Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Have you ever seen the heavy rubber chocks with the steel handles cast in them? Some crews put a piece of rope between them so you can put one in front and one behind the wheel, then pull them both out at once if they are not wedge in. We were setting up on a job, and the line clearing crew pulled up, parked on a pretty steep up hill grade. The driver got out and started swinging the bucket down, another guy started gassing up the saws, and a young guy got out and grabbed the chocks. They must have told him his only purpose was to make sure the chocks were in FRONT of the truck tires. He put one in front of a tire, slid under the truck, and the rope was too short, so he pulled the first chock over some. He was just able to get a chock under the inside wheel on both side. They were in FRONT of the tires, on a steep uphill slope.

We got back from lunch and the chocks were still there. I guess the driver couldn’t see them on the inside wheels, or he didn’t look on the uphill side. Must have made one heck of a bump running over them when he left. That must have been forty years ago. Still makes me chuckle ever time I use them.

The last thing you need is for a vehicle to get away up the hill :crazy2:
 
Add a spinner/ breaker set and you can re-size loops of any length. Makes chain scrounging easy.

Philbert
Just make sure they are the same chain or else the grinding gets tricky when cutters are different heights, etc. There's a Frankenstein 42" chain in my quiver that is part stihl part husqvarna. Keeps me on my toes when grinding both the cutters and rakers.
 
Add a spinner/ breaker set and you can re-size loops of any length. Makes chain scrounging easy.

Just make sure they are the same chain or else the grinding gets tricky when cutters are different heights, etc.
Yeah, common sense still applies.

Spinning a loop shorter just removes links: no problem there. Making a look longer requires 'donor' links from an identical chain: after spinning, I put them on the grinder and make them all the same. I try to use OEM components (presets, etc.) too.

I have seen chains with Oregon links mixed with identical, OEM branded links (e.g. Husqvarna, McCulloch, Makita, etc.) that were made by Oregon. I have seen low kickback links mixed with standard chain (have to get lucky where that kickback event occurs?). I have seen 'hash' chains (a little bit of everything thrown in), which mixed 3/8 low profile with full sized 3/8 components, full-chisel and semi-chisel cutters, etc. Some of those are in my chain salvage challenge thread.

Philbert
 
With everyone home this upcomming Winter, firewood use should be significant. I wonder if anyone here is hording firewood.Probably only a mater of time. Will firewooding be an essential business? Price gouging firewood vendors dragged into the street and shot? Our prepper stacks requisitioned by the govt to keep the elderly warm this Winter? May we live in interesting times...
 
Anyone with eyes open knew it. Difficulty is predicting timing. Chinese flu was a godsend of a black swan in that respect only. Now watch your kids and grandkids get saddled with the debt of socialised corporate rescue packages. Trillions already in the last few weeks and hardly anyone seems to give a shot or feels they can do anything about it. FUBAR . Position accordingly if haven't already.
I had been thinking that it would wait until election time here, but I knew it was coming.
I've been waiting a long time to build my barn, things can only go so long without an adjustment and I didn't really want to pay as much as the current market is asking to build it. I'd have more into building the barn than we paid for the house, which was bought at the last half price sale, currently its "worth" 150% what we gave for it.
Unfortunately its been too good for too long, the price paid will be greater than it would have if they would have let it self correct. We have a fine way of messing things up in the name of progress and even in the name of protecting others, it seems we've enabled the problem rather than allowing people to suffer the consequences of our poor decisions :rare2:.

It will be interesting to see how many can weather the fallout of the current situation through the end of the yr, let alone the long term.
 
The wealth of actually scrounging pics inspired me to show the 5020 some love and cut up a few logs I had and a bunch of zogger wood.
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Next closest tree in the neighbor's wood lot. Another cherry mostly suspended off the ground. It may be from the same tree a the last section I cut. It's astound 18" at the bottom so I figure a good section of trunk went with the loggers a few years ago. 20200322_141451.jpg
Dark on the outside but pink on the inside. 20200322_152144.jpg
 
cold and low!!! check the owners manual....
No manual, bought as is. I think when I checked it last week the bucket was up and the boom was up. When I checked it yesterday the bucket was on the ground and the boom was down. With the cylinders retracted, that's a couple quarts in the reservoir. I put two quarts in it and that put it on full with the bucket down. With the bucket up, it's just a little low.
 
With everyone home this upcomming Winter, firewood use should be significant. I wonder if anyone here is hording firewood.Probably only a mater of time. Will firewooding be an essential business? Price gouging firewood vendors dragged into the street and shot? Our prepper stacks requisitioned by the govt to keep the elderly warm this Winter? May we live in interesting times...
Home next winter?...
 
With everyone home this upcomming Winter, firewood use should be significant. I wonder if anyone here is hording firewood.Probably only a mater of time. Will firewooding be an essential business? Price gouging firewood vendors dragged into the street and shot? Our prepper stacks requisitioned by the govt to keep the elderly warm this Winter? May we live in interesting times...
Winter was so mild here I only used about 1 cord, usually 3.5-5 cord. Usually sell about 10 cord, only sold 4. I have a good start on next year.
 
Today’s scrounging.

A nice big ash that has been vertically seasoning. Ready to go right in the stove. Got to throw in a pic of my truck too[emoji847]

Just about got the trails cleared wide enough for me to make it all the way to the West side of my property driving along the south property line with my truck.

Good thing I didn’t actually go for it today. After walking through the trails back-and-forth with the wagon we started to notice that there was a bit of swampiness still left after you broke the first few inches of soil.[emoji15]

Would have been stuck guarantee.

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Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]
 

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