Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chucker]

Heck yeah!

I've got the walleyes dialed in until mayfly hatch. Some good pike lakes too if you want some pickling filets.

sounds good!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Cleaned up the saws last night and left them on the floor in the sauna overnight to dry off.

Back in the garage, until next time.

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way to go! I got out my 019T yesterday and after letting it warm up good, put that lil sucker to work... but alas, I confess to not cleaning it up just yet. besides, got into some hard oak noodling and while the lil limber's performance is continually noteworthy... a kiss to its chain's cutting teeth is warranted. ah, shucks man... check it out...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

got around to being time to do some more work on my latest scrounge pile of oak... dragged in from down the street. all the easy stuff had be cut up and stacked. but there comes a time when I like the neighbors to see that my wood scrounge is not a permanent addition to the neighborhood... so me and the 019T took some more of it on. I wanted to fire it up and this was a good excuse...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

first we got after some of the cedar I had hauled in. I don't burn it inside, but nice for outside campfires...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

the smell of fresh cedar was a delight! and the purple kerf always fun to see... the 019T went thru that stuff like a hot knife thru warm butter! he** of a saw!! ~

under the cedar was a log of oak... so I bucked it up into more manageable pcs...

 

[svk]

way to go! I got out my 019T yesterday and after letting it warm up good, put that lil sucker to work... but alas, I confess to not cleaning it up just yet. besides, got into some hard oak noodling and while the lil limber's performance is continually noteworthy... a kiss to its chain's cutting teeth is warranted. ah, shucks man... check it out...

Nice!

The 550 and 2186 were getting a bit crudded up so they were due.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

then I thot, well still got plenty of fuel left... so decided to noodle up some of the fresher chunks I had to cut up to get out of the original pile... and away we went. hard oak! not long, flowing hamster nest type kerf... more like bits and reg sawdust... still the 019T shone brightly!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

still have this bunch of chunks to work into split firewood and smaller pcs, but I cleaned up all around the work area... and moved wood into smaller stack... progress! still looked big by urban homefront logging ops standards... but relocating and sweeping the drive helped... lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

was going to use my Echo featherlight... but decided to give my 019T a run out in the pasture... small job by some AS standards, after all no mountain snow fell when I bucked the oak limb, didn't need a skidder to move to firewood stack... but still dangerous by any stretch of one's imagination in the wrong hands... and even for my small chainsaw tasks... I wear my PPE chaps! good day of making firewood and my saw ran like a top... looking fwd to cleaning it up... and servicing and file kissing its chain and bar... with some refreshened point's edges...

 

[James Miller]

got a bunch of red maple today

 

[JustJeff]

Spent the morning cutting with Ben, my oldest son. We limbed and cut to log length, 8' to 12', 7 trees in all still a couple left but my achin everything says they'll have to wait. You can cut a 36" tree with an 18" bar... almost. Great morning still -3c but the sun is melting the frost making things pretty muddy. Broke my $%£# choke button off the 365. Grrrrr. Otherwise a successful scrounge!

 

[dancan]

New scrounging tool with a gratuitous saw pic .

Husqvarna's short breaker bar / felling leaver .

 

[zogger]

Scrounged a pic of the mallard hen sitting on her nest. Pretty good cammie. She apparently has three boyfriends, they were circling around close.

 

[dancan]

Took a run out to the scrounging zone this afternoon , had to go find the trail that Jerry cut in last Sunday afternoon .
Got too look hard to spot it from the road LOL

Just passed the hidden entrance Jerry reclaimed an old logging road from decades gone by .

A view back to the road .

This old trail intersected a survey line , we like surveyors
This line headed down to a swamp , they had dropped 2 black spruce that were worth going to get ant there were a couple of dead standing ones with a bonus of 2 leaners .

I backed the tractor in as far as I could on the survey line and went to work .
I had to cut all the 1' surveyor stumps flush to the ground so I wouldn't get caught up on them before I started .

The winch trail was a little narrow .

But I got it all in at full length without too much fighting

Tomorrow's project is to get them off the survey line , we've got more stuff to cut in this section , not a honey hole but still plenty of wood

Mighty Mouse Logging LLC

 

[farmer steve]

here's one of several we scrounged from a farmer down the road.. mostly silver maple but did get one nice red oak that i got a nice 8 foot log out of for some lumber. sorry but only one pic of my buddy working a maple. i was busy sawin down more trees and trying to beat the snow we never got.

 

[hardpan]

Nice afternoon in the woods.

Cut some trees, did some timed cuts (having issues uploading the video), and enjoyed the fresh air.

Started with this mostly dead aspen.
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Then this maple that was slowly tipping over.
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This maple was dead and mangled and the big birch finished off the one decent limb.
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This threw me for a loop but saw was ok. Luckily had another saw to free it.
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Beautiful scenery. You cut the same stuff as I, the dead, the doomed, and the down. It is good for us and the forest.

 

[hardpan]

here's one of several we scrounged from a farmer down the road.. mostly silver maple but did get one nice red oak that i got a nice 8 foot log out of for some lumber. sorry but only one pic of my buddy working a maple. i was busy sawin down more trees View attachment 493053 and trying to beat the snow we never got.

I cut very little maple and I am not good with ID of them (silver, red, sugar) without the leaves. I notice on the larger pieces that your buddy is working, their is a center that is a different color, approximately 1/3 the outside diameter. Is that a characteristic of silver only or can it be found on red and sugar also?

 

[hardpan]

was going to use my Echo featherlight... but decided to give my 019T a run out in the pasture... small job by some AS standards, after all no mountain snow fell when I bucked the oak limb, didn't need a skidder to move to firewood stack... but still dangerous by any stretch of one's imagination in the wrong hands... and even for my small chainsaw tasks... I wear my PPE chaps! good day of making firewood and my saw ran like a top... looking fwd to cleaning it up... and servicing and kissing its chain and bar...

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Impressive performance with the little saw.
Please remember to turn the saw off before kissing the chain. "Chapstick" is really not intended to protect your lips from a chainsaw. LOL

 

[svk]

Beautiful scenery. You cut the same stuff as I, the dead, the doomed, and the down. It is good for us and the forest.

Absolutely!

There's lots of top dead birch around. It does go punky about 2/3 way up but still lots of good wood to be had. In another year those trees will be shot.

 

[Agent Orange]

Shameless cut and paste because I don't feel like typing this post again.

@svk. I'll run ya for pink slips.

Worked on the splitter today. Fabbed an axle from an old boat trailer, repacked the bearings, and gave her new shoes. 12" wheels for a bit of lift.

Slick redneck support that slides up for trailering. Bar stock handle with R pins.

Still needs paint and bolts instead of screws to secure the axle.