Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Too large of an area just devoid of grouse to just blame it on habitat.

Seeing so many more coyotes and so many more birds of prey ... they have to be a big factor.

I have also noticed there are far fewer rabbits, and when you see one or two, they are not around for long.

I used to find they had nested in my garden every spring, using whatever I mulched with as bedding.

i have noticed fewer rabbits too up around ranch compound. used to be if i went to barn in the night i would see a couple usually....

 

[turnkey4099]

Gotta make sure you keep it between the rails on that sawbuck or .
The other day I nicked the bucket on the tractor, only damaged one cutter though. Small price to pay to be able to bring the log close to the pile vs picking up rounds and cutting off the ground(which can dull a chain quick too) or a pile. No matter what way a guy does it it all involves a lot of work!

Yeah. I cut half way between the posts but even then I nicked one pulling the saw out after finishing the cut. That jig has been in use for some 20 years - 2x6 rails are about due for replacement - they are sacrificial but the 'notches' on them are are getting pretty deep.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Per a local state wildlife biologist, if you take 2-8 or 10”inch logs spaced 10 inches apart and make a 12 to 15 foot diameter brush pile on top of them it creates an ideal breeding habitat for rabbits and your rabbit population will increase. Let’s them get away from predators. Seems to work.

ah-ha! so that's where they went... on down to my Large pile of wood!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That's what we do or throw a couple pallets down and stack brush on top. The clover plots really increased the rabbit population in the area I even had a family or 2 of geese last spring! Never would of thought that and all the mama deer basically have there fawns in it. I have some pics somewhere where the mama just had the baby but with 1000's of pics to sort thru its tough finding them sometimes.

swell pix!

 

[turnkey4099]

I've seen a video of you cutting the length on the bucket works well and you don't need the sawbuck less handling.

I load mine with 4-6 limb sections at a time. Haul the limbs home, set up next to where I am piling. Beats cutting in the field then having to pick up the small rounds, load and pick them up to unload and then pick them up again to pile.;

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Well, I guess winter may finally be here.

We had several inches of snow last week, followed by rain that only partly melted it, then it re froze solid, now we are getting more snow on top of the snow! Been a long time since that has happened!

yeah, here, too. for a week or so. low temps. arctic blast. low 30's tonite, upper 20's this weekend... and some snow flakes and light flurries and some sleet reported, too just bit N of town on this evening news' weather coverages...


2 am update: 34

snow, too

 

[Logger nate]

We have been logging a place for firewood that has mostly dead and dying lodgepole pine, most are small and very limby, usually only get about one 25’ log with a 4” top so a bigger tree is a real treat. I could see a taller tree sticking up above the others a ways away so me and the hydraulic chainsaw went after it to try and stop the small tree burn outJoy has returned for a moment

It was a 26 incher! Almost didn’t fit in the processor, lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Damn geese. We have so many resident honkers now every where you go you walk in green slime. I shifted tractor trailers at UPS my last 6 years there. They would stand in front of trailer and just honk. One of our drivers got in deep goose sheet. While he was bent over pulling the pin to uncouple from a trailer, a goose ran up and bit him in the crotch, just missing his do dad’s. He spun around and hit it with his steel pin puller, then beat it to death. Then called yard control and said he was going home for an on job injury. He should have just tossed it over the hill. He was a hot head, next thing yard control called the cops, cops called DNR, he mouthed off to them, they threw the book at him. Hunting out of season, hunting in a no hunting zone. Company charged him with violence in the work place. Wound up going to anger management before he could come back to work. Lost his hunting license for 5 years, big fine, all for a goose that should have been in Canada.

some days are bad days... and sometimes Lady Luck is not on your side! that's an amazing story, well...imo!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You will get into more trouble for "eliminating" and animal that should be eliminated than you will for high jacking a car at gunpoint in NYC!

The politically correct world we live in is devoid of commons sense.

Drive by shootings are described by prosecutors as normal activity, but if a licensed NYS gun owner brings his gun into NYC for self-protection (with no intent to commit any crime) they will throw the book at you!

