Good scrounge or P.I.T.A. ?

[mustash29]

Saturday afternoon I find this scrounge on my local CL. It turns out the guy is <7 miles from me. He had 5 big oaks (red & white) dropped last summer and the cutter never came back to clean it up. He burns 2 pellet stoves and just wants the wood gone so he can rent a chipper soon. Great score, but it's down a pretty good slope in his back yard.

I took the D-max and splitter over Sunday morning with the GF following in the Jeep, which has an 8 K winch on the front.

It took us 5 hrs to get there, winch, cut, split, load 4 good ranks in the truck, get home and stack it. Like always, the red oak was sopping wet inside & smells like alcohol, the white oak was very heavy but the bark was falling off of it.

This stuff is already seasoning.



This stuff will probably make 3 or 4 more loads, maybe more if we get greedy. The base of that red oak is about 24".

 

[claydogg84]

Pictures aren't working. Sounds like a bit of work but it's great firewood.

 

[mustash29]

Yeah, trying to fix the pics. I think photobucket doesn't like my adblocker plus.

 

[mustash29]

Pic #1 http://s23.photobucket.com/user/Mus...xph6E_600x450_zpsbyymcjsn.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

Pic #2 & 3 http://s23.photobucket.com/user/Mus...X1IK9_600x450_zps037m0jxn.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 http://s23.photobucket.com/user/Mus...RJDsd_600x450_zps4kgzgggl.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

 

[heavy hammer]

I would do it, it's great wood seems like plenty for future wood burning, and it's close. Plus it's free, if it was easy someone else probably would have already taken it. If the homeowner is not in a big rush work at it at your convenience. Dry warm days playing in the woods with your toys, trust me couple cold winters from now you will look back a be very happy you did it.

 

[AmbDrvr253]

I would not do it for any wood, BUT for oak, hickory, and the like I would certainly do it. But I am ahead and can afford to be snobbish.