SteveSS
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It's bordering on too late, depending on your employment status of course.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I'm thinking it'll be a contender , we'll see how the hand does tomorrow , should be able to get a feel for it .
Welcome!
SteveSS
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Welcome X2. And a real nice load of oak as well. Not so sure about that white ground cover though. Yuck!
This was actually about a year ago, I wish I found this site earlier, Theres some great info on here, saws, splitter, mauls whatever I want to lookup, seems I can find that info here!
CrufflerJJ
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While on the way home from picking up the kids, I was looking at some recently trimmed trees. About 15 minutes from home, I saw a freshly trimmed maple tree & a big stack of rounds set by the roadside. Hmmmm....decision time....should I make the promised beef stew for dinner, or drop the kids off at home, task my 17 year-old son with browning the beef, while making a scrounge-run.
The free firewood won.
While my son was tasked with browning the stew beef, I grabbed an overloaded 4x8 trailer's worth of decent rounds. My Subaru Forester took a bit longer than normal to brake at red lights, but I made it home OK.
Thanks to my pressure cooker, the beef stew was done in time for dinner. Tomorrow, I'll split the maple scrounge & add it to the child-slave-labor-wood-to-be-stacked pile.
Life is good!
The free firewood won.
While my son was tasked with browning the stew beef, I grabbed an overloaded 4x8 trailer's worth of decent rounds. My Subaru Forester took a bit longer than normal to brake at red lights, but I made it home OK.
Thanks to my pressure cooker, the beef stew was done in time for dinner. Tomorrow, I'll split the maple scrounge & add it to the child-slave-labor-wood-to-be-stacked pile.
Life is good!
Coro cutter
Stihl mad in kiwi country
This Is my scrounge for the next little while going to take abit to complete but I will get there. Dirty big old man pine approximately 85 years old.!!I have only taken some limbs from the upper section of the tree as shown below. The head will finish next week and hopefully the massive trunk.
Unfortunately I can't take credit for the drop of the head my good friend frank in the tree
Welcome to the site 300zx. i was wondering about that white stuff. york co. here.
ReggieT
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Good looking Stihl axe there...I'd be interested to hear how it stacks up against the "Almighty Fiskars?" lolNew splitter today .
http://www.stihl.co.uk/STIHL-Produc...20866/Polyamide-cleaving-axe-37cm-1-950g.aspx
I got to go scrounge up some stuff tomorrow to try it out
Same length as the x25 , feels about the same weight but has a bit of arc on the handle , the head is about an inch longer but it is not as wide and has a bit more flare .
I plan to give it a bit of a go today if things go according to plan 
nomad_archer
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Welcome! You just found the best thread on AS. What part is of SE PA are you located. I am in Lancaster Co.
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benp
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You can be gainfully employed and 0900 not be too early for a bloody beer or buffalo trace coffee while it being the weekend or vacation.
Or so I have been told.....
ReggieT
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I know this is far from a major score, but I was really not trying to scrounge per say...just snooping around an old Park area and ran upon a "Black Locust Forest" YIKES!
Grabbed a few dead/down pieces and slung them in the bed of the truck, along with a colony of carpenter ants who seem to be most resistant against stock ant killer...
My wife loves a nice fire of black locust every since she saw woke up to a huge black locust log still burning after 7 hours!!!
Grabbed a few dead/down pieces and slung them in the bed of the truck, along with a colony of carpenter ants who seem to be most resistant against stock ant killer...
My wife loves a nice fire of black locust every since she saw woke up to a huge black locust log still burning after 7 hours!!!
This afternoon I had the choice of staying home to attend my neighbor's harvest party or go to the hunting cabin and work on deer stands tomorrow. These neighbors are fine people but are completely antisocial unless they have a few drinks in them. You can probably guess which option I chose.
Axfarmer
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Managed to get out today and scrounged up a load of hardwood and spruce .
Went back and got another load , this one will be cut up short and split up for sellin kindlin .
Split up a some maple and white birch with the new splitter but those rounds proved not to be a challenge at all .
I had some yellow birch , stringy and a bit more work so ,
Even did a bit from that kiln dried tree
I like the new splitter
Went back and got another load , this one will be cut up short and split up for sellin kindlin .
Split up a some maple and white birch with the new splitter but those rounds proved not to be a challenge at all .
I had some yellow birch , stringy and a bit more work so ,
Even did a bit from that kiln dried tree
I like the new splitter
USMC615
Wood's Tougher Than Woodpecker Lips...
Welcome aboard 300zx...lotta good wood cutting, saw luvin idiots here...me being one of 'em. That white stuff on the ground in your pics??...you'd think somebody would fine tune them combines...that's a lot of cotton and t-shirts they left on the ground, lol.
Welcome aboard.
Thanks to a tree ID thread in which @svk and some others chipped in I can say this was a big toothed poplar/aspen scrounge. The power company apparently took it down earlier this year. It's still pretty wet at 40% but maybe it will be useful towards the end of the burning season. If not it should be good next season.
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