Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Picaso]

So I trolled by to scrounge at a site that posted an ad about hardwood (oak?) firewood in the local paper. When I got there much of it was gone, but that "oak" turned out to be a big black walnut, so my helpers and I decided we would take some of the limbs left and make some lamps together for their bedrooms instead of burning all that beauty.

Id rather have that any day.

 

[turnkey4099]

Scorchio scorchio, hot hot hot! Over 30C all week. There or there abouts since May! Much of the country has now had 54 consecutive dry days. Driest June on record, driest start to summer on record. 2 week forecast
... More of the same.
Crops failed, livestock farmers using winter feed.

On the plus side.... Dry wood stacks

Dry here too. Jun & so far Jul basically no moisture at all. Wheat harvest just started here Saturday - "best havest we every had" (from a farmer)due to a wet spring though.

 

[farmer steve]

Dry here too. Jun & so far Jul basically no moisture at all. Wheat harvest just started here Saturday - "best havest we every had" (from a farmer)due to a wet spring though.

Been raining here since saturday. close to 5 inches in the gauge so far. most creeks and rivers at near or at flood stage. 7 day forecast shows at least 5 more days of rain.

 

[JustJeff]

Couldn’t seem to buy a rain here. Driest I ever remember. We finally got a little rain Sunday. Record number of wildfires here in Ontario and one is messing up our annual fishing trip. I’m still going but to plan B and no campfires due to a ban. I usually take wood because I’m the wood guy in the group. If it rains and the ban is lifted, we will scrounge! Here’s hoping!

 

[rarefish383]

Been raining here since saturday. close to 5 inches in the gauge so far. most creeks and rivers at near or at flood stage. 7 day forecast shows at least 5 more days of rain.

Think I just saw a fish swim past the family room window?

 

[LondonNeil]

Well I'm sat in st James's park (it's basically the front garden to buck palace) on my lunch break, and the grass is utterly parched, it's like that in parks all over. Berries are ripening but very small, some trees are having leaves turn and drop already. Too dry. We don't say that often.

 

[LondonNeil]

My main stack is about 35' long, beside a fence. 4'6" wide and 5' tall. Take from one end one winter, fill the other end, rinse and repeat. On pallets. To squeeze as much in as possible I overhang the pallets... This caused the bulge. The end is cribstacked, and I try to tie in with splits to the rest. I then crib a row every 10' or so. Sometimes I put a layer of splits turned 90° half way up the stack. It works, except I have a large about of small short and ugly splits, which get tossed in and don't stack nicely. I either need to make my ends a double or triple row of cribs, and add more intermediate cribs, or nail some pallets together as bookends, and intersperse these instead of the cribs. It was stable when built, but has dried and now I've 2 cord looking like it's heading for the floor. That'll take ages to stack again... So I'm trying to keep it up.

 

[svk]

So I trolled by to scrounge at a site that posted an ad about hardwood (oak?) firewood in the local paper. When I got there much of it was gone, but that "oak" turned out to be a big black walnut, so my helpers and I decided we would take some of the limbs left and make some lamps together for their bedrooms instead of burning all that beauty.

Id rather have that any day.

That turned piece is incredible!

 

[woodchip rookie]

I need a lathe

 

[Ted Jenkins]

We have not had any real fires here yet this year, but for sure could happen. Southern California had almost no winter last year with a late spring. Since the end of June it has been hot and even hotter some days. Yesterday when I left Palm Desert from staying with my family at 7AM it was in the mid 90's. The highs have been 111 to 119F. The fires at this rate can not be far behind. At this moment I have at 60 cord of nice wood ready to go, but by November there will not be enough time to deliver it all. Thanks

 

[rarefish383]

I need a lathe

My BIL retired kind of young, late 50's. When his Dad passed away, my MIL told the boys to take what they wanted. He got kind of bored and took the wood lathe home. It's either real easy, or he had a knack for it. He turned out some out standing bowls, candlesticks, vase's. I was quite surprised because he had never done any kind of wood working. So, I say, give it a try, you might have the knack. Oh, my BIL went back to work, I guess he got bored turning wood.

 

[Circle B MN]

Load of bigger stuff. Smalls riding dump truck.

 

[Picaso]

That turned piece is incredible!

Thanks! Want me to make and send you one? No charge just tell me where. Not sure of a PM on tapatalk, but if you're interested then reach out.

 

[Picaso]

My BIL retired kind of young, late 50's. When his Dad passed away, my MIL told the boys to take what they wanted. He got kind of bored and took the wood lathe home. It's either real easy, or he had a knack for it. He turned out some out standing bowls, candlesticks, vase's. I was quite surprised because he had never done any kind of wood working. So, I say, give it a try, you might have the knack. Oh, my BIL went back to work, I guess he got bored turning wood.

good advice. if you have a good source of wood you can learn much faster and affordably. Some of the hairier parts come in with the drying side, more so than the turning.

 

[woodchip rookie]

My BIL retired kind of young, late 50's. When his Dad passed away, my MIL told the boys to take what they wanted. He got kind of bored and took the wood lathe home. It's either real easy, or he had a knack for it. He turned out some out standing bowls, candlesticks, vase's. I was quite surprised because he had never done any kind of wood working. So, I say, give it a try, you might have the knack. Oh, my BIL went back to work, I guess he got bored turning wood.

I can turn. I just dont have a lathe. I made a whole set of chess pieces including the board when I was in high school. That project went to state fair. I worked in a machine shop. I made another chess set out of solid brass and stainless. Including the board. And adjustable-hight stand it was mounted to. The board alone weighed 168lbs. I scrapped the board because I had better plans but I still have the pieces. I dont have any idea what happened to the wood set I made. My gma still has the walnut clock I turned also. I cut down and threaded the barrel on my 243 and made the supressor for it.

 

[chipper1]

I cut down and threaded the barrel on my 243 and made the supressor for it.

As I was reading all that this is what I was thinking about lol.

 

[James Miller]

I should have looked a bit better .
Those rounds looks so skinny when they are that tall lol.
Did you get it the 036 fixed up.
The plastics on mine look pretty clean.
Hopefully I didn't post these before, sorry if so guys.
This was a scrounge anyway lol.
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Didnt know there was a need for a decomp on the 036

Been raining here since saturday. close to 5 inches in the gauge so far. most creeks and rivers at near or at flood stage. 7 day forecast shows at least 5 more days of rain.

There was 5-6 inches of standing water across the road at one spot on the way to work. If its gona be this soggy some trees need to fall down so I have something to do when the sun comes back.

 

[rarefish383]

Didnt know there was a need for a decomp on the 036

There was 5-6 inches of standing water across the road at one spot on the way to work. If its gona be this soggy some trees need to fall down so I have something to do when the sun comes back.

That's how I think of the little Homelite EZ, they put a decomp on it, but no decomp on the 100CC Super 1050?

 

[woodchip rookie]

My 445/550 both have decomp.

 

[woodchip rookie]

As I was reading all that this is what I was thinking about lol.