Once I got home from work today, I went out and cut up a couple of small trees on my property (~8" around). I don't know that is really a true "scrounge" or not, but it was free. One of the trees had fallen a few months ago. It is what I call "blackjack oak". It is very tough wood and hell on a chain. It is good fire wood though. I live on the side of a ridge so I was working on a grade, and that was the only thing hard about it. The interesting thing was the bark. It was loose on the tree like a tube and all cracked up. You could peel it right off. What was
really interesting was the 6 big scorpions that came crawling out as I was cutting up the log to length. It made me a tee tee bit nervous fo sho as I loaded the wood in the trailer!
Here in Arkansas we have the Brown Scorpion which are not deadly, but when you get stung by one, you just wish you were dead!