Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

backyard scrounge startin tomorrow. the big silver maple had a big limb that started to crack so i called the power co. to let them know they might need to come out and fix my service wire. less than an hour later the tree guys showed up and took care of it. i didn't get many pics as i was playing traffic cop on my road.. more pics later. in the second pic you can see why it broke off.

 

[MustangMike]

I need some help identifying this wood - I say Its "Golf Course Oak" Must say, a buddy with an excavator is the way to go ! Had this all cut up in 3 hrs and loaded. One landscape trailer and 4 14x7 dump trailer loads. The bases are about 28 inches around so perfect to run through the timber wolf !!!
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Definitely in the Red Oak Family, which includes Red Oak, Black Oak, Pin Oak, etc. I just call it all Red Oak, but perhaps there is someone on here who knows for sure???

 

[farmer steve]

Definitely in the Red Oak Family, which includes Red Oak, Black Oak, Pin Oak, etc. I just call it all Red Oak, but perhaps there is someone on here who knows for sure???

i ain't goin there Mike . FIREWOOD!!!!! i do like "golf course oak" though which is way better than golf course spruce.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Definitely in the Red Oak Family, which includes Red Oak, Black Oak, Pin Oak, etc. I just call it all Red Oak, but perhaps there is someone on here who knows for sure???

Theres alot of that in the pile I have been scrounging from at the construction site. I just thought it was red oak. Smells like oak. Looks like oak. Heavy like oak. Tastes like oak. Must be oak. Theres a little bit of white oak there also, but alot of red.

 

[James Miller]

i ain't goin there Mike . FIREWOOD!!!!! i do like "golf course oak" though which is way better than golf course spruce.

Isn' there some golf course Osage on the way to your place from Hanover.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Dancan, how’d that little Partner saw run??

 

[svk]

Theres alot of that in the pile I have been scrounging from at the construction site. I just thought it was red oak. Smells like oak. Looks like oak. Heavy like oak. Tastes like oak. Must be oak. Theres a little bit of white oak there also, but alot of red.

I could be far off on this as well. But doesn’t true red oak have red wood from heart to bark and some of the subspecies such as pin have the light colored sapwood like that? I know the stuff with the lighter colored sapwood is more challenging to split whereas the stuff that’s all red just about splits itself.

 

[MustangMike]

I think the true Red Oak a little harder than the related Red Oaks, and has a thinner layer of sap wood.

 

[MustangMike]

Red Oak, Black Cherry, Black Locust (2)

 

[95custmz]

Red Oak, Black Cherry, Black Locust (2)

. Where's the Spruce?

 

[farmer steve]

Red Oak, Black Cherry, Black Locust (2)

That black locust looks nice Mike. looks like some nice posts there or did it all become firewood? some of those bigger logs are the size dad and i used to split for fence rails.

 

[dancan]

Dancan, how’d that little Partner saw run??

This one runs good , I like it better than the 346xp that I used to have .

 

[farmer steve]

OK. which one of you scroungers is this? advertised as a 1/2 cord.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I cant believe somebody actually did that. Wait. Yes I can.

 

[rarefish383]

Red Oak, Black Cherry, Black Locust (2)

Wow, that is a nice pile of BL!

 

[ropensaddle]

OK. which one of you scroungers is this? advertised as a 1/2 cord.

Lmfao I think that's closer to a cord than 1/2 interesting shapes though lol

 

[Conquistador3]

Lmfao I think that's closer to a cord than 1/2 interesting shapes though lol

You want to see how shaped is the oak I cut a couple weeks ago?
Some of us cannot afford to pass over firewood or just have this compulsion to cut and split the most contorted, oddly shaped trees we can find. In fact I have been raking my brains on how to cut a very oddly shaped oak in a very odd place.
Yes, I could get other trees, but that's a free oak that needs to go...

 

[Philbert]

Where's the Spruce?

Philbert

 

[MustangMike]

That black locust looks nice Mike. looks like some nice posts there or did it all become firewood? some of those bigger logs are the size dad and i used to split for fence rails.

I grabbed 4 12' pieces that were transported up to my cabin awaiting use, and some other for firewood for my daughter (in the pic), but the guy's father was intent on turning the rest of it into fire wood for himself.

 

[macattack_ga]

Big wind here in the mid-Atlantic on Friday. Lots of downed trees.

Made a deal with a neighbor...

I cut, they load. Everybody wins. EAB Ash.