Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[James Miller]

Neighbor lost the canopy of a a breadford pear tree two days ago in a short wind burst. Helped him limb the rest of the canopy and drop the trunk. Here is my reward for 2 hours of work.

Second picture is an ash scrounge I found over the weekend


Trunk work done with an echo cs590 and limbing was left to the cs390

How do you like the 590? I liked mine with just a muffler mod and retune. Now that its ported completely different saw.

 

[95custmz]

Do you think $90 is too much? That's what he gave me and I'm feeling guilty.

Consider it a tip.

 

[muddstopper]

Pretty soon, the way I've been fanging it! Can't quite bring myself to buy a smaller saw yet. I tend to scrounge bigger wood where I can because a) more heartwood = less ash and b) most others with their small saws can't hack it. I have the luxury of space at my place and enough time to chip away at completing the processing once I've got the big stuff home.



As AS's resident physiotherapist I can confirm that you are likely correct, you probably busted some adhesions in the joint. If surgeons are not happy with a patient's progress after TKR they'll sometimes knock you out and bend it on your behalf - a manipulation under anaesthetic. Looks like you did the manipulation without anaesthetic. Not the first time I've seen it. You'll get an inflammatory response for a short while but then be ok. If you had loosened the prosthesis you'd probably know by now. If you keep moving it through full range you should keep your increased movement and ice is your friend in the meantime. [insert disclaimer about general advice here ].

I had the MUA back in Dec. felt like they tore my leg off and bounced if off the wall before putting it back on. Back on a walker for about a week, then the cane for another week or two and another full round of therapy. I used a exercise bike to get my bend back. Every day I would start out right at the point where I could just barely stand the bending pain and continue adjusting the seat to increase the bend every few minutes. Got excellent bend now, but cant seem to do anything for the extension. I was doing leg lifts laying on a bench on my stomach and hanging weights on my feet to pull my leg past straight, but even that didnt work.

 

[James Miller]

Do you think $90 is too much? That's what he gave me and I'm feeling guilty.

All goods are worth what the buyer is willing to pay. If you feel bad about it come up with a price you think is fare and let him know that's the price for the next load.

 

[Ryan A]

All goods are worth what the buyer is willing to pay. If you feel bad about it come up with a price you think is fare and let him know that's the price for the next load.

He's a repeat customer. I sold a rack full to him in the spring for $75 and it was seasoned ash.
He's my only customer who "rotates" his wood so he doesn't mind if it's green or not.....

 

[Therival]

How do you like the 590? I liked mine with just a muffler mod and retune. Now that its ported completely different saw.View attachment 607574

Love it so far! How difficult was the muffler mod and port?

 

[cantoo]

The selling pile was getting a little too small for comfort. Son sold 5 loads and I figured there was maybe only 3 left. 3 hours on Saturday cutting the logs into rounds and about 4 hours today splitting them up. I was working up north, left my motel at 5 in the morning, got home and was splitting before the wife went to work. She thinks I'm crazy. Heading back up north in the morning. I hate working away from home.

 

[cantoo]

Wood in the background is my buddies, he has no room at home so he drops off and loads at my place.

 

[James Miller]

Love it so far! How difficult was the muffler mod and port?

On a 590 all that needs done on a stock saw is the deflector opened up. Good gains just from that and a retune. I didn't do the port work on mine Deaves61 did my saw I think he normally only does his own saws though.

 

[MustangMike]

We had our first "hard" frost of the year this morning, was 30 F. Also, the dang ticks are active again. Had to remove one from my wife's back, and took two off one of our dogs and one off the other.

When I grew up around here, we played in the woods all the time and never had a single one. Don't understand what the heck happened, is it just because it is warmer, or something else?

Don't have the dangerous deer ticks upstate where my cabin is, just the larger dog ticks, which do not carry Lyme, etc.

Split a bunch of wood today, and took down a dead Cherry that was barkless but not rotted (perfect!) The 044 was hard to start and raced at idle. Took it apart and it passed vac & pressure test, as did the carb. Must be either the fuel filter, some dirt in the carb, or needs a new carb diaphragm.

 

[dancan]

September was 5C warmer than average up here this year .
I think we're going to be warmer than normal for October at the rate we're going.

 

[chipper1]

We had our first "hard" frost of the year this morning, was 30 F. Also, the dang ticks are active again. Had to remove one from my wife's back, and took two off one of our dogs and one off the other.

When I grew up around here, we played in the woods all the time and never had a single one. Don't understand what the heck happened, is it just because it is warmer, or something else?

Don't have the dangerous deer ticks upstate where my cabin is, just the larger dog ticks, which do not carry Lyme, etc.

Split a bunch of wood today, and took down a dead Cherry that was barkless but not rotted (perfect!) The 044 was hard to start and raced at idle. Took it apart and it passed vac & pressure test, as did the carb. Must be either the fuel filter, some dirt in the carb, or needs a new carb diaphragm.

That's odd about the ticks, we don't have them at all around my place although other parts of Michigan do. We have seen a few mosquitos around the last week or two though and it's been a great year as we have seen very few, and that is not the norm here.
Hope you get the 044 going. Did you check the fuel line for a crack/hole, it doesn't take much(you probably know that though ). Let us know what you find.

