed to move the topsoil so I could raise the side(right side in these pictures) of the dam up to meet the natural grade of the ground better. Trying to make it so the water flows onto the untouched ground rather than straight down the back of the dam, which means I need to fill it higher in the middle of the dam.
Lots more dirt to move .
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Yes I did!
I was actually debating whether to like it or to heart it, since we didn't have hearts back then . I heart most any post where someone takes the time to add a picture .

You mean the logs, swing by and grab a few, I'd hate to see it go to firewood too, but I don't have a bandsaw mill.

So the one in that picture was the nonreplaceable nose that I wore out. If memory serves that would’ve been spring of 15. I think I bought your bar a few months later.

 

[farmer steve]

Just a wheelbarrow pic for ya from the produce auction.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Good ole 4 spd SM420

7.05:1 ?

 

[rarefish383]

Ah Austria! Yes, what a beautiful country! I love Def Leppard and the Scorpions!

Wait a minute?

Guess I'm older than you? I like the "Easybeats", Friday On My Mind!

 

[rarefish383]

That looks like a good stash of kindling:

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I was thinking the same thing! When my BIL went to work on the Farm he quit bothering me for firewood. When I asked him what he was doing for wood, he said old fence boards from the Farm. Doc fenced all of the pastures on her 100 acre farm with 1"X6" White Oak boards 16' long, back in the 70's and 80's. If cows scratched their butt's on a fence and busted the boards he just threw them on a burn pile. He was burning 40-50 year old air dried White Oak. I took him a load of firewood, and took home 400 of the old boards. I put them to better use.

 

[olyman]

Just a wheelbarrow pic for ya from the produce auction.
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whats that concrete around that 2x2 for???

 

[WoodAbuser]

whats that concrete around that 2x2 for???

Help keep it from getting knocked down is my guess.

 

[GrizG]

I was out on the rail trail again today... about 75 yards south of where I cleaned up the beaver felled tree a week or two ago. This time it was an uprooted tree. The ground has been quite wet due to lots of rain. Add in the fact that the woods have thinned out due to all the dead ash and the wind is taking down trees that would have been safe a few years ago. I also took out 8-9 smallish ash while I was there. You can see in the first photo that I had been there before. I had the 261 and 461 with me today...

 

[mountainguyed67]

We still can’t get to our hiking trail, it’s the East/West brown line in the bottom right corner. Some work has been done on the road, but more is still needed.

 

[JustJeff]

On the bus to catch the ferry to Mykonos we passed a Stihl dealer then this guy who must have cut all the trees in Greece because there aren't many!

 

[djg james]

I was thinking the same thing! When my BIL went to work on the Farm he quit bothering me for firewood. When I asked him what he was doing for wood, he said old fence boards from the Farm. Doc fenced all of the pastures on her 100 acre farm with 1"X6" White Oak boards 16' long, back in the 70's and 80's. If cows scratched their butt's on a fence and busted the boards he just threw them on a burn pile. He was burning 40-50 year old air dried White Oak. I took him a load of firewood, and took home 400 of the old boards. I put them to better use.

Good ''Scrounge' on the WO boards. Good re-use of them.

 

[djg james]

Edit: Something happened to what I had typed, so here goes again.
Ran by the log yard on the way home from a dismal fishing trip to the lake. I was surprised to see some new stuff. Turned around and got my trailer and started working on this pile of Mulberry. Ended up with 'not quite' full loads in truck and trailer.
Strong for a while then nothing in energy level. I'll go back today or tomorrow and get a half pickup load if it's still there. Just got my driveway cleared up. Now it's filling up again.

 

[Cowboy254]

Got the ute and trailer unloaded this morning and stacked. The stack is embiggening!





There have also been a few handy dead branches amongst the scrounge and I've been able to keep the house warm with that stuff, some of which is sitting on the pallets down the far end. Uglies are on the bricks at the near end. Pretty sweet when you can take scrounge out of the ute and throw it straight in the fire

I also took a load to my customer this morning then it was time to go to actual work

Scrounge on

 

[Cowboy254]

I am trying to protect my pallets from deterioration by putting them up on bricks. But then what about looking after my bricks?

Maybe put them up on pallets?

 

[Cowboy254]

It never rains but it pours. I have my Monstromint scrounge that I'll be back into tomorrow but also got a text from Mitch today saying he had a pile of logs for me at the farm which is awesome. He's a good bloke. I'll get out there on Saturday.