Well I have been making my usual trips up to the mountains for standing dead lodge pole pine. Here is a pic of this years haul. Trying to scrounge hard wood this year has been tough and may have to rely on the lodge pole a little more.
If ya got a big trailer come this way. I've got a processor rented for three days, hoping to get 40-50 cord of Oak & Beech. Come help and you can have all you can haul.
Some of us dont realize how good we have it with wood sources so close. An outing like that would seem like an adventure, though, like a hunting trip. Nice pile!!
Glad there was a non charred cutting zone outside the wildfire, we did that one year and I was always chasing soot on our clothes from carrying it in and on the floor when bark fell of on the way to the stove. Nice size logs compared to Comanche park that we used to use!
I understand things have been cooling a lot in the mountains out there even with some snow. Time to prepre.
Im amazed at the size of that HUGE log on the right. How did you load that and is it to become firewood?
iirc, Cheyenne is pretty much where cropland transitions to grazing land. Are those the mountains you have to go to that you can barely make out in your pic ?
You boys back east make a 100 miles sound like the edge of the earth, that’s not even a round trip to menards or Walmart for me…… & that’s just fine
You are correct it is like an outing. The wood cutting becomes a hobby just like hunting and fishing.
I found a spot this year in the burn area that the fire did not completely destroy all the beetle kill. There is enough standing dead there to get me by for the next couple of years. I did go with the brother in law this year to help get fire wood. We went up by snowy range and cut down some good size spruce up there.
