Today's Scrounge--post the free btu's

[kennyp2339]

Luckily for my health

Well after tomorrow's and Christmas days feasts I might need to borrow the bike hydro unit, oh and I forgot, im the x-mas cookie taste tester tonight, better get my fat pants out of the closet.

 

[CheapBassTurd]

It wasn't worth a new thread but I found a smart place fer an ash dump w/ snow for safety.....

It started at the base on the side a few weeks ago.....
Gonna collapse soon. Coulda used a boomstick, but those are very salty and hard to find.

 

[CheapBassTurd]

3 days later the stump is now gone ! ! !

Gotta few more stumps to go........... Glad it worked. I took the longest to dry the thing,
then it just smoldered itself into oblivion.

 

[Dobish]

we had a massive wind event here, and the elm that I have been waiting to take down took care of itself. I had a friend call me up and tell me he has a bunch of cut and split wood for me.... came in to work, and everyone is telling me I can come get wood out of their yards from the trees that came down...

 

[HitzerHillbilly]

First load from a tree crew trimming for local utility, supposedly the easement hasn't been maintained in 30 years. More loads to come I hear!

 

[husky345 vermont resolute]

Looking for a possible ID on this stuff.
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Went to visit with my dear mommy today and my hometown dump has 4 loads of the same size.
The stuff is hard and smells like red oak. Dry as dust and VERY heavy. The quality and age make this my best
score yet.
Then the plot takes a twist. Gassin' up (@ $1.88 w/ preferred member card) with my kid in the avatar, and a random dude walks up
saying "You want more of that?" We all know the answer to that. I'm thinking "Gee, we have 5 years now promised scrounge rights
plus what's on site totalled up but I have pallets and a forest so go for it Mark". "I'm in this sling with a busted chainsaw and anything you have
bucked would be a huge blessing, and I'll toss you some cash too." He said he is an ex stover and just got tired of the rituals at his age and just
pays the gas bill now. Took my head off when he said "just get it off my property and there's 30-50 truckloads about the same size as
what you have there." WHAT???? Did I hear you right? Holy crap! Went from 2 years ahead to 4 years ahead with scrounge rights, found
6 more piles in the dying foliage for another year, and he offers up his whole back yard other than some to be left for bonfire cookout parties.
His wife VERY gladly scribbles their name, number, addy, and hands it over. Pics to follow indeed. Then, there's still Asplundh coming to
drop 7 ash on my land a leafless tree I can't ID but looks like maple with the horizontal fat curved limbs of large and low diameter. The bark edges
say maple too.
Without going all religious on this thread, for those who live Biblically, Christians/Jews know the area where God allows us to test Him is with
our finances and the 10% minimum tithe. Mama always gives up 50-75 bucks every week no matter how broke we are and literally every time
the money comes back even bigger and in different ways. Bought a ladies stuff in the checkout line cuz she was short and she told her kid they
had to put his cereal and other oddities back so they could afford basics and we told her to keep everything on the counter and we'll cover the
shortage, and go get a few things you passed over already. Cost us 42 bucks. Get home to a check in the mailbox for a hundred bux from
a church friend who wanted to bless us! This happens all the time reinforcing my faith and trust that God is real and loves us all.

What I am doing is offering as much wood as one can carry if you really need a boost and aren't just being lazy or seeking handouts.
Bring a truck with a trailer and I'll give you a year's supply of firewood. The price? You have to stay for dinner and tolerate my family.
Anyone living within an hours drive, or peeps retired/ disabled with spare time that can drive further and hold down the couch overnite is cool too.
I can't keep all this free crap and not bless someone in need. Plus, we can create the illusion that we have friends. LOLOLOL
It will be pretty cool to meet a regular or two from the site, dear brothers of the flame. We're an hour east of Chicago.

NotAlwaysCheap

Looks like sugar maple to me


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[Dobish]

Yesterday's scrounge...

All I had to do was take a load of brush off his hands, but he split it all. My splitter wouldn't start the other day, and I ripped the starter rope out yesterday...

 

[Dobish]

Today's load. Not sure of wood type

 

[Dobish]

i'm pretty sure what i picked up was cottonwood... not really my finest choice, but it will keep me warm for a little bit

I also got to get out and use the saw for a little bit, and helped a friend clean up their yard. Turns out one of my co-workers is renting my friends house, so when I discovered i knew who lived there, I stopped raking up the mess I didn't make :D

 

[Bushfire]

Today's load. Not sure of wood typeView attachment 192520 View attachment 192521

Definitely some walnut in there by the looks of it. Splits real nice.

