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SmokeyCity

Feeling the Heat
Mar 6, 2011
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Western Pa
A guy bought the vacant lot behind me and began rehabbing it. He cut down several large trees and small ones. Also demoed a garage that had a lot of nice 4x4 and 2x6 douglas fit.

Here are my 2 scrounge piles. I lifted all those big stumps and tossed them over a 3 ft fence!! Believe it or not my back feels fine - Im a functional training nut and this is one of my fav workouts. The big stump on the right had to weigh 200 #. I bear hugged it and tossed it.

It took me about 2 hrs of continuous intense lifting rolling and tossing to scrounge these 2 piles from the vacant lot onto my cement pad.
I felt like a kid in a candy shop when he told me I could take anything I wanted.

Also in process of negotiating taking down a *huge* dead locust up the street out of a vacant lot. Ill post a pic of that soon and maybe someone can estimate how many cords it contains.

Here are the 2 scrounge piles:
 

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Looks like you have a potential wood shed back there.
 
SolarAndWood said:
Looks like you have a potential wood shed back there.

thats the plan - my sister just told me that she is having two pine trees, each one about 100 fttall - taken down near her house. The trunks are enormous - the largest pines I've ever seen. The guy taking them down has mill saws that he is bring out on a big truck bed. He will cut it into whatever she wants.

Im gonna ask her to make me some 6x6 or 8x8 (gotta look up a good design) posts so I can construct a wood shelter large enough to cover about 20 cords.
 
Super nice when it is so close.
 
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