Well i stopped at the epic honey hole today as i havent cut there since June 29. All the wood is gone. Had stopped a couple times during the Summer and it was there. Looks like it went in the last week or two. There was a big payloader with a claw parked out front which made me suspicious. Wood not visible from road with leaves on trees and sign had been down since ive cut there. Feel like ive lost a family member! With Summer heat, work, and feeling my age it made me drag my feet. Guess i should have been more proactive, but hindsight is always 20/20. Pulled ten truck fulls out of there, maybe five cords. Winter time different story. With this and my dump experience the other day im one sad hoarder. Guess i shouldnt have commented about missing roadside scores on that beech i cut recently. Time for some new scores! A barren wasteland of wood crumbs and sawdust! mound of nuggets, knots, uglies i had been throwing aside was left behind. Mebbe ill grab them. Last three pics from April 9 when i happened upon the score.
Sorry bro. Know how you feel. Drove by my big score about a month ago and all was gone but a few sticks piled by the roadside. Fear not, I have a feeling you’ll find a new one in short order. You seem to be a wood magnet Did you ever pull out that knotty piece on the end?
Always a bit sad when that happens, but it does. At least you got a fair amount of good stuff outta there. Now it's time for the thrill of the chase again!
I did not. Thought of that and kick myself for not doing it. I hesitated on working the score when i found it too. How often does that much wood come available to a small potatoes scrounger like myself. Im not set up for, nor do i have room for large scale wood production. My landlord asked me not to bring in any more wood, but that was by his house down below. Ive been stacking more up here and at my friends. Which score are you referring to Joe? Is that the log deck on route 2? Im tempted to go cut a load there yet.
No, that log deck is part of a logging outfit. Would t want to get caught cutting there My old honey hole was is in the same town tho. Marlborough took down 80 trees in one 1/4 mile stretch. Perfect road, no houses, no power lines. Just dropped the full trees and let me take the trunks. I’m awfully spoiled now LOL
Ct is going to be a heaven for us wood scroungers for a little while. The gypsy moths and now EAB is coming along. Access to wood shouldn’t be a problem. There’s always FB. That’s where everything is happening now. The homeowner I got the load from today told me a big oak just came down on the side of the road. 1/8 mile from his house. I drove by on my way out. NICE straight trunk. Found a place to turn around further up the road and came back on my way home. Two trucks there already LOL. Oh well, pretty soon I can hit the woods.
You mustve had a field day there. I think you posted a pic recently of you getting wood there. How many loads did you get? A nice haul from today too!
Very true sir. Thanks for the inspirational words. BTW i tried to change my avatar pic to the one you did and couldnt.
I didnt count. Lost track. Was pretty sick during that adventure. Maybe 20?? Small load today. Really just wanted to play with my trailer. Like you said, take a break from the splitting and stacking. Have a Question or you BRAD. I recall you split a long piece of wood, oak maybe, for haha’s. How bad was it? I’m thinking of building a temporary bridge to cross a gulley/ditch for easier access to a portion of my property. Figuring 6’ wide for the atv. All these decent straight logs would make an ok platform if split. Think I’m nuts? Any thoughts on the matter?
We're all nuts, we're wood hoarders, but in our special kind of way! All kidding aside, IMO a 6' straight grained piece of red oak should split with sledge & wedge. The piece i split was a 32" round with a sign bracket embedded in it. The 16" cutoff wouldve been into the bracket. A few whacks with sledge & wedge or log blaster and easily in half. If you try have a fresh cut end to split from IME/IMO. Mebbe need a few wedges. Dunno if one would do it? That 32" may be the longest round ive ever split? Do you/can you mill with a chain saw?
No I have no mill. My hats off to those who do. If I were to get one it would be a bandsaw. Besides in true hoarder fashion I like doing most thing on the cheap The idea just occurred to me. Maybe not a temporary bridge. The temp idea was to get across adeep roadside ditch. Don’t want permanent roadside access because everybody and their brother would try driving in. But,,,,, if I cross the creek further inside my property a permanent bridge would be fine. I’ll have to scout out a suitable short span to get across. In that case I’d spring for a sawmill to cut up my white oak into 3” slabs. Couldn’t cost much if I supply the wood.
the chain saw mills for a bar are rather cheap if im not mistaken. What about a couple of pressure treated 6x6's and attach a 2x10 or 2x12 to the top parallel if its just for the quad? How far is the span?
Yeah the sawmills aren’t much money. The saws a different story. Mostly I just don’t think my body would find it enjoyable. As for the span that’s a good question. No one has ever crossed this brook with any machinery as far as I know. I’ll really need to scout it out with that in mind. Finding a path between the boulders that leads to a suitable crossing point. It’s just a spot that we never used for wood gathering. Hunting for grouse was great there 40 years ago but I certainly wasn’t looking for a way across by machine. Certainly would be better and shorter travel than going into the road. Been meaning to cut an access trail into the other section anyway.
That's too bad, no scrounge lasts forever. There's something I've learned, though... there's always more wood. The limiting factor is our ability to haul, cut, split, stack, and store it.
jo191145 contact your utility company and see if you can't get a used telephone pole or 2 depending on length.
A possibility. Got myself a load of those bout 28 years ago. Made a border for car parking and the rest I cut up and made a bullet stop. Still remember how much chains hated that black Creosote. I have some Big heavy duty C channel that was once used for car ramps. Only 9’ 9” long though. Seems long when your picking them up but that’s awful short once your in the woods LOL Some of my white oak logs should do nicely also. If I can find a way through in the woods I wouldn’t mind shelling out some bucks for a more permanent bridge.
same with me cut a load of wood up the pond,all loged up. went back 1 week later and it was gone, so now i cut and take it away,they had to come 2 fields to get it, but some will do any thing not to cut wood.
Wow, that honey hole was one amazing pile of great hardwood. Why would anyone leave that like that, do you know what the story is? If I read it already, I can't recall.
