Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Well it was supposed to only be 72 here today but it is still 77. It is very comfortable with my new AC running though and we are driving out the residual heat from two straight weeks of 80 degree temps!

nice addition, no doubt! do u keep it at 62f? I thot that's what it read?... 62f would be too cool for me. we keep our's at 78f... +/- a degree depending. more so on humidity than temp.

 

[Circle B MN]

5AM...drinking coffee...staring into the distance, ears straining to hear the sound of an approaching log truck. Today is going to be a good day.

 

[svk]

nice addition, no doubt! do u keep it at 62f? I thot that's what it read?... 62f would be too cool for me. we keep our's at 78f... +/- a degree depending. more so on humidity than temp.

We keep our bedroom at hone at 65 which is the lowest setting it goes. I love sleeping under the winter weight blanket!

 

[svk]

5AM...drinking coffee...staring into the distance, ears straining to hear the sound of an approaching log truck. Today is going to be a good day.

I love the sound of a diesel in the morning.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

From the time I woke this morning until at least now (8pm) I have dropped, kicked, stepped on, knocked, fumbled, etc everything I have touched. Never had a day like it. Never been this unco'. Tried to work on a set of drawers in the shed. Spent over an hr setting up to do some fancy dovetails, did a test - perfect, routed two fronts before realising a finger on the dovetail jig had moved 1mm. Of course, there is no spare wood, and the grain was matching across all 5 drawer fronts and now is going to look like sh1t once I cut the drawers 2" narrower and start again.
If I wake up like this tomorrow i might have to reconsider being upright until normal service resumes. Crazy, crazy day.

Have had some of those days lately. Rolling backwards down hill out of control... Black clouds can blow away quickly. Hope yours has passed.

 

[Circle B MN]

First load of the day...keep em coming.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

First load of the day...keep em coming.

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Heck yeah!

Only thing I've cut here lately has been box elder. At least its not catulpa.

 

[Circle B MN]

Mostly oak in this load. I see a maple, a hackberry, and some wonderwood. Coming from a lot clearing outfit so it all goes on the truck.

 

[Be Stihl]

Dropped 2 Black Cherry and 2 Red Maple trees … started at 9:00 and they were all down, limbed and bucked by 12:00.

The one in the pic had to be placed between the shed and the deck. All 4 went down on the money.

Looks good Mike!
I’m glad I found some Red Maple awhile back, it’s gonna come in handy to save from burning higher BTU wood. That 462 seems to be pretty productive, what’s the other? Looks like a 362?


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[steved]

Between being hot and having the new toy, I've been avoiding wood.

I have made good progress on the toy, fixed a batch of wiring issues, figured out the vacuum issue for the brakes. Also figured out the exhaust wasn't meant to be a straight pipe, but rather the PO didn't install the muffler; so I have to address that. But before that I need to get the transmission mounts replaced (because they are like jello) so I can clock the exhaust pipe...

Overall it's a good truck, just a batch of little things that culminated over the years. I'm thinking it's going to be a blast to bomb around in...and haul firewood!

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[chipper1]

First load of the day...keep em coming.

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That's great!
I built up my pile by going to lots that were getting cleared by a guy I'm now friends with, anytime I want more I give him a call and find out where and when he will be closest to my house, then I drive over and he loads me up. Another nice thing I have going with him is that he sets aside all the dead standing trees so there's no wait time on it to season.
I've been holding out because my pile is around 20 plus cord already split and I need the spot it's in to get trusses on my pole barn when I build it . I sold some of it off last yr and figure I'll be able to sell a good portion of it this yr since many people couldn't get wood this spring because the woods were so wet. Hopefully I can time everything right and when the wood is gone we will hit a recession and I can build my barn, then I'll start stocking back up again.

 

[Philbert]

Spent about 3 days helping folks in North-Eastern Wisconsin, cleaning up from about 14+ tornadoes. Lots of trees down, lots of roads that were closed. Lots of stuff left to do.
Did some 'route clearance' - opening up driveways, access roads, and sections of township roads that were impassable - some of that is simply removing a tree or two; some is tricky without heavy equipment.

Philbert

 

[chipper1]

Spent about 3 days helping folks in North-Eastern Wisconsin, cleaning up from about 14+ tornadoes. Lots of trees down, lots of roads that were closed. Lots of stuff left to do.
Did some 'route clearance' - opening up driveways, access roads, and sections of township roads that were impassable - some of that is simply removing a tree or two; some is tricky without heavy equipment.

Philbert

Dangerous work my friend.
We had quite a bit of damage here too. They never said anything about a tornado here, one area I cut open a driveway in had straight line winds(from the NNW), on the other side of the road I did a bid for a guy who had some that were real twisted and had fallen like a wind from the ENE hit them.

