Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[PA Dan]

Next winter is no problem for me. I have close to 3 face cord already split and at least double that in rounds waiting to be split all I have to do is scrounge for the year after. Unless a crap ton falls in my lap like last year, I don't plan on going beserk. I'm wanting to fix up my boat and hit the fishing a little harder this year.
Here is my finished knife after an overnight soak in the linseed/stain concoction and a good sharpening on the stone. Hope to catch a worthy fish or two for it. View attachment 562508

That knife is awesome!

 

[Cowboy254]

Ok you have a problem. We've seen this before, matter of fact we've all been there. This is a classic case of OSD. Over Scrounging Disorder. But it's ok, while there is no cure, there's a way to keep it at bay. The options are:
Sell some wood and keep scrounging.
Start burning some wood and keep scrounging.
Pick up a fishing pole and take some time off to pursue other interests. (Sharpening chains and picking up your saws while wistfully making braaap braaap sounds is ok during this period)

Don't worry friend, we are all here for you!

Just yesterday one of my mates asked when I was going to admit to myself that I had a problem. Problem? What problem? What's abnormal about having 35 cubes in the shed and another 18 on the pile and continually going back for more?

Most blokes around here haven't even started thinking about getting this year's wood yet with burning season starting in about 7 weeks.

Hmm. Options, options. Well, I'll take a couple of cubes down to my brother in Melbourne soon and it won't be long until we start burning so that will free up some space in the shed and I'll be able to start stacking wood from Mt Cowboy into the shed. That will help to hide my addiction from my friends. Cowgirl's community bonfire is a couple of months away, I'll start collecting dead tops and rubbish wood for that, too. Ah yes! I'll start cutting for the Lady Farmer now as well. She'll be on the farm until mid-May so she'll need wood for the last 5-6 weeks. In fact, I'll cut enough to last her the full winter. Depending on what the Family Court decides, she may need to continue to live in the area (kids involved) so that would keep them warm for the winter but she wants to leave and move to Western Australia in which case I'd possibly get all that wood back to add to Mt Cowboy! That's Monty Burns style "Excellent".

No, I am not in denial!

 

[Buckshot00]

Next winter is no problem for me. I have close to 3 face cord already split and at least double that in rounds waiting to be split all I have to do is scrounge for the year after. Unless a crap ton falls in my lap like last year, I don't plan on going beserk. I'm wanting to fix up my boat and hit the fishing a little harder this year.
Here is my finished knife after an overnight soak in the linseed/stain concoction and a good sharpening on the stone. Hope to catch a worthy fish or two for it. View attachment 562508

Looking good. Will make a good fillet knife.

 

[dancan]

Well 8* F with a feels like -11*F this morning , I hope I don't loose any of my bar nuts , so ,,, Off to the salt mines lol

Sure was nice and warm in the truck but not a haint or drop bear to be seen for miles .
More progress was made today .

I did give that OSD thing a fleeting thought for a micro second but I'm pretty sure I don't got it at all .

 

[woodchip rookie]

Me either. Everybody ELSE is crazy.

 

[cantoo]

I spent Friday afternoon and night in the shop getting ready to paint the ceiling. Spent Saturday morning spray painting it and the afternoon cleaning everything up from it. Wife and I drove to Orangeville ( 2hrs each way) to pick up my daughter for a few weeks. When I got home I'm the Man so I laid the law down and said I was going to the bush, it's been weeks since I was back there running a saw. Grumbling from her but I headed out the door anyway. Got everything ready and jumped in the tractor to hit the trail and not even a click, damnn battery is toast. Damnn thing froze, not sure if the key was on or not but plans were falling apart quickly. Then I remembered I had a spare battery in the shop. Took the front grille off to get the battery out (also hit my funny bone on the grapple mount and no it sure wasn't funny, still burns) Busted the battery clamp off the positive side, no problem more auction sale goodies I have a card of cable ends around here somewhere. Carry the battery to the barn and it's 3/4" too wide to fit the space. Then to find the battery clamps, wasted 1/2 hour doing that then just said chuck it I'm going into the house. Been looking at processor and band saw mills videos for 4 hours now. Wife loaded the old battery in the van and she'll get a new one in the morning. She wins again. The ceiling does look good though. Now I have to mount all the lights again.

 

[cantoo]

After I typed this I had a brainstorm and thought I remembered where the ends were. In the house garage hanging on the wall, nope not there but I did find the Solar charger for my dump trailer, been sitting there for about 3 years and the dust proves it at least I bought it on sale so I saved money there. And the new tap and die set I was looking for a month ago. Still need the darn ends so out to the shop I go, with a flashlight because I never put the lights back up yet (yes honey). I found ends but not the ones I was looking for. Guess which ones I bought and which ones my mechanic son bought? I really have way too much junk laying around. My wife and son have been trying to organize it but I keep telling them they might as well wait until I die and just have an auction.

 

[farmer steve]

OSD, that's a good one.

I suffer from over sawing disorder. Since bucking and felling is the most fun now I have about 5 cords of rounds in the woods and need to haul all of that home before I do more scrounging.

saw and haw. it can be split anytime. my dad has piles in the woods that "i'll get it tomorrow"

 

[TeeMan]

Got some Pecan and Hackberry (Sugarberry) over the weekend and it was only half a mile from the house! Got to run the Deere (Efco), Stihl, and the Husky as well.

 

[nomad_archer]

saw and haw. it can be split anytime. my dad has piles in the woods that "i'll get it tomorrow"

I thought I was over due to do some splitting. At least my rounds from over a year ago made it to the back yard.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I got some fresh rounds that will sit till next winter. Too wet to split.

