Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Lee192233]

Going to go and help my parents clean up at their cabin. There is a very large white oak that is leaning due to the shallow soil and the fact that it sent out some big limbs at least 40' to reach the sun. It's way off balance. They had the big limbs removed to take some weight off one side of the tree.


The big limb is about 18" at the base. I'm bringing the MS362C, 026 and the KM110R with my pole pruner and leaf blower.

 

[JustJeff]

I drove by your place today Jeff and laid on the horn. Some of your family was outside and must have wondered who it was. Had to pick up some stuff from Rockford on my way to a job site. Hope you are all healed up and back to the grind.

That's who that was. Lol. I was coming around the side of the house and everyone is asking who the heck was that. Still laying low and can't pick up a saw for a while.

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

just down the street few houses, neighbor called said had some oak from downed limb. it was all cut up, stacked and ready for pick up. they offered to put in their truck and bring it, i said no thanks, and hauled it in by hand... camp site style. made a nice upgrade to one of my wood piles. pretty nice scrounge... trimmed, cut, split, stacked and camp fire ready! 3 loads, about 1/3 cord my guesstimate.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

had an afternoon campfire going, so used some of the scrounged oak and cooked outdoors... over hot oak coals -

Sat nite dinner for 2 ~ platter plated and...

 

[Lionsfan]

Good morning.

Projected high of 88 was backed off to 84 but still will be a hot day. Heading out on the lake later with a friend. This morning I’m going to putter with some of my outboard motor projects. Apparently I contacted OAD as I’ve got 8 not fully functional outbounds in the garage lol.
View attachment 918809In some Northern Michigan communities it would be a sign of prosperity to have 8 non-functioning outboards laying in the dirt in your front yard.

 

[chipper1]

Okay, here's the tree dropping, just needed to get above the large sweep in it to avoid taking out/damaging a nice 6" oak behind the shed. I did drop a 4" oak that was all arched over(even worse after the locust hit it) from and ice storm, it can be seen in the last picture here.

Between the two cherry trees we picked up, the locust, and the small oak, we got two decent sized buckets, this being the larger. That oak is a lot heavier green than locust, like way heavier! I put it all in the woodshed for two seasons from now, I'm 100% full for this and next season now. I still have another small cherry I diced up in the gravel pit that needs to be cleaned up.

I also added a couple loads to the piles out front. This was one and the other was 3 longer logs, it was a pretty tall tree for our area/property, then the butt log.


The tree went exactly where it was aimed(not always the case lol), and the branch I pictured taking out the bird nest did just as I thought. It's the first branch on the right in the pic below. It barely hit the bush, but it knocked the nest to the ground.

 

[chipper1]

I missed the brass 9 for .38 . Not what it was, but getting better.



Whoops, it was a bit more than .38 lol.

 

[sean donato]

I missed the brass 9 for .38 . Not what it was, but getting better.

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Whoops, it was a bit more than .38 lol.
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Let me know when it's under $200.00 lol. Then we'll be back to near normal.

 

[Logger nate]

Drought conditions and high heat here also, been in the low 90’s. Lots of smoke from fires around us, thankfully nothing close. Little dusty too..Still quite a bit of sap/pitch in the trees thoughGetting behind on firewood, did bring a few rounds home from work last weekendUsed the Waratah saw ; )
Boss had a little bigger load of wood
Send some rain this way Lee I’m tired of blowing black boogers, lol.

 

[MustangMike]

Went for a bike ride today, was about 90*, tough going, then coming back I'm about 2 mi from home and hear the thunder!

Stood on the pedals up every hill and pushed as hard as I could w/o crapping myself out, and made it back just minutes for the sky exploded with Thunder, Lightning and rain!

 

[Philbert]

When you watch the ‘Classic Car’ parade cruising down the main drag, and think, ‘Some of those don’t look so old . . . ‘

Philbert

 

[Lee192233]

Drought conditions and high heat here also, been in the low 90’s. Lots of smoke from fires around us, thankfully nothing close. Little dusty too..View attachment 919023Still quite a bit of sap/pitch in the trees thoughView attachment 919024Getting behind on firewood, did bring a few rounds home from work last weekendView attachment 919027Used the Waratah saw ; )
Boss had a little bigger load of wood View attachment 919031
Send some rain this way Lee I’m tired of blowing black boogers, lol.

The setting sun was really red tonight. I assume it's due to smoke to the west of us.

