Scrounge... sort of

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HardWoodW

HardWoodW

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City came past and cut down this double trunk ash tree that was on the easement in my front yard (far tree in the first pic) I asked them to leave the wood and now I'm cutting splitting stacking
 

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How Sweeet it is.... Nice Helper TOO!
 
Great! That ash will make you some good firewood. Nice that you have such a good helper too.
 
Easy pickin's = every scroungers favorite. How much do you think you ended-up with?
 
It doesn't get much better than that. The more we burn ash, the more we appreciate it! Our warm house rates ash
better than cherry and just a tiny notch below red oak (though oak takes sooooo long to season and ash dries FAST).
 
Easy pickins, and Ash to boot. Doesn't get much better than that.

Put a Fiskars in the little guy's hands; Anybody can split with that thing! :lol:
 
That's what you would call an easy scrounge. haha
 
midwestcoast said:
Easy pickin's = every scroungers favorite. How much do you think you ended-up with?
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umm... a big pile LOL. No really I think I have about a cord but I still have several huge rounds to split up. The tree was a little deceiving because really it was two trees in one. I'll post a pic of the pile when it's all done- gotta take a day off my back is a little stiff and it's raining today anyway.
 
Gark said:
It doesn't get much better than that. The more we burn ash, the more we appreciate it! Our warm house rates ash
better than cherry and just a tiny notch below red oak (though oak takes sooooo long to season and ash dries FAST).
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That's about how we rate it too.
 
well got some good use out of the farm boss and my 8# maul. the stack you see is a double row all the way down- not ideal for seasoning but ya know us city burners have to stack it where we can
 

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Glad you got that wood and I agree that is a fine looking crew.
 
Nice looking wood, like the little helper too ;-)
 
Nice score. It doesnt get too much easier than that! Good looking crew also! What part of Indiana are you from? I'm a city burner too (Noblesville) so I feel your pain.
 
Bocefus78 said:
Nice score. It doesnt get too much easier than that! Good looking crew also! What part of Indiana are you from? I'm a city burner too (Noblesville) so I feel your pain.
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Bocefus I'm not too far from your- I'm in Muncie. I have a good supply of 2 yr seasoned wood that I've been burning so far, but I tried a few pieces of that ash just to see how it burns and I'm pretty surprised how well it burns only having been seasoned over the summer. I guess that's why when someone is low on wood everybody tells them to go find some ash.
 
HardWoodW said:
Bocefus78 said:
Nice score. It doesnt get too much easier than that! Good looking crew also! What part of Indiana are you from? I'm a city burner too (Noblesville) so I feel your pain.
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Bocefus I'm not too far from your- I'm in Muncie. I have a good supply of 2 yr seasoned wood that I've been burning so far, but I tried a few pieces of that ash just to see how it burns and I'm pretty surprised how well it burns only having been seasoned over the summer. I guess that's why when someone is low on wood everybody tells them to go find some ash.
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You are correct! Once seasoned, you'll like it even more! There are some other members from your area as well on here. I met a few last winter.....good folks!
 
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