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The Dump Hoarding Thread

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by buZZsaw BRAD, Oct 19, 2024.

  1. ThomH123

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    Hit up the Old Saybrook transfer station this morning. Two red oak rounds and what I think is silver maple, it was much lighter than the red oak. The site won’t let me upload pictures. It’s telling my file size is to big. Same phone I always use.
     
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    Screenshot the picture then post, something with the server
     
  3. buZZsaw BRAD

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    Hard to leave empty handed. Some nicer logs for a change too.
     
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    T Jeff…not a bad idea! I do have a truck bed crane in our shed that I could hook up to the trailer.
     
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    Definitely worth grabbing.

    Made a dump run last week. Nothing but brush from what I could see at North Haven.
     
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    A couple trips to the compost center to dump the brush from the job I was doing. Not much on the first trip, but a commercial haler shows up and dumps his load of brush with lots of decent red oak pieces in the mix. Couldn't grab any as I was in a hurry and needed the room for the wood at my job.
     
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    Made a recycling run yesterday morning. The payloader had just scooped up all the brush etc into the dumpsters.
     
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    Dump run yesterday with some demo. Checked out the brush pile. A few rounds of Bradford pear way in back not worth my time.
     
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    Dump run this morning to get rid of more demo. Too busy to check out the brush area.
     
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    Dump run this morning to get rid of some demo. Walked over to the brush pile and someone had dumped a pile of rotting splits, at least a face cords worth. Some of it was too rotted but some of it was still usable. Decent splits too. Always a sad site for a hoarder.
     
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    I have found tossed splits a few times. I take anything that will burn.
     
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    There was a lot of decent splits. Good for this year for sure.
     
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    I got lucky last weekend. I was hauling some brush with the trailer and spotted some rounds. I asked the guy if I could take some. He told me technically they don’t let people, but have it!

    I got a solid score! On the back of the pile there was a good amount of oak rounds. The sap wood was a bit punky, but based on the weight, these will burn just fine. Thankfully, I had the trailer, so I could just roll them up the ramps. This would have been a no go if I had to heave them into the truck bed.

    Back at home, I was able to crack most of them open easily with the Fiskars. Oh, and I grabbed a few accessible maple rounds too whilst there.

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    Nothing better than hand splitting red oak.

    Very satisfying! :thumbs:
     
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    Great score, that oak is just fine. It should dry a bit faster too.