Nice stump as usual! I could use a Logger Nate tree felling class. Had a little mule deer buck visiting you? Definitely not that tame in fall!

I'd send you some rain if I could. I hope this weather pattern eases up soon for your sake.

 

[Lee192233]

We got the oak branches cut, split, stacked, and cleaned up. Ended up with about 1.5 face cords.

Had enough time to do a little fishing. Got an 18" smallie, a sheepshead and two nice perch.

 

[Logger nate]

The setting sun was really red tonight. I assume it's due to smoke to the west of us.

Nice stump as usual! I could use a Logger Nate tree felling class. Had a little mule deer buck visiting you? Definitely not that tame in fall!

I'd send you some rain if I could. I hope this weather pattern eases up soon for your sake.

Thanks Lee. Yeah went out to take picture of the wood and he was standing there inspecting it. They are pretty tame, town deer, they know they are pretty safe.

 

[chipper1]

Let me know when it's under $200.00 lol. Then we'll be back to near normal.

Yeah right lol.
Let's not forget, this is "The new normal" .
For those prices I'll go for it at this point in the game, and if it comes down I'll buy more yet to lower my price per round .
If I see any great deals on it that come up I will let you know, do you mind steel, I don't as long as it's not corrosive I don't care as long as it's accurate(pie plate at 50 without trying to hard, or pie plate at 100 with a little effort) and doesn't jam.

 

[farmer steve]

I was looking up info on old scales. I have SAD to go along with my CAD and WAD. I guess the precursor to the moister meter.
This scale manufactured by Henry Troemner, Philadelphia was used to determine the moisture content of lumber. This type of information is critical to the construction, furniture-making and related industries. The bottom cylinder is labeled TROEMROID SCALOMETER CHART B, COPYRIGHT 1918, THE NATIONAL DRY KILN CO., INDIANAPOLIS, IND., U.S.A.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Drought conditions and high heat here also, been in the low 90’s. Lots of smoke from fires around us, thankfully nothing close. Little dusty too..View attachment 919023Still quite a bit of sap/pitch in the trees thoughView attachment 919024Getting behind on firewood, did bring a few rounds home from work last weekendView attachment 919027Used the Waratah saw ; )
Boss had a little bigger load of wood View attachment 919031
Send some rain this way Lee I’m tired of blowing black boogers, lol.

Conditions of the drought for much of W USA and into central... lead story on CBS Sunday Morning show today. Weather scientists interviewed said worst conditions since around 800AD! as an example, Lake Mead down 140'! and farmers galore have dirt patches that used to be productive fields. future prospects for areas affected do not look promising... and include water shut-offs/restrictions to farmers! one crop grower in cantelopes and honey dews.... had to lay of 70 workers... guess seeing any more of that 5-cent an ear corn on the cob we picked up a bit ago... prob be a pipe dream next year! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We got the oak branches cut, split, stacked, and cleaned up. Ended up with about 1.5 face cords.

Had enough time to do a little fishing. Got an 18" smallie, a sheepshead and two nice perch.

term: never heard of a 'smallie'. wondered if a bass. so looked it up. wow, 18" smallie is

in reading some stuff on computer came across this tid bit of info...

The fish (smallmouth bass) weighed 11 pounds 15 ounces, and was 27 inches long with a girth of just under 22 inches.

did u happen to weigh your's? 5#'s can run 15" or so...

easy 18"

 

[Lee192233]

Didn't realize smallie was a regional term. Unfortunately I didn't have a scale on me. If my calibrated fish weighing arm is to be trusted I'd say it was a solid 5-6 lb fish.

 

[Logger nate]

Conditions of the drought for much of W USA and into central... lead story on CBS Sunday Morning show today. Weather scientists interviewed said worst conditions since around 800AD! as an example, Lake Mead down 140'! and farmers galore have dirt patches that used to be productive fields. future prospects for areas affected do not look promising... and include water shut-offs/restrictions to farmers! one crop grower in cantelopes and honey dews.... had to lay of 70 workers... guess seeing any more of that 5-cent an ear corn on the cob we picked up a bit ago... prob be a pipe dream next year! ~

Yeah not good. I don’t know about other areas but around here we have lost a lot of farm ground to subdivisions too, the short sited greed is astounding. Plenty of areas they could build homes besides farm land, good way to self destruct. Or people could just quit moving here, lol.
Sorry I’m done, back to firewood : )