I give you a lot of credit, Newfoundland must be full of scroungers, yet you still find stuff to scrounge!
I went back to the house where Midwinter and I got the oak trunk a week or two ago. Two rounds of the trunk left, then I cut up the larger limbs. Probably about 3/4 of a cord in both trips once its split.
Thanks Molly! Perfect timing. They changed the for sale sign to under contract while I was there today.
Nope, not unless something happens soon! I have enough oak around here to fill out 24-25's 2-2.5 cords of oak to join this. It's all white too, so less stank!
Completion! I finished splitting all the wood (sugar maple and a little beech) that I picked up at WeldrDave's last summer/fall. It came out to two and a quarter cords. There's a second row in the back in the first pic. I'll be burning it two winters from now. Thank you Dave! Also lots of gratitude for stuckinthemuck's unexpected help, when he cut most of the poles to stove size. I would still be at it, if it wasn't for him.
2 for 2 days. I thought this was ornamental cherry and a couple red bud rounds, but I hadn’t seen the tan center in cherry like that before. All of it was heavy and wet. If they are too small to split, I’ll stack them with the locust branches.
Looks like Zelkova. Non-native ornamental, I find a lot at the dump. Burns like cherry but doesn't have the nice aroma.
I was out this weekend in long Island helping my one brother on his house and the other brother I helped scrounge some cherry and oak cook wood for his pizza oven and grills. The cherry was that long dead barkless kind, mostly dry heartwood except for some spots that were resting right on the ground. The oak however was freshly cut bt rhe power line people and heavy up to 28 inches round, but we took the 14 "diameter 5 foot sections. We managed to muscle it in his Nissan SUV. Always feels good to help keep family members in the firewood lifestyle. I showed them how to scrounge in places they would have never considered looking before, especially for ready to burn wood when they are running low on supplies. I have this weird thing where I imagine everything stops here on the car hoarding thread while I'm away and then I check and you guys have been at it pretty hard. Is this what my mom meant when she told me the world doesn't always revolve around me???
They just burn for pizza oven and grills? They should have no problem scrounging on Long Island, but it sounds like you got them set for awhile. Hope they take to the scrounging lifestyle!
My older brother just bought a house he has refurbished top to bottom and put in an insert. He had lots of trees cleared on 1 acre property, unfortunately majority cottonwood so he is set for a few years as I estimate 15 -20 cords when all processed. Problem is his house still has much work left and the wood has already sat a year and one pile about 5 cords worth has been down for 3 years. Cotton wood is quick to get punky, and to add the wood has this sick fibrous woven grain so not easy to hand split. I helped him buck and split over 4 cords over the few years between helping him with the house. When we need a break from the monotony of home construction we take a few wacks outside haha, but he's just to busy with the house at this time to be trying to process 20 cord with a maul. He needs to invest in a good splitter, (and by that I mean a 27 ton or more) or he's gonna lose it all. My other brother is younger than me and more of a creature comfort kind of guy who likes opulence if he can afford it. He is installing a gas insert in his house despite my protests. Oh well, He does do a lot of grilling, smoking, and has a great high end pizza oven that he bought of course and didn't build it with scrounged bricks like me haha! So I have a fun time collecting higher end cooking woods with him like apple, cherry, and hickory etc..
Yes it sounds like that cottonwood is an albatross around your brothers' neck. It would take a high degree of stubbornness to make use of it all.
Picked up that wood in Hudson this morning, Mwalsh9152! A little apple, but mostly what I think is pear. It's ugly, but I needed to do a little scrounging.
Definitely not a pretty looking scrounge, but it's all good! You mentioned that you were going to park at the muffler shop, so I assume the wood was right there by Walmart? When I told you about them cutting, it was further down by the veterinarian but on the other side of the road. Might be worth another look?