Here's a link to some of those pictures.
First are the ones from my house(iirc I posted those already), then the generator I sold because Mike got me thinking, then the first route I tried to take west of my house(firetruck in rd and powerline/tree), second route(another power line/tree), third route there was a sign saying closed but the guy cutting by the trailer had just gotten that part cleared and the guys in the tree service were taking a break because they had just finished, then the storm that hit us on Saturday that looked like it tracked the same line as the one Friday, then the drive I cut out(it was a large black locust, there's another picture with an umbrella by it a little further on in the pictures), then the neighborhood I did the bid in. I was told I can have the locust if I want to come back for it so I may since I like locust . All the trees that blocked the rd were in a straight line just west of this neighborhood and were the end of the most severe area for damage.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/zrcxiXNGazMNKdzz5
Yesterday I was doing a landscaping job and there is a very large hickory tree that split and fell. Today I went out back to relocate a woodchuck, no sheet needed ) and found a large red oak down, my new on the property scrounge . Yrs ago I cleaned up another huge branch off it, this piece is more like half the tree split even though there was almost as much wood on the one branch before. Should be over a cord in it, lots of work getting it out of the woods, I like yard trees lol. There are other trees it took down including an 8" cherry(the whole tree), and it broke off a 12-14" red oak that I will probably take down all the way and let something else grow up in there.
Then I found that the neighbors grandson was attempting to take down a nice sized black locust, probably for campfire wood , and got it snagged leaning onto my property. He never let me know or anything, I've told him many times if he needs anything let me know(he like to get his truck stuck) as I have a skidding winch on my tractor . I have helped his grandfather clear trees from the trail when we've had ice in the past and he's a good neighbor, the grandson I've had a few conversations with thru the yrs, good kid, but he doesn't think about others much. In the picture of it leaning you can see the red oak behind it, it's not far off the trail which will make it easy to get, just like the black locust leaner that will most likely be on my pile after I talk with the owner .
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XWx6GyrjLnZ77Dt87

 

[LondonNeil]

Maybe just let NI decide if they stay in a post-brexit UK (with whatever trade/border controls required at the border to the EU) or stay with the EU? They could choose to stay in the EU as independent or get swallowed up by the republic.

Ultimately, it's their future, their call. Or is that just way too simplistic an outsiders view? I'm nowhere near at a point of understanding it all.

err,, yeah...a lot of there that seems to make sense.....if only it were that easy. Let's just try and not forget all the fighting that happened...very simplistically put...between a protestant majority who are determined to be part of the UK, and a Catholic minority who seek a united Ireland. We've had a good long and stable peace and Brexit s the most significant risk to that, it could easily tip NI back into fighting.

 

[LondonNeil]

I have to laugh at what Dyson have done. "Sir" James Dyson was a staunch brexiteer, then they moved much of their production offshore and they have just recently off-shored their actual company. Still have plenty of people employed in the UK though.

It's an interesting dynamic at play. Are some of the EU countries going to put any pressure on the EU to negotiate a good agreement with an independent UK that keeps the trade flowing or will those countries just roll over and accept they have SFA say / self-determination as a vassal of Brussels. Will the UK be able to negotiate good enough deals with others outside the EU (Trump better come through with a good deal), and fast enough, to at least reduce the pain of this divorce with the EU?

Does the EU have no choice but to go all-in and hammer the UK even if it means sacrificing some of their own countries to do so, to stave of what will be an existential threat if the UK makes it out alive and others in the EU see that as an example to follow.

Interesting how this will play out. When it all gets tricky I always seem to revert back to whatever the will of the people is. Even if I don't like what the majority want, it's still ultimately better than alternatives to democracy.

It would seem that France and Germany are hell bent on ensuring we get a hard exit and rough time. they NEED to make leaving the EU look like its very very bad indeed so that no one else follows. Oh and I'm not pinning any hopes on a great deal with Trump....as is largely right and good, he is only interested in himself and not in saving us. Similarly the Chinese and...well...just about everyone? we are, imv, in a fairly vulnerable position and need to choose our friends very, very carefully.

 

[LondonNeil]

Bit of a weird day, although ultimately quite satisfying and I've had some proper meaningful smiles and laughs. Dad, who passed away last October, was like many men a bit of a hoarder. Today my brother and I were clearing the garage. Dad was an engineer, both my grandad's had engineering or DIY tools and my mums grandad did too...oh yeah you guess right...3 generations of tools. I'm an engineer so I knew what most of the stuff is/was.... how good and how costly some of it was in its day....and how useless and unsaleable it is now. lots of taps and dies, sockets and spanners n huge sizes and real high quality but all whitworth, BSF or A/F....thankfully we I've not seen anything other than metric in a long while. That was just the start... anyway it was kind of fun, finding stuff that hadn't been touched in best part of 30 years since mum and dad moved to that house...me or my brother saying 'Hey do you remember this!? Do you remember when....?' to get a laugh....or a response like, 'hey I remember dad putting it away saying it might come in handy, and you arguing that we'd be binnig it in 30 odd years as we cleared out his garage!' It was fun laughing with my brother and remembering some old memories....but boy we have some big piles of rubbish to recycle now...and there's still the loft and some other spaces to do.

