KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Holey plunge cut, Batman.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Bruce County was famous for being cattle grazing land years ago, the fields were huge and the fences were few. Some fields were only fenced at the roads because the farm took up the whole block. Lots of land up there was only cleared within the last 30 or 40 years. Lots of stone fence rows around yet. Got that trailer done yet? This one is about as done as it's going to get.
I haven't had time. Hopefully get the frame wire wheeled and painted this weekend. Looks good. Did you mill your own boards?
Yea, I got an inter twined mess like that to take down also, and some of them can reach the house.
Going to pick off the easy legs first, and tie anything that worries me. It is two twisted up Cherry inter twined with several legs of Norway Maple. Some dead, some alive. A real mess.
Going to pick off the easy legs first, and tie anything that worries me. It is two twisted up Cherry inter twined with several legs of Norway Maple. Some dead, some alive. A real mess.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
I bet every dog that comes his way thinks the same.
Welcome! We like pics in here. That's what someone told me when I joined up and they've been regretting it ever since.
I miss Lady Farming, thems were the days. However I have located another scrounge.
There was a working bee at a local open space near the river on Saturday. It used to be a mass of blackberries, rubbish trees, weeds etc but is starting to come up nicely now. I wasn't there on Saturday as we had Cowlass's 8th birthday, otherwise I would have been there. A couple of the other volunteers limbed this fallen manna gum (manna gums have the highest sugar content in the leaves of eucalypts - they are a koala and drop bear favourite) and carted off the wood they could from the branches. The easy stuff in other words.
It wasn't that tall but pretty chunky, around 3.5-4ft at the base. I'm happy to go after the bigger stuff in these trees since the branch material with the sapwood and bark is ashy as but the heartwood is good burning. Thought I'd better check to see that Limby could still noodle so I gave this slightly troublesome round a bit of a start so I could split it with the 8lber.
Otherwise I flipped the rounds up into the trailer for splitting at a later date.
All in all, it was great. Not quite a tank through Limby for a cube and a bit, only 3 minute drive and I was loaded up and home in no time. There are several more loads left in this but I don't think I'll have much competition for it, big trunks are too much work for most people with their occasional use saws around here and now that spring has arrived, no-one is really interested in green wood. Generally they do nothing until April then go mad trying to find dry stuff.
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Hey guys!!!! I'm back.... I plan on finding the wood pile tomorrow and starting to split several years worth of wood that the neighbor had taken down this spring. Its been way to hot to bother with that hard work but its finally cooling off so its time to get to work. I hope everyone has been well.
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Went out Monday to take down a hanger . lol
Now that the hard part is over .... it's on the ground anyway
I dropped it on the top of the tree from last week
to keep it off the ground and help to skid the logs out
Pulled the tops out first
than the the bigger stuff
Not a bad day but was hot out. over 90 on Monday
Bent the hook on my snatch block so I had to get the larger one out
should have used the big one in the first place
So that's what I did Monday
Now that the hard part is over .... it's on the ground anyway
I dropped it on the top of the tree from last week
to keep it off the ground and help to skid the logs out
Pulled the tops out firstthan the the bigger stuff
Not a bad day but was hot out. over 90 on Monday
Bent the hook on my snatch block so I had to get the larger one out
should have used the big one in the first place
So that's what I did Monday
Just a Guy that cuts wood
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Started to put the cabinets up in the garage this weekMy wife made this so much easier than I thought ( she likes me )
Coming together nice
First set hand washing
2nd sink I am going to hookup my old Varsol tank under the sink for a parts washer
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Dude! Nice garage. I wish mine was that big. Just a bit of garage envy here.
Nice scrounge Cowboy.
Hey welcome back! I was just telling someone about your fly tying yesterday.
looks great!
The first pic is hard to ID because of the light/dark wood combo. The second pic looks to be Pin Oak.
It looks like free btu's. Get it!
Good thing I haven't mastered new pics yet. First week of October is our annual fishing tournament in NC. Last year while we were fishing, my room mates tenant, he has two rentals, sent a pic of a big Red Oak snapped off about 50 feet up. The day we got home I helped him clean up the mess. Since then I've taken about 7 cords of standing dead Oak from that rental. Two days ago I decided to take down the 50' stub. No problem, open field to drop it in. Put tag line on just for insurance. Bucked up 30, 18" blocks before I got to the jagged stuff where it broke off. Had a couple rows loaded on the floor of my trailer when my buddy showed up and finished loading with his loader. Then he pointed out two little dead Oaks so we got them too. Had the trailer pretty squashed, a tad over a cord. So far great day. Had one small yard to mow yesterday afternoon so I started splitting the wood in the morning. I had to unload and split all of the small stuff by hand because my battery was dead on the dump. Everything still going great. Battery charged up, dumped wood, went and mowed lawn. Every thing still going great. Got home and started splitting the bigger wood. When it got too heavy to lift, I noodled a block in half for the first step, and stood a block on end for the second step, and was flipping the bigger rounds up on the tray. I had about 6 rounds left that I wasn't going to try to flip up. Was just going to noodle them. So I get the last round up, and let it roll over and smash my right finger of fate, flat as a pancake. I grabbed my hanky and wrapped it up, jumped up and down, and yelled SOB,SOB,SOB, three times, didn't help. The splitter was still running so I tried to finish that last round. By the time I got finished yelling SOB, my hanky was soaked and blood was running down my arm and leg, so I went and got a beer. Had to finish this morning. My finger looks like it was smacked with a 5 pound no bounce hammer. Whole nail is gone, but it doesn't hurt unless I bump it. We are leaving at 3 AM Saturday for the fishing tournament. At least it wasn't my trigger finger, Joe.
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Just Jeff, no time to mill so I just used some old PT and other spruce I had laying around. This mill is turning into way more work and less milling than I figured. I should have just put the purchase off until next year but doing research on brands got too keen and jumped on one . Next year should be a good year milling though.
Hey Cantoo , I scrounged this up today
Wallenstien QC600 , I'm not sure what to turn it into yet lol
Wallenstien QC600 , I'm not sure what to turn it into yet lol
I always wear gloves when working with wood. Won't eliminate you hurting yourself, but often it won't be as bad.
