Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

I pushed this black locust over yesterday the storm damaged. It was leaning on a cherry tree and if it decided to fall it would land right where I store my big trailers and also park my suburban sometimes. I figured I better take it on my own time and not wait for it to do it's thing, so I moved my trailers and used the Kubota falling tool so it would break out most of the root ball. It fell right where I wanted it to which can be hard if the roots are still connected much because they will steer it, so that tells me the storm damaged the roots pretty bad, kinda did most the work for me which was nice because I wanted it down although not right now lol.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Range day yesterday. 338LM. Not thrilled with the spread or average but its the best I got

 

[svk]

“Not thrilled” LOL!! Looks fantastic to me.

I had a Remington 700 Sendero in .300 win mag that could throw touching groups but every other large rifle had trouble putting three shot groups under a golf ball.

 

[svk]

Ask and ye shall receive

Thank you @Philbert for hooking me up with some chains so I can run the old Homelite today!

 

[svk]

Mother Nature and Papa bear payed a visit to the cabin while I was out of town. I wanted that stupid balsam down anyhow and it solved the problem without hitting the generator, shed, or outhouse.



These two aspen were looking poor before and now are nearly bare. The other aspen have yet to even start to change color. I guess I’ll see if they bud in the spring otherwise they’ll be next years wood.

 

[Short timer]

Perfect saw for bucking large rounds.
Nice work, now to split and what forever for them to dry lol.

I hear ya, thankfully I’m 3 years ahead, took a lot of work to get to this point.

 

[Short timer]

Heading in for some big wood. Makes the rounds from this morning look like branches. Taking them out in 7 foot sections to make 5, 16 inch long rounds.

 

[Short timer]

 

[Short timer]

Getting kind of big for the 461, I will be breaking out the 660 with 32 inch bar to buck the rest up.

 

[svk]

The second pile of tops is all but exhausted. Going to cut another tank full of fuel to top off the sauna racks after this and then work on the big pine logs for boiler wood with the Homelite.

 

[JustJeff]

Put the bigger "blade" on the 460 today. I think it looks more manly than with the 20" blade. Hehe. The free chain didn't cut bad after a couple licks with the file.

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[svk]

Another load out. This one to the sauna.

 

[svk]

Stacked. With 16” wood, this rack holds a half cord. So with wood averaging 18” it’s definitely more.

Also brought home a half wheelbarrow load of shorts and uglies that I had been saving up.

Cutting skidded wood has its drawbacks, that’s why we use cheap chains to cut it . I’ll touch this up and go get another load.

 

[svk]

Done with another tank of fuel. Started to rain just as I ran out of gas but it’s stopping as I’m taking my water break. I’ll split the larger pieces and load it up shortly.

 

[KiwiBro]

100% not fair.

Agreed. A "You suck" post with a capital why, as in why don't I have one.

 

[H-Ranch]

Firewood parade! 1/2 of a 5' diameter red oak came down last night, blocking a professional office parking lot and driveway access to 2 homes. The people from the office cut it enough to get cars through yesterday and posted free wood today. I offered to take all the brush and in return they helped to deliver the wood 3 miles to my house. 15 truck loads total. I did most of the cutting and they loaded most of it with several teens helping. My wife brought DQ Blizzards for everyone after 2 trips. I'm going to be working up firewood for days to come.

 

[Hinerman]

Range day yesterday. 338LM. Not thrilled with the spread or average but its the best I got

What distance?

 

[woodchip rookie]

“Not thrilled” LOL!! Looks fantastic to me.

I had a Remington 700 Sendero in .300 win mag that could throw touching groups but every other large rifle had trouble putting three shot groups under a golf ball.

The group is decent but the spread and speed not so much

 

[woodchip rookie]

What distance?

100yds. Still working on load development.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

100yds. Still working on load development.

I had a Sako TRG-S in .338 LM. Awesome accurate. Try this powder. Thru the chronograph the max velocity spread was. 17 FPS.