 

[KiwiBro]

err,, yeah...a lot of there that seems to make sense.....if only it were that easy. Let's just try and not forget all the fighting that happened...very simplistically put...between a protestant majority who are determined to be part of the UK, and a Catholic minority who seek a united Ireland. We've had a good long and stable peace and Brexit s the most significant risk to that, it could easily tip NI back into fighting.

How about I and NI hold referenda to decide once and for all if they are :

• united under EU
• united under post-brexit UK (only an option if the UK would consider taking that on)
  
• separate under EU
  
• separate with I under EU, NI under UK.

Given over 50% of NI didn't want brexit, and now Boris and his merry band of free market goons are at the wheel, perhaps there are enough in NI to vote to get out of UK and stay part of the EU? If that is the will of the people then so be it.

I don't believe in peace at any cost, especially if that cost involves maintaining a powder keg that's still looking for a spark. Essentially, that's just temporary respite/can-kicking.

 

[KiwiBro]

Bit of a weird day, although ultimately quite satisfying and I've had some proper meaningful smiles and laughs. Dad, who passed away last October, was like many men a bit of a hoarder. Today my brother and I were clearing the garage. Dad was an engineer, both my grandad's had engineering or DIY tools and my mums grandad did too...oh yeah you guess right...3 generations of tools. I'm an engineer so I knew what most of the stuff is/was.... how good and how costly some of it was in its day....and how useless and unsaleable it is now. lots of taps and dies, sockets and spanners n huge sizes and real high quality but all whitworth, BSF or A/F....thankfully we I've not seen anything other than metric in a long while. That was just the start... anyway it was kind of fun, finding stuff that hadn't been touched in best part of 30 years since mum and dad moved to that house...me or my brother saying 'Hey do you remember this!? Do you remember when....?' to get a laugh....or a response like, 'hey I remember dad putting it away saying it might come in handy, and you arguing that we'd be binnig it in 30 odd years as we cleared out his garage!' It was fun laughing with my brother and remembering some old memories....but boy we have some big piles of rubbish to recycle now...and there's still the loft and some other spaces to do.

We laugh about how some families start fighting over the assets, because for us here we'll be fighting over who doesn't get the assets. I think the consensus, if only in jest, is a can of petrol and a match, letting the whole lot bark like a dog. WOOOOF. gone.

 

[abbott295]

We have the same kind of situation after my parents died. Over 65 years on the same farm, buildings started accumulating more stuff after they retired and had their sale. The closest one of us lives 500 miles from the home place, two about 800 miles, and one, the oldest and the executor, lives 1600 miles away. One example is that there is a pile of logs from trees that were taken out just a few (maybe five) years ago that my dad wanted to mill. Most of these are trees that we helped plant; maybe we were as old as our early teens, 50 plus years ago.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Bit of a weird day, although ultimately quite satisfying and I've had some proper meaningful smiles and laughs. Dad, who passed away last October, was like many men a bit of a hoarder. Today my brother and I were clearing the garage. Dad was an engineer, both my grandad's had engineering or DIY tools and my mums grandad did too...oh yeah you guess right...3 generations of tools. I'm an engineer so I knew what most of the stuff is/was.... how good and how costly some of it was in its day....and how useless and unsaleable it is now. lots of taps and dies, sockets and spanners n huge sizes and real high quality but all whitworth, BSF or A/F....thankfully we I've not seen anything other than metric in a long while. That was just the start... anyway it was kind of fun, finding stuff that hadn't been touched in best part of 30 years since mum and dad moved to that house...me or my brother saying 'Hey do you remember this!? Do you remember when....?' to get a laugh....or a response like, 'hey I remember dad putting it away saying it might come in handy, and you arguing that we'd be binnig it in 30 odd years as we cleared out his garage!' It was fun laughing with my brother and remembering some old memories....but boy we have some big piles of rubbish to recycle now...and there's still the loft and some other spaces to do.

Hey Neil I’m also an engineer (mechanical) but started out as a toolmaker. What industry are you working in?
I’m working in medical device manufacturing specialising in plastic and silicone moulding, tooling design, tool manufacture and injection moulding process optimisation.