Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Made simular preparations myself. Just no wife... Keeps things simple!

I agree, its a real treat on a cold night to just have to reach around the corner... and get the next load of firewood or stix... lol I keep some stuff out in the shop, and more just outside the door. up close, tight and dry!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

battery heater pad

https://www.amazon.com/Kats-22200-Watt-Battery-Thermal/dp/B000I8XD9E

 

[James Miller]

hi JM - brickwork looks just like mine as to bricks and design. similar. I like that guard fence set up you have in front of your fireplace area. I don't have any thing like that...

The reason for the gate.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

View attachment 716998 The reason for the gate.

as I had figured!

 

[bigfellascott]

hi - where you live (?)... and you see summer temps in the 40f's?... and you want air conditioning? really?

Australia mate 40degs and higher is normal for many parts of aus in summer.

 

[95custmz]

Australia mate 40degs and higher is normal for many parts of aus in summer.

40 Celsius, correct?

 

[95custmz]

That's 104 F, Merican'.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Australia mate 40degs and higher is normal for many parts of aus in summer.

oic! right!!, lol... C. that explains it. I hear SWH posting some high C temps... think he said Perth was 40.5 the other day!!! 105f yikes!

 

[bigfellascott]

oic! right!!, lol... C. that explains it. I hear SWH posting some high C temps... think he said Perth was 40.5 the other day!!! 105f yikes!

I feel sorry for those people live with 50 + deg - that would be like hell to me and the opposite end of that where it's -30 over in some other countries, FMD how do they cope with that too!

 

[bigfellascott]

I agree, its a real treat on a cold night to just have to reach around the corner... and get the next load of firewood or stix... lol I keep some stuff out in the shop, and more just outside the door. up close, tight and dry!

I'm going to weld up some 44gal drums together side by side and build a bit of a stand to sit them on and have access to each end so I can load one end and take them out the other when I want them, I think it will work fine, I just need to get around to building it.

 

[bigfellascott]

40 Celsius, correct?

Yeah mate, that's correct.

 

[KiwiBro]

I'm going to weld up some 44gal drums together side by side and build a bit of a stand to sit them on and have access to each end so I can load one end and take them out the other when I want them, I think it will work fine, I just need to get around to building it.

Warm dry snake houses?

Got bitten by a spider the other day while walking through the bush. Didn't see it but hurt pretty good for rest of the day. apart from that, am so pleased to be able to go anywhere without fear of snakes or the like.

On a different note, does anyone across the ditch know anyone in Queensland that an help me source some gum seeds from the Blackdown Tablelands? The gum I'm after is native to that area. Have been test plantations here in NZ that are doing well but have been disappointed by the lack of give-a-shite by at least one of the guys involved in one of those trials so trying to buy my own seeds and have a go myself. Just a bit tricky trying to find anyone I can trust to positively ID the trees and sell me the seeds they collect from them.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I'm going to weld up some 44gal drums together side by side and build a bit of a stand to sit them on and have access to each end so I can load one end and take them out the other when I want them, I think it will work fine, I just need to get around to building it.

pix please!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Warm dry snake houses?

Got bitten by a spider the other day while walking through the bush. Didn't see it but hurt pretty good for rest of the day. apart from that, am so pleased to be able to go anywhere without fear of snakes or the like.

On a different note, does anyone across the ditch know anyone in Queensland that an help me source some gum seeds from the Blackdown Tablelands? The gum I'm after is native to that area. Have been test plantations here in NZ that are doing well but have been disappointed by the lack of give-a-shite by at least one of the guys involved in one of those trials so trying to buy my own seeds and have a go myself. Just a bit tricky trying to find anyone I can trust to positively ID the trees and sell me the seeds they collect from them.

Got bitten by a spider the other day while walking through the bush.

 

[turnkey4099]

New or newly sharpened chain, AKA metal detectors?
Took me a few years to finally introduce a rule to not cut anything on a fenceline unless someone else is guaranteeing the chain/s. It's amazing how many people who, funnily enough, own their own chainsaws, suddenly remember they didn't want those trees cut after all.

Back in the 99s-early 2000s I cut 100 cord or more of black locust, most of it from old farmsteads/fence rows. Amazingly I only hit metal twice, once in a tree showing a 3 wire fence scars - went 6" above the last one and hit something, never discovered what. The other one was a 'backyard' locust that had the remains of a tree house in it. Kids must have practiced driving nails in it - I het a lot of them.

 

[James Miller]

Got bitten by a spider the other day while walking through the bush.
View attachment 717006

Made me think of @RandyMac old growth spiders thread. Wonder if he's still working on a book. The mans writing makes you feel like your there with him.

 

[KiwiBro]

Made me think of @RandyMac old growth spiders thread. Wonder if he's still working on a book. The mans writing makes you feel like your there with him.

That'll be some book for sure. I hope he gets a round tuit.

 

[Cowboy254]

That’s why I have all the respect for our Aussie brothers. You watch any program and everything down there can kill you. Fish, spiders, insects, canines, crocs, snakes, even have birds that attack and stomp you to death. You guys have big balls to go cut wood. I’ld be sitting in a locked room sucking my thumb.

Cassowaries. You don't mess with them, I'm just glad they don't live down where I do.

I went for another hike the previous weekend, up Mt Bogong, the tallest one in this pic, though without the snow.



There was a bit of cloud around so the views weren't quite what they can be but still pretty good.



And just to prove it was me



And it was all good until I nearly stepped on this guy...



But it's all good. Even if he'd bitten me, the black snake is way down on the world's most venomous snake list. They're like, 9th or something.

 

[Cowboy254]

I agree, red oak takes a long time to season, one of my favorite things about black locust is how quickly it will dry out, very low moisture content even when green.

I've got a lead on some black locust locally, the best mate of one of my clients. Said I can take however much I like and he'll torch the rest once fire restrictions are done. I'm curious to see how well locust goes out here. I know some of our eucalypts have been less good in the US environment than back home, maybe locust grown in our harsher conditions might be better? Who knows, but I'm making it my mission to find out!

Congrats! Rangers are being reintroduced this year here in the US. The last plant that built them is about 6 miles from my house - site is being redeveloped for residential.

Only offered with 2.3L EcoBoost and Electronic Ten-Speed Automatic Transmission. Would take me a while to learn to shift with my left hand.

Philbert

Funnily enough, I learned to drive using a three-on-the-tree column manual but my first introduction to a floor manual was in the USA so for a long time I was more proficient on the column with my left but better on the floor with my right. The new 2019 Ranger is coming with a 2.0L bi-turbo diesel with 10sp auto - the 3.2L won't be offered anymore. I'm glad I got the 3.2, I went up fishing yesterday with a couple of blokes who have them and they raved about them. I hope to haul massive amounts of scrounge with it.

 

[farmer steve]

New or newly sharpened chain, AKA metal detectors?
Took me a few years to finally introduce a rule to not cut anything on a fenceline unless someone else is guaranteeing the chain/s. It's amazing how many people who, funnily enough, own their own chainsaws, suddenly remember they didn't want those trees cut after all.

fresh sharpened chain. i did like @turnkey4099 and went about a foot above the old wire i could see and made my cut. got the big rounds in the bucket ok but figured i'd noodle them before lifting them on the splitter. that piece of metal (nail?)was near the center of that tree that was probably 75 years or more old. t It was only in the 1 half and no signs of metal in the other half. Iv'e cut trees in the middle of a big woods with no signs of fences,tree stands,etc and have hit metal.