Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[SteveSS]

I added another Stihl to my stable yesterday also. Stopped by a local pawn shop and found an MS260 Pro with an almost new 18" b&c on the shelf. It looks like the previous owner stored it in a mud hole, but it fired right up. Talked the pawn shop owner down to $130. Couldn't hardly pass it up so it came home with me.

 

[SteveSS]

Found an 024 at another pawn shop yesterday, but the guy wanted way more than I was willing to pay for it. I'd sure like to find a real nice 024 Super one of these days.

 

[mainewoods]

Happy New Year fella's! May your chainsaws always start and your scrounges never stop!

 

[mn woodcutter]

Happy New Year fella's! May your chainsaws always start and your scrounges never stop!

And there he is! The founder of this epic thread! Good work! It's become the general discussion and scrounging thread where every topic goes....well almost! Haha.

 

[nomad_archer]

Honestly I have been doing a lot of my general banter in the good morning check-in thread. Between that thread and this one. There is never a dull moment. Plus both threads are friendly. Can't beat it. Thanks farmer Steve for recommending I wander over to the GM check-in thread.

 

[nomad_archer]

nice pics NA. glad the daughter doesn't look like you. i have a lady that loves the walnut for her fireplace, burns nice blues and greens flames. let it dry till the bark is almost falling off.

Ahhh she looks just like I did as a kid. She only picked up a few features from her mom. You know all the good ones. But the is no denying she is mine [emoji1].

If she keeps going the way she is, she is going to be a heck of a woman and it will take a heck of a man to keep up. As it is, seems like she loves to work the firewood, she always helps load the stove, she picks the splits that go in. She helped butcher a deer and loved it, she wants to hunt, loves to scout, and is a heck of a shot with the nerf guns at 3.5. She likes fishing as well. Her favorite store is home depot. Ohh my.... I know lots of things change but a daddy can dream...

 

[stihly dan]

Write that on your bathroom mirror, as a reminder in 10 tears when your pulling your hair out.

 

[MustangMike]

I remember when my older daughter (now 38) used to laugh about how when guys started talking hunting & guns, she would start talking about reloading, would intimidate the heck out of them! But she used to help me do it.

 

[chipper1]

Happy new year ya scroungers. May you all find standing dead wood really close to your house.

Thanks, and happy late new year KOG.
Well, got this right out in front maybe 250ft away from the house.
This is the first load, just filled the wheelbarrow full enough to fill my rack in the house. Going back for the second one after a short break.
I didn't want to have to push or drag the wheelbarrow through the snow so I carried it with the tractor, nothing like scrounging on your own property. It was a dead standing cherry I pushed over a while back, I was planning on throwing it in the bonfire pit today, but once I cut into it it was way to good to throw away.

 

[chipper1]

Second load done along with a small 4" dead standing black locust to top the wheelbarrow off.
Should be good for a day or two now.
Free picture of the woodstove and rack for your viewing pleasure .
Just realized I never posted the picture
Without further adieu.

 

[tylorklein]

Best find so far at the local dump. Someone must have cleared a lot or something. Huge oak logs stacked like i couldn't believe with a couple cherry mixed in. Made a bunch of trips to get all the ones we could manage to roll onto the trailer...

 

[stihly dan]

Are you allowed to use a chainsaw at the dump to get the bigger ones?

 

[tylorklein]

Nope. If you could we'd have another 10+ cord of premo red oak we couldn't move by hand.

 

[SteveSS]

Best find so far at the local dump. Someone must have cleared a lot or something. Huge oak logs stacked like i couldn't believe with a couple cherry mixed in. Made a bunch of trips to get all the ones we could manage to roll onto the trailer...

Great scrounge right there! The county dump where I'm at is too far away for me to feasibly drive to. I'd use 3/4 tank of gas round trip in the gas hog Ford. Now that I've had it for a couple months, my best guess without actually putting a calculator to it is around 5 mpg.

 

[nomad_archer]

Can you grease some palms to get them to look the other way so you could run a saw? Maybe a battery powered saw.

 

[Philbert]

Are you allowed to use a chainsaw at the dump to get the bigger ones?

Nope. If you could we'd have another 10+ cord of premo red oak we couldn't move by hand.

Worth investing in a winch? Or even some block and tackle?

Philbert

 

[tylorklein]

The old man and i have been gsme planning a winch of some kind since we ran into some monster elm a while back but haven't pulled the trigger yet. Suggestions what others have done are well appreciated.

 

[tylorklein]

Based on the ones we've moved and using my skidsteer to stack them id guess the ones we cant move are 500lb plus

 

[Philbert]

Suggestions what others have done are well appreciated.

My favorite (good for ideas, at least):



Philbert

 

[tylorklein]

Pretty awesome