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

[Dobish]

i got a trailer full of maple, aspen and cherry yesterday. there was a lot of brush with it, but it is a few days worth of wood (about 1/4 cord). I spend an hour with the saw the other day and got just about everything I had cut down to length. Now its time to get back to splitting!

after getting it all cut up, it ended up being closer to a 1/2 cord. i also knocked over one of my stacks of locust, so I had to restack that.... short pieces are really annoying

 

[Slacker]

I've added to post 137. Not a true scrounge as I had to pay for this but some say I stole it at $50 for all of it. 2.75 truck loads with about 1/2 cord of Black Locust and the rest Cherry, Oak, a little Poplar, with some Apple.

 

[Allagash350]

Got about 3/4 or so of a cord of seasoned white oak and some red. Love the noise of seasoned wood hitting another peice, music to my ears. Would have got more but my sander had 2yds of sand in it and didn't want to push it with tongue weight

 

[Jeffm1]

Scored a load of apple!

Saweeeet!

 

[snavematt]

Still working on this, gonna be the death of me I think. At least it's down hill to the splitter








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[NaturalCauses]

Spent my Saturday morning picking this up from Craigslist. 6 full pickup beds full (Chevy Colorado 5 foot bed). Luckily it was only a 4 mile drive from my house. Definitely over a cord worth.

 

[Rangerbait]

The fruits of this morning's trip out with the new saw



Picked this up from a buddy's house who's moving and needed it gone to get his deposit back...he said its hickory and paid $150 for it a year ago...the bark looks right, but I'll have to split some of it to see what it really looks like.

 

[fishki]

A little scrounged up pile of 50+ year old hedge fence posts that I found laying out in a field, born and raised with these post and they don't go bad so I wasn't going to pass them up. Got them home, cut them up, and loaded the stove. Got so damn hot had to put a big fan blowing across the stove to strip off some heat. Keeps going like this I'm going to have to open some doors.

 

[Rangerbait]

Link Removed Got the latest scrounge all split up yesterday, and now I get to stack it all since I have the day off.

 

[Dobish]

not a new scrounge, but i finally got around to stacking and splitting the rest of the locust and walnut that has been tossed in the yard.


I still have probably 1.5-2 cord that needs split and stacked that I have picked up and finally cut down to size. It was so nice to stack all these even length pieces....

 

[Rangerbait]

It's been a busy weekend for me...I took today off just so I could finish processing my scrounge from Saturday. Went out at the crack of dawn that day and cut for just over an hour and got a full load all the way to the top of the sideboards. Spent the afternoon and most of Sunday splitting it, then a good portion of today stacking about a third of a Holz Hausen. The fact that it was in the 50s with bluebird skies here today was icing on the cake. Can't beat stacking wood in a t shirt in February!

 

[Tom123]

My son works on the grounds crew at a private high school. He brought me home a load of wood today. Slippery elm and soft maple.

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Nice job, fellas !!

Brought home 14 rounds of ash. They were stacked very neatly under a billboard,
but never taken away. Old stuff, black-ish ends and the bottom row was mushroomed.
Left the very soft and collapsing bottom row. lol. With them elevated, they got hand
split quite easily and taken right to the firebox, and under the overhang in the staging
area on the porch. Nice lil' few day hit, and I didn't need to touch the wood wall.
With our redneck woodshed (truck cap with pallet walls) the wall is now ALL for seasoning
next year's stash. The shed holds a cord or more of very dead roadkill for fast drying and
the wall is now red, ash, maple, and assorted hugely green Asplundh drops. Pics to follow
soon as the stacks of rounds are going away fast. The shoulder repair is rehabbed wonderfully.
The splitter gets used but I'm hand splitting faster than the machine can do except on that
stringy gnarly elm n' such knotted pieces. (still the green is way down the wall from what can be
used in October) Won't even get to the greenage for another season. Feels good to be this far
ahead now with 1 year + a week on wood. 2-3 yrs on site with much more to come........

Maybe someday I'll get those donated saws running.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Got a solid cord of white oak in the driveway. Given to me by one of the farmers i know. He had some trees fall in a field. I have like 3 more cords at least to get

 

[pyroheater]

very nice scores you all got here... I just got about a half a cord of free Eucalptus, all huge 75+lbs rounds. Some of these would make a great coffee table

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Welcome to the zoo, Splitter67 and Pyro.
Is the 67 your birth year? ('66 model myself)

I GOTTA stop bringing home truckloads of this stuff !!
I'm overloaded with rounds even though they disappear quickly enough.
Some guys were pulled over eyeballing and pointing across the ditch at my largest
permisionned ash stash so it's coming home as of today. There was literally three guys
standing together at the place I pull over and they were pointing at wood and discussing
(likely) ways to easily cross the water. This whole road is busy and ALL scrounged except
my stockpiles safe with the moat along 2 linear acres. I carry a 6 foot 2x12 and lay it across the bottom
and it's instantly a sidewalk, albeit steep sides. I've already stacked the rounds into piles on high ground
and others are standing on end. It doesn't even look random. I've made 6 runs total since last
summer and there's at least 6 more truckloads. Oh, the price of being a professional scavenger......
Maybe a coupla No Trespass signs would help.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

CBT yes my model year is 67... i am soon to be sitting on 14 cords of all free wood. I am sitting on white, red, blackjack oak, hickory, black cherry and some black walnut. This is a real addiction. Love me some wood...i will never buy wood..

 

[Rangerbait]

Headed out again at the crack of dawn this morning for a little two-stroke therapy

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Here is the end product of post 189.. my free score landed me 1.5 cords in the wood shed..

 

[HisTreeNut]

Got another pickup load from Craigslist:

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I want to say black walnut, but I'll differ to the experts.

What does it smell like? Walnut has a very definitive smell to it.

 

[HisTreeNut]

Next door neighbor cut down a tree and his son didn't want it. Any guesses?

Got the kiddos to help haul the splits and kindling. A good day.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Red oak?

 

[HisTreeNut]

Looks to be but I am thinking it might be white oak. The oak I got the other week had much more red in it than this. This has a little different smell, similar, but a little less sweet.
Regardless, it is oak, it is split, and its going in my stack tomorrow. The neighbor was impressed at how well the kiddos worked and how polite they were.
Still, a good day...nah...a great day & feeling blessed.

 

[bcrewcaptain]

gotta love it when the next door neighbor tells you they want a couple trees dropped. Obviously won't be any good next yr, but good to have in surplus. All the fresh wood is todays work. Poor quad and cart have had it. 3-4 rounds at a time, about 1000yards round trip through the woods each trip. I'm beat.

 

[Dobish]

today's scrounge




The whole tree is coming down, but I grabbed a few pieces. Any idea what type of wood? Looks a little like red oak....