sounds like a good score.Neil. if it is black locust it's great stuff. get all you can. my 85 year old father cuts lots of it with his MS 180. here's one i just cut a few weeks ago dead standing and ready to burn.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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G'day troops,
Wandered out to the farm yesterday. Twas a nice sunny morning. I filled the trailer with small blue gum splits and stacked them in the wood shed for the Lady Farmer. Then I still had a fair bit to do on the downed peppermint.
The 460 is loving peppermints at the moment. By the time I had cut enough to fill the trailer again, I was down to just the largest of the trunks after what was a three way fork.
I then went back over to the blue gum and split a few rounds more blue gum in the time that I had left, which was slow going, as usual. Loaded up serenity shot.
The lower section of the blue gum trunk is not completely dry so I was making skinny splits then stacking them up to help them dry a bit more.
Wandered out to the farm yesterday. Twas a nice sunny morning. I filled the trailer with small blue gum splits and stacked them in the wood shed for the Lady Farmer. Then I still had a fair bit to do on the downed peppermint.
The 460 is loving peppermints at the moment. By the time I had cut enough to fill the trailer again, I was down to just the largest of the trunks after what was a three way fork.
I then went back over to the blue gum and split a few rounds more blue gum in the time that I had left, which was slow going, as usual. Loaded up serenity shot.
The lower section of the blue gum trunk is not completely dry so I was making skinny splits then stacking them up to help them dry a bit more.
red maple scrounge on the way home. still another truckload left. it was cut last fall into firewood lengths. I waited for someone to get it but when they didn't get it by now i decided to push. I went to the property owner and they were glad to be rid of it. 
also started clearing up oak limbs on that 3ac property. Long way to go but if I play my cards right I'll get many cords out of here. Several oaks down and dead. Multiple locust down. Some beech. some maple but only soft so im getting the other first. 
ive had the chance to cut on some big black locust trees and im hooked on it. i am making our dinner table out of one all by hand (except the chainsaw mill). The entire tabletop was cut from just one lobe of this tree. the lobe was 16" wide. The tree was 34 dbh.
James Miller
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been getting some of the wood from the log pile split up and out of the way as the developer is clearing another 20' into the woods so there will be another pile soon. Walnut in the front Ash in the background.
That's awesome, nice locust
.That's a huge locust tree, do you get a lot that size down there.
Also please return my wheel chock
.After talking with a few scrounging wood thread "members" this week I figured I was overdue for a stop in here.
I hope everyone is doing great. I'll post a few pictures later.
Have a good day guys.
NGaMountains
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Well, I don't have as much scrounging experience as many of youse guys, but this was a new one on me. Spring has sprung down here in Georgia, with afternoon temps in the 80s the last two days and a fair bit of rain sprinkled in here and there, so things are leafing out quickly. Today walking by the wood stacks, this willow round I hadn't yet split that came from a storm damaged tree I took down about four months ago on my property caught my eye. It has sprouted limbs, and now has leaves growing off those limbs. I guess it's not dry enough to burn yet...
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Beautiful straight grain on that walnut, must be fun splitting. I like the sharp delineation of the heartwood and sapwood as well.
not the best quality here but free is free! 5 nice loads of mixed popple, pine and a little white birch. total cost for retrieving it was 6 gallons of gas at 2.29 a gal. and my priceless time. 8 miles away 16 for a round trip and enough to keep the frost of the wood stove this winter.
Saw sold last night. I was playing basketball in a men's league and when I got back home I had messsages from two guys just minutes apart wanting it.What's up Steve.
Locust is pretty heavy wood, but has a low water content and dries quite fast.
Did you get that saw sold yet, very tempting, must resist
Now that I watch the video again I regret selling it lol.
Need to remind myself I have six saws on the bench plus two more local ones I want to buy.
! steve you are addicted for sure ... ? lol
Atta boy. Exterminate that damn aspen that keeps cluttering up our woods lol.
Well, another ash tree bites the dust. I was out the other day and noticed the wind had taken down this ash across the creek. The only part that sucked was putting on the waders and retrieving the wood. 
Heck yeah. Nearly pure profit on that!
I notice Steve and Joy must have split up that last tree I didn't get last year. Not that I really needed more aspen anyhow lol.
