wood score with pics

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spadafore

spadafore

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A local farmer had a fence row knocked down to gain more usable land. There is ALOT of trees knocked down and laying in piles. This is today's haul. I believe it is some type of ash, some type of oak, and either locust or hickory. I took a close up of the bark I am not quite sure of. Anybody have any ideas. I have the week off from work and I plan to get as much wood as daylight will allow. Free is always the price for me. Darn shame whatever I don't get will just get burnt.
 

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:coolsmile: That's a great score. I'm thinking that crotch piece in 1st pic at front of trailer looks like honey locust, or possibly younger red oak.Log next to that with the darker reddish brown heartwood & scaly bark,kinda like black cherry.Last pic side view of the bark,either shagbark or shellbark hickory (sometimes both names used for same tree,but its actually 2 separate species,with slight difference between number of leaflets,texture of bark.Wood is identical in appearance,density,strength etc.)
 
Some of the light colored wood is Ash and some is Hickory (lowest picture looks like Hickory for sure). Can't tell what the darker colored wood is... maybe some type of cherry?

You've got some great hardwoods there! Hope you can get it all before its all burned!
 
I see some ash, cherry and hickory.
 
Spad nice score, I see some ash and cherry the other would just be a guess on my part.


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Backwoods Savage said:
I see some ash, cherry and hickory.
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+1 Nice score!
 
Man I'd say you hit the jackpot! I see oak and Ash there.. I love Ash because it seasons so fast and oak is great a few years down the road... Great score!!

Ray
 
I see cheap heat. . . .
 
I see some ash (on the right side of the trailer, most of the top layer is ash), Shagbark or Shellbark Hickory (there is a big round with shaggy bark in the third pic), and Black Cherry (the darker wood with blackish bark).
 
I've got to get a trailer. That just looks so much easier then my raised 4x4 pickup bed. With ramps - I could almost roll the big ones up.

For sure - I need a trailer!

Nice score!
 
basswidow yes the trailer makes life real easy. I have an F-250 with over-sized tires. I have to also mention it is powered by international's 7.3 turbo charged engine. Anyway the trailer is a 5 by 10. I like it because I can load it pretty easy and bring it home drop it wherever and split the wood when i get to it as opposed to having to unload the back of the truck ASAP.
 
Yeah - that trailer is slick.

My Dad has one I can borrow for the season - but I have to drive 250 miles one way to get it.

I am about 1/2 done on my scrounging for next year. Maybe I can pick it up over the summer. Sure would be nice. Sometimes I have to make multiple trips from the scrounge spot to home and back. It would be nice to spend a less on running back and forth and just load up the truck and trailer.
 
Oh yeah,

A 5x10 is it single axle? Brakes?

I noticed you double stacked but not over the rail. Can it handle more ? I'm not good at estimating the weight of wood. I never really stack much over the top of my truck bed and I still feel I am over doing it. Having a trailer might take alittle of the work off my truck bed.
 
firefighterjake said:
I see cheap heat. . . .
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absolutely :coolsmile:
 
dwaynecornhauler said:
In pic 3 is the vine POISON IVY?
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It could be.Also either Virginia Creeper or young Wild Grape. Hard to tell without any leaves or a closeup of the bark.
 
Doesn't look like poison ivy to me. Looks more like grape vines. We have lots of that here....along with the poison ivy.
 
basswidow the trailer is single axle and has no brakes. I have hauled more weight than I should have many of times. I always check the leaf springs to see where I am with the weight. I keep wood under or even with the sides just to be safe on the road plus I don't have to use straps that way. I bought it at TSC they market it at a landscape trailer. Not sure what it is rated for. Not a big tex but it works.
 
Great score!

I have family in Dayton OH. We drove down(75) Sunday and came back today. I couldn't believe how many farmers fields had piled up wood just waiting to be torched. If I lived in that area I'd be all over those farmers for that wood!
 
Backwoods Savage said:
Doesn't look like poison ivy to me. Looks more like grape vines. We have lots of that here....along with the poison ivy.
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+ 1 poison ivy tendys to be very hairy. had a bad case this summer wheni was cuttin up a cotton wood. yek.
 
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