Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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Work “ends” at 5 yet I feel like sometimes that’s when the real work begins

Yesterday it was hauling the weeks worth of wood up to the house from the pile

I really need to stop slacking and move the winter’s worth up to the deck, probably tackle that Sunday after church
 
When I need to go shopping in the big city, I go to Baraboo. I'm about 35 miles west of you and am also harvesting dead ash. I've processed over 60 trees and have lots more to cut. I get $250 per full cord delivered. And I am familiar with rocks in the woods.
Adds here on CL for Red Fir…$500/cord 😳
that is insane…
for that price they should deliver, stack and carry bundles inside for you…every day. Geeze…
 
For the page ....
3/4 cord of 24" OWB fuel.

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ez 3/4 cord... all cut up in chunks. i know the guy, mite ask him tomorrow what kind of wood is it. hinted of being oak! just sitting on street curb one place i seen on my evening bike ride... put out today! and another could be couple cords. cut down abig pecan. 24-30" diam trunk, i'd say off hand. it did make a mess of the street there at those 4 houses each season. i only seen it in the dark, street light but the branches are many and lots of cut -n -stack sized firewood. or cooking wood. next to all that is the trunk!

acorns falling non-stop! when i pass one other house... with a metal roof... i can always hear... blink!.... blink!... as acorns fall and hit it...
 
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reminds me of my new lil instant fireplace. a 48" wood burner is going in up at my wilderness cabin restoration project, but the space i drew out and mocked up seems to be wanting. i took an instant shine to it! i like it so much i bot me another one. a movable fireplace! 🤩 each time i press the remote and it fires up.... i think of it up at the cabin... and say to myself, "perfect!"
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my in city home's kitchen is open to den. has 3 wood burning fireplaces! poster installed! (w/contractor) always wanted a fireplace to be in den and enjoy while cooking and doing KP. but, too big a remod construction job for several reasons. so now i have my fireplace in the den... :heart: it! :blob2:
 
Food…..
Pigs are very friendly and make good pets if a person is into that sort of thing.
We let a few of our meat pigs roam around the place in the fall to clean up the acorns.
I think everyone should have pet pigs, because who wants to eat dogs & cats when things get tough....lol
 
Pigs are very friendly and make good pets if a person is into that sort of thing.
We let a few of our meat pigs roam around the place in the fall to clean up the acorns.
I think everyone should have pet pigs, because who wants to eat dogs & cats when things get tough....lol
well, over in VN they eat dogs... and some of the local texmex food trucks have been thot to use the latter on their tacos!! :omg:

sometime back, we went to a friend's NYE event for the evening... he had a pet pig. lived in the house. it seemed to be a happy pig! don't know what ever came of it... i see bacon is in grocery today at $8.49/#! we passed :omg:

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For something different :rolleyes: we were out by the back "fence" cutting down, bucking, and splitting dead ash today.
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Our township called Greenfield, should be called ROCKfield...
Neighbor calls that shaggy, peeling bark tree a bitternut... dunno. Allison came up and was splitting and piling. Prolly a face cord today.
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Couldn't get the mower and trailer any further, steep uphill. We're working past the corner in the distance, roughing out a woods/CC ski trail as we go. NOT hand carrying logs down snow covered hillsides. Mebby put chains on the mower tires?
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Tomorrow I'll try with the skidsteer. WAY more ash than I will ever get to waiting out there.

My rider mower wears chains all winter moving a 2.5x4' trailer full of rounds over to the split/pile area, some fairly good slopes to work up/down.
 
Broke in this new 261 stihl on the smaller stuff… this is a huge oak and i’m not even close to cutting the trunk which over 3 feet across. the timberjack proved to be priceless as under that grass is gravel and gravel and chains don’t do so well.

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You were what? Like in your 50's when that tree started growing. :buttkick: :laugh: Love the 261. Should really wake up after 8-10 tanks.
 

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