Well well well, on the way to work, small load but I'll take any cherry I can get! I know there isn't much left (but still decent amount) but is it normal that it's driving me nuts that there is still a bit left? I want it!! I want to run home and grab the saw! I know it's part of all of our hoarding condition with no known cure....
I can relate and would be doing the same! Ill bet youre still reeling from that lost hickory score before the holidays! Nice grab Chuck!
There’s a parking lot not far from home, kinda a trail parking area. There has been some medium size oak chunks laying there, 9 months or so. It was maybe 1/3+ of a truck bed full. It sat there, they mowed around it all summer. In later fall I got 85% of it, the rest may require a split to lift into the truck bed. I’ll likely get the little bit left later winter. It’s in a spot where it’s not easy to get simple permission, I’m sure the county would rather not have to mow or plow around it. Any worker on site would likely say ‘they weren’t able to give permission’, paralysis. That’s my story, hate to see good red oak rot.
Thank you sir!! Did you have peel open that wound? I still have nightmares over that hickory, LOL just kidding buddy! I might trek back out and grab it this weekend if still there. I also just seen another score (not far from that Cherry), looked to be Oak!! But not certain it was cut up already in nice sized managable rounds but it was down in a steep ditch off the side of the road so I couldn't pull over or I'd be in the ditch. I'd have to throw the hazards on and have people go around me. Not a terribly busy road, but get traffic! Best to do this one early in the AM when not much traffic around as I have hardly no room to pull over maybe a foot or two.
We do whatever it takes to get free wood. I have a BL score I could get, but its at a three way intersection that mostly blind. Traffic light there. I went there before for other wood early on a Sunday morning. I may go get it this Winter. Been there for a few years. If its too dangerous better to let it be. Not worth it the way some folks drive these days. Be safe and hoard on my friend.
When I used to drive a cargo van I stppoed many time to pick up firewood. Sometimes very little but others really made me smile.
Ill channel my sisters logic on this, I cut firewood but she cleans forests and roadsides. She would say those chunks of oak left laying around only breed poison ivy and bittersweet vines. You sir are doing the county and citizens a huge favor by removing such a detriment to society
I’ll just toss out this thought on traffic. Besides exact time of day sometimes it’s good to figure direction of flow on rural roads. I figured this out recently trying to scrounge on a road I dubbed The Racetrack. During the am most cars are traveling one side of the road (towards work) In th afternoon hours they’re heading back towards home. I made sure I was scrounging on the lane used the least for that particular time of day so I’m partially blocking a lane that’s mostly unused. I think it helped and I know it made me feel a bit less uneasy. Was going to post this last night and it occurred to me I had planned going back to my current scrounge today. Thinking this through I remembered the transfer station is on that road, only one way in, one way out. Only open Saturday. That road will be filled with trucks, SUV’s and minivans all pulling little Home Depot style trailers with drivers that have minimal experience trailering. Best to wait for another day.