 

[dancan]

Chopper mitts .
Or also known as trigger mitts , Clint talked about them way back as a part of cold weather cutting , I've used them as well for a long time in the winter .
My latest ones that I've been wearing have been US mil surplus , leather plams , Gortex outer with a nice wool mitten removable liner . As I get warmed up I can take the wool liner off , shove it in my pocket and just wear the outer trigger mitt .
But , when handling a lot of brush and tops

and the said fella doesn't shove it real deep in the said fella's pocket ...

It takes a lot of retracing ones steps to find a green mitten in green brush , don't ask how I know lol

 

[Cowboy254]

Chopper mitts .
Or also known as trigger mitts , Clint talked about them way back as a part of cold weather cutting , I've used them as well for a long time in the winter .
My latest ones that I've been wearing have been US mil surplus , leather plams , Gortex outer with a nice wool mitten removable liner . As I get warmed up I can take the wool liner off , shove it in my pocket and just wear the outer trigger mitt .
But , when handling a lot of brush and tops

and the said fella doesn't shove it real deep in the said fella's pocket ...

It takes a lot of retracing ones steps to find a green mitten in green brush , don't ask how I know lol

Could have been worse, Dan. You know how other things fall off sometimes.

 

[dancan]

Could have been worse, Dan. You know how other things fall off sometimes.

Yup , I've had plenty of "Fall Offs" and I'm sure I'll have plenty more plus a few "**** ,,,, Well , that wasn't spoused too happen " lol

 

[dancan]

If any of you guys have a metal detector I'd like to borrow it so I could retrieve the castle nut that holds one of the tierod ends on the MF1020 when I had to do a repair in the field last winter , I know exactly where it fell but not exactly where it's at lol
Cowboy , I'm not sure why but I have 4 or 5 of each Husky and Stihl bar nuts looped on zip ties in my saw tool kit lol
Them captive bar nuts on the new Stihl gear is great ! Haven't had to cut a ziptie in more than a year

 

[svk]

If any of you guys have a metal detector I'd like to borrow it so I could retrieve the castle nut that holds one of the tierod ends on the MF1020 when I had to do a repair in the field last winter , I know exactly where it fell but not exactly where it's at lol
Cowboy , I'm not sure why but I have 4 or 5 of each Husky and Stihl bar nuts looped on zip ties in my saw tool kit lol
Them captive bar nuts on the new Stihl gear is great ! Haven't had to cut a ziptie in more than a year

I got a wand style detector on clearance from the welding supply shop for $8. Want to fire it up around my hunting cabin as I'm build on the site of an early 1900's logging camp.

 

[cantoo]

Went to change the outlets into my Pioneer ones and the darn things are 8ORBF and not 8NPTF. Couldn't wait until tomorrow so I strapped up the grapple and headed to the fenceline. This thing digs nice and cuts roots good. Pulled up a bunch of old fence wire with it too. Should be even better with hydraulics.

 

[NormP]

As Jerry Reed says, "When you're hot, you're hot."

After making a connection with the horse vet to cut all the wood he can give me at his rentals and the farm, I was talking about it to my dad who runs a demolition business.

He told me he's getting ready to tear down an old nursing home and there is a bunch of trees cut into mostly 4-6 foot sections behind the buildings. He says there's more that needs to come down as well, and I am welcome to it if I can get my truck back there.

Challenge accepted. Went over Saturday to have a look at what I was getting into, and took the 372xp "just in case." It's new to me and I've been looking for an excuse to stretch its legs. So I cut a couple of stumps that were still about four feet high, then bucked a couple 8-9 foot logs till my bar locked up and I realized I brought the wrong scrench with me. Got home and cleaned some chips out of the bar, but the nose sprocket seems messed up. Turns real easy till it gets to a certain point, then gets real tight. Been looking for an excuse to put a 24 inch bar on it anyway.

Going to be a decent haul from the looks of things. I think it's mostly locust trees, but I'm not good with all the different species.

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[NormP]

Any idea what this tree is? I looked through my books but I can't identify it, although it looks familiar from my childhood. Kind of looks like the bark from a dogwood, but it's decent sized tree. Part of it is down already as you can see in the pictures, but I'm not going to take the rest of it down if it isn't any good for burning.

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[PA Dan]

As Jerry Reed says, "When you're hot, you're hot."

After making a connection with the horse vet to cut all the wood he can give me at his rentals and the farm, I was talking about it to my dad who runs a demolition business.

He told me he's getting ready to tear down an old nursing home and there is a bunch of trees cut into mostly 4-6 foot sections behind the buildings. He says there's more that needs to come down as well, and I am welcome to it if I can get my truck back there.

Challenge accepted. Went over Saturday to have a look at what I was getting into, and took the 372xp "just in case." It's new to me and I've been looking for an excuse to stretch its legs. So I cut a couple of stumps that were still about four feet high, then bucked a couple 8-9 foot logs till my bar locked up and I realized I brought the wrong scrench with me. Got home and cleaned some chips out of the bar, but the nose sprocket seems messed up. Turns real easy till it gets to a certain point, then gets real tight. Been looking for an excuse to put a 24 inch bar on it anyway.

Going to be a decent haul from the looks of things. I think it's mostly locust trees, but I'm not good with all the different species.

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Nice score there! I do see a lot of locust there! Been burning a lot of that the last couple years and I like it! I think it was 2013 I brought home 10 pickup loads. Still have some I haven't split yet! Lol!