Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[rarefish383]

Yes my wife needs a new saw

My wife handed me a flyer and said "look, Stihl has chainsaws on sale for Mothers Day". I said, " you want a new 880?"

 

[woodchip rookie]

What does a "Stihl on sale" look like?

5 bucks off?

 

[farmer steve]

What does a "Stihl on sale" look like?

5 bucks off?

 

[rarefish383]

I actually bought an MS170 today because it was on sale from $179 down to $159, so that was a little over 10%. I know that's the cheapest I ever paid for a new saw, even going back in to the 70's. I'll have to see if any of my old owners manuals have the price we paid for a Super EZ, I bet they were $159 or more. Ratz, I just remembered, I bought a Wild Thing for $99 once, Joe.

 

[dancan]

Along with the yardsale Ryobi I also scrounged up a nice 2 1/4 lbs Wetterlings ax fo 5$, I got it hafted Sunday evening , shaved down the haft to my liking this evening .

Ready for a coat of linseed oil

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

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Dinner flounder and
On the grill

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

Thanks Steve

 

[Sandhill Crane]

Asparaus marinated in soy sauce and seseme seeds in a baggy, and thrown on the grill is delish finger food.

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

I brushed with olive oil rolled in parmesan cheese

 

[woodchip rookie]

Then baked on high for 20 minutes?

 

[coryj]

Haven't been on in a couple weeks. Soccer, tee ball, and fishing with the kids have kept me busy. I did find some time to cut, split and stack some more wood from the massive red oak I cut for the Craigslist guy. Plus this load I got from a buddy.


Right now the wood is stacked 5 rows deep across the back of the garage where this picture was taken and I tore down the old roof to the right to build a new one to have room to stack more wood. Right now I'm stacking along the fence near the field. I didn't think I would run out of room for wood, but I did and I still have more rounds to split and more wood to cut.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Nothin like runnin outta room to hide the money

 

[SeMoTony]

Haven't been on in a couple weeks. Soccer, tee ball, and fishing with the kids have kept me busy. I did find some time to cut, split and stack some more wood from the massive red oak I cut for the Craigslist guy. Plus this load I got from a buddy.
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Right now the wood is stacked 5 rows deep across the back of the garage where this picture was taken and I tore down the old roof to the right to build a new one to have room to stack more wood. Right now I'm stacking along the fence near the field. I didn't think I would run out of room for wood, but I did and I still have more rounds to split and more wood to cut.

If you were close enough I'm just the kinda guy to let you store the excess on my place til ya had room for it

 

[svk]

Supposed to rain for most of the weekend which isn't the most conducive to scrounging.

I have been planning to make this a true scrounging weekend too. I have a bunch of smaller hardwood blowdowns to harvest. Planning to drag them in with the wheeler and then cut to length right in my yard. I have lots of 3/8 low profile safety chain laying around so I don't worry about cutting gritty wood.

I also checked a tops pile that I really did a number to in 2015 and although the birch is junk, amazingly most of the maple is still good. Was too busy to get out there last year and didn't expect much to be any good by now.

 

[coryj]

Running out of room is just an excuse to build a pole barn with a lean to roof off the back for more wood storage space. Now to ask the wife... errr... I mean tell the wife what I'm going to do.

 

[JustJeff]

The Wood Nazi is back in action! Scrounged this dead elm within spitting distance of home. Called a neighboring farmer and asked if he wanted that dead tree removed before planting (soon!). Yep. Cut to 8' lengths and was delivered to my backyard via big john deere. We cleaned up all the brush and he was more than happy. So am I!

 

[95custmz]

Hell, and you didn't even get the saw dirty. Nice job!

 

[PhilMcWoody]

Bronze Borer took out most of our White Birch years ago. Every now and then I'll run into a big one. Any thing over 18" goes to the mill. Beautiful wood, Joe.

Really is pretty wood

 

[PhilMcWoody]

How's that little echo cut sir.

Very nice Svk; birch looks great; saw looks sweet and your helper must've worked really hard

 

[PhilMcWoody]

Good morning James.
It's hard to fathom how much ash is going to be turning into topsoil here in our area. It's quite sad that people don't have access to cut it. You can drive down almost every road and see ash down on the shoulders or just off the road, and sometimes even in the road .
It doesn't seem right that we are all about saving the planet and let all those BTU's go to waste, what a farce, global warming.
Keep scrounging guys, were the ones saving the planet .

Couldn't agree more chipper1. I see it going to waste in places I'd get all kinds of tickets if I stopped