Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[LonestarStihl]

Right on

 

[jr27236]

I have it on video in softwood only.

I can tell by the revs it's holding in the cut that it's significantly stronger. And AT has yet to tune itself so there's more power coming.

Thats a ripper for sure how it stands now. If that thing tunes itself, thats gonna improve it anymore.....watch out! BTW do these AT saws have a battery to run the carb tuning???

Did you happen to get a before video of the saw performing? I keep thinking it'd be nice to see a before and after video.

 

[svk]

Thats a ripper for sure how it stands now. If that thing tunes itself, thats gonna improve it anymore.....watch out! BTW do these AT saws have a battery to run the carb tuning???

No battery to my knowledge.

 

[dancan]

Well , I'm on the down hill run of this lot but it still looks like this .

It's kinda nice to see little patches of this , 5sq feet of nothing lol

One of the tricks I use on these poles when it comes time to delimb is to drop them on to something to keep them off the ground when I can .
Here's a top dropped in the brush pile .

These three were dropped on a cross log to keep them up .

Less bending over that way .
Got a few tanks burnt this afternoon so it was a good day , scrounge on gentleman

 

[dancan]

Now , if I had a boiler that ran on chipped wood ....

This brushpile and the others would be chipped LOL

 

[olyman]

Now , if I had a boiler that ran on chipped wood ....

This brushpile and the others would be chipped LOL

more than a few of us would..ive burnt many piles of trash..and some punk wood,,that would have burnt for heat in a boiler.........

 

[Cowboy254]

Well , I'm on the down hill run of this lot but it still looks like this .

It's kinda nice to see little patches of this , 5sq feet of nothing lol

One of the tricks I use on these poles when it comes time to delimb is to drop them on to something to keep them off the ground when I can .
Here's a top dropped in the brush pile .

These three were dropped on a cross log to keep them up .

Less bending over that way .
Got a few tanks burnt this afternoon so it was a good day , scrounge on gentleman

We don't have anywhere near the density of stems over here. Plenty of rubbish on the ground, but not so much sticking up in the air.

 

[Cowboy254]

Hey, I caught up! It was a lot of hard work yesterday looking at all those scrounges but it was raining cats and dogs here so I wasn't about to go out and chop stuff myself so reading up was the order of the day.

So, I've been taking the odd snap of my scrounging. This was my first scrounge of the year back in April. This is a manna gum that fell over a year earlier that I had stored away in my mind for future scrounging.


I've never burned manna gum before (or at least I wasn't paying much attention to it in the fire) so I don't really know how well it goes. Some say it is pretty ashy but there's a lot of misidentification that goes on so I'm not really sure. I suppose I'll find out in 2 years time when I burn it. It is a medium density hardwood that splits pretty easily. My book here on Australian and imported wood tells me it has an air dry density of 750kg/cubic m and lists American White oak as the same.

I sent this pic to a mate of mine nearby who is into saws and firewood, knowing that he was studying for some ambo (ambulance officer) exams, asking him how his day was going and his response was mainly expletives for some reason.

 

[Cowboy254]

Which I had a log mule for these blocks,I had to roll these over to the splitter,what I couldn't roll I cut in half with the saw.

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I saw this as I was reading through a couple of days ago. What species is that? A pretty big unit!

 

[axeandwedge]

This is white gum ,I have seen these Tree's over 8 feet in diameter.
Normally they split quite easily. this One was a shocker .

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[Little Al]

im been getting hardwood pallets and burning them the local mower/stihl/ dealership has tons of them and they are free

Take care if the Pallets are treated/ rot proofed, as the chemical used is in most cases toxic when burned

 

[axeandwedge]

The Magnificent Seven lol
No seriously,my friend and I take a few saws each up the bush that we have rebuilt and put them to the test when scrounging fire wood.
We were pulled up on one of our outings by the local policeman he thought it seemed odd that we should have so many saws.

 

[axeandwedge]

The Magnificent Seven lol
No seriously,my friend and I take a few saws each up the bush that we have rebuilt and put them to the test when scrounging fire wood.
We were pulled up on one of our outings by the local policeman he thought it seemed odd that we should have so many saws.

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[benp]

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I'm failing to see the problem there. That looks like a pretty good rotation to go through. One saw gets tired you grab a fresh one. Minimal down time because of touching up or topping fluids or both.

Similar principle when I go prairie dog hunting. One rifle's barrel gets hot, put it down and grab another one. That way you are always in the game.

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Down to 33 degreeslast night. So we had our first fire this morning

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Better picture hehe

 

[Khntr85]

Hey guys here is latest scrounge.... these pics are all ash.... we have got 4-5 truck and trailer loads already.... some of this stuff was big, so I gladly broke out the ms461....still a lot left so it's a good spot!!!

 

[benp]

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Hey guys here is latest scrounge.... these pics are all ash.... we have got 4-5 truck and trailer loads already.... some of this stuff was big, so I gladly broke out the ms461....still a lot left so it's a good spot!!!

Damn!!!!

Awesome scrounge.

 

[dancan]

Wanna trade some softwood for the ash ?

 

[benp]

Wanna trade some softwood for the ash ?

Lol - Dan