I have a ramp On the back of my trailer Takes about 5 minutes to take it off ,I have another small gate Type of thing I slide down in back there when The ramp is not on . Anyway , I find The ramp being on there is a pain in the butt loading and unloading Firewood , Except if I have big rounds I want to wheel up in there on a Dolly , The ramp is real nice for a lot of other things . Another thing you can do though is carry a length of 2 by 10 or 2 by 12 And you can roll big rounds up in there on that , If you are just loading , unloading Firewood you can lift , The ramp just gets in the way .
It was a buffet at the dump today. I took some easy oak... But there was some big maple too. That would have been a job wrestling into the car.
Plus it looks like someone dumped what they didn't want to split being it looks to be odd cuts of crotch wood. You can afford to be a bit fussy here and choose your battles wisely....that oak score looks sweet!
When I was splitting by hand I might knock the edges off some but there were certainly some I didn't bother cursing over, too. Wasn't going to spend the time/effort noodling them either. More so if swimming in better choices.
This was me earlier today... Not my proudest scrounge, but this is sometimes how we gotta get it done in the big cities. It's mostly industrial grade Hemlock with some Douglas Fir thrown in so not the densest wood, but I'd rather extract some free energy out of it than let it become landfill. As y'all know I don't have endless property space to season more than 3 cords of wood so I count on scoring dry wood in winter to help aid and stretch my firewood supply. One additional plus here is that it's cut to size and requires no further work! There's better wood scraps still left at this hwy project dump site that are cleaner and cut more uniform which I'll attempt to take another time if the city leaves the gate open again.
Yes HDRock and Midwinter it does make for decent firewood and when I unloaded the car tonight I realized I had more than I thought. Because they're perfect square blocks they pack dense and tight... I must have had a whole cord! Okay gross exaggeration there, but seriously I wound up with over 50 of these blocks and the bigger ones I split into threes. 6 years ago that industrial site saved me from running out of wood. It was my first year burning for heat with this stove and I didn't know how much wood I would go through. I estimated I would need 2 cords, but have since learned I burn 3 1/2 to 4, last year was crazy with almost 5! What can I say, the stove runs 24/7 and never shuts off till late March. Anyway, that first year I learned an important lesson which was you can't scrounge for dry wood when you're snowed in during permafrost season. We kept getting snow and it wouldn't defrost and subsequently piled up for over a month. The sides of the roads were piled high with packed ice from the plows. This spot near where I work is an elevated highway that runs through the city, so it's basically a 30 foot tall giant canopy and was the only spot that wasn't a total snow bank. Luckily they were doing a big roadway restoration project and so they were using this lumber for raised walkway scaffolding and leaving piles of these scraps under the road. That year I think I scrounged at least a cord at that site over a few weeks time. Since then I make sure to be ahead of what I need. billb3 I actually thought of taking the buckets for my summer tomato plants. With my Jersey clay soil that doesn't drain or perk they grow best in pots where I make my own soil mix. Maybe I'll get them later on, but I need to watch my clutter for now.
No shame there. When I was running const. jobs I would bring lumber scraps home all the time. When packed flat on each other they burn like one huge log and slowly. Certainly stretches out the existing wood pile! My favorite was 6X6X8ft used for dunage on the flatbed trucks under yard piping deliveries. If you see any of that, grab it! It is usually some kind of oak!
Got it metalcuttr, I know exactly what you're talking about and I've seen this stuff many times on city public works jobs. Unfortunately I've never seen it at the site I have access too.
Well, I got more than half of my oak limbs cut before my husband wanted to go shopping. A cold wind kicked up so I think I'll save the rest, and the cleanup, for later.
Your husband wanted to go shopping huh? Hmmm?? Sounds fishy to me. It's very possible he's desperate to get your attention away from the wood pile and back on him. He may even be willing to try anything including shopping which we all know strikes fear in the hearts of men. I imagine it's not easy being the husband of a driven wood hoarder.
Men are weak that way. I get like that when my wife goes on her holiday baking sprees. She bakes a lot actually and I think she missed her calling, but everyone loves her because she constantly brings them home baked goodies. However they don't realize behind every good woman is a man at home that's being ignored
