Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

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.
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do you have any problems with splits gettin hung up in the conveyor.

 

[svk]

Great catch! Those kings are awesome if you marinate the steaks in Italian dressing and then grill. Don't freeze them for long though as they turn real fishy tasting within a month!

 

[svk]

In regards to ticks we never get a fall hatch of dog ticks but the deer ticks seem to come out in late April and mid October if you have warm, dry weather. We've had wet cold weather this fall so none of them.

Central and southern MN haven't had the hard frost yet so they are inundated with lady beetles and another hatch of boxelder bugs. I stopped to see my neighbor at my now former house yesterday and he was working on sealing his driveway and those damn things were everywhere. Up at the cabin we had three hard frosts in a row, with the first one being in the mid 20's so the crawly critters are all but gone till spring.

 

[muddstopper]

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.

I was on therapy 3 times a week for several months. My insurance covered so I wasnt out of pocket. Therapy came with a free gym membership and I was going on my off days to work the machines. I was having pain all the time and my therapist said I was trying to hard and keeping everything all inflamed. I stopped going on the off days and did notice an improvement with pain. My MUA was right at 6 months after the surgery. After the Mua I could actually bend my leg forward about 4 degrees, but it seemed every week I was losing a degree or two. Last time I had it measured, I was about 4* bend at full extension and around 130* full bend. Functionable, but with a slight limp. I went back a couple months ago and got a steriod shot in the knee. For some reason I have a tender to the touch spot on the inside of the knee. Shot didnt help and I think it made it worse. Its still very hard to get up and down on the ground and dont even think about putting that knee on anything hard. I keep a rubber mat to put that knee on if I have to crawl any at all. Even with the mat, I have to be very careful crawling around.

 

[SeMoTony]

I was on therapy 3 times a week for several months. My insurance covered so I wasnt out of pocket. Therapy came with a free gym membership and I was going on my off days to work the machines. I was having pain all the time and my therapist said I was trying to hard and keeping everything all inflamed. I stopped going on the off days and did notice an improvement with pain. My MUA was right at 6 months after the surgery. After the Mua I could actually bend my leg forward about 4 degrees, but it seemed every week I was losing a degree or two. Last time I had it measured, I was about 4* bend at full extension and around 130* full bend. Functionable, but with a slight limp. I went back a couple months ago and got a steriod shot in the knee. For some reason I have a tender to the touch spot on the inside of the knee. Shot didnt help and I think it made it worse. Its still very hard to get up and down on the ground and dont even think about putting that knee on anything hard. I keep a rubber mat to put that knee on if I have to crawl any at all. Even with the mat, I have to be very careful crawling around.

Muddstopper, Orthopedic doctor told me that the inside of kneecap is not always smoothed in the course of knee replacement. Right knee was done by a newbie the left by the surgeon who was in charge of the whole department at the VA hospital. Right is still touchy sometimes, left almost never. This is after four or more years. ( Traumatic brain injury still messing memory). After eighteen months or a couple years they got much better than they were after being released from therapy. Good continuing recovery
Stay safe
Addendum: My memory has me leave things out that I can share. The discomfort in my right knee lessened over time and kneeling more possible. Hang in, likely to improve little by little.

 

[woodchip rookie]

In regards to ticks we never get a fall hatch of dog ticks but the deer ticks seem to come out in late April and mid October if you have warm, dry weather. We've had wet cold weather this fall so none of them.

Central and southern MN haven't had the hard frost yet so they are inundated with lady beetles and another hatch of boxelder bugs. I stopped to see my neighbor at my now former house yesterday and he was working on sealing his driveway and those damn things were everywhere. Up at the cabin we had three hard frosts in a row, with the first one being in the mid 20's so the crawly critters are all but gone till spring.

I have locust borors all over the place after I split a fresh load of ash.

 

[svk]

I had to open my big mouth. It is a warm but windy day here and there are a few lady beetles on the sunny side of the house.