 

[chipper1]

September was 5C warmer than average up here this year .
I think we're going to be warmer than normal for October at the rate we're going.

We had a very nice day here today once it warmed up from the low 40's. I wish I could have done more outside, clear blue skies and a beautiful breeze with leaves flying all over the place and it got up to 68 but the breeze made it feel much cooler. Tomorrow they are talking about 69 degrees, if it feels like today I hope to be outside a bunch, maybe trim a few trees and chase some leaves with the backpack blower and the mower .

 

[turnkey4099]

Calls for sun and mid 60's here for the next 7 days starting tomorrow
I'm only burning splitter trash and uglies tonight .

Temps up down from 60s to 40s for highs. Burnt my last ugly (exept for some that still need noodling) last week.
Very high winds today, gusts to 50. Calmed down now. More rain off and on for the next week. Looks like my cutting is done for the winter. I can't get into the sites when the ground is wet.

 

[Cowboy254]

He's a repeat customer. I sold a rack full to him in the spring for $75 and it was seasoned ash.
He's my only customer who "rotates" his wood so he doesn't mind if it's green or not.....

You said that's what he gave you - did you nominate the price or did he offer? On the one hand, if he's happy to pay you handsomely for your work in providing him good quality wood then everybody wins. On the other hand, if you have competition and he finds out someone else offers the same for less then you may want to come down a bit or risk losing your repeat customer.

Either way, don't feel guilty for getting paid a few extra sheckels for your work. You can bet lawyers and fund managers don't feel bad about charging a thousand times more for their work.

 

[LondonNeil]

September was 5C warmer than average up here this year .
I think we're going to be warmer than normal for October at the rate we're going.

Same here. Monday was 22C and October average is half that, Ophelia brought hot air from the Azores, and a dust cloud from the Sahara that turned the sky orange over much of the country!


Also we have exploding tick population. Not many people, even lots of doctors, are aware of Lyme's, although it is in the news now as Matt Dawson, am ex England rugby player and world cup winner, now TV personality, caught it from a tick bite got walking in Richmond park. Richmond park is a central London park with deer. Dawson was very ill and needed heart surgery! Elite athlete to deaths door from a tick bite.

Theory is the tick problem is getting worse as our deer are moving about the country, migrating, and spreading the ticks, infecting new heards

 

[rarefish383]

Thanks to Multifaceted, here's a couple pics from the King Mackerel Tournament, Joe.

 

[rarefish383]

I had the MUA back in Dec. felt like they tore my leg off and bounced if off the wall before putting it back on. Back on a walker for about a week, then the cane for another week or two and another full round of therapy. I used a exercise bike to get my bend back. Every day I would start out right at the point where I could just barely stand the bending pain and continue adjusting the seat to increase the bend every few minutes. Got excellent bend now, but cant seem to do anything for the extension. I was doing leg lifts laying on a bench on my stomach and hanging weights on my feet to pull my leg past straight, but even that didnt work.

Mudd, I kind of hit a wall at therapy, and was still making progress at the gym, so my surgeon said save the money and quit therapy. The owner of the gym had a lot of knee surgery and looked at my work out plan. He said I was doing a lot of strengthening work on the wrong muscles. I was up to 135 pounds with one leg on sitting leg extensions and curls. He put me on a machine that sounds like what you were doing. I would lay on my belly and do curls, only he went with low weight. One plate, I think it was 12 pounds. In two weeks I went from 27* extension to 7*, in a month I was at 0*. He said to curl the weight up as far as I could and then let it down as slow as I could. So slow that at the end of the rep your leg was ready to collapse, do 3 reps. It worked great.

Coowboy, my therapist wanted me to get a manipulation but my surgeon said we had past the window where it would be safe, so I went to my wife's surgeon for a second opinion, and he concurred. This was at 6 months post op. The second surgeon said we were at what he called the 30/30/30 chance of success. 30 percent chance of breaking the leg, 30 percent chance of ripping up all of the tendons and ligaments, and 30 percent of success. I was at 90* flexion at the time, and he said if we gained 2*, it would be called a success, even though the gain would be so little I wouldn't even notice it. So I decided to take their advice and pass. The therapist said I wouldn't see any gain after 6 months. I guess that opinion is based on most people give up after 6 months. I'm at 2 years and I will have gain as long as I work out, if I goof off, I will have loss too, Joe.

 

[LondonNeil]

Those are Mackerel!? Bit different to the tiddler I had for breakfast

 

[rarefish383]

We have Spanish Mackerel also, they only go about 6-8 pounds, anything bigger is a monster. The two biggest Kings I've caught were 40 and 42 pounds, this one was 36, North Carolina state record is, I think, 73 pounds, I'll have to look that up again. I had about 20 pounds on the smoker yesterday, and at mid night it was still cooling down. It dropped down into the high 30's last night so I left it in the smoker to finish cooling. I'll probably have some for breakfast in a little while, Joe.

I stand corrected, 82 pounds 4 ounces, Joe.