Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

Cold and rainy today. Was thinking about splitting my scrounge from the weekend, but I may hold off. we need the rain, so I'm good with it. I re-seeded the lawn, so the rain is welcomed to hopefully help that seed along. The dags are hard on the yard...

 

[svk]

19 degrees here. After work I’m undecided between delivering the load of aspen that’s already in my old truck And trailer to one guy or putting up a load of hardwood to the other in the new truck. Can’t wait till my son has his drivers license as we could do both.

 

[svk]

Just running through my wood inventory, I’ve still got probably 6 cords of rounds on the ground plus several more blowdown trees (mostly aspen) that are potentially scrounge-able once I check for core rot. I keep thinking I’ll run out of wood eventually around the house/cabin and have to start cutting off my family land but that hasn’t happened so far.

You guys in hardwood country are lucky in more than one way. Our primary wood up here is aspen and white birch, both which have VERY limited window to scrounge once dead/downed plus aspen isn’t very dense. I’d love to have elk or better yet, oak that stands dead for years and is solid.

 

[MustangMike]

Can’t wait till my son has his drivers license as we could do both.

Be careful what you wish for!!!

 

[svk]

Be careful what you wish for!!!

There will certainly be rules. And since he does not have his own wheels, I’ll be in charge of where and when he uses mine!

 

[MustangMike]

It is a mixed blessing and a necessary period of learning. I beat the daylights out of my parent's cars, and had minor accidents with both of them.

I even got pulled over when I raced an unmarked car, but amazingly did not get a ticket that time!

I wish you the best of luck with this difficult period, and hope the benefits out weight the negatives.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way around the increased insurance costs.

 

[muad]

Got a call from a friend's Dad that he had an old log splitter I might be interested in. When he said heavy duty and homemade, I was sold. Especially for the price... Free!

Going to look at it/pick it up after work.

 

[square1]

Got a call from a friend's Dad that he had an old log splitter I might be interested in. When he said heavy duty and homemade, I was sold. Especially for the price... Free!

Going to look at it/pick it up after work.

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[svk]

It is a mixed blessing and a necessary period of learning. I beat the daylights out of my parent's cars, and had minor accidents with both of them.

I even got pulled over when I raced an unmarked car, but amazingly did not get a ticket that time!

I wish you the best of luck with this difficult period, and hope the benefits out weight the negatives.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way around the increased insurance costs.

Yeah the insurance is going to be the killer. With boys ages 12.5, 14, and 15 it’s going to suck soon.

 

[LondonNeil]

Definitely suckage muad!

 

[mountainguyed67]

Does this look like a Speeco? It had a Briggs & Stratton originally. My uncle converted it.

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Kinda does but maybe a really old one.

My uncle says it’s about 25 years old. I asked him yesterday.

 

[muad]

Yeah the insurance is going to be the killer. With boys ages 12.5, 14, and 15 it’s going to suck soon.

Ouch.

As they say, pepper thy angus for when you get them on the insurance....

 

[muad]

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Nice score!
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Posted, LOL.

 

[95custmz]

Got another load of Ash, yesterday. A nice cool day to bring out the Fiskars.

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[Cowboy254]

You guys in hardwood country are lucky in more than one way. Our primary wood up here is aspen and white birch, both which have VERY limited window to scrounge once dead/downed plus aspen isn’t very dense. I’d love to have elk or better yet, oak that stands dead for years and is solid.

What sorta burn time do you get out of an elk?

 

[Haywire]

What sorta burn time do you get out of an elk?

We have those around here, but they're hard to cut down because the darn things wont stand still. Never figured the BTUs were worth the hassle!

 

[mountainguyed67]

I don’t think they burn worth a darn, I never tried it though.

 

[square1]

Cleaned up most of the "not good enough to sell" from this winter. I give it to my neighbor for his OWB.

 

[dancan]

Be careful what you wish for!!!

Hope he doesn't get this

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/burlington-qew-stunt-driving-308-1.5564486

 

[dancan]

There will certainly be rules. And since he does not have his own wheels, I’ll be in charge of where and when he uses mine!

The kids are polly packing their bags wanting you to move Lol

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...eens-get-licences-without-road-test-1.5561996