Boooooo!
This is us a whole day after the storm. I was snowed in for a couple hours due to winds/drifts alone. Sucks being surrounded by fields sometime!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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This is us a whole day after the storm. I was snowed in for a couple hours due to winds/drifts alone. Sucks being surrounded by fields sometime!
Norwegian wood is a good read. I enjoyed it a couple of years ago. I wish there were a more detailed version as it only skims the surface in places.... But I guess it's written more for newbies then experienced scroungers.
So your still reading it 8yrs laterwell, when the book first came out in 2011 it was an immediate success in Scandinavian countries and central Europe. I started reading it, and so far I like it. preface and intro. now chptr 1. interesting comments and philosophies of the two so far. about man's relationship with wood. not just any wood, but firewood! smallish print, plenty woodlot and wood pile, stacks - amazing pix... and one reference that was near and dear to my!!!
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, or were you slow on making it an immediate success lol.Waiting on the reference, this better be good BL
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md1486
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Damn you would not like the climate here. Snow on the ground from november to may. Average weather in january/february is like 5-10F in the day and -5F in the night, without windchill. This is not Texas !
Sounds refreshingDamn you would not like the climate here. Snow on the ground from november to may. Average weather in january/february is like 5-10F in the day and -5F in the night, without windchill. This is not Texas !
.Just got an email that Labonville is now selling their chaps on Amazon. In case anyone is interested.
Philbert
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So your still reading it 8yrs later
Waiting on the reference, this better be good BL
[I started reading it yesterday, and so far I like it.]
aw-w shucks!, chipper... I am still reading my 019T Owner's Manual 22 years later!! lol
but... regarding NW... it is in its 2nd printing. so was reprinted in 2015. but in all actuality, my comment was merely a historical rhetorical reference.
Damn you would not like the climate here. Snow on the ground from november to may. Average weather in january/february is like 5-10F in the day and -5F in the night, without windchill. This is not Texas !
I mite like to visit!
on a cold wintery day. but, u r prob right, to live there. ice, snow, cold day in day out... 10f... even though I am from the Pac NW... bit of a mountain boy still... I am dutifully and suitifully pleasantly acclimated to the south climes these days. 39f out and dry is artic air to me... lolbut I like all the wintery pix posted here, like Saiso's recent winter storm!! like them a lot! some sure seem to me postcard like whispering...
"Miss you! Wish you were here!"...
our kinda guy!! ~
don't feel alone B-S, I was thinking of posting some pix of the many scrounge potentials I see every time I head to the farm along the way... some of that free stuff is ez pickings, but in some tall grass. too along the DOT right of way. and I am not out of firewood just yet! lol -
Some of those locust splits look like they're half bark, half wood. Is that thick bark ashy? Some of our eucalypts have horrible bark that seem to be four fifths ash while some are ok. BFS has it worked out, just cut wood that has been dead for 30 years.
I like the black locust
, I cut a good bit with the bark falling off them, but I always try to cut it to length when I'm bucking the logs. l like to burn the bark all by itself in the shoulder season, you can choke it down just like you would for a nice fire on a cold night and it keeps a nice low fire going, better than a few splits in my stove. I've got a couple black locust to take down as soon as I get a min, don't want to miss those.
Well and here I thought you were gonna tell us he talked about your brother, your sister, or one of your dogs in it lol.[I started reading it yesterday, and so far I like it.]
aw-w shucks!, chipper... I am still reading my 019T Owner's Manual 22 years later!! lol
but... regarding NW... it is in its 2nd printing. so was reprinted in 2015. but in all actuality, my comment was merely a historical rhetorical reference.
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Real scroungers hoard that bark cowboy.
. Like chipper said good stuff. Makes a nice hot fire for chimney clean out.
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Dont know never burned it with the bark on. Some of its falling off now the rest will fall off when I take it off the racks to burn this coming winter. I honestly dont pay attention to how much ash is in the stove as are old stove has a grate and ash pan that are actually useful. So emptying the ash while its burning is no problem.
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Had one of those chimney clean out fires earlier. Wife said the house was chilly so I brought a bunch of the dead branch wood from the apple in and before i knew it we were singing right along with 600* stove top temps. Now theres mulberry and apple in there should stay good and hot for awhile.Real scroungers hoard that bark cowboy.
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Shag bark hickory is the bark of choice in these parts.
That goes in the bin with the locust bark. Good ****.
I will have to try those barks, got lots of it around from my milling, I usually don't bother with bark.
I was actually thinking of taking the Shag Bark Hickory bark and soaking it (fill my canoe) and see it I could weave pack baskets with it. (use a small square garbage can as a template) It seems like real tough stuff!
I was actually thinking of taking the Shag Bark Hickory bark and soaking it (fill my canoe) and see it I could weave pack baskets with it. (use a small square garbage can as a template) It seems like real tough stuff!
O lord we be scrounging baskets now! Lol.
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