Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Haywire]

Cuttin' spruce snags out of a swampy spring creek bed today. Sorry for the fuzzy pics, I think my camera got a bit damp. haha
The little Ox-Head hookeroon I recently picked up worked a treat!

 

[Logger nate]

Not much of a video because the bucking dawg gets caught in a limb stub halfway through and I baby the end of the cut to keep the chain out of the dirt. But it does sound awesome!

Wow that 550 cuts good, sounds great too! Sure like the sound of ported saws.

 

[Toy4xchris]

So it's been a long while since I posted in here. Since my last post we moved cross country to NC and we are buying a house with this as just about 2acres worth of my back yard

Starting next month I should have some aftermath shots of this guy who came home with me today

sent from my electronic leash

 

[benp]

So I take my son to a little league game today and as I leave and pull back out on thr road, there are some nice logs that Aspluche left from clearing trees near the lines. I go home and empty my truck bed, change my clothes, pack the 441 and 576, gas ect. Have a cup of coffee and go back to cut em up and.......THEIR GONE!!!!![emoji21][emoji21][emoji21] they either got beamed up by aliens or a crane truck came. I couldnt believe it.

It's the Aliens........Always the Aliens.......

Lmao!! Your right!! My wife was some support when i came home and i tell her. She says "well it is that time of the year" (she thinks you can just take wood off the curb and it goes in the stove) guess she doesnt notice all the work I do cutting, spllitting, stacking. Lol

She does.......trust me she does......will she let on to that...........a half maybe.........but she does appreciate your work that you do keeping your family warm.

Cuttin' spruce snags out of a swampy spring creek bed today. Sorry for the fuzzy pics, I think my camera got a bit damp. haha
The little Ox-Head hookeroon I recently picked up worked a treat!

I LIKE THAT!!!!!!

The short handle not so much. But the math on that head......NICE!

 

[jr27236]

Thanks Benp, it was the most surreal moment (at least in the scrounging type) how these disappeared so fast is beyond me!! Lol im still puzzled[emoji20]

 

[farmer steve]

So it's been a long while since I posted in here. Since my last post we moved cross country to NC and we are buying a house with this as just about 2acres worth of my back yard

Starting next month I should have some aftermath shots of this guy who came home with me today

sent from my electronic leash

welcome to the RIGHT coast Chris. @James Miller has an echo like that and i ran it in a 25" red oak log doing some noodleing and it was sweet.

 

[Haywire]

I LIKE THAT!!!!!!

The short handle not so much. But the math on that head......NICE!

The short handle makes it real nice for hauling rounds out of the ditch. I had one with a longer handle but sold it because we didn't jive.
Probably because I have long arms...Heck I can tie my boots without leaning over

 

[benp]

The short handle makes it real nice for hauling rounds out of the ditch. I had one with a longer handle but sold it because we didn't jive.
Probably because I have long arms...Heck I can tie my boots without leaning over

Interdasting.........Fellow "Ape-armer" justifying this.........

The math is starting to click....

 

[benp]

Thanks Benp, it was the most surreal moment (at least in the scrounging type) how these disappeared so fast is beyond me!! Lol im still puzzled[emoji20]

And to shore up my statement about her appreciating it but not letting on........

The neighbor and his wife just went on an "inpromptu date night."

Devon and I were standing there...watching the stove with no smoke and his phone dings.

"Holy sh&t....it's date night. We never discussed this." He says.

We got the house to 80 today. She loves the heat.

So....your wife does appreciate it.

 

[nmcqueen469]

Snagged some maple from a local tree service. Should be at least 3 more dump trailers worth from 3 big trees.

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[benp]

Nice score!!

 

[jr27236]

Alien's didnt take that would!

 

[Haywire]

Thanks Benp, it was the most surreal moment (at least in the scrounging type) how these disappeared so fast is beyond me!! Lol im still puzzled[emoji20]

Maybe you were hallucinating? Like kind of a firewood mirage

 

[jr27236]

Maybe you were hallucinating? Like kind of a firewood mirage

Hahaha it might of been!!! I pulled up and couldnt believe it. Im starting to think it never existed. Maybe early dementia setting in lol

 

[Hinerman]

made me think that the landowner had offered them to be removed as "free wood" rather than wanting to pay for a removal service. Not that it really matters in any case, it's more scroungin' wood for Hinerman. Happy days!

You are correct. The trees were offered as free wood. He told me he hated to see it all go to waste. He used to heat with wood but bought a pellet stove because his wife can control the temperature better. He has cut a load himself for an elderly lady in need. I assume the landowner would just push it all up and burn it or let it rot. His cousin, who is also his neighbor, has an equipment rental company. they don't even have a fence between their property, so the landowner has access to any heavy equipment he needs. He is piling all the limbs up as I finish the trees.

 

[Hinerman]

Got a chance to run the now ported 550 and the new 241. We put almost two tanks through the 550 and one through the 241. Got a good cord of oak plus a smaller amount of cherry, Siberian elm, and box elder cut up. Forgot to take pics of the other trees we cut.

To say the least, the 550 is impressive. Very impressive.

The 241 cut well but is spanking new and needs a few tanks to loosen up. The mtronic really makes it run smooth.

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So, do you think you need both now that you have used both? When would you use the 241 that you couldn't use the 550? Does it feel that much lighter?

 

[jr27236]

Man, trying to find quantities of fatwood up here is getting tough. Canadian Tire had some a few years ago but nothing since. Next to impossible to import because it's a wood product etc tec..

You know I didnt even buy any since I ran out. This year ive been using all the left over scrapes from the splitter. Usually i clean it all up and throw that in the fire pit, dont know why I ever did that (maybe because i had some fatwood) In my experience the scrapes work much better than the fat wood which burns to quickly.

 

[Cowboy254]

My time out at the lady farmer's place has been a bit limited, partly due to rubbish weather, partly due to family commitments. And work I suppose. The fallen peppermint that I had mostly cut up needed splitting. When I was last there I split a few bits and put them out where they were easily visible so I could see where I was to find it as the log was hidden from view by blackberries when driving up . A wombat had dug a thoroughfare under the log previously and I found his home at the end of the log.



He obviously didn't appreciate the noise when I cut up the log so he kicked over the little split pile I put out there as a marker.



I'm surprised he didn't take a dump on it as well, that's what they normally do.

So it was time to start swingin.



Peppermint is usually easy splitting but this was presenting some problems, dunno why. The grain appeared more interlocked than usual. Or maybe I'm getting weaker. (sorry about the pics, the phone must have got a bit shmeary.)





And then it got dark. Beer o'clock!

 

[Cowboy254]

So it's been a long while since I posted in here. Since my last post we moved cross country to NC and we are buying a house with this as just about 2acres worth of my back yard

Starting next month I should have some aftermath shots of this guy who came home with me today

sent from my electronic leash

"Honey, I just HAVE to go out and clear up some of that rubbish with my new chainsaw. See you in three weeks

 

[dancan]

Rain and drizzle here all day but at 40/50F or 4/10C a fire is still needed to keep the chill and dampness out .
I did go to the sellin woodpile and scrounged up the shorts and trim .

They don't stack well so I store them in garbage cans .
Drill holes in the bottoms if you don't have lids , don't ask how I know lol