Nice looking score you're working there Urban Woods . Dunno your gas saw abilities, but you may be able to rent a bigger saw to work the score. Quality of wood sure looks worth it. Just food for thought I too am am a recycler, reuser, repuposer but money seems to disappear as well! Guess it goes hand in hand with scrounging wood!
Yes that plan was in the back of my mind if I decide to keep going back and long rounds are all that's left. Lets see if I get bored of cherry because I do have other wood score areas on my radar and I do like to keep things interesting. Yeah buZZsaw BRAD I used to own a Stihl 044 with a 24 inch bar many years ago in my early 20s. Even made a homemade mill attachment for it and milled quite a few logs with it. I'm pretty proud of that since I designed it off the Alaskan Sawmill before there was the internet to help me along with design ideas. Just saw a picture of one in a catalog and being a starving artist at the time could only afford the saw. I made the mill out of hard maple and white oak with some clever joinery to substitute for steel welding. But as far as the saw went it was great for the few years I kept it running regularly, then one year while going to school to get certified for teaching there was a laps in using the saw and it gummed up. I'm a darn good designer and fabricator, but not into mechanics. I cleaned out the carbs with my bother who is a mechanic and was up and running again, but then it happened again a year later because I never prepare for letting the saw sit. One more cleaning and I was once again in business and I also was careful to keep the engine primed and ready for years. Then Hurricane Sandy hit my parents home where I kept the saw and they live on a canal off the great south bay. The saw went underwater because my dad is old and the tide came up into the back garage 3 feet in about an hours time. I tried to start it after it dried, but no dice so I gave it to a guy I know who has a business fixing small engines and landscaping. Now as a car hoarder in an urban area I prefer a quiet saw and no gas problems. One day Ion batteries will be as powerful as gas I hope.
Urban Woods it could be said that “variety is the spice of wood hoarding.” I think I stumbled upon some wild cherry myself and it was much mor e difficult to hand split than the standing dead ornamental cherry that I had been working with. I picked up just enough to work up a sweat, and exactly one more split of red oak. For the cherry, I had to try to line up my strikes with the growth rings in order to get any splits off. Perpendicular strikes were bouncing right off.
mrfancyplants that cherry you have in your trunk looks like it's behaved exactly like the cherry from this pile I'm working on. My pile has both wild cherry and flowering cherry. Not sure if I mentioned this in a previous post but the ornamental variety is much more pleasurable to split. It seems to have straighter grain and is less taffy-like where as the wild will absorb even a whole wedge before splitting. The only problem I was having with the ornamental was the bark on some being in such preserved shape it would hold the log together and I had to split the bark in some cases.
Ive never heard a battery saw in action. How quiet are they? Does it sound like an electric chain saw?
For me, the wild cherry smelled “off” when split, compared to the sweet cinnamon smell of the ornamental cherry. It’s worth noting that they are different species and likely have different BTU as well. I think I’m going to stack these with the shorter oak I have... another year won’t hurt them and they should mix in fine.
Not as tightly packed as last week. This load had a lot more 19”+ chunks, which will end up being more work, but i’m Just going to stack it and deal with it when the weather cools down. Last week I gave all the longs to the neighbor who lent me the chainsaw previously. He has a fire pit, but also a terminally ill daughter in her twenties. So I’m not even sure if they want to think about firewood right now. I’ll stack the Longs separate and cut or gift them later.
Nothing like ending the work week with a good wood score! You make the car hoarding thread proud MFP! How much more is there to get?
Still enjoying seeing that solid wood all crammed into your car. That there is some good heatin' wood gosh darn-it!
It looks very gangsta, don't it? Stashed in the trunk, spilling out the doors... hope he never gets pulled over, cause he looks guilty of something!
You mean like : -NEWS FLASH- "Police say Maryland man arrested for smuggling $2M worth of cocaine hidden inside firewood." The car police say was pulled over yesterday when noticed it looked suspiciously over weighted and the rear view window was blocked with said firewood. The cocaine was hidden in carved out cavities inside the splits of firewood and glued back together. Upon ceasing his computers police fear there may be a link to a larger nefarious organization, a network known world wide as "The Firewood Hoarders Club". More news to come as this story develops..... Yeah he's going to get us all in trouble
Thats a good one Urban Woods. Got a real good laugh out of me. Although its so hot up here it made me sweat!
Reminds me of when I moved from California to the DC metro area (originally from Florida). I had a Volvo wagon with surfboards on top, mountain bikes on the back, a futon mattress and the rest of the worldly possessions of a 22 y.o. The speed limit dropped by 10 miles as soon as I crossed the Mississippi River (Cambridge was the city, not sure state) and remarkably I was only going 10 over since there was no one on the road. so when the strategically placed police cruiser pulled me over and asked to search the car, I replied with a pained, “as long as you don’t pull everything out.” I’m not sure how the search and seizure laws would work in that situation, but fortunately he was satisfied that I didn’t have anything to hide. He skeptically glanced through my junk briefly before sending me on my way with only a speeding ticket to pay.
It was a simpler time. I don't think your average trooper would want to unload your wood onto the breakdown lane. Even if he didn't intend on loading it back in.
Every time i see a back seat fully loaded with wood.....well, I get wood. Well done. This thread is awesome. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I wasn’t going to stop by my dump because it was raining, but I thought I would drive by just to see if there was any more red oak.... and for better or for worse I ended up with a bootfull. Do you think this is the tip light making the rounds? At first I was splitting diligently, but then I started going for bigger chunks to save time. Work has been getting a little hairy with budgetary issues and I am pretty new, so I don’t want to look like I’m having too much fun before work. The oak was a little punky in spots, cut short and straight grained which made for pretty easy splitting. Almost too easy. I planted the top corner of my splitter in the asphalt a few times. There were more oak rounds there too, but I had to run.
Well, if you get laid off, at least you'll be able to keep the house warm! Look at it this way, you need to have some fun in order to deal with job stress. You're already a winner when you walk in the door!
Ha, you guys are such enablers on here. “it’s just one more round, it’s not going to blow out your transmission” I just vacuumed out the car last weekend and put the car seats for the kids in, in sweltering heat, to take the wife’s ride to the shop, knowing full well I’d undo the work within a week. Did I mention she had an odyssey? Think of how many splits I could fit in that.
