Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Philbert]

!!! That's a big *ss tree !!!

I don't know if I would tackle one that big, but I sure would want to be wearing a helmet cutting under those dead branches!

Philbert

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

!!! That's a big *ss tree !!!

I don't know if I would tackle one that big, but I sure would want to be wearing a helmet cutting under those dead branches!

Philbert

I was thinking about that after I forgot it at the shop but it's only hard hat and mesh screen ( no ear muffs ) not an excuse tho

 

[svk]

I got out yesterday To drop this red oak
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Went ahead and put a cable to it
more than half the trees at this campground are hallow and the last thing I want is to find out after I notch a tree is find is it's hallow
Also only one way out if trouble came looking for me lol
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This one was not
Only 42 inch at the notch.
It took a long time to pull the Poison ivy off but I try not to take it home
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took 2 trailer loads and will get the rest next week
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Heavy loads
that was my fun yesterday

Nice one, lots of good wood there!

 

[svk]

I've been re-arranging the garage to make sure nothing of mine falls on my wife's new Lexus RX350. So a couple screws have the wrong stuff hanging on them. It is nice to just grab a chain and go, Joe.

Originally I planned to do a peg board like that but my problem is I am operating from three different locations and once a chain comes off the board it may float from place to place for several months. It still may be MIA but when I rediscover it, I'll know what it is right away. With CAD I have too many chains to keep track of otherwise LOL.

 

[Cowboy254]

Here's yesterday's load FWIW. I just unloaded it and in a minute I'm off to give the Lady Farmer some wood and pick up a load of bonfire poles.

 

[JustJeff]

I got out yesterday To drop this red oak
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Went ahead and put a cable to it
more than half the trees at this campground are hallow and the last thing I want is to find out after I notch a tree is find is it's hallow
Also only one way out if trouble came looking for me lol
View attachment 572090
This one was not
Only 42 inch at the notch.
It took a long time to pull the Poison ivy off but I try not to take it home
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took 2 trailer loads and will get the rest next week
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Heavy loads
that was my fun yesterday

Gonna have to change your name to "Just a guy that cuts BIG wood"

 

[dancan]

Well , full sun here today , temps were in the 70's for the first time in like forever so the furnace went cold , I got a chance to give the furnace a an ash shovelin without moving burning wood to the back and forth
Then I realized , I've got no kindlin or matches lol

 

[crowbuster]

you sound like me svk. I use those clear plastic shoebox size containers with snap lids to keep several chains in and keep them in the truck. Chain length written on top and the ends as I could have 3-4 different size saws/bars at any given time. even have one for dull, to be sharpened chains.

 

[Cowboy254]

G'day scroungers,

True to my word, I got out to the farm again. I borrowed the Lady Farmer's ute and went back out to where I was yesterday and picked up what remained of the stuff from this tree. There was some more sitting behind me.



Here it is in trailered form.



I took that back to her house and stacked that in the shed and went back again. This time I loaded up a trailer full of bonfire poles for Cowgirl.



Having satisfied the ladies' wood needs for today, I figgered I had enough time to put a quick tank through Limby. There was still a fair bit of wood in the trunk of the 'nuts falling off' tree.



Some of the rounds at the base were a pretty good size, not quite @Just a Guy that cuts wood monstro oak size but good all the same.



When Limby was out of juice, I was also out of time and had to skedaddle home to get prettied up for work.



With luck, tomorrow I might have a different scrounge species, we'll see how we go.

 

[Toy4xchris]

Scrounged up a new to me Troy bilt pony rear tine tiller. Been sitting for a few years and seen better days but my little "fix fix" buddy is working on the carb issues for me.

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[Cody]

Scrounged up a new to me Troy bilt pony rear tine tiller. Been sitting for a few years and seen better days but my little "fix fix" buddy is working on the carb issues for me.

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Is that a 212cc B&S? Working on a rear tiller myself, was my grandparents and my dad thought he'd take it after they passed away. Needless to say it's just sat for a good 10 years and the fuel was beyond nasty, not sure if I'll get the tank clean but I do know that it runs.

