Drive by this rest area on the local interstate on a fairly regular basis. Spied some trees being cut in recent weeks. Stopped the other day to check out some still there. Stopped, cut and loaded for 45 minutes then left. Dead oak and ash first pics. Im leaving the oak..too big and sapwood punky. Pulled forward. Pin oak trunk with a small birch & red maple trunk. Took this oak! Didnt bother topping off the 261 and it ran out of gas while bucking the oak. Gave the 170 a chance. Handled it pretty well. Ill go back for these small ash trunks plus another not pictured. Decent load. Maybe a face cord. Oak Ash Red maple and birch among some of last weekends sassafras. I rarely scrounge along interstates as its obviously dangerous and the wood is often hard to get...guard rails, embankments etc. In this case i was able to pull way off the breakdown lane and cut/load safely. Work smart and safe my fellow hoarders & scroungers!
Funny you posted that pic. The state popo was a concern, hence the quick buck n' run. Many years ago i was scrounging wood in the median right near where i cut today. Rather brazen on my part. Sure enough a cop stops and tells me to get going. He gave me a police escort into the third lane. It was some nice white oak too. The log i was bucking is still there and can be seen when there is no foliage.
No. I wanted to but my back talked me out of it. Hafta figure where its new location will be then ill get to it. For now it stays safely on the ground.
You don’t overlook anything! That’s some great lookin stuff that would have just rotted if not for you. It boggles my mind to think of how much wood rots before it’s gotten to. Nice load you ended up with.
I think I know where that is! We usually hop off 91 and get on the Parkway to get home. The other weekend, we stayed on 91 to exit 13 and passed a rest area where they had done a lot of cutting; looked to be a good number of pines.
91 South. Yeah, i imagine there'd be no reason for you to go by it, unless you took Center St. exit and cut through town. I dont think there was any pine that i could see.
Hit the rest stop for the ash this afternoon. Cut and loaded for an hour and 15 minutes. The last tree was maybe 100' from where i was cutting. Nice full uncut trunk. Bucked into 4' sections, carried to PU and bucked. There was another oak trunk right there, but ran out of time. Quick cut and stop for another rest area visit.
Brad, do you get any permission before you scrounge these areas? I’m always wondering when I see nice dead and/or down wood. I wouldn’t even know who to ask.
This was obviously state property and i didnt get permission of even try in this case. Too many times ive tried, go through a bunch of BS red tape and get turned down. If a cop stopped and told me to leave i would. I have been stopped by cops when scrounging roadside. 75% of the time they are cool as i am to them if they do stop. Dakota Hoarder if you see state or town guys cutting, stop and ask them Usually they will give you the okay and a way to get around the red tape.
About 3 years ago we were scrounging some Maple, well off the side of the road, North of Tualatin, OR on the I 205, we had a Bonnie Bear stop and check on us, being the old time trucker that I am, I had jack knifed (Intentionally) the trailer into the slope, for easier and safer loading. Trooper Gallagher, stopped because at first glance, it looked like an Accident. When she got out to talk to us, she understood why I had parked like I did, and just grinned, and kinda did an eye roll, when I mentioned being a trucker. I asked her if if was a problem cutting that blow down, she said no problem if all you cut is blow down. I smiled and said that there were a couple more real Nice Maples standing next to it, she just said, Yeah, and they Better STIHL be Standing the next time I drive through here, and I will be Looking Trooper Gallagher, is Welcome to stop and chat Any Time, my Wife even commented, that you DON'T see to many Troopers that Look like that We got about 1 1/4 cords of Maple that day, and for us, that was a Real Score, we are solidly in Conifer country, and Maple is a Find, Oak, Hickory, and some mythical wood called Osage Orange are just RUMORS and Fish Stories here IF the Rare Oak does fall (we are only allowed to cut blow down in the National Forest where we normally cut) in our cutting areas, you Better be standing there with a FULLY Gassed, Oiled and RUNNING saw IN HAND, when it hits the ground, because Guaranteed, there WILL be a saw in it before the Leaves quit shaking, and Don't turn your back, or Blink before you have it cut and loaded, or Buzz saw Brad's PNW Cousin will snag it before you know what happened Doug
