Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Haha I almost liked it too now I’m “like shy” not sure what to like. Lol. So far we have escaped the freezing rain part of this storm and got a foot of snow and ice pellets yesterday. More blowing today. I went from no snow whatsoever to drifts thigh deep in places. Had low attendance last night at the annual church fish fry so we had fresh cod for supper tonight too. Shipped right from Newfoundland. Mmmm. Anyways, the only thing scrounge related here is load the stove, heat and repeat.
 
Terrible dreadful and dreary weather here today but I didn't let it hold me back .
Ice all over the place but it wasn't enough to stop me .

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Nosiree , I didn't let it even slow me down one bit !


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It was a real nice day here I went back to my buddies place and scrounged up another load , I pulled up to a pile that they had stacked up at the side of his driveway , after blocking and loading my buddy said "I want that one , that one and those gone ."
A few small ones but this one was nice :)

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Until ,,,

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I was a little pizzed off but quickly calmed down after I found a few nice sticks of spruce to finish the load so all was good :)

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Today was mostly yellow birch with a bit of sugar maple , red maple , white birch and some spruce :)
From the looks of things , I'll be hauling one or two more loads from there because he's liking the sunshine that has never been on the house in the 5 years that he's owned it .
 
Got the 5th wheel plate made and mounted. Got the location for the ball. Tomorow I'll get a small shank 2" ball and attempt to drill a big hole in a stainless plate. Unless I'm just TIG welding on stainless I hate workin with that stuff. Machines like poo.
 

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IMG_0201.JPG Friday scrounge and the city tree dump, nice sunny day. The first photos is the back of the pile I was pulling from. I need to call the city and ask if they can pull the pile apart. Its too dangerous to try to cut cause its all tangled up in the pile.
The next image is a small stack of the wood. Can anyone ID what it is? I split some of it and it split really easy even though it is still green and wet.
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The final image is the truck loaded. The wood went to my BIL's garage down the street to season.
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looks some nice wood there. Can you get a loop of rope around some of the logs and pull them from the tangle carefully with your truck?

The pile looks like it would come apart fairly easily. My truck carries some 300' of assorted chains, cables, snatch blocks. and log tongs for jsut such occasions. It is amazing what even a 2x 1/2 ton pickup can do.
 

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