Meanwhile, police arrest criminals who have guns every day, and they are back on the street the next day!

you are right there, MM! and so... we have that tragic stabbing out in CA! we have them here, too... cops finally catch up to the perps... and there are already several warrants out for them... and they just got out of jail on something else...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Ive noticed that the scrounge thread always has a hunting element to it hunting for wood and hunting for food

and to think, i was just hunting for a comment like that! as in need to hunt thru it sometimes fast, can be hard to keep up with... omg!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Goose breast cut into strips, marinated in italian dressing then grilled with a light coating of bbq sauce is some of the best eating around.

'Goose'... is such a funny word!!! lol



[well, imo!]

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Come January the deer eat the clover down to dirt and no matter how much snow on the ground they dig thru it to get to it.

interesting!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Gotta make sure you keep it between the rails on that sawbuck or .
The other day I nicked the bucket on the tractor, only damaged one cutter though. Small price to pay to be able to bring the log close to the pile vs picking up rounds and cutting off the ground(which can dull a chain quick too) or a pile. No matter what way a guy does it it all involves a lot of work!

a lot of work. one best it!

kissing the ground with the chain is not allowed here in my camps.... the bucket?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We have been logging a place for firewood that has mostly dead and dying lodgepole pine, most are small and very limby, usually only get about one 25’ log with a 4” top so a bigger tree is a real treat. I could see a taller tree sticking up above the others a ways away so me and the hydraulic chainsaw went after it to try and stop the small tree burn outView attachment 958006Joy has returned for a moment

It was a 26 incher!View attachment 958011 Almost didn’t fit in the processor, lol

awesome!, made short work of that cut n drop!

glad i got to see it!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You're gonna need to get a husky .
Notice, those money trees don't even need a chain to cut lol.

puts a new leaf on fall season and leaves falling! i see plenty brown, never any green leaves falling in Nov & Dec....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

34 acres is a big chunk of land. We have 40. Alot is not huntable as its bottomland that usually floods when bow season starts. If you could clear a chunk in dense brush that would be great. It's all oak and maple where I'm at with alil mix of everything else. As you can see I lose atleast 10+ acres with flooding. That frost seeding is the way to go sometimes. There's alot of info on the web about that. Once you get the plot established I just frost seed lading or white clover each spring to maintain the plot along with lime and 6-24-24 but the first couple years the soil test is critical because you may need 0-0-60 and 40-0-0 and then something else too and lime. Where the flood pics are at im standing on our bridge in the middle of property its flooded behind me too. All our plots have been sense woods, clear cutted, round up applied then disced with a small brinley disc behind my three wheeler, seed is applied then rolled with a lawn roller.

thanks for the foto essay~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

i'm gonna skip 7 pages. its gone from slow to....!

i'm having a tuff time, too!

sometimes i factor in 'alternative use of time!'.... iukwim


but i just continue to scrounge along... hunting... for those elusive cool pix and posts!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Wood pics....

some are cool! Logger nates drop impressed me!

seems some are wood pix, and some are woods pix!

i like both

in line with the forum's theme... we burned up some of that oak drop scrounged other day. it got bit wet in the rains, but nbd, dumped wheelbarrow, out went the rain water and out went the wood. gathered some dry, soon had a nice fire going in LR... and after that damp firewood not an issue... i started it carefully today, other day i had to restart it... lol

earlier today

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

had it going all afternoon n evening... still going. but now i have it more so at idle. as in dif room

just a few minutes ago... 1/2 oak drop scrounge and 1/'2 some of the less seasoned stix... oak n oak mixes well!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Hey guys. -26 on the house today and others around had as low as -35. I saw -28 in the car.

Quiet weekend. Was planning on having a few cousins up but one of them had covid exposure yesterday so we chose to postpone....probably better anyhow because I wanted to take her husband ice fishing which frankly isn't all that enjoyable in deep subzero. I have a lot of indoor projects to catch up on anyhow.

numerous words come to mind to describe those kind of temps! warm is not one of them! lol... and to think the QB and i were agreeing today...'Gzz-42 and a bit windy, it's cold out!'

your temps are hard to imagine. i know i have never been outside in air that cold! even at 42 today on my bike ride i double layered up and had a full face mask on, too...