Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Oletrapper]

An Ermine. Smallest member of the weasel family. Back in the day. The white trim with black dots on the Robes of people in Roalty. Were trimmed with Ermine pelts. The black dots seen on the trim. Are the tips of all the tails on each pelt. It took hundreds of Ermine pelts to trim a Robe. They aren't Always white either. They turn brown in the spring and then back to white in the Fall. They are all over Alaska. They are very territorial and love making their dens in rock piles or wood piles. I doubt there are two living in your wood pile. They are also a very curious animal They look cute, but are very ferocious for there size and can kill rabbits ten times their weight! One of my favorite animals. If you have chickens? You won't have any after that Ermine finds your chicken coop! BEWARE OF THE ERMINE!

We have them here in Ky. Not the Ermine but the larger weasel. I've had them here on my farm. Both the four legged variety and the two legged variety. Nuff said. OT

 

[sean donato]

Nice, good you could upgrade, and sell off the "old" one .
Managed to scrounge this up today, I gave him 100 instead of 75, hope I did okay.
Now, to figure out what I could use them for, any ideas .
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Thats a dam good score, the tank alone is worth more then $100.00

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Now you're just showing off....

 

[Sawdust Man]

What type of wood is that?

Everyone in the universe knows what kinda wood HVBW is....
Black walnut.....of the "highly valuable" variety...
@chipper1 we need the video.

 

[svk]

My wife and I are planning a trip to Sweden next June. Partly to visit the exchange student we had 2 years ago and also to do a road trip through Sweden and Norway. I was checking out the Husqvarna website just in case but it appears that chainsaws are more expensive there. I told my daughter that I may ship an axe home while I'm there. She asked why and I said I always wanted a "foreign axe sent"!

As of a couple years ago, you could still get the Classics from the two series saws in Brazil if you had a connection down there. I had checked out the stuff from Sweden because my friend is married to a lady from there and they go back at least once a year, but the Swede prices were crazy!

 

[svk]

So, is a RICK the same as a Face Cord?

Around here a face cord is 4ft high and 8ft long of splits. Wether they be 16in or 18in or 20in

I thought that a Cord is the only “legal” measurement for selling wood

Not a Rick or Face Cord

Yep, some people use rick, rack, rank, or face cord. In reality, there are only cords or fractions thereof.

Also, logger cord means a cord worth of 8 foot logs turned into firewood which actually ends up being less than a full cord of split wood. Back when I sold wood, people with occasionally ask for a logger cord and I would say sure, and just give them a regular cord of split wood. They think they are getting extra wood and they were actually getting themselves shorted if somebody follows it to the letter of the definition. But so many guys try to sell face cords as real cords, that’s where the other issue comes in.

I also got a kick out of the story from @chucker when he said people from the city often call him and ask for quarts of wood. Haven’t seen him around here lately. Hope he’s doing all right.

 

[JimR]

Nice, good you could upgrade, and sell off the "old" one .
Managed to scrounge this up today, I gave him 100 instead of 75, hope I did okay.
Now, to figure out what I could use them for, any ideas .
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I pocketed $350 profit out of the deal after buying the upgraded version. Win win for sure. That was a great deal on the hydraulic coolers and tanks.

 

[svk]

Time to dig up Randy Mac's vid.
Echo Cs400, 16", 40" Doug Fir...no problem...

Several years back, I was staying with my aunt down in southern Minnesota. She had several dead Cottonwood in her yard, many of which were over 30 inches. I processed all of them with a Poulan 3614 (it was actually the rebadged 42 cc saw). I literally burned the saw up as I was finishing up the final three cuts on the last butt log. They definitely got their money worth out of that saw because they had used it for years and I probably did what would’ve been $10,000 worth (what an arborist would’ve charged) of tree work for them in my spare time as a thank you for letting me stay there.

Is Randy Mac still alive? He was an interesting fellow. He didn’t care for me because I was a moderator and those boys who hung out in F&L kind of felt they didn’t have to abide by the site rules. Never had anything against the guy personally, and he was a huge wealth of knowledge.

 

[svk]

I think it's only enforced here if someone files a complaint with the Bureau of Weights and Measures who are the one's in charge. Dad had a guy call him and complain that dad shorted him. Dad threw some wood in the truck and we went to give it to the guy. We got there and the guy had the wood stacked so tight you couldn't have put the proverbial hair between the pieces. Pretty sure that guy never got wood again.

One time I had a return customer complain that I was shorting him because he got wood from another guy and my pile was a lot smaller. I knew that he got at least a cord because I delivered a stacked load in my trailer and knew exactly where the one cord mark was, and he got more than that.

The other guy was a newer firewood producer who had a dump truck and a processor. I can only think that he was giving everybody extra to try to win business and in this case it worked. I told the guy just get it from him going forward if he’s gonna give you that much more….. I’m betting that fellow got his volume in line once he realized how much he was spending on logs lol.

That guy was a nice guy, but kind of a pain in the ass anyway. I would always reach out to him early in the year to hook him up with Wood. He wouldn’t respond to me until late October. By then I was more or less always out of wood and would end up selling him my personal supply, plus I wanted to be hunting and not delivering firewood.

 

[svk]

Boy you guys have been busy in the last 24 hours!

Woke up to heavy rain and high winds. This is the strangest weather I’ve ever seen up here on Christmas. In this part of the state, we’ve never had a brown Christmas in my lifetime until today. It’s 41 with constant rain expected until about midnight.