 

[Dobish]

Definitely some walnut in there by the looks of it. Splits real nice.

it feels a lot lighter than walnut... that would be nice. I will split a piece later and see what the split looks like...

 

[TedyOH]

Took a walk in the woods after yesterday's wind storm....future scrounge of beech that fell across the 4 wheeler path...perfect!

 

[Dobish]

it feels a lot lighter than walnut... that would be nice. I will split a piece later and see what the split looks like...

turns out it had been dead for a while, so maybe it is walnut!

 

[Dobish]

well, it sure split nice... some of it actually had a bit of purple under the bark. Moisture content was around 54%, so it wasn't that dead.

 

[Bushfire]

View attachment 192605 well, it sure split nice... some of it actually had a bit of purple under the bark. Moisture content was around 54%, so it wasn't that dead.

That's walnut. Given your location, it could be a walnut that has succumbed to Thousand Cankers Disease:http://www.thousandcankers.com/

 

[Allagash350]

Not sure if I did this right, but this was yesterday's "scrounge". Customer of mine is selling his house and moving in the next few weeks. I asked him about the wood pile while I was moving a shed for him.
It helped that it was covered in snow and 20 degrees. He said If I could get it gone before the closing I could have it for free.
I figure maybe 4 cords or a bit more? All been cut for about 3 years and fairly small peices so it is easy to manage.
I have a bit more to go back for, but the dump trailer was full and I have a sander in my truck at the moment, and my back was done for. Busted my butt and did it in 6.5 hours including 15 minutes drive to my house to unload, sharpening etc. 4 trips total. Very very happy about this, my wife wasn't thrilled about the wood strewn around the yard

 

[Dobish]

Busted my butt and did it in 6.5 hours including 15 minutes drive to my house to unload, sharpening etc. 4 trips total. Very very happy about this, my wife wasn't thrilled about the wood strewn around the yard

if you can move it that quick, you will get the yard cleared in no time

 

[Allagash350]

Haha yeah in theory. Probably won't deal with it until I have time to split it at the same time.

 

[Dobish]

Haha yeah in theory. Probably won't deal with it until I have time to split it at the same time.

how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time.....

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Bishdude,
I have some of that too in my scrounge mess somewhere. LOL
It was very pretty purple-ish inside and very thick bark, almost an inch thick.
Been busting away at the 4X8 pallets and getting it into the wall o' wood.
That whole mess was in no particular order, just stacked by MC. Used up a fair bit
by now and the replacements are stacked more loosely. Kinda cool changing the flavor
of the day and testing out different combos as noted in the "what's in yer stove right now" thread.

Allagash,
I always split my scrounge as soon as I get it home, and do only about a dozen rounds per trip.
Similar to your pattern. The problem in the pics was a blown shoulder socket and healing nicely
now. Also a borrowed splitter on site to shred the uglies. There's so much scrounge in this area
I haven't cut a single limb yet even living in the forest, and look what the cat dragged home over 7 months!!
(three years at home and another 2-3 permissioned waiting for me to haul back in the scroungemobile)
It's insane that the C-stores sell out those ridiculous bundles of 6 dollar firewood and they sell fast too!
Lots of rich folks from the Chicago area have a 2nd home here. Some have fireplaces and still let me
scavenge their frontage??? Whatever, and thanks. LOL It's all about keeping the AEP bill around $100
here @ Cheap Acres.
Even more insane is that I don't have a working saw. A neighbor gave me three that need a carb rebuild but waiting
till summer for that messy sitting-still chore outdoors.
Third pic is from the lil' November heatwave, temps were in the 60's, and 2/3 of the trees
had dropped their leaves.

 

[Lloyd the redneck]

today's btus. Been picking at my neighbors log pile for a few weeks and finally we decided it makes more sense to use the skidder and load the trailer. Cut out atleast one handling. Should last me a month. I hope.

 

[Hubby with a C]

The forest service has been doing some thinning to reduce the danger of wildfire. They took a bunch of trees down and bucked a bunch of wood. I called my county and they said I could take it. I got 4 loads of wood. It is a mix of Elm, Russian Olive, Ponderosa Pine, and Juniper. Mostly Pine.

 

[buddythehuman]

Scored a load of apple!

 

[NaturalCauses]

First scrounge since I started burning, I think I might get addicted! Not good at IDing wood yet, but it's BTU's, so I'm happy [emoji3]

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Any smell to it?