 

[Erik B]

We have lots of Asian beetles, the ones that look very similar to lady beetles. The Asian ones bite. We had our house sprayed a month ago and the beetles die after crawling on the siding. Ground is littered with them. Spraying does keep them out of the house.

 

[Haywire]

Had one heck of a wind storm last night, knew there would be some fresh pumpkin snags ripe for the harvesting.
Some Spruce for @dancan...

 

[woodchip rookie]

lol...."PUMPKIN SNAGS"!!!

 

[Lowhog]

In regards to ticks we never get a fall hatch of dog ticks but the deer ticks seem to come out in late April and mid October if you have warm, dry weather. We've had wet cold weather this fall so none of them.

Central and southern MN haven't had the hard frost yet so they are inundated with lady beetles and another hatch of boxelder bugs. I stopped to see my neighbor at m y now former house yesterday and he was working on sealing his driveway and those damn things were everywhere. Up at the cabin we had three hard frosts in a row, with the first one being in the mid 20's so the crawly critters are all but gone till spring.

Never count those deer ticks out. A friend and I were on a bow hunt in camp Ripley one year late October. Morning temps were in the teens and my bud picked four of those little sob's off his legs in the afternoon.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Pants tucked into boots. Deep Woods OFF under and over boots and pants. I hate bugs like that. Chiggers are the worst.

 

[Lowhog]

Pants tucked into boots. Deep Woods OFF under and over boots and pants. I hate bugs like that. Chiggers are the worst.

Deer tick carry that lyme disease.

 

[cantoo]

farmer steve, I have my motor mounts loose a bit so the belt is loose on my conveyor the motor hangs off 2 rods, I then put an 8' board leaning on the motor mount and the ground, I set a round on it for weight. This keeps the conveyor moving normally but if I load it heavy or a split catches then it just slips the belt. Not sure how many years or cords I have run up this but it's been at least 7 or 8 years. I have 2 others for spares, they are getting harder to find at reasonable prices. We flip it around to load the dump trailer, hand load onto the conveyor to keep the loads clean.

 

[Jutt]

I bet those 18650s last forever running LED lights. Iv pushed a few to there limits on my vaporiser they can take some serious punishment and come back for more.

Yeah the run time and output from these batteries is impressive. Pretty much rendered CR123s obsolete for my use.

 

[chucker]

Never count those deer ticks out. A friend and I were on a bow hunt in camp Ripley one year late October. Morning temps were in the teens and my bud picked four of those little sob's off his legs in the afternoon.

and camp is only a stones throwaway from my front door! damned ticks and borrelia mayonii , borrelia miyamotoi which I have had for the past three years! no defense or cure, just finished a 1 year study with the minnesota dept. of health.... 60 known cases in the us and I am numbered as #13... nice number hey! watch the ticks!!!!

 

[svk]

Hit a deer tonight on the way home. Button buck that was more or less dead on impact. I was going slow so didn't smack it all up. Got a tag from the conservation officer and will drop it at the butcher on the way to town tomorrow. Hoping for good meat being it was a young deer. Front plate bracket on my old truck was the only damage so it was insignificant.

 

[woodchip rookie]

You scrounged a deer?!

 

[chucker]

Hit a deer tonight on the way home. Button buck that was more or less dead on impact. I was going slow so didn't smack it all up. Got a tag from the conservation officer and will drop it at the butcher on the way to town tomorrow. Hoping for good meat being it was a young deer. Front plate bracket on my old truck was the only damage so it was insignificant.

! no worry of lead poisoning.... lol

 

[Lowhog]

and camp is only a stones throwaway from my front door! damned ticks and borrelia mayonii , borrelia miyamotoi which I have had for the past three years! no defense or cure, just finished a 1 year study with the minnesota dept. of health.... 60 known cases in the us and I am numbered as #13... nice number hey! watch the ticks!!!!

I hope it all goes well for you, like you say damn ticks.