Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Yup , I gots stuff LOL
It's a nice axe , I got it at 50% off a couple of years ago , customer return .
Same length as the x25 and the new Stihl splitter so I can compare all 3 .
In the right wood it's my favourite and the most comfortable to use but I don't think it's worth it's retail , the x25 is a workhorse with the Stihl splitter being the best of the 3 , I'll have to wait for a deal on the Husqvarna to compare the 4th in this size class .
I'll polly buy the Husqvarna splitting maul first , I'm needing to find a long handled heavier weight for those special occasions
All this and I have 4 powered splitters LOL

Nice.

Is that the axe or maul?

 

[Agent Orange]

Yup , I gots stuff LOL All this and I have 4 powered splitters LOL

Good Lord, I thought I had to much with three different weight mauls. My wife would hit me with one if I even looked at one in the store.

 

[noob290]

Spent the morning out at the honey hole. A friend of a friend got us access into about 10 acres of woods to "clean up" all the fallen stuff. For the last 4 or 5 saturdays we have gotten about this each time.

We are working on getting permission to the down the dead stuff. There are several dozen giant ash trees prime for the picking. Several winters for several people ready to be pulled out of there still.

 

[Khntr85]

Hey guys got a big job I workin on, 90 trees logged all hardwood and I gettin all tops.... I got two more loads today before work, and a few pics of my wood pile....anyway I know you guys like pics so here they are...last pic is my black walnut only pile....

 

[chipper1]

I'll wager we don't have 2 winters like this in a row, so I'll take it. With the very minor snow cover still left, run off will be at a minimum this spring. Bet you will sell wood this fall with no problem Mike. If you don't, just wait till Jan. when the polar vortex comes, and everyone is out of wood because they "thought they wouldn't need any this year".

clint, I will say you are probably right with no 2 winters the same back to back! it's always better to have to much then not enough firewood!!

I'm right there with you guys. I also agree with Mike so I'm just planning for 2 winters from now, the wood piles will be big this yr.
No wood today other than a 2x4, but managed to get the new Super Jolly mounted to a 2x4 so I can put it on the bench or take it off in a matter of seconds. Makes it so I can work on the saws on the same bench as I grind on, just throw the grinders underneath the bench. The bench was scrounged from a covered trailer I sold last yr.
When I get a chance/feel like it I have been cutting all sorts of small stuff at my place, nothing over 6" all from the wet snow 2 weeks ago. I bet I have another 1/2 cord of cherry out back to get yet.
Got most of the broken limbs that were still hanging trimmed up the other day.
I took a picture of the newest wood pile while I was about 20' up trimming.

 

[dancan]

Nice.

Is that the axe or maul?

5 1/2lb splitting axe .

Good Lord, I thought I had to much with three different weight mauls. My wife would hit me with one if I even looked at one in the store.

I hate passing up good deals LOL

Hey guys got a big job I workin on, 90 trees logged all hardwood and I gettin all tops.... I got two more loads today before work, and a few pics of my wood pile....anyway I know you guys like pics so here they are...last pic is my black walnut only pile....View attachment 491655View attachment 491656

Nice piles , up here after a logging operation has gone threw you'd be lucky to find anything bigger than 2" .

 

[JustJeff]

Hey guys got a big job I workin on, 90 trees logged all hardwood and I gettin all tops.... I got two more loads today before work, and a few pics of my wood pile....anyway I know you guys like pics so here they are...last pic is my black walnut only pile....View attachment 491655View attachment 491656

Yeah you suck! Now get to work!

 

[Khntr85]

Ya I tell ya it's hard to believe what is wasted by logging....I mean there are some big limb/logs that were pretty damn straight that you think could be used for something....I do like getting/cutting wood but I also hate to see old trees cut down so it is bitter sweet....

 

[MustangMike]

For wood that is too small for the mill, but looks good for something, you can always get a cheap guide (like the Beam Machine) and make you own post & beams like I did from Ash for my new hunting cabin.

 

[Khntr85]

Wow mustang that will be awesome.... Ya I wish I had more time on my hands, and some equipment to Laod some of these logs and I would for sure be stacking them at my house as I have all the room I need.....and by the way mustang how do you like your 460.... I got a new 461 and I absolutely love it...

 

[Philbert]

. . . managed to get the new Super Jolly mounted to a 2x4 so I can put it on the bench or take it off in a matter of seconds.

I like your mounting cleat.

Philbert

 

[chipper1]

For wood that is too small for the mill, but looks good for something, you can always get a cheap guide (like the Beam Machine) and make you own post & beams like I did from Ash for my new hunting cabin.

