The Ultimate Scrounge

[tfdchief]

OK, my son and I cut together. We are both way ahead and running out of room to stack and store our wood (both live in town) and thought we were done with fire wood until next winter. BUT, my son's next door neighbor announces he is having a tree service take down the big White Ash in his back yard....do we want the wood? Couldn't pass that up...all we have to do is chuck it over the chain link fence and split and stack it. Well, half of it will come to my house. Our wives think we are "certifiable" but this is just way to easy. ;-P

 

[Beardog]

Simply awesome!

 

[weatherguy]

It would have been a sin not to take it! Nice size pile too.

 

[tfdchief]

Simply awesome!

It would have been a sin not to take it! Nice size pile too.

That's what we told our wives :cheese:

 

[Thistle]

Great score. The wives will feel differently when some of that wonderful wood is warming the house. :coolsmile: As long as you have the space,its good to bring home as much as you possibly can.Never know what the next 2-3 yrs may bring what with getting sick,injured,the weather or working so much overtime that processing is out of the question....

 

[BrotherBart]

Oh! Baby!

What did they charge him to drop that sucker?

 

[SolarAndWood]

I want to see the pics of you throwing the big ones over the fence.

 

[bogydave]

WOW
I know there is no such thing as "easy wood" but that is as close as it gets.
Great score.

 

[tfdchief]

Great score. The wives will feel differently when some of that wonderful wood is warming the house. :coolsmile: As long as you have the space,its good to bring home as much as you possibly can.Never know what the next 2-3 yrs may bring what with getting sick,injured,the weather or working so much overtime that processing is out of the question....

Thistle, they just like to razz us a little. They both love it!

Oh! Baby!

What did they charge him to drop that sucker?

BB, We haven't ask, but I bet it was cheaper if they didn't have to haul the rounds away.

I want to see the pics of you throwing the big ones over the fence.

Solar, our log splitter (in my son's back yard) is going around the front and into their back yard and chuck those babies down to size! ;-)

 

[tfdchief]

WOW
I know there is no such thing as "easy wood" but that is as close as it gets.
Great score.

Bogydave, That's what we said. Easiest wood I ever got in all my years of burning!

 

['bert]

that's cheating! Are you sure the neighbor wont pay you for cleaning up his yard or at least offer you a case of beer? Great score.

 

[woodchip]

It doesn't matter how much wood you've got, you cannot turn free fuel down.

Might be the last pile of free wood you ever see ;-)

 

[mayhem]

all we have to do is chuck it over the chain link fence and split and stack it

Too much like work. Take down a section of the fence and roll the rounds over on a few planks.

 

[certified106]

Very nice! It can't get much better than that

 

[wannabegreener]

Since you are running out of space, I would offer my wood stove insert as a good place to stack it. Since the pile is too big, we could store it in my wood pile. Since I live about 1000 miles away, I figured you would never come back to get it so I would just have to burn it for you.

Nice score. I have a neighbor cutting a few smaller trees down, but they are big enough to burn. He doesn't want them, so I'll have to take them.

 

[Intheswamp]

all we have to do is chuck it over the chain link fence and split and stack it

Too much like work. Take down a section of the fence and roll the rounds over on a few planks.

+1 Just what I was thinking. Looks like the chain is on ya'lls side of the fence so just unhook the bottom edge from 2-3 posts and roll the rounds under the fence.

Ed

 

[tfdchief]

all we have to do is chuck it over the chain link fence and split and stack it

Too much like work. Take down a section of the fence and roll the rounds over on a few planks.

I don't want to make it to easy and spoil myself ;-P

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Great score chief.

As long as you can get the splitter to the wood, why monkey with the fence?

 

[woodchip]

As long as you can get the splitter to the wood, why monkey with the fence?

As usual, the master lets us all flounder about, then comes along with the simple solution that we all missed ;-)

 

[tfdchief]

As long as you can get the splitter to the wood, why monkey with the fence?

As usual, the master lets us all flounder about, then comes along with the simple solution that we all missed ;-)

Yes, and I can't believe he didn't mention that we will HAVE TO USE IT VERTICAL to bust up those big ones. :cheese:

 

[rdust]

Simply an awesome score!

I scored 3 cords of ash a while back from my neighbor that I thought was the best of the best. I had to haul it a few hundred feet, yours is much better! :lol:

 

[tfdchief]

I want to see the pics of you throwing the big ones over the fence.

Solar, Here's the pic. Sorry we couldn't quite throw this one over the fence :snake:

 

[woodchip]

Brilliant picture.

Just wondering how long that one round would last on a fire once split.........

 

[Intheswamp]

I want to see the pics of you throwing the big ones over the fence.

Solar, Here's the pic. Sorry we couldn't quite throw this one over the fence :snake:

That's a mighty big round, but what amazes me is that jacket you're wearing....it's 87F right now down here (I dread seeing what the summer's going to be like!).

Excellent score there, really nice one!
Ed

 

[Backwoods Savage]

But Ed, you live in a different world. :lol: