Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

They edible ?
They just look like a funny shaped deer

Supposedly they are very good to eat.

tastes like CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MustangMike]

Kinda obvious they banned guns down under!!!! They do look like strange deer! Same color & size! Just more rump and less shoulder!

 

[Cowboy254]

Roo is good eatin', very lean meat. Thanks to our green-tinged gummints though, you're not allowed to shoot them. Of course, farmers frequently do and it's only a problem if the wrong people find out. Up north they're in such plague proportions that while gummints won't allow the plebs to shoot them, they pay contractors to cull large numbers of them from helicopters. Only gummints could come up with something so retarded. Don't get me started.

The big males have a fair bit of shoulder on them. There's a little vege garden on the near side of the wood shed and one was in there picking out the grass in there last year one day when I went out to get some wood. We didn't see each other until we were a couple of yards apart as he was leaning down amongst it to get some grass behind a small lemon tree, then he stood up and was around my 6 foot height and with his big chest, shoulders and triceps, he was an impressive specimen. We were both a bit startled and he wasn't aggressive but didn't take off either he just stood there studying me. We both carried on our business without altercation.

 

[farmer steve]

Roo is good eatin', very lean meat. Thanks to our green-tinged gummints though, you're not allowed to shoot them. Of course, farmers frequently do and it's only a problem if the wrong people find out. Up north they're in such plague proportions that while gummints won't allow the plebs to shoot them, they pay contractors to cull large numbers of them from helicopters. Only gummints could come up with something so retarded. Don't get me started.

The big males have a fair bit of shoulder on them. There's a little vege garden on the near side of the wood shed and one was in there picking out the grass in there last year one day when I went out to get some wood. We didn't see each other until we were a couple of yards apart as he was leaning down amongst it to get some grass behind a small lemon tree, then he stood up and was around my 6 foot height and with his big chest, shoulders and triceps, he was an impressive specimen. We were both a bit startled and wasn't aggressive but didn't take off either he just stood there studying me. We both carried on our business without altercation.

a little scrounged Roo on the barbie sounds good to me cowboy.

 

[svk]

From what I've read, roo has the texture of venison but a beefier flavor. Sounds good to me!

 

[dancan]

I know some trappers , snare them puppies , no noise lol

 

[dancan]

I had another fella ask questions about mixed loads of wood today , told him I still have a bit I can part with lol

 

[Cowboy254]

From what I've read, roo has the texture of venison but a beefier flavor. Sounds good to me!

Yes, that's about right I reckon. The restaurant down the road serves a peppered seared fillet on a bed of mushroom and onion risotto with a port jus - sensational.

 

[cantoo]

Well fellas, the better half went to the auction sale with me on Saturday to make sure I didn't screw up her present again. I bought a couple of things I wanted and she bought one. Only has 30 hours on it. She is worse than I am for collecting. She has a grass cutting business and like mowers. Now she has 3 like this one, a Walker GHS, 3 Steiners and two decks for the Kubota. And she still has the nerve to say I have too many saws. Her one mower is more than I spent on all of my saws. Now you know why I didn't get her flowers, can't be spoiling her now. And a pic of the chipper, sure works nice but it takes a lot of brush to make a little pile of mulch. 8" cedar post sure made the tractor work. PS, I wasn't chipping the hardwood, that's my buddy's pile and I was screwing with him. Told him I got it all chipped for him.

 

[svk]

Well my saw chain organization project is almost done. I'm only missing 5 chains out of about 50 so hopefully they turn up at some point!

About a half inch of wet snow has accumulated since dark here.

 

[Philbert]

Well my saw chain organization project is almost done.

Photos?

Pegs / hooks, zip-lock baggies, wooden dividers, RFID tags, . . . ?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Philbert

 

[Cowboy254]

For something different, I went scrounging this arvo, and for something extra different I got a load of peppermint. Unfortunately, Cowgirl stole my phone and didn't leave me hers so no photos from today. I've been recovering from a man-cold this week and frankly, my performance today was pathetic. Today's wood was already cut some weeks ago. Here's some.



And here's some more.



And here's some more - this was the day my nuts fell of while dropping a dead stander.