Going to cook a little breakfast and then head in to town to get the last minute gifts that we didn’t get the other day.

Hope everybody has a great day and keep those greased bears at bay.

 

[MustangMike]

After reading some earlier posts, I know who the "Absolute Idiot" is.

I also constantly hear them refer to how powerful the Black Rifle round is ... I guess they just never saw a 308 or 30-06! Maybe they should test fire a 45-70 gatling gun!

I also shake my head when I hear them say they will never come after your shotguns! A pump action shotgun is one of the most formattable close-range weapons out there!

Oh, by the way, they did define "assault weapons", and we banned them a long time ago (full auto Tommy Guns). The trouble is, now they want to re-define them. It seems every time they "keep us safe", we are not!

 

[Squareground3691]

As of a couple years ago, you could still get the Classics from the two series saws in Brazil if you had a connection down there. I had checked out the stuff from Sweden because my friend is married to a lady from there and they go back at least once a year, but the Swede prices were crazy!

Chipper’ favorite for the front tensioner, Lol

 

[Philbert]

Yep, some people use rick, rack, rank, or face cord. In reality, there are only cords or fractions thereof.

I’ve heard guys describing 1/3 of a face cord (1/3 x 4’ x 8’ x 16”) with terms like ‘fireplace rick’, etc.

But, I even see guys describing chain cutter sequences differently (‘full house’, etc.), which is why it is better to buy things in person (CraigsList) than online (eBay).

That way, if you disagree on what something is called, you can work it out ahead of time.

Philbert

 

[svk]

After reading some earlier posts, I know who the "Absolute Idiot" is.

I also constantly hear them refer to how powerful the Black Rifle round is ... I guess they just never saw a 308 or 30-06! Maybe they should test fire a 45-70 gatling gun!

I also shake my head when I hear them say they will never come after your shotguns! A pump action shotgun is one of the most formattable close-range weapons out there!

Oh, by the way, they did define "assault weapons", and we banned them a long time ago (full auto Tommy Guns). The trouble is, now they want to re-define them. It seems every time they "keep us safe", we are not!

They know the death by 1000 cuts is the only way they can win. Sort of like anti-gunners pushing wolf reintroductions, because they know it will reduce hunters in the long-term.

The big step they missed though, is when they allowed the rioters to burn down their own cities…..that backfired as it increased new gun owners by tenfold overnight.

 

[Brufab]

Does this count as overloaded @Kodiak Kid

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Prime rib on the smoker today, Merry Christmas everyone.

 

[JimR]

After reading some earlier posts, I know who the "Absolute Idiot" is.

I also constantly hear them refer to how powerful the Black Rifle round is ... I guess they just never saw a 308 or 30-06! Maybe they should test fire a 45-70 gatling gun!

I also shake my head when I hear them say they will never come after your shotguns! A pump action shotgun is one of the most formattable close-range weapons out there!

Oh, by the way, they did define "assault weapons", and we banned them a long time ago (full auto Tommy Guns). The trouble is, now they want to re-define them. It seems every time they "keep us safe", we are not!

Disarm the populace and you will control them.

 

[MustangMike]

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year to all!

 

[GrizG]

Nice pics! I can get by with a 50cc saw and a 20" bar tip'n 4 and 5 foot across old growth, but what's the fun in that?

There are a lot of guys around these geographic parts, and I imagine elsewhere, that have no idea how to fell trees when their bar is "too short" to reach across. Bucking with straight ends is another issue when the diameter is more than twice the bar length.... Me, I get along just fine with a 25" bar on my 461 and 661 except for when milling. Trees 4-5 feet at the stump are exceedingly rare around here... those 30-36" are rare... 20s are much more common but teens and smaller dominate. I'd guess that out of the 1,000+ trees I've had my saws in while cutting on the rail trails and land trust properties no more than a half dozen exceeded 30" DBH. Definitely a different environment than the PNW but knowing how to deal with the bigger stuff can be handy.

 

[MustangMike]

I'm glad we don't have the "wolf" problem depleting our big game like SVK describes. Unfortunately, EHD had been eliminating pockets of our deer, and I had to change my local hunting place to score this year.

We have, unfortunately, seen major declines in small game, specifically grouse and rabbits. I used to hunt grouse down here but have not even seen one down here in decades, and there are far fewer of them up at my Cabin than there used to be.

Also, we used to see cottontail rabbits down here all the time, but now they are very infrequent. Up at the cabin I used to see Snowshoe rabbits but have not seen any in years.

While there are numerous predators, like fox, coyote and bobcat, I think the most overlooked (and protected) predators are birds of prey. Hawks are protected and seem to be in the sky perpetually. I think something needs to be done about this. Predators, that are no longer endangered, should not continue to be protected. Would be cool to bring a hawk to the taxidermist!

 

[GrizG]

I also got a kick out of the story from @chucker when he said people from the city often call him and ask for quarts of wood. Haven’t seen him around here lately. Hope he’s doing all right.

A friend of my girlfriend, who lives on Long Island, had been buying kiln dried firewood... she didn't want any spiders inside her condo. $500 a pop for what sounds like a face cord. After my girlfriend told her friend she'd seen very few "bugs" in the "regular" firewood I bring her, the LI friend decided to try "regular" firewood. She ordered a cord. She had no idea what a cord was... Now the entire tiny patio at her condo is stacked very high with firewood. She's not allowed to store it elsewhere... I guess that's one way to learn.