Dead & Ready and a Couple Free Things.

Had to deliver some wood to a regular customer this morning. "Broken" wheelbarrow sitting next to where i stacked the wood that he's throwing away and gave it to me. Missing only a bushing sleeve. Easy fix. Practically new and a plastic tub. Only 4 or 5 cubic foot, but cant beat the price.
Had another job to finish later. Homeowner said he had a small limb fall in the yard so i took the 170 thinking id cut it in a few pieces and toss into his woods. Turns out to be a dead oak limb maybe 6" diameter. Bucked to 4' chunks and took for myself. Bark and sapwood gone, but heartwood solid. Looks ready to burn. Days worth of wood. An old wood rack with black steel "U" brackets and 2x4's laying nearby. Asked about it and it was trash as well. Ill put them to good use.
Love getting free stuff...especially when i can use it in my hoarding efforts!

 

You and I are cut from the same cloth... I do that all the time. See something getting thrown out, grab it instinctively thinking "I don't know what I'm going to use this for yet, but I've got a use for it!"

 

Score, score, score. Good for you.

 

Always nice to add to "inventory".

I've added free roadside racks to my woodyard, over the years. Enough to stack a full cord on.

Nice oak!

 

These were nice as i had immediate use for them. I drive her nuts as do it on a fairly regular basis. Habit i picked up from my folks who lived through the great depression.
If i dont use it...CL fodder.

 

Score on the wood and wheelbarrow

 

Good stuff Brad! Did ya even break a sweat fixing it?

 

News last night said it was the 20th day it hit 90 for July.
With temps like that i break a sweat when i fart.

 

Good score. Looks like that barrow was just put together wrong. Easy fix is right.

 

Lucky dog!! It’s funny people just let oak go by the wayside on the east coast. You could sell even that small amount for good money out here.

 

Good job, I get yelled all the time for bringing stuff home, mowers, snow blowers etc. with the current situation work like that keeps you grounded and in a good mental state.


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Nice score! I never understood why so many people around here pass up long-dead red oak (standing or down). I scrounge all that I can get.

 

Sometimes i think im the only one who scrounges anything around these parts.

 

Nice finds, brother.

 

I inherited my grandparents depression trained mind as well as my grandfather’s miscellaneous hardware. I have sorted most of it now.
I am known as having an affinity for useful and potentially useful things. If you asked my wife today what physical things I would say you can’t have enough of, especially the last year, it would be
-wood
-hardware/ tools
- stored food

She thinks I’m a bit sick because I’ll fret over throwing out used screws unless they are so bad they cannot possibly be useful.

When we drive by wood on the side of the road in her sedan she knows it pains me that I can’t take it. She calls it out before I do now. Half the time in unison we say “wood!”

I just thought of it, I should snap a geo tagged photo, and map out a route. There is so much now that I could be grabbing. I just forget where it was to return with the trailer. :Hmm:

 

I did something similar a couple years ago when a forest service road was washed out due to heavy rains. It was closed for almost a year so I walked it several times (only about a 10-mile round trip) and marked all the good dead and down trees on a map. Once the road finally opened, it made trips a lot quicker. Instead of having to scout, I already knew where the next tree was located. Ended up with a season's worth just from that road.

 

Hey Joe. Did you see the wood down near the Salmon River boat launch?
I’ve thought of marking logs on the phone too. On the bright side once all the weeds and underbrush die off you’ll find a bunch more that’s hidden.

 

What are the rules about taking stuff like that? I always wondered. There is a ton of wood on the side of the road around here where the property owner is not apparent. Can I just grab it? If so I could probably double my raw supply in a short time.