Saturday afternoon I find this scrounge on my local CL. It turns out the guy is <7 miles from me. He had 5 big oaks (red & white) dropped last summer and the cutter never came back to clean it up. He burns 2 pellet stoves and just wants the wood gone so he can rent a chipper soon. Great score, but it's down a pretty good slope in his back yard.
I took the D-max and splitter over Sunday morning with the GF following in the Jeep, which has an 8 K winch on the front.
It took us 5 hrs to get there, winch, cut, split, load 4 good ranks in the truck, get home and stack it. Like always, the red oak was sopping wet inside & smells like alcohol, the white oak was very heavy but the bark was falling off of it.
This stuff is already seasoning.
This stuff will probably make 3 or 4 more loads, maybe more if we get greedy. The base of that red oak is about 24".
I took the D-max and splitter over Sunday morning with the GF following in the Jeep, which has an 8 K winch on the front.
It took us 5 hrs to get there, winch, cut, split, load 4 good ranks in the truck, get home and stack it. Like always, the red oak was sopping wet inside & smells like alcohol, the white oak was very heavy but the bark was falling off of it.
This stuff is already seasoning.
This stuff will probably make 3 or 4 more loads, maybe more if we get greedy. The base of that red oak is about 24".
