Yes sir, im a northernlight. The west has some nice bits and so does the south. And welcome to the Club by the way!
I tried to buy some IBC cages off Craigslist that were here in my town, but after initial contact, the seller dropped off the earth. So no cages... I'm going to need some new stacks come spring for my new oak (about a cord) and my locust (maybe two). Once my shed is empty, I can fill it from my existing stacks, and that frees up a couple cords worth of storage space. And if I burn all the oak in my basement, I can replace it with more oak. But given my compulsive hoarding, new wood will continue to stream in. It's all a big shell game. I will do the easiest thing come spring, pallets and t-posts.
Sounds like a plan and also no major investment. I can buy an IBC for 20bucks without the tote, which aint bad but if you need a few of them it sums up. But as far as i recall it right, prices are a bit different over at your end.
50 with the tote would be okay but everything above is plain robbery. 1 tote + 2 cages = 2 roofs for 2 cages..looks like i a math genius
Did some wood fishun® at dump today since it well, 55 degrees in freaking January!! Hate this! Anyway, got four huge rounds of birch and a bunch of ash and some locust... Met some nice fellow woods hoarders at the dump too!
Oh no!... competition! Sounds like you got a good collection of wood there! Wish I could scrounge like you did today. I had earmarked some areas of interest for today, but the problem is another damp rainy day! It's 44 degrees over here on east coast which for January one would assume means incredibly sunny, but we have been in a rain pattern since late July. For every day of sun we get 2 days of rain to follow Will this ever end????
What I thought was punky oak turned out to be pine. But I got a couple chunks of this. Honey locust I think. There was more I couldn't pull out with my tongs, but I got the two best pieces.
Im going to say honey locust as well looking at that end grain, but there is a possibility of cherry. However you would know better seeing all the detail so I'll go with your call. At least you got the best pieces. I see you got a dusting of snow there, here it was another cold wet misty day..... this is getting crazy!
I hate competition just like any other red blooded American ! But heck these folks lent me a saw after I helped them fill their rather tiny SUV. Winter finally showed up here a few hours ago but it will be gone in two days and then back to the mud and 40+. Every year, the weather gets a little more odd, and we just take a pass on wanting to know why... Im going nuts, this is the time of the year I wait for.
Too much i reckon...Neiiin Neeein Neeeein. But isnt it beautiful?! Suburban wood snob and here it is = ß
I got one more... Two I still couldn't get, they are stuck tight underneath other stuff. Maybe the loader will push them. Very slim pickings at the dump, I'm kind of hoping for a wind event to knock down some limbs.
Inner city Honey Locust. I passed by this today walking to lunch and thought of you Midwinter because of your recent dump scrounge. It was a pretty nice pile of honey locust that was pruned away from electrical wires. If I lived in the area I might scoop up some of the meatier branches (biggest ones being 5-6 inches), but it would need to be already dead and dry for me to bother with it at this time and at this location. I'm just posting this as proof that even in our dense cities opportunities arise for those like us car hoarders who are willing to scrounge for our wood a little at a time. Another strategy I would use if I lived in the inner city is dumpster wood. In this area of Jersey city or any city in the NY metro area for that matter there are constant remodeling and construction jobs with dumpsters that are full of old growth framing lumber from 150 yr old brownstones they're destroying in the name of "progress".
