Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[dancan]

And still on match #2 LOL

Nice day up here so after the honey do list was done ,,,,

I had a few stems that needed to be hauled back to the landing so off I went .

I got them winched to the tractor and even got that leaning spruce before I hauled out of there

The top was a little branchy LOL

Got all hitched up and off to the landing .

It was all going smooth until

It wasn't so pretty on the other side
But with a little bit of filing , and , a little bit more filing and I was back in business .

This was a load of sugar maple and spruce
Some of the spruce was from the edge of a swamp , a section of one of the spruce had this dark heart which I thought was rot at first glance , I was wrong , it was pitch , the white wood is dry and the pitch burns like gasoline

Scrounge on gentleman !

 

[wudpirat]

I'm still burning, but not 24/7, only to take the chill off.
Some days I use two matches, spend thrift that I am.
Fellow across the road, does tree work, dropped of three P/U load of dead standing pine, two more loads coming tomorrow.
All bucked just have to split it,
He gets rid of the pine, I get couple cord of easy wood.
If it's free, it's for me.

 

[svk]

I found a bunch of big silver maple trunk wood today but it was in about 3' pieces and I didn't feel like hauling wood in my suburban.

 

[dancan]

You have a trailer don't you ?

 

[JustJeff]

Took my scrounge boat out on its first fishing trip today. After both bearing caps flew off. I guess the last guy bought ones that were slightly small. Actually found some at an echo dealer for a buck apiece and borrowed a hammer to install. That cs 620 is quite a good looking piece of equipment. Made it to the lake and my son caught a nice lake trout. Only fish of the day and my dumb bum left it on the stringer and learned how to take a rope out of a prop over 42 degree water. No fish. Lol but had much needed dad son time with oldest boy.

 

[Logger nate]

Rain stopped so back to scrounging, went out to cut a couple lodge pole pine blow downs on a friends place.

 

[chipper1]

Well , for a brief moment somewhere in Nova Scotia ....

I had to give the chimney a quick clean so I shovelled the fire in a bucket , cleaned the chimney , threw the fire back in with some low grade wood and presto !

Back in business LOL

No matches were harmed in the re-igniting of this fire.

 

[chipper1]

Took my scrounge boat out on its first fishing trip today. After both bearing caps flew off. I guess the last guy bought ones that were slightly small. Actually found some at an echo dealer for a buck apiece and borrowed a hammer to install. That cs 620 is quite a good looking piece of equipment. Made it to the lake and my son caught a nice lake trout. Only fish of the day and my dumb bum left it on the stringer and learned how to take a rope out of a prop over 42 degree water. No fish. Lol but had much needed dad son time with oldest boy.

We spent sometime just down the road scrounging too.
Wasn't the best catch, but with a 3, 6, and 8yr old I was happy. They were very excited to go out on our little late night adventure. We had them all pumped up for it and they had a great time. I did also, there's just something about watching three kids rip a bunch of night crawlers out of the ground.

 

[chipper1]

View attachment 501086 View attachment 501087 Rain stopped so back to scrounging, went out to cut a couple lodge pole pine blow downs on a friends place.

Wow, what a view.
Love seeing the 576 out, I was wondering where it was in your last pictures.
Is the burn on the trees from forest fires.

 

[Fourced]

We spent sometime just down the road scrounging too.
Wasn't the best catch, but with a 3, 6, and 8yr old I was happy. They were very excited to go out on our little late night adventure. We had them all pumped up for it and they had a great time. I did also, there's just something about watching three kids rip a bunch of night crawlers out of the ground.View attachment 501108

Brett, you could fill that bucket in my backyard on a good night.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Well , for a brief moment somewhere in Nova Scotia ....

I had to give the chimney a quick clean so I shovelled the fire in a bucket , cleaned the chimney , threw the fire back in with some low grade wood and presto !

Back in business LOL

and nary did the fire know any difference!

 

[dancan]

The temps are finally starting to turn around , might have to split some kindling and buy some matches .

 

[MustangMike]

Made my first deliveries of this year to my daughter (2 loads, one cord), still has to be split, a mix of White Oak & Cherry. Stacked it up on that wall all by myself!

Also, that MS440 I reclaimed from the dead (cleaned the transfer off the cylinder) is running very strong for a non ported saw, and I like that is has compression relief (unlike my 2 044s). I will be bringing it to the CT GTG this Sat. Has an HD-2 air filter, dp muffler, timing advance and base gasket delete. My brother says it feels like a strong MS460! (and he has had one for 12 years).

Enjoy the pics: Load #1, Load #2, stacked (2 pics), and some Red Oak at the site that still need to be cut to length.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

And still on match #2 LOL

Nice day up here so after the honey do list was done ,,,,

I had a few stems that needed to be hauled back to the landing so off I went .

I got them winched to the tractor and even got that leaning spruce before I hauled out of there

The top was a little branchy LOL

Got all hitched up and off to the landing .

It was all going smooth until

It wasn't so pretty on the other side
But with a little bit of filing , and , a little bit more filing and I was back in business .

This was a load of sugar maple and spruce
Some of the spruce was from the edge of a swamp , a section of one of the spruce had this dark heart which I thought was rot at first glance , I was wrong , it was pitch , the white wood is dry and the pitch burns like gasoline

Scrounge on gentleman !

yes, you did! I do like logging pix, in wilderness really good, firewood, chain saw and tractor pix!!! the latter, especially if they have chains on the rear wheels... always amps up the drama! enjoyed the show... chains and saws, logging it out... do it get much better??

maybe bigger, but not much better. and these ops... more than big enuff to meet my needs! or wants... can you say: " wood sure tire me out!" even though I can still do 17 hr days as done yesterday...

rock in trunk noted...

 

[Logger nate]

Wow, what a view.
Love seeing the 576 out, I was wondering where it was in your last pictures.
Is the burn on the trees from forest fires.

Thanks, it's a very beautiful place about 20 miles away.

Ya sure fun to cut with 576, was trying out my "new" 51 last time. Burn on trees here is from brush piles burned to close to them last fall.

 

[JustJeff]

Scrounge of a different kind today. Couple free ducks to go with the poor lonely drake I've had in with my chickens. Been hacking away at my log pile when I haven't been hacking away (horrible man cold) The work is piling up and everything is getting greener!

 

[Agent Orange]

View attachment 501179 Scrounge of a different kind today. Couple free ducks to go with the poor lonely drake I've had in with my chickens. Been hacking away at my log pile when I haven't been hacking away (horrible man cold) The work is piling up and everything is getting greener!

Runners?

 

[Agent Orange]

Mine are getting big.

 

[MustangMike]

My older daughter has Ducks, Chickens & Quail. They sell the Duck & Quail eggs to restaurants.

 

[JustJeff]

Runners?

Yep. These gals are Indian runners. My drake is a runner / Muscovy cross. He's been living with chickens all his life so he may be psychologically damaged. Lol.