Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Different kind of scrounge this weekend. Not exactly firewood or saw related bit it does have a chain on it! This barn find 78 cb400 hawk was last registered in 1980 by the original owner and has 13000km on the clock. We gave it a carb cleaning and were riding it around the yard. My friends son is ecstatic with his purchase..... Now I have an itch!
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Put tires on it before it goes on the road if they are as old as the last registration.
 
Small saws....I always run my saws dry so next use means pulling fuel through. It's a pain with the ms180 on a regular basis. 20+ pulls before I get a pop, then choke off and it goes next pull. I've learnt that removing the cover and air filter seems to help get that first pop quicker. Filter is clean though. Saw runs and starts first time if stopped with fuel in it.... It's just pulling fuel through that's a pain. Can be a pain with saw hot or cold.
 
Became a noodling convert last night. Got sick of wrastlin' big sugar maple rounds. Don't know if I got weak over the winter or what. Got a big pile of rounds I will be noodling instead of splitting vertical. Only other option I could think of is a skid steer splitter.
 
Became a noodling convert last night. Got sick of wrastlin' big sugar maple rounds. Don't know if I got weak over the winter or what. Got a big pile of rounds I will be noodling instead of splitting vertical. Only other option I could think of is a skid steer splitter.
I am somewhat out of shape over the winter. Got into one big aspen trunk this weekend that was just absorbing hits like a punching bag. Noodled about 3" in to one side of each round and as long as there aren't knots the usually halve pretty quickly from there.
 
Been rebuilding[/B] and playing with the processor I bought. They cut some corners or didn't do enough thinking on a few things but I've got it working good now. Still haven't decided if I'm going to keep it or resell it. My other big splitter does a nice job on 16" and I can cut 36" wood with it too so it will get more hours per year anyway. This thing isn't that fast and I really don't have time to do custom work with it. It is nice to do everything with the tractor and then the processor instead of all by hand but it's still a big chunk of change sitting there most of the time. View attachment 737087 View attachment 737088 View attachment 737089

hi C - I, for one, would be interested in hearing about some of the mods/changes u made on ur rig if you ad the time to comment. nice piece of equipment. from seeing numerous of your posts, no doubt... cantoo can do! :)
 
Had one of my best fishing days in a long time. Took grandson and his girlfriend this morning. Probably caught 30-40 bream and spots. I catch and release so i dont have actual count. At dinner time my son called and said he was coming up. Well, meet us at the boat ramp and lets fish a while. Kids took his truck home and he climbed in the boat. Things then took a turn for the worse. Got hung up and while trying to get un hung, my line broke, My float was drifting away from the boat so I reached to get it, then knocked my pole off the other side of the boat, then while trying my best to grab the pole before it went out of site, I lost my phone off the side. My son grabbed my britches or I would have probably went in too. Tied on a trebble hook and tried to snag the pole, but to much brush and I kept getting snagged. Gave up and went back to fishing. Fish where biteing, I guess they seen everything I lost in the water and where trying to make up for it. We stayed until 5pm and I can only guestimate we caught another 40 or 50 spots, bream and channel cats.. I would post pics, but what pics I took are forever gone.

da*n! not good at all. sounds like a Monday!
 
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't done that quite a few times myself.
One thing that makes it a little tough for me is I run so many different saws. I have to relearn going from a stihl to a husky or jred(straight handlebar like stihl). The good thing is as long as the face looks good you can get away with a lot on the back, that is as long as I have enough room to fix the face when I mess that up :omg:. I've heard of guys making their felling cut high so that they can practice a couple more down below it, it sounds like a great idea, just I never remember to do that.
Here's the butt from that stump, all went as planned, it was a hard day as everything had to be pulled with the winch power lines and the hose/cars below.
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no doubt a very nice property! great setting... only thing I would want to add is a float plane. :D
 
I am somewhat out of shape over the winter. Got into one big aspen trunk this weekend that was just absorbing hits like a punching bag. Noodled about 3" in to one side of each round and as long as there aren't knots the usually halve pretty quickly from there.

I dunno! anyone who can cut, split and load up both a pickup and a tag-along trailer full, to0... is to me, well... imo... can't be in too bad of shape! :)
 
how about: Scrounges Lost? had 2 of late. one real nice...

park in my immediate area had util co in to repair transformer. had to cut some branches. stems farwood size. ez pickins. week later I was still looking at it. next day... in comes clean up crew after the mow crew... clean spaces. wood gone.

last week, turned at street I oft turn off and onto heading to freeway... and there was 3 piles ahead of me. no need to split, split-able... and brush. not much more than just pick up and go. on curb. about 8 5' limbs, 5-6 5/6' bigger limbs 7/8"... wood was a bit farther away then I mite normally want. but was so accessible. I wanted. planned to go back that evening, or next morning. but alas, by 5 pm it was gone.

half a block down the street... large, as in very big pile of oak on curb. but like many... good wood underneath and what I could see was large chunks. good wood, but for me... a pass! besides, headache location.

scrounges lost, 3 piles like this...
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My scrounge for today . I'm not overdoing it.;) A pecan limb that came down in last night's storm.View attachment 737165

enough there to smoke a good brisket once dried out a bit...but, prob ok as is. good smoke wood. great taste! i like pecan and hickory smoked brisket... but oak, too.
 
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