Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Free wood scrounge, trees were dropped, I just cut to length & load! Black Birch, Black Cherry & Maple (not Sugar).

Pic #1 - Black Locust to my Daughter
Pic #2 - Black Cherry to my Daughter
Pic #3 - Black Cherry to another person
Pic #4 - Bl Ch, Bl Loc & Maple still on the trialer
Pic #5 - Still there ... can you say Black Locust!

 

[farmer steve]

Free wood scrounge, trees were dropped, I just cut to length & load! Black Birch, Black Cherry & Maple (not Sugar).

Pic #1 - Black Locust to my Daughter
Pic #2 - Black Cherry to my Daughter
Pic #3 - Black Cherry to another person
Pic #4 - Bl Ch, Bl Loc & Maple still on the trialer
Pic #5 - Still there ... can you say Black Locust!

nice Mike. nice locust. those bigger logs are the size we used to hand split for rails for fence at gettysburg.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Drop bears?!

 

[JustJeff]

Free wood scrounge, trees were dropped, I just cut to length & load! Black Birch, Black Cherry & Maple (not Sugar).

Pic #1 - Black Locust to my Daughter
Pic #2 - Black Cherry to my Daughter
Pic #3 - Black Cherry to another person
Pic #4 - Bl Ch, Bl Loc & Maple still on the trialer
Pic #5 - Still there ... can you say Black Locust!

Nice haul but if you don't cut a white oak, red maple or yellow birch soon, somebody's gonna holler discrimination! Lol.

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

I'll take the Ash if your saws prefer oak.

Sad thing is I need to fell about 30 ash trees on the Girl Scout camp that are near the walking trails
all are under 20 inch but only have 3 more Mondays to have them on the ground .
Only had 10 marked to go before a tree fell at another camp ground killing a person so now any that are near the trail they want down.

 

[svk]

Sad thing is I need to fell about 30 ash trees on the Girl Scout camp that are near the walking trails
all are under 20 inch but only have 3 more Mondays to have them on the ground .
Only had 10 marked to go before a tree fell at another camp ground killing a person so now any that are near the trail they want down.

Sorry to hear about the folks at that other camp. I've been cutting for several years at the children's camp my kids go to. We seemed to be getting ahead of them then the director sends me this picture. I have no idea how we missed this one.

 

[MustangMike]

nice Mike. nice locust. those bigger logs are the size we used to hand split for rails for fence at gettysburg.

I cut 4 12' posts that I asked him to save for me. I think I'll just skin the bark off of them and use em like that.

Did you split them with a series of wedges?

 

[James Miller]

Sad thing is I need to fell about 30 ash trees on the Girl Scout camp that are near the walking trails
all are under 20 inch but only have 3 more Mondays to have them on the ground .
Only had 10 marked to go before a tree fell at another camp ground killing a person so now any that are near the trail they want down.

If you want some help shoot me a PM. Your around Gettysburg if I remember correct. That's right down the road.

 

[farmer steve]

I cut 4 12' posts that I asked him to save for me. I think I'll just skin the bark off of them and use em like that.

Did you split them with a series of wedges?

yes we used wedges but we cheated a little bit and made some bore cuts in the logs to get the wedge started. ours were 11 feet long per specs from gettysburg.just stack them up off the ground and in about a year the bark with fall off.

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

If you want some help shoot me a PM. Your around Gettysburg if I remember correct. That's right down the road.

Only trouble is Monday timing camp is in use weekends and the rest of the week
once school is out it runs 24/7

 

[Marine5068]

There's some sugar maple in there , pffft on the oak .... lol

Love my Sugar Maple....Best dang firewood

 

[MustangMike]

Sugar Maple is right in there with Oak, but I think Locust and Hickory are a step above.

 

[svk]

Oak, schmoak.

Aspen is where it is at.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I kinda like pallet wood.

 

[farmer steve]

Sugar Maple is right in there with Oak, but I think Locust and Hickory are a step above.

in this chart the oaks and sugar maple are the same BTU's. i checked the mulberry which i have a bit of that now and it's not to bad either. my hickory and locust is already tucked away for next year. just gonna sell the lousy oak.

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

in this chart the oaks and sugar maple are the same BTU's. i checked the mulberry which i have a bit of that now and it's not to bad either. my hickory and locust is already tucked away for next year. just gonna sell the lousy oak.

Locust now that's what I split by hand after it is seasoned
Dam oak just gets in the way. lol

 

[Cowboy254]

Ha! You can have your oak shmoak and your locust, here's what we use down here.



Sorry I haven't been around for a week or so, been doing other things.

 

[MustangMike]

You are not allowed to go fishin with a Stihl hat on ... Man, what those guys from down under will do!

 

[MustangMike]

Next, they will be cuttin wood with a Cabela's hat on!

 

[MustangMike]

Or, Bass Pro Shop!