Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[H-Ranch]

Can't go having blokes getting sore backs! Here's a couple o pics.

Wait, were you expecting new pics

Well, you can get away with that a few times, but it always catches up to you. @dancan has not been posting in quite a while about spruce scores from the undisclosed location either.

OK, OK, I'll go out before dinner and get you'se guys a little motivation. Be back shortly...

 

[Logger nate]

Guess I should have came out this morning instead of moving snow, couple deer beds by that group of treesand deer tracks around base of tree my stand is in

 

[LondonNeil]

I agree H-Ranch, I hope Dan is well and happy. I miss his adventures through the gate.

 

[djg james]

Well, you can get away with that a few times, but it always catches up to you. @dancan has not been posting in quite a while about spruce scores from the undisclosed location either.

OK, OK, I'll go out before dinner and get you'se guys a little motivation. Be back shortly...

Sorry, I haven't been following the source of your loads. Bark looks like Bk. Locust, but the wood doesn't seem to be right color. Could be photos or not BL at all. Just curious. Haven't run into any BL in a long while and the loads into the two yards have stopped coming. Oh O! There a local grinding place that make commercial mulch. I hope the tree guy isn't taking everything there now. Don't know if the mulch place charges for dumping or pays for the logs.

 

[H-Ranch]

Sorry, I haven't been following the source of your loads. Bark looks like Bk. Locust, but the wood doesn't seem to be right color. Could be photos or not BL at all. Just curious. Haven't run into any BL in a long while and the loads into the two yards have stopped coming. Oh O! There a local grinding place that make commercial mulch. I hope the tree guy isn't taking everything there now. Don't know if the mulch place charges for dumping or pays for the logs.

Yep, it sure is black locust. It has a slight yellow tint in person that maybe doesn't show up well in the pics. This is almost the last of the big load earlier this year from my new best friend at the tree service doing work 1/2 mile down the road. 2 dump trailers and a dump truck full - probably 3+ cord in all. Black locust, English walnut, and a little spruce.

Boy, I hope your source hasn't dried up!

 

[djg james]

.....Boy, I hope your source hasn't dried up!

Luckily I don't really need any more right now. I'm two maybe three years ahead. Went a little crazy this Spring with nothing to do. But I was thinking about selling a load or two next year to pay for CAD treatments. So I'll be cutting as long as my 2WD can get in the lots. Later it'll be too muddy.
I haven't talked to the tree guy in a while; he's always so busy. But I think he or a worker has been cutting at each site. So I've been staying away for a while. Unless some Cherry (which I sell, BBQ) or of course Bk Locust comes in.

 

[muad]

The wind snapped a sugar maple in half recently I guess. I took Binford out to tune her up a bit, as I had her a touch lean the last time I was out. Went ahead and fell the main trunk, then bucked her up as I played with the carb settings. Man I can't get over how well that saw runs/cuts.



Got her dialed in good now, so we'll see how the plug looks after I run a tank or so more through her. The EXL chain is still throwing good chips. Haven't touched her with a file yet. This chain definitely lasts longer than the vanguard I was running previously. I've bucked up Three or four decent hardwoods with it, including a dead ash log (which dry, dead ash seems to be hard in chain).

Excited to get my new saw, will be here Tuesday.

 

[cantoo]

Went and cut a bunch of maple and ash down at the place that I posted pictures of awhile ago. They had lots a nice hardware there. My buddy and I cut most of the trees down, they did the winching and some trimming then cut up the logs to length. These are some of the saws we didn't use, I like to travel light. I also got picked up at work by the new Sheriff on Friday. He let me off with a warning after I bribed him with candy.

 

[turnkey4099]

Can't go having blokes getting sore backs! Here's a couple o pics.

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Wait, were you expecting new pics ?

@turnkey4099 , it pains me to say it but many of my PT colleagues just aren't very good. There are some that are, however, and that all depends on their post-grad training. If you PM me your location there's a reasonable chance I can find one near you. The right exercise is specific to the back pain episode - which is why what worked for one guy often won't work for the next - and you need someone who has the training to identify that. In fact, even just based on what you have said, I could hazard a good guess at what exercise will be the one that will help you. If your PT had you doing several exercises, chances are they're barking up the wrong tree.

Thans, PM sent I hope. First one I have sent since the new format. This version seems to be rather unnecessarily awkward.

 

[Cowboy254]

Thans, PM sent I hope. First one I have sent since the new format. This version seems to be rather unnecessarily awkward.

Don't seem to have received it. Let me try...

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Craigslist scrounge this morning!

 

[turnkey4099]

Don't seem to have received it. Let me try...

I got yours and tried to answer. I did not see anyplace for "send" or versions there-of.

 

[muad]

View attachment 868346Craigslist scrounge this morning!

Clean Ranger. Nice stickers too.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Clean Ranger. Nice stickers too.

Thanks! It’s a 97 I bought from my uncle. He bought it in 07 with 12,000 miles. Now it’s at 75k.

 

[Ryan A]

I know it’s SUPER early but the wife wanted to get an artificial tree this year and set up early.....That got me interested and the gears turning in my head.

Has anyone here ever set up a Christmas tree roadside lot? Google says there is money to be made. Just curious.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

I know it’s SUPER early but the wife wanted to get an artificial tree this year and set up early.....That got me interested and the gears turning in my head.

Has anyone here ever set up a Christmas tree roadside lot? Google says there is money to be made. Just curious.

Way too early...

Anyway, A guy from work buys a truckload of trees every year. They make a pretty good profit off of it.

 

[Ryan A]

First time ever getting an artificial.

I sell firewood for pure profit, not a ton, but just enough for some extra cash and enjoy the business aspect of it. I scrounge and split by hand. Sell in small quantities in the suburbs and get $90 per 1/3 cord.

 

[Ryan A]

The wind snapped a sugar maple in half recently I guess. I took Binford out to tune her up a bit, as I had her a touch lean the last time I was out. Went ahead and fell the main trunk, then bucked her up as I played with the carb settings. Man I can't get over how well that saw runs/cuts.

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Got her dialed in good now, so we'll see how the plug looks after I run a tank or so more through her. The EXL chain is still throwing good chips. Haven't touched her with a file yet. This chain definitely lasts longer than the vanguard I was running previously. I've bucked up Three or four decent hardwoods with it, including a dead ash log (which dry, dead ash seems to be hard in chain).

Excited to get my new saw, will be here Tuesday.

Whats the new saw????

 

[JustJeff]

Wicked wind here is laying waste to trees which is usually a scroungers boon for me. Lumbar sacral strain has me off the saws. I have enough wood anyway but free wood.....

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[MustangMike]

I got yours and tried to answer. I did not see anyplace for "send" or versions there-of.

FYI, Cowboy is the one who recommended the PT guy I went to … many Thanks!!!