Unexpected Scrounge

[Kenster]

I've been out of town for most of the past three straight weeks. Yesterday, I was driving past our little rural community park and noticed a small pile of bucked wood next to a tree. "Hmmm!" says I. I wheel around and drive up into the wooded parkland and find a good little stack of freshly cut water oak. I load it up and look around and see three more stacks or similar size: some more water oak and some nice pignut hickory. These are all about six to eight inch branches with only a couple of uglies. I took home almost a pickup truck bed load. Maybe a quarter cord. Good, freshly cut green wood. Rather inconsiderate of them to buck it up to about 25 inches. Don't they know it won't fit in my stove? Oh well, I have the means to make it work and that'll leave me a bunch of four inch chunks to burn as fillers.

 

[Flavo]

As some one who often sees bucked wood myself. How do you make a determination if the wood is for the taking? If I can't find a land owner I would typically just drive by w/ lust in my eyes.

 

[Kenster]

As some one who often sees bucked wood myself. How do you make a determination if the wood is for the taking? If I can't find a land owner I would typically just drive by w/ lust in my eyes.

In this particular case, the wood was on common ground owned and maintained by the property owners. Around here though, one can often see stacks of wood bucked by the electric coop clearing easements. It's generally accepted that the property owner where the easement lays gets the wood but nothing prevents you from stopping to ask for it.

 

[Wood Duck]

What size wood fits in your stove front to back (north/south as they say)? 25 inches sounds like it might make two front to back pieces, and cutting in half can be easier than cutting a short piece off the end. It is nice to have some north/south pieces.

 

[Kenster]

What size wood fits in your stove front to back (north/south as they say)? 25 inches sounds like it might make two front to back pieces, and cutting in half can be easier than cutting a short piece off the end. It is nice to have some north/south pieces.

Eight or nine inch depth, so cutting in half doesn't work.

 

[loon]

nice scoop

loon