Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

View attachment 742889 So I decided this will be the new scrounge mobile. View attachment 742890 He came down to $8500 and said he would tell the notary 4k to help me keep the taxes down. It's a little high for the age but finding one this clean in PA is like winning the lottery

nice clean truck, JM. u should like it. will look fwd to some action pix!! seems to have some nice upgrades, too and recent service. at least you wont have to change out the rear main seal!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

my pine stack was getting low. had the cutter set aside some pine for me... as we cut up the large widow maker that fell other day in my yard... right where I was working only a few hours ago... and had planned to also do that morning. fate was on my side... I don't burn pine often, but like to keep a stick or two of it out of tradition... as no doubt those early pioneers crossing the rockies and traveling the high cascades... burned some pine. cooking, warming, clearing... and scrounging!

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

speaking of widow makers, noticed one right across the street other day. oak. short, but split and hanging! homeowner had no idea even though above and just to side of driveway. would have hurt someone bad, or vehicle had it fell. quite heavy! came from here:

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I noticed it was gone, and thot maybe on curb. it was. so I went and got it all. barely 100' from my driveway. my kinda scrounge!!! lol... got it home and cut it into chunks, the big, heavy pcs... ready to split. surprised a bit at how heavy the larger sections were...

it is always... raining oak in my neighborhood. I have no competition for it... but one stack of oak other day I had my eye on... there Sat, gone Sun... nice farplace sized... gone! no doubt headed for a smoker... several good piles just down the street of other wood, but I have enough currently... for the time being. tree/brush pickup in a few days.

 

[svk]

Some future scrounge.

I hate big balsams. Been slowly working my way through these behind my shed and have taken down at least a dozen already. They are always one strong wind storm from crashing down on your stuff.



Big aspen battered by wind storms. I’ll lay this one right into the road for easy processing.

 

[chipper1]

I’ve found these chains with the small ramp on the DL in front of the raker cut just fine. And the top of the ramp is just below the raker when you get to end of life on the cutter so you don’t need to grind them.

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They don't seem to have as much effect on cutting as the large bumpers, but if you use a progressive gauge on them I find you will have to file/grind them towards the end of the chain and even earlier depending on how low you prefer your rakers. On chains like that I prefer to make the hook more aggressive and to take less off the raker then I dont need to file them as much.

 

[steved]

nice set up! I like my yard tractor converted to mini logging truck! sure beats the wheelbarrow for long distance loads. lol. my HF yard cart is beginning to show some load stress... bending. guess overloaded! lol. not much, but I could bend back and strengthen. but that changes the underside geometry... got other welding projects in the mill first. so, I think I will pick up a TS cart. they got one rated at 1200#s. should meet my urban needs. and the HF one... am thinking it can tag along as my equipment car. kinda like a scrounge train... albeit on the small side. can a caboose be far behind?....

Before my parents bought their compact farm tractor, my father had a trailer similar to mine (where I got the idea) with a small four-wheel cart he towed behind that for his saws...it served him well.

Now he loads the wood into the loader bucket and has a three point hitch hauler for the saws...

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[Flint Mitch]

A buddy wanted this mess of an ornamental cherry(?) Removed. Ton of brush but I used his tractor and put it in a burn pile for him to take care of later. I get the ash piled up next to this stuff too

 

[steved]

Well, I read some bad news...

A friend I graduated high school with had his father pass away yesterday. The article said it was an accident while cutting firewood, I can only assume it happened at their camp.

Be safe out there, all it takes is one time...



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[U&A]

Well, I read some bad news...

A friend I graduated high school with had his father pass away yesterday. The article said it was an accident while cutting firewood, I can only assume it happened at their camp.

Be safe out there, all it takes is one time...



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Sad,

And scary,

“Be safe” is right.


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[dancan]

Well, I read some bad news...

A friend I graduated high school with had his father pass away yesterday. The article said it was an accident while cutting firewood, I can only assume it happened at their camp.

Be safe out there, all it takes is one time...



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Can't like that , sorry to hear .

 

[chipper1]

A buddy wanted this mess of an ornamental cherry(?) Removed. Ton of brush but I used his tractor and put it in a burn pile for him to take care of later. I get the ash piled up next to this stuff too

Good score.
That looks like as much work as cutting some of the invasives .
Those can have a million branches, not fun at all.
Nice you didn't have to haul that brush anywhere, that stuff fills a trailer quickly.

 

[chipper1]

Well, I read some bad news...

A friend I graduated high school with had his father pass away yesterday. The article said it was an accident while cutting firewood, I can only assume it happened at their camp.

Be safe out there, all it takes is one time...



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Sorry to hear that.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

The husky guides do the same. Very little hook, ride high on the tooth but the chains cut real well.

First couple times I used the Husky roller guide I thought I did something wrong, like @James Miller said, they cut great but a totally different chip.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Finally got done with that big chestnut tree that I cut up for that couple from our church that is in their 80’s. Needs stacked yet but all the wood came from that one tree. Told them somebody else can stack since I did the cutting, hauling and splitting.

 

[Circle B MN]

A buddy wanted this mess of an ornamental cherry(?) Removed. Ton of brush but I used his tractor and put it in a burn pile for him to take care of later. I get the ash piled up next to this stuff too

Brush is the thorn in the side of every good scrounge. Luckily your situation had a positive solution

 

[H-Ranch]

Another load of mostly cherry from my buddy - still got a few more stacks at his property. One is easy access and a couple he said can wait until fall when the overgrown weeds are down a bit.

 

[steved]

Brush is the thorn in the side of every good scrounge. Luckily your situation had a positive solution

I won't touch brush...the owner has to understand I'm using my resources (time, equipment, fuel, etc.) for taking the large stuff to help them out; and for nothing other than that useable wood. If they don't like those terms, they can wait for the next guy.

Most of the finds I get are where the owner has a tree taken down, and the tree company takes the brush and leaves the trunk. This is to save the homeowner some $$...

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[svk]

No pics yet but I have a stacked long box load of balsam for fire pit wood. Will drop that off in the morning. It split fairly easily and since it was cut this spring and last fall it wasn’t as sappy as fresh cut would have been. I’m making a point to do that with balsam these days to cut down on the mess.

 

[svk]

Ready to roll.