Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Insurance company gave me a 2020 f150 supercrew with the 3.5. I've never been in one of the newer aluminum trucks and wow, I can really feel the weight difference. ( This one is a short bed, no step bars or tonneau like my steel long box has ) so probably 1000lbs lighter. Anyway, I drove it like a rental, lol, and it sure pulls hard. It's going to be tough to give it back!

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Insurance company gave me a 2020 f150 supercrew with the 3.5. I've never been in one of the newer aluminum trucks and wow, I can really feel the weight difference. ( This one is a short bed, no step bars or tonneau like my steel long box has ) so probably 1000lbs lighter. Anyway, I drove it like a rental, lol, and it sure pulls hard. It's going to be tough to give it back!

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They’re quick! I test drove one years ago that was a turd though, it had 3.15 gears. The new 10 speed trans really changed the rear gears up, my buddy has a 2020 with the 3.5 eco and 3.55 rear. That sucker flys for a truck!
 
What a day. In many senses.

Left the house shortly after 8 and have at least an hour of work yet to do. At lunch I plowed for my friend at his cabin, he had not been plowed out all year. The snow has really settled in the woods, there is maybe 14" and it is the consistency of sugar so it pushes really easily. I have been stuck a few times over the years attempting to plow people out and was happy this one went easy.

I felt bad plowing over it, but there were marks in the snow where a bird of prey grabbed something, the struggle, and the marks from either wing tips or the prey dragging through the snow as it took off.
 
Yep, nice to be able to help others out, and anything to take out a few steps.
Bringing dead standing wood in right after cutting is nice too, no stacking and waiting. I brought a full wheelbarrow load, and a large armload of dead standing this week, a little work/space saved goes a long way. So far out of the 11 rows of wood for this yr in the woodshed I've used 3, may have a little left over as we stated burning consistently early this yr. Yep @H-Ranch 3/11ths lol.

Have yet to use 1 row of the 12 I have in the wood shed.

Mild winter thus far here in NW Ohio.
 
Have yet to use 1 row of the 12 I have in the wood shed.

Mild winter thus far here in NW Ohio.
I'm 2 rows deep in mine, but the first row was entirely poplar for shoulder season, and the wife went part time, so I'm not too surprised at where I'm at. She like a rather warm house....
 
Literally just got some good news! My mate just text me and said I was good to continue getting wood from his place! Said he was back in the woods with his truck and didnt get stuck, so I'll have no problems with my truck. Toss the 562xp in the truck in the morning, and stop off after work and grab a load.
 
Drone vid my brother took of our last firewood scrounging of the season
Ready to go again, having withdrawals already, lol.


Our local National Forests shut down firewood cutting the months of December, January, February, and March. How is yours?
 
Drone vid my brother took of our last firewood scrounging of the season
Ready to go again, having withdrawals already, lol.

Very cool Nate. I have a cheap drone my BIL gave me a few years ago I've never used. May have to get it out and try it. If that stuff you were loading in the the beginning of the vid was that size oak you would be steppin on your nutz.
 
Very cool Nate. I have a cheap drone my BIL gave me a few years ago I've never used. May have to get it out and try it. If that stuff you were loading in the the beginning of the vid was that size oak you would be steppin on your nutz.
Yeah I was with this stuff, it would take me forever to load oak, I’d have to split it all first, glad we don’t have oak, lol.
 
Ours too, that was November 30, just remembering the good days, lol.

Because I have property within the National Forest I’ve hauled wood during the off season. It was wood I took to people affected by the fire, so I didn’t go out onto main roads with it. I imagine they’d be much more likely to pull me over in that situation, they really don’t seem to be thinking of wood coming from private land. But for the most part conditions are not suitable for cutting/hauling wood in those months, same reason the F.S. shuts it down.
 
Weather man is saying 4 to 8 inches of snow tonite. Wife makes me fill the kero can and fill the truck with gas. Got a full tank on the generator and 10gal of gas extra. Got 2 30lb propane bottles full for the propane heater, and even have a little rick of fire wood. My generator will pull the heat pump and the lights, but not much else. I know you northern folks dont frett a little 4-8 inch dusting of the white stuff, but down here that much snow is called a blizzard. Probably take us a week to dig out. Got to go to the store and get the milk and bread.
 
Have yet to use 1 row of the 12 I have in the wood shed.

Mild winter thus far here in NW Ohio.

Samehere. No snow to speak of andd what there was dissppeared in a few days. I just started the second cord of my winters supply, normally I'd be about done with 2 cord by now. Temps been so mild I have had to relight the fire 9 times in the past week. Get involved in TV, a book, or something and forget to feed it until the temp gets a bit cool.
 
Yeah I was with this stuff, it would take me forever to load oak, I’d have to split it all first, glad we don’t have oak, lol.

Yeah I was with this stuff, it would take me forever to load oak, I’d have to split it all first, glad we don’t have oak, lol

Sorry for the hash up of the quotes. Dunno what happened and can't delete. Anyhow:

About 3 years ago I lucked into a big oak in a farmers field. They are not nativehere and that one was probably planted by the first settler. I go 3 1/2 cord out of nothing but the top. Base log was 4 1/2' butt and 20' long down to around 36" diameter. It was so heavy that I was glad to leave the base log. Worked up the top, split/piled, dried 2 years. So heavy that black locust almost felt light. I finally sold all 3 cord for $260. Probably should have been aroung $300 but no one around here has any idea of oak. I was glad to get rid of it as it was just too heavy to conveniently feed the fire.
 
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