Snow day for myself and two little ones. Went sledding and on the way home scrounged a test piece of what the power company cut. I’ll grab some more this weekend.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Looks like sweet gum. Hard to split?
Not sure? I assumed an Oak. Grabbed a piece from the far end of this pic right off the road. Wood is heavy and I split by hand. 2-3 hits with the maul and it split. Slight twist in the grain....
Nah, that's just dead Carp.
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Are those pants insulated?
Yeah, That isn’t gum from the bark. The split with the darker center looked like it. Gum is a twisted grain b I t c h.
Leaves look like oak in the pic above. There’s something like 660 species of oak so who knows. I’ve scrounged pin oak that had a heartwood that small and centered.
Lady wants it all gone and I’m eager to get splitting. My stock is getting low!
Lady wants it all gone and I’m eager to get splitting. My stock is getting low!
Sweet gum again tonight! 28° outside, 78° inside.
Bark looks a little like Ash. But if it's the only tree around, it's oak because of the leaves.
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tulip poplar
duckman
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Never burned that before, looks like everyone is enjoying it though.
Saw this today
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Ash bark has an “x” In it. Too heavy for ash.
Not poplar, no yellow heartwood. Waaaaayyyy to heavy for poplar.
I’m going with Oak. Most importantly, it’s FREE.....
Interesting stove, I haven’t seen too many top loaders. Place my son moved into has a top load stove, very well made, seems to work well
Can open the front too, has 2 removable bars to hold wood away from front door/glass when top loading. Was around 0 every night for a few weeks, burned about a cord so far this winter.
Ran skidder for a guy that has a firewood/logging business last weekend, probably been over 25 years sense I was in a skidder, kinda fun
He’s pretty busy, has over 100 cords of orders to fill right now.
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That's interesting. Nobody runs a skidder for firewood around here, even as a secondary part. Too little value in it.
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Different landscapes and markets for sure. Everything is hand cut. Timbers not necessarily huge or anything but it's decent size and it doesn't grow in rows or get planted in rows. Natural hardwood stands. Hand cutting, cable, maybe grapple if you're big time. Log only.
Same around here, as much firewood logging as saw mill. Tandem loads of mixed mostly ash usually go for about 2200 canuckbucks. Be roughly 40+ facecord or 13-14 full cord. Guys using logging equipment, skidders, forwarders etc. It's not a bad deal, wind up paying about $50 a facecord and the going price is about 90 cut split and delivered. Some guys get log loads and sell half and it about pays for their own wood. So far the scrounging has worked for me. Think I'll continue that for a while
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.I was out your way today to do some scrounging, I'll send you some pictures so I don't offend some in this thread
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