 

[Cowboy254]

G'day troops,

I feel that cutting wood out at the Lady Farm has been more like harvesting than scrounging, and I'm hitting the farm pretty hard. I only have a few weeks left to cut there and after Easter we will be away for a bit so I really have to go hard in the next week because it's likely to be all over after that. Well, I did some good old fashioned traditional roadside scrounging today. I took the Subaru into town for a service (100km away) and knew there had been some trees down along the way. There was one that I really liked but someone else had scrounged the bulk of it two months or so ago. They left a bit, though. I'm mindful that people put a bit of effort into scrounging and it is annoying if you cut stuff and someone else takes off with it. However, I figure that if they really wanted it, they wouldn't leave it sitting on the side of the road for that long. So it's Cowboy's.



When I had driven past previously, it looked like a small bit but when I stopped and got out, there was a little bit more there than I thought. Worth a stop at least.



What sort of tree was this? @Plowboy83 would recognise the species, I'm sure. Then I saw that big round behind it. Probably too hard to split for the unmotivated. Check that colour.



Then I see the shortish log half buried under sticks and leaves. The woodchuck helped me out.



So that got a dose of the 460 too. Speaking of which, I really needed Limby. The 460 was struggling in this stuff with the bar buried, it is not as easy going as peppermint. Still, after all that, I ended up with a nice jag of wood.



Redgum is the preferred firewood of lovers, ski lodge guests and marshmallow toasters. Beautiful burning wood.

 

[Cowboy254]

So, after I got home and unloaded the redgum, I headed out to the Lady Farm. There was peppermint I cut up quickly yesterday to split and load up. I was a bit disappointed to see that there was some rot in the wood in some sections - which is a bit unusual since there were no termites in it. So I busted up enough to fill the trailer. I was getting a bit weary and didn't bother with the OCD neat trailer stacking, so I just chucked it in. They say you lose 10% if you just chuck it in so I made sure that it was at least 10% higher to compensate.



There was a bit of something unusual afterwards since the Lady Farmer had me up in chains.

By which, I mean she upped my supply of chains.



These belonged to her estranged husband and she's happy to give them away just to spite him. Well, if I really must take them....

Then, in a masterstroke, and having learned from @cantoo 's travails, I bought Cowgirl some non-wooden flowers.



Yeah, Cowboy's in with a chance tonight!

 

[MustangMike]

I have had a Troy Bilt Pony Tiller since I don't know when. Bought it new when they were still made in Troy, drove up to pick it up (was working the day in Albany any way), so I took the Ranger Truck (1st year of production).

It sits in the shed all winter long, and reliably starts each Spring. Has a 5 Hp Briggs motor with Electronic Ignition (was an early one of those).

Replaced the tines once.

 

[Toy4xchris]

Is that a 212cc B&S? Working on a rear tiller myself, was my grandparents and my dad thought he'd take it after they passed away. Needless to say it's just sat for a good 10 years and the fuel was beyond nasty, not sure if I'll get the tank clean but I do know that it runs.

It's a Troy-bilt pony with the Briggs 5hp. It has been sitting for a handful of years the gas was brown and nasty gonna have to pull the tank and rebuild the carb and needs a govern spring then hopefully we will be tilling the area my wife wants for a flower garden.

 

[coryj]

Pulled two truck/trailer loads today from the storm downed tree I cut for a guy. There's a bunch more wood to get still. The little ranger was not happy with today's loads.

 

[Cowboy254]

It's a crackin' day down south today, good conditions for a scrounge. This peppermint trunk turned into 26 inch rounds.



Then after some swingin, the finished product was this.



And Mt Cowboy currently looks like this.

 

[woodchip rookie]

We should be able to see that pile from google earth now.

 

[Cody]

It's a Troy-bilt pony with the Briggs 5hp. It has been sitting for a handful of years the gas was brown and nasty gonna have to pull the tank and rebuild the carb and needs a govern spring then hopefully we will be tilling the area my wife wants for a flower garden.

Well I hope your luck is better than mine! Replaced the diaphragm on the carb, made sure everything else looked good on it but I must be missing something. Either that or the pickup tube is far more clogged than what it seems to be. It just won't draw any fuel into the carb, runs if I spray fuel right into the carb though. I ended up putting the tank in a good bed of coals and that really cleaned it up, I can worry about it being pretty later though.

 

[farmer steve]

yesterdays scrounge at my neighbors. it was a standing dead rock(chestnut) oak. sorry @dancan . 2 buckets of firewood and an 8' log for the bandmill.