This has been a good year for scrounges! Earlier I posted my “beside the highway” scrounge but there has been more- all oak- which is what I prefer. In February our hunting lease underwent some road improvements that resulted in 2 trees down easy to access. I hauled like 3-4 pick up bed loads out of there. I don’t have the heavy equipment to process it in my “wood yard” so it’s cut, split into manageable pieces , load, haul, and unload. Final processing occurs at the homestead. I then was able to score the highway oak and got some nice firewood from that. Well, I was positioning some stands for the upcoming deer season and noticed another fallen oak on our property line 5 minutes from home. Returned with saw and cut a load of limbs . Yesterday I got the tractor involved and cut trunk free from stump and pulled it out in open and processed that. The trunk rounds yielded around 10-14 stove wood chunks each. It was warm but I just can’t unsee a fallen oak especially easily accessible!
I would call that a success too. Hard to pass up easy scores like that. How much wood do you burn in an average Winter down there?
Been a great year for me too. BL, MB, cherry and CO. Did you noodle the trunk or have hydro help to get it to the splitter?
