I don’t think you could go wrong with some straight grained white oak. Rot resistant and strong. Black Locust would be interesting. Not sure how it fares as a strength wood. Think it’s considered brittle but,,,,,I’ll bet it would work fine. There’s no law against going a tad oversized on them.
There is some dead ash logs to be milled yet. He was getting a hickory log too. I have a couple white oak trees to turn into firewood yet. Some mill fodder in them too. Black locust is brittler (is that a word) as ive seen how trees can snap in wind storms.
Ash and hickory are a little rottier to me. It’s now a word Yeah they’re not in ground contact but stIll not The best woods for outdoors. I wonder what they use from the factory? Either way it’s all Good. Free wheelbarrow and experiments,,,,,,nothing wrong with that.
Being the crazy, lazy hoarder i am ill try and put 1/16 of a cord in the thing. Based on my OCD calculations thats nearly 50 splits per load. Ive gone around 40 in the green one.
Was at a supply house yesterday and spied these pieces of OSB. 3'x8' and a couple 2'x3'. One is 5/16 which ill use for top cover on a stack prior to tarping. The rest will be roof sheathing on a shed restore ive been putting off. I had used the other sheets for another project. Just some nails to pull out.
I've been scrounging 2 x lumber from one of my brothers customers the last year or so...they get in huge crates of glass for large commercial windows...they were paying to have the wood hauled to the dump until my brother offered to take it to burn in their OWB...I went with him one day to pick it up and seen how big the pieces were, I said we need to be keeping some of these bigger pieces, he said go for it! So for about a year now I have been getting six to twelve 2x6's almost every week, and some larger stuff occasionally too. The 2x6's run 13.5' to 17.6' long...real nice pine framing lumber! I gave 50 of the 13.5' ones to my buddy that is building an addition onto his house, used 15 or so of them to frame the roof on a new lean-to wood shed, and still have enough to frame the roof on a garage addition next summer too. When lumber prices were crazy high I figured out how much time I had into scrounging these things...it was working out to about $100 hr if I would have purchased these!
These were right down from where i was working yesterday. Got a good laugh when i saw them. Being the jokester i had to stop. Dunno how they relate to wood. I suppose i could use the chair to rest and the potty when nature calls while im on the road scrounging! I didnt take them BTW!
Yeah, I get it...that's why I about choked on my own spit when I realized that these nice long boards were getting cut up for OWB chow! (and its not like they really need more OWB chow either!)
Thats ingenious. It was there this morning when i went by but gone when i went home. House is being sold.
While out in the woods yesterday doing some cutting, I saw this broken bottle. The name on the bottle was Lydia E. Pink... and under that it says Vegetable compou... A quick Google search found the name of Lydia E. Pinkham, the missing part of the last word makes it 'compound'. This may date back to between 1875 and 1886. The thickness of the glass is all over the place,anywhere from a quarter inch to an eighth inch. I have been living here since 1980. One finds the strangest things while working with firewood.
Picked this up today. Mmmmm what to do with it??? I’m thinking shorts uglies bin for this one. Great price too $0
Got a billboard tarp and some rubber roofing from fb marketplace. Just cost gas to get there. That roofing is like 20x30...heavy
