Northeast AS'ers-Show your storm pile!

[IHDiesel73L]

As Woodheatwarrior has said there is probably enough wood down from Hurricane Irene and the October Nor'Easter for the next three years! With a little luck and some elbow grease, I may be able to turn the damage and destruction of the two storms into being two years ahead with some high BTU hardwoods. I haven't split and stacked much yet-this is the beginning of my 2013 supply (oak with some black walnut mixed in):

The latest load-maple, oak, and shagbark hickory:

The unsplit pile-with gratuitous Stihl #### (026 with 18" bar):

My dad's got quite a pile of ash, locust, and oak at his place along with an apple tree that I need to cut up, plus I've got ash and maple sitting at my FIL's that I cut and didn't have room for in the bed. My dad is retired and is more than happy to pick up wood for me when he sees it. The other day he was heading out to a yardsale when he saw a bunch of locust cut up on someone's lawn. He left a note and ended up with five truckloads!

 

[Chris-PA]

Nice work! Heck, I've barely even gotten to the new stuff yet! I only moved some of the oak off the edges of the road - rolled the big rounds into the loader and dumped them in a pile to deal with later. There are still some big pieces down there, but nobody's gonna just toss them in the truck and drive off.

My 24" bar is supposed to come tomorrow, which will help a lot. Of course it will be raining. And dark.

 

[LFEngineering]

What a great year to start heating with wood.

 

[IHDiesel73L]

There are still some big pieces down there, but nobody's gonna just toss them in the truck and drive off.

I know what you mean-it's times like these I really wish I had some help. The place where I scrounged the hickory had big rounds from the base that I couldn't budge, but it would have been manageable with two people. :bang: LOTS of BTUs in those bad boys...

 

[spike60]

What a great year to start heating with wood.

Now that's what I call organized!

 

[chopperfreak2k1]

Nice work! Heck, I've barely even gotten to the new stuff yet! I only moved some of the oak off the edges of the road - rolled the big rounds into the loader and dumped them in a pile to deal with later. There are still some big pieces down there, but nobody's gonna just toss them in the truck and drive off.

My 24" bar is supposed to come tomorrow, which will help a lot. Of course it will be raining. And dark.

i wish i knew where there was some local wood for me to scrounge. this being my first year heating with wood and my first year in a new location i don't really have any leads yet so i drive an hour plus for my wood. i don't have any storm wood thus far but like you said there is ALOT of it to be found.

 

[zogger]

i wish i knew where there was some local wood for me to scrounge. this being my first year heating with wood and my first year in a new location i don't really have any leads yet so i drive an hour plus for my wood. i don't have any storm wood thus far but like you said there is ALOT of it to be found.

--your county roads maintenance folks? Ask them? Go over to their garage and ask them, find out where they have been cutting and dumping their wood. Or the powerline cleanup contractors, the dudes with the bucket trucks? An hour seems a long ways to go to scrounge in Pennsylvania, from what I remember the state looks like, i.e. "hills, baby mountains and trees".

Bound to be some place or places closer.

 

[ponyexpress976]

i wish i knew where there was some local wood for me to scrounge. this being my first year heating with wood and my first year in a new location i don't really have any leads yet so i drive an hour plus for my wood. i don't have any storm wood thus far but like you said there is ALOT of it to be found.

If you were closer I'd offer up some of the jobs I have yet to take care of.....just can't get to it all.

 

[ponyexpress976]

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The pin oak from a few days ago. Most of the rounds are 18" plus

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Limbs from a maple. oak, and cherry that finally got cut and split....felt like minutes before I got the pin oak home. This was from about 4 different locations. 90% of my clean-ups have been small/medium branches that got fed to the bandit 65. This however has generated A LOT of referals for removals.

People got scared by trees that haven't been or never were trimmed/thinned. Now they wan't em gone. Most tell me they felt like they dodged a bullet and don't want to take that risk again.

 

[zogger]

Coming soon

I know what you mean-it's times like these I really wish I had some help. The place where I scrounged the hickory had big rounds from the base that I couldn't budge, but it would have been manageable with two people. :bang: LOTS of BTUs in those bad boys...

Sometime in the now not very far away future, we'll have things like these to help out with firewood..and other tasks...

What's "HAL" (Hybrid Assistive Limb®)? - CYBERDYNE

 

[ponyexpress976]

Sometime in the now not very far away future, we'll have things like these to help out with firewood..and other tasks...

What's "HAL" (Hybrid Assistive Limb®)? - CYBERDYNE

That thing looks like a scaled down version of the contraption Sigourney Weaver wore in Aliens...if anyone gets one of those on the market, I want one!

 

[Stew7]

Here's my pile at the moment from cleaning up storm damage. Some of those pieces of oak were heavier than I thought they'd be so it was a struggle to get them into my pickup. I have a lot of splitting to do so I might rent a splitter to get it all done. After I have a maple taken down professionally (crane job) next week, I should have plenty of wood for next year.

 

[chopperfreak2k1]

for you guys having trouble loading big rounds, don't forget you could noodle them down to managable sizes.

 

[BSD]

my thanksgiving bounty... one of four loads today.

 

[HARRY BARKER]

my thanksgiving bounty... one of four loads today.

hahaha wont see any pics of a chevy like that!

 

[ponyexpress976]

my thanksgiving bounty... one of four loads today.

Those are some impressive sticks you got there.

Chopper...if we noodled em down we could let out a manly howl afterwards...or was that a screach from a thrown disk?

 

[tomtrees58]

the pile got a little bigger then i took the pics over 100 cords now

 

[tomtrees58]