Way to go Urban Woods ! I thoroughly enjoyed that and can sympathize with what you went through to get that. Reminds me of what i was going though to get locust on my LOCUST Quest! score. Still ongoing as i have two more locations for it, but need to work them. Is it me or does locust seem to require extra effort to retrieve? How many loads have you pulled out of there? Too bad about the cart. Casualties of hoarding! I used a hand truck for the first time the last time i worked the score. What would you have done if a train came through? Nice thing about it being locust is that you dont have to hurry back. No rotting!
Excellent hoarding Urban Woods! Such trial and tribulation, but worth it for BL! I guess the shopping cart is good for branches but not made for heavy logs over train tracks! As Brad said, a handtruck would have saved the day. I wish we had a picture of you carrying that log. If you were wearing a kilt, you would have looked like a Scottish games contestant!
I checked out that Locust Post buZZsaw BRAD , wow you are killing it! Your neatly stacked pile of black locust gold reminds me of Fort Knox. You have a treasure bank of BTU's there! I was able to bend out the cart axle satisfactory enough when I got home, but Im sure its a bit weaker now. And yes Midwinter it was the repeated hammer slams that did it in ...that and the dense unforgivable weight. I didn't realize how jarring it would be to traverse those railroad ties with the cart, but the wheels sinking into the coarse gravel in between slams wasn't helping either. I was so winded I wanted it to work, but from now on its paved surfaces only for the cart. The weight of the logs would not have been that big a deal for me, under normal conditions. I've lifted much heavier wood to get it in my truck. It was carrying them while speed walking on that granite rock terrain for 300 yards before I could get them to the last 100 feet of pavement where I rolled them to the finish line. Doing that four times repeatedly was a chore for my lungs and when I saw myself in my rear view mirror while heading home, lets just say it wasn't pretty I have ample and even above average upper body strength, but my cardio has always been what holds me back. Brad that was my first time taking wood from that location. I spied it a few years back, but I saved it for a moment like this because of the time consuming difficulty level. Yes I agree Black locust makes you work for it. As you said, it's like steel, it's slower to cut through because it's so dense while it also dulls blades faster, a vicious cycle. Then the bark often comes off which I love, but now its full of either under-bark dirt or smelly decomposing slime making you have hold it awkwardly. Without the bark the wood becomes a dangerously hard battering ram where you need to be careful with fingers or denting and dinging equipment and your vehicle. All these factors require you to treat BL with an added layer of methodical handling slowing you up. Fortunately the splitting is relatively easy! I may return again one of these days to get more as I feel real comfortable with the location.
Husband and I picked up a car load of oak this morning. It was cut a few weeks ago from under a power line. I bucked it up yesterday, and we parked in a church parking lot to load it today.
Nice Midwinter FHC version of an Easter egg hunt only its firewood! Havent seen you post in a while. Are you having withdrawels?
Weather's been crappy, and I've kept busy sewing masks. Need any? Looking forward to warmer weather and some outside work. I answered this, haven't heard back, but it would be fun! "It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah... Hallelujah..."
Nice Midwinter ! Always good to get oak scores big or small. I hope you get answered and given a shot at that fallen tree ..Oak/elm? Anyway one concern I would have from that photo is that it appears the tree snapped completely apart at the lower trunk. This could be a sign that most the tree is already degraded plus a lot of debris so if you don't get it- don't sweat it. Yesterday I scored some old dry Elm that I'm burning now. I picked it up on the way home from delivering food to my wife's parents. The deadwood from a pile of 4ft lengths- trunk and smaller branches that was stacked behind a closed daycare parking lot which backed into an Amtrak rail tree buffer. It was a light score because being elm I didn't want to take too much only to get it home to find I cant split it. Well as I said it was pretty dry and mostly without bark so I was able to split it with a bit of labor but it was not impossible. I think the drying helped since the stringiness was probably reduced. I will definitely get another load on another trip since my In-laws say they will be continuing to stay indoors and fore-go grocery shopping. They live 40 min away so I hope this virus thing starts to drop off exponentially as we get over the peak and see some relief on the medical front. On the plus side Elm is great stuff if you can tame it. Happy Easter to all here on the car hoarding thread!
I got it! A dry dead ash. Solid right to the stump. I'm home with the first load, gotta go back for the rest.
Wow you got it!! Lots of wood there and pretty big so this will be a car hoarding return and repeat for a while. Nice and dry too so it's ready to burn now or later while your oak stacks dry. Way to go ..and looking forward to the future progress posts!
Across the highway, toward Sky Meadow. 5 minutes away. Total take, plus some small stuff: Maybe half a cord once split. They have a dead oak in the front yard as well, and high winds tomorrow... I told them to save my number. I got it off the Nextdoor app.
It amazes me how much you find so close to home! Props for getting the hubby pitnof the house with you too today.
He loaded the oak for me, after I wheelbarrowed it to the car, but he bailed on the ash. The homeowner didn't help either, social distancing.