I like that Mike.
Great job, that's an awesome hunting cabin.
I wish we had some straight poles like that on my buddies 50 acres. He has a bunch of pines that would work, but most will be shorter or smaller in diameter.
Do you have to go back and straighten your cuts out on the first slabbing cut.
We want to make two bridges one that the trucks ad trailer can cross and we had talked about milling lumber for that as well as a hunting shack.

 

[chipper1]

I like your mounting cleat.

Philbert

Thanks Philbert.
I liked this idea for now because I don't need to build another bench, just attached the "rub rail" like on a trailer to the front of the bench.
It overhangs nicely and will allow me to move them around until I get a setup that works for me.
As it is it seems to be working well with the raker grinder against the wall and the 3/8" next to it. The .325 is the one I use the least and also right next to the vice so it gets taken off the bench most often for saw work or hand filing in the vice.
All this is just a temporary setup til I get a garage/pole barn built. How temporal is is will be dependent on the cash flow situation.

 

[Philbert]

I mount grinders on pieces of 3/4" plywood, and clamp them to the worksuface - might be my work bench, a picnic table, etc. Some guys mount theirs on a cleat, and hold the cleat in a vice. Thought about drilling holes in my wood bases, and mounting them temporarily to the bench with long bolts and wing nuts. But this is the first time I have seen this design.

Copied it over to this thread, for reference: http://www.arboristsite.com/communi...mprovements-tweaks.197073/page-7#post-5791411

Hope that is OK.

Philbert

 

[wudpirat]

How nice
When the scrounge comes to you. My grandson, Mikey called the other day.
" Move the blue P/U and the splitter, you have a loadof maple coming".
Twenty min later a chip truck backs down the drive. Where do you want it dumped?
I must have gotten the stuff that was to big for the chipper, some rounds close to 40"and other monsters.
Even had three pieces with cable and eyes attached. The driver did warn me about the cables.
Me and two saws got a workout yesterday, My azz is dragging and I still got four chains to sharpen.
The Makita 6400/20" and the Dolly7900/24"proved their worth and didn't have to drag out the 32" bar.
It sure felt good, powerful saws, sharp chain digging into that hardwood, chips flying.
Gotta run, got some firewood to cover, rain is coming.

 

[dancan]

Great Score wudpirat !
I have to go looking for mine , was out this morning as a matter of fact , looking for "Permit" wood when we move out out the little corner we're in , found these

No big stuff , it's all gone but this'll still work

 

[dancan]

Here's the difference 1 day makes .
Yesterday .

Today .

 

[MustangMike]

My 046/460s are all ported, and I love em ported, 461 are VG saws. But all of those posts & beams (some 27') were all cut with the 441 & 044. Would have gone must faster with the 460s and square file chain, but I learned about that later.

We just stacked them and held them down with tie down straps. We lost a few of them due to warpage, but it was obvious as soon as you cut them. One of them warped so badly you heard it cracking and it just seemed to implode! I think we only lost 2 or 3 pieces out of 22 that we cut.

To build the cabin we used 8 - 12' posts (4 on each side), 2 - 17' posts (one front & one back, Center), 4 - 20' cross beams, and 3 - 27' beams going front to back.

I adjusted the beam machine to make them all 6.5" X 6.5", except the ridge beam which is 3" X 9.5". The excess wood cut from the ridge beam was used to make the stairs. The tree used to make the ridge beam and stairs was over 50 years old, and about 14-16" in diameter.

We did not have any heavy equipment. We stood the walls up with a hand cranked Rope Come Along. It was a lot of work, but we did it.

All of the Ash trees had blown down in storms, and I feared they would never re grow due to the Emerald Ash bore, so I felt I had to do something with them, and we needed a bigger cabin anyway. I remembered my Aunt's barn was post & beam, and still had some of the bark on the corners of the posts, so I figured what the heck! It is all Ash except for one post which is Cherry. It is a lot easier to drill holes in that one.

 

[USMC615]

Alright fellers...I figured I'd post this up here...been here a little over a year...and take a look at what you assholes did, lol. The CAD is what it is...I started this **** with two saws...you buncha sorry ass men folk. If I don't quit the site now, it'll replicate...thanks a lot you ******* chainsaw runners. Every damn one of ya I'm gonna blame....Get ready for chainsaw lawsuits. You batsards for doing this to me....

 

[dancan]

Nice fleet UMC615
Mike , I had a straight piece fir turn into a banana last summer as I was cutting it on the mill , into the furnace pile it went LOL