been scroungin around

I have had a few good scrounges lately.

cherry and mulberry in one pic ready to stack,
nice skid of walnut with 2 trees remaining.
some huge rounds of maple split and ready to stack
some rounds of maple with some mulberry stacked in the background.

I will be grabbing some more this weekend.

Now if these splits done freeze to the ground.

The maple was dead standing could almost use it now but saving for next season.

That there is a lot of wood. Nice scroungin ;-)

Quit a bit of wood in the pics
You must be quit a bit ahead. ?
Nice scrounging, looks good

Not so much ahead, working on next year still. I might be 3 cord up on next year so far.
Most of the stuff was what was left after everyone else cut the easy stuff.
I still have quite a bit to buck up and get home. It starts adding up though.

It does feel good to have next years wood CSS & seasoning.
Relaxed scrounging then, sometimes you fall into some really good scores & can be a little selective.
Got into left overs a few years back, but like you said it started adding up.

So far this year you may be saving on the amount burned, weather there's been mild. Longer wood cutting season too.
Have fun; Good luck

Looks good mecreature, the stacks are money in the bank and some nice btu's.

zap

Good scrounging indeed. Looks like you've been so busy you can't even finish a cup of coffee.

thanks, I should have waited till I got the area cleaned up and neat rows before I took the pics.
The day was ending and I wanted to get a pic before I lost the sun. Still sits like you see it.

2 of those rows are Black locust and hickory that found its way home
compliments of hanging around with Smokinjay last year. Saving it for colder times.

We have a few good size ash set up this weekend. the drive is to far, but I get to hang around some old friends.
we work for spell then talk smack have a brew and head home. More fun then anything.

Good looking piles of warmth you have there. Doesn't need to be pretty, just needs to burn ;-) But again, OCWD (obsessive compulsive wood disorder) does get us every once in a while... %-P

mecreature, if the splits do freeze on the ground, a simple tap with a splitting maul on the side of the split will loosen it right quick. We stack wood in winter and split in spring. Most times those on the bottom will be froze in but a light tap loosens them really quick. I could stack the wood on some poles but just don't mess with them for the splitting stacks.

Me creature,
Ever though about covering some stacks with that canoe in the back?

you might be on to something there.

Her is another scrounge I got this weekend.


Nice straight ASH.. I got a good truck load of rounds.. I split it with a friend.

And a pic of my little 280.

Beautiful ash but not so beautiful poison ivy on it! Danged stuff grows all over the place.

I just pulled it off like a rope. I haven't got it from here yet.

Wow, wish I had that kind of immunity. Those little roots that hold it to the bark are mega-itchy!

I used to get it really easily, but after one terrible break-out I'm pretty much immune to it now. I might get a few bumps from direct exposure, but not bad at all.

A friend gave me several bags of kindling sticks from old stuff taken out at a building project, I saw the bags of sticks piled up and.....scrounged. Rather small compared to your huge stack but free lol.

Fifi

I have taken plenty of small stuff. I figure I am lucky to get what I am getting now so I will keep taking the trees until they tell me to stop.
I have been burning most of the tops as I go just to keep it cleaned up a bit. they keep giving me more. fingers crossed.

Yaaaay friend chopped down some trees in garden gave me some ash and birch logs........ready to dry out for next year, I feel like I'm "getting there" now....starting on my next year's stash lol. Also gathered some sticks around where I'm working that had blown down.

Have put in shed to dry but do they need to be "outside" under cover? The shed is watertight but has a few small holes to let air in/out is that ok?

Fifi

From the looks of the hinge on that Ash, you not only hung around with Jay, but learned some stuff too. Nice job.

Yeah, good looking wood stacks & good looking saw! How come every Stihl bar I see on Hearth still has paint on the bar and looks brand new? I bought a new bar and paint was missing the first truck load I cut.

Nice Ash!

Fifi, the wood will dry much better outside. Whether you cover it or not is up to you. Some do and some don't. I usually leave it uncovered the first year and then cover it. Or in your case, leave it outside for a year and then move it into the shed. The difference is all in air circulation. Wind is your friend when it comes to drying wood; just be sure to get it split first and then stack it.

Thanks Backwoods Savage, I was wondering if I needed wind.......but it has to have some sort of cover, surley it can't be left out in the rain?

It's not that much and that big, they chopped up some of the smaller branches so no need to split.

Fifi

It sure can. Stacked off of the ground in a sun lit, windy spot, firewood can/will last for several years without any covering. There are a couple of varieties of the softer stuff (like paper birch, etc.) that you won't want to leave for multiple years, but a year or two ain't gonna hurt it at all. (this assumes, cut - split- stacked).

thanks Jags. It did go as planned.


as far as covering stacks I have a few top covered but if you take off the cover it is wet under the tarp. One good day with sun and wind the uncovered are dry. I am becoming a not covered type.