So, all I had to do was split and load up and it took about as long as it would normally to cut, split and load the same amount. Anyway, I did end up with a good load, piled up pretty high, prolly more than 1.5 cubes. I had a nervous moment when I passed a cop car on the side of the road but he was a local cop and they aren't as picky as the highway patrol Nazis.

 

[svk]

Photos?

Pegs / hooks, zip-lock baggies, wooden dividers, RFID tags, . . . ?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Philbert

Well since you asked....welcome into my world of nerdiness.

Each chain has its own sandwich sized zip lock with all details including pitch, DL count, gauge, brand, cutter type, grind type, percentage of life remaining, low kickback features (if applicable), and who it came from (if it has any special features).

Then all bagged chains of a common pitch/gauge/DL count are placed in a gallon bag so when I need a specific size I don't have to dig through a bunch of small bags.

I also have a full catalog of chains on my phone in a notes file to keep track.

Maybe I'm a bit anal but between my house, two cabins, and two vehicles the chains either tend to disappear randomly or congregate at one location and I'm not a fan of not having what I need where I need it.






@Philbert if you decide to undertake a similar project please alert me ahead of time so I can buy stock in Ziplock's parent company before you get started.

 

[coryj]

Yes, that's about right I reckon. The restaurant down the road serves a peppered seared fillet on a bed of mushroom and onion risotto with a port jus - sensational.

That sounds delicious and I have a hankering to hunt kangaroo now. Unfortunately my options in Virginia would be the zoo or the Safari park, both of which would be frowned upon.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Nobody would know with a supressor

 

[Philbert]

Each chain has its own sandwich sized zip lock . . . Then all bagged chains of a common pitch/gauge/DL count are placed in a gallon bag so when I need a specific size I don't have to dig through a bunch of small bags. . . if you decide to undertake a similar project please alert me ahead of time so I can buy stock in Ziplock's parent company . . .

Sounds like a good system for you.

I use cases to keep stuff for each saw together with that saw, including spare chains, bar nuts, etc.

Unassigned chains are sorted by pitch and gauge on pegs, or in plastic shoe boxes if bagged/boxed as a loop. Still have some to sort.

Philbert

 

[rarefish383]

Well since you asked....welcome into my world of nerdiness.

Each chain has its own sandwich sized zip lock with all details including pitch, DL count, gauge, brand, cutter type, grind type, percentage of life remaining, low kickback features (if applicable), and who it came from (if it has any special features).

Then all bagged chains of a common pitch/gauge/DL count are placed in a gallon bag so when I need a specific size I don't have to dig through a bunch of small bags.

I also have a full catalog of chains on my phone in a notes file to keep track.

Maybe I'm a bit anal but between my house, two cabins, and two vehicles the chains either tend to disappear randomly or congregate at one location and I'm not a fan of not having what I need where I need it.

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@Philbert if you decide to undertake a similar project please alert me ahead of time so I can buy stock in Ziplock's parent company before you get started.

A week or two back I had a filing fest. I had about a dozen 14" chains for my little echo, 3-36" and 3-25" for the 660 and some old 404 for the Super 1050. Under one of my shelves and above the work bench, in the garage, is a 2X4 screwed in the wall. I just wrote with a black sharpie what each chain fit, Think I'll go take a pic, Joe.

 

[rarefish383]

I've been re-arranging the garage to make sure nothing of mine falls on my wife's new Lexus RX350. So a couple screws have the wrong stuff hanging on them. It is nice to just grab a chain and go, Joe.

 

[MustangMike]

I have a small cardboard box that I put one or two (each boxed & marked) chains in so that if I need one for any saw I am using, I have a spare with me.

I run 325 on the 026, but all other saws run 3/8. However, my 20" & 36" bars are .050, and my 24" and 28" bars are .063 (Could not get a 36" light bar in .063). I mostly mill with a 24" .063 wide nose bar. The wider gauge seems to oil better and gets less stuck chips.

 

[Just a Guy that cuts wood]

I got out yesterday To drop this red oak

Went ahead and put a cable to it
more than half the trees at this campground are hallow and the last thing I want is to find out after I notch a tree is find is it's hallow
Also only one way out if trouble came looking for me lol

This one was not
Only 42 inch at the notch.
It took a long time to pull the Poison ivy off but I try not to take it home

took 2 trailer loads and will get the rest next week


Heavy loads
that was my fun yesterday