Today's Scrounge--post the free btu's

Damage from the northeaster
Got six trailer loads, and never went more than a mile from home

I think we may have got the same wind storm from a week or two back . . . unfortunately the darn City has been super efficient in removing branches and downed trees. I managed to get a few loads, but even now they have roving pulp trucks picking up brush and branches along the streets.

The Merrimack valley got almost half of the power failures in MA, and they were almost all due to trees.
Our area is still swamped with downed trees, and I have people waiting for me to come take it

Nice little impromptu CL ash score after work earlier this week...

I should take a picture of my woodshed. It's full of scrounged up free firewood. Around here hardwood is everywhere and free. I gave away 4+ cords this year because I have too much.

I have a reputation in our small community for cutting up problem trees. I have a group of friends that help and we all come home with firewood. I haven't paid to heat my house other than gas, bar oil, 2strike oil, diesel for my truck and plenty of sweat.

bob95065 said:

I should take a picture of my woodshed....

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Yes, you should. We love pictures!

Had a black walnut that was shading our vegetable garden too much. The chief landscaper, the Wifey, decided it needed to go.
It is gone.
These are the sizable chunks & the rest is kindling and/or bonfire wood.
Not a bad way to spend the 60+ degree day today.

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Couple of cords of red oak. This is from a clients prop. Tree fell in spring storm. At the base it was over 40" as my 20" bar couldn't meet from both sides. Gave a cord to my neighbor and another to my dad and theres one more heaping cord remaining to clean up. 4-5 cords in all, tiring but a sweet score. Some behind large pile pic is black locust from last march. I just ran out of time and put it on the "split this winter" list. Will get to splitting once the ground freezes...........i hope.

Quick run to a nearby campground that has a fallen ponderosa pine. Not the greatest wood out there but gets the job done especially when free. The rounds were about 20" so I made quick work of them with the saw.

Jeffm1 said:

Yes, you should. We love pictures!

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It holds 9 cords, 4.5 for this year and 4.5 for next year, one side this year and the other next year. We burn about 4 cords a year. This way the firewood sits two years so it's seasoned when we burn it.

We had another three cords under the tarp to the right but we gave most of it away. My wife hates tarps and I guess I do too. We didn't burn the wood under the roof because I kept getting free wood that we kept under the tarp.

We had a neighbor that had some tree work done in September. I asked the arborist to drop off all the hardwood and chips. I wound up with over three cords of oak and madrone that I cut split and gave away. They also dropped off about 40 yards of wood chips that were is, madrobe and mostly redwood. They thanked me for taking it.

There's lots of free firewood around here if you know where to look and if you are willing to do the work.

Got two truck loads of honey locust this week...

Woody5506 said:

Got two truck loads of honey locust this week...

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Nice! I just grabbed and split a 1/2 facecord of dry Ash. Now that I have started burning for the season I have some room to put it!

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This is some sort of hit of a lifetime. There's a mile plus of this stuff. The tree dudes are
awesome enuff to buck at stove and fireplace length, and even stacked on the wet ground.
Weird thing is that it's ALL still there weeks later. Both myself and the other area scrounger
have ridiculous amounts of wood already. More wood gets dropped and rots faster than we
can burn it. Go figure in an area that stays below freezing 90% of 4 months.

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Nice work. I filled the back of the mini van this morning with maple. My wife just said "i thought you said you were done collecting for a while, but it's good to burn, so I'm not going to say no. "

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That's some fine Black Locust right there...nice score!

Scored three pickup loads from the tree company doing power line trimming before the snow came. Oak, shagbark hickory, maybe a little maple. I intended to get it split and stacked asap, but Mother Nature had other plans. Got all the rounds stacked now on the pallets in the background.

Helped my Dad set these hedge posts about 35 years ago, bigger machinery, bigger fields & no livestock on the farm led to the fence being taken out. Dug them out of his brush pile. May have blown an o-ring tossing the big one in

This hickory blew down several months ago and was suspended in a way that very little of the wood was on the ground. I believe there will be about a cord of firewood in it once it’s all hauled up and stacked.


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JimBear said:

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Helped my Dad set these hedge posts about 35 years ago, bigger machinery, bigger fields & no livestock on the farm led to the fence being taken out. Dug them out of his brush pile. May have blown an o-ring tossing the big one in

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I scrounge up old hedge post whenever I can. Cut them up and they're ready to go.

fishki said:

I scrounge up old hedge post whenever I can. Cut them up and they're ready to go.

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I don’t know many people that burn hedge around here, most seem to think they will melt their stoves or burn down their houses

Tree company dumped a load of white oak logs!

cut theese last month.. free wood from my brother's house

Free wood from my tree service friend i cut it up th 18in rounds

This scrounge pile is what I split and racked last October, I have a similar pile now again but it’s covered with a few feet of fresh snow right now.
The scrounge is easy up here in the north woods. This pile has mostly maple and elm, and cherry in it.