Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[James Miller]

Glenn Rock

That's right down the road from me.

 

[turnkey4099]

It would be on like a pot of neck bones and I'd be balls deep in the bush if it were profitable. Now i hope to sell enough wood to pay for my use and costs of acquiring it.
So far I'm ahead. I grew up country, cattle, horses, built our own homes, etc. but took a job in the city and ultimately riding a desk in a high rise without windows supervising a bunch of grown up babies. It pays good but sucks. The body morphed from solid to a gelatinous sack of dung. I'm back out to the hills 2 days a week and enjoying the heck out of it.

The pretty well describes my physical condition a year before coming up on retiring from the AF. Flew a Mark 1 desk for 21 years. Decided I needed to get back in shape before pulling the plug. Took a part time job grinding castings in an iron foundry for the last 6 months.

 

[dancan]

Well , last weekend's birch scrounge turned into these

The wife is happy ;D

Here's a few tools that I've scrounged that I used to make them , only the handle was bought new , the rest ....

 

[svk]

Your second image is not showing @dancan

 

[flatbroke]

The big boars are usually rank and are best made in to sausage. We process our own. Make Italian , Jalapeño and cheese, and some others. The dogs stop the hogs and we crawl:walk up depending on location and availability of space. Grab a rear leg. A 44 mag behind the ear gets them neutralizes. and start pulling dogs off.
If I'm in Texas we tied them live and haul them off to sell

The small to medium size hogs yield pork that is second to none. Do you eat those big boys? How do you kill them with the dogs all over them?

 

[dancan]

I don't get the show/noshow thing .

 

[svk]

Still not showing.

 

[LondonNeil]

Same, I see the cool little birch animals, but not the tools

 

[dancan]

Feck ...

 

[dancan]

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=Qkg1c2VjMjBWbU9FcS1wOURyZG8ySFA4ZExZaFR3

?

 

[muddstopper]

The big boars are usually rank and are best made in to sausage. We process our own. Make Italian , Jalapeño and cheese, and some others. The dogs stop the hogs and we crawl:walk up depending on location and availability of space. Grab a rear leg. A 44 mag behind the ear gets them neutralizes. and start pulling dogs off.
If I'm in Texas we tied them live and haul them off to sell

The guys I used to hunt with just slit the hogs throat if the dogs have it caught. To much danger of shooting dogs. Before the hunt we always got the speech. "Boys, we have black dogs and black hogs, and they aint no season on dogs." Now if the hog was bayed up and you had a open shot, you shot it. If the hog was covered in dogs, you caught the hind leg and held it until its throat was cut. Last one I caught live nicked me on the back of the leg. He was a small, 75-100lb boar with little short tusks. If he had of had big tusks, he would of cut my leg half off.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Feck ...

I can hear Cartman every time I see this...."AWE....FECK"

*WARNING: VULGAR LANGUAGE*

 

[flatbroke]

The guys I used to hunt with just slit the hogs throat if the dogs have it caught. To much danger of shooting dogs. Before the hunt we always got the speech. "Boys, we have black dogs and black hogs, and they aint no season on dogs." Now if the hog was bayed up and you had a open shot, you shot it. If the hog was covered in dogs, you caught the hind leg and held it until its throat was cut. Last one I caught live nicked me on the back of the leg. He was a small, 75-100lb boar with little short tusks. If he had of had big tusks, he would of cut my leg half off.

Never slit a throat but a 8 inch buck knife run upwards inside the front leg will get it done too. It's illegal here in CA.

Shot placement with a 44 mag pistol up close and personal never gave a a problem over the last 40 years. Used to go 3-4 times a week and caught a lot of big Tuskers. Ive grabbed on to more hogs than most people have seen in their lives. My boy wanted to go hunting before shipping out for Army Boot camp when he was 18. We put him on 4 hogs that day. Got some great action photos.
My kids have been going with me and involved since they were little as you can see by he photos. All of them are in their 20s now.

 

[flatbroke]

Pulled out a couple more loads today and have 2 cords cut on the ground waiting to be removed. Not a bad weekend.

 

[JustJeff]

Spent the day with a bunch of volunteers, staking snowmobile trail. A bazillion kilometers of trail here in Ontario all marked and maintained by volunteers. Snowed all day so I hope that’s a good omen for our season. Son’s resealed motor ran great but the throttle cable stuck giving him an exhilarating ride. Lol. Ride it back using the kill switch as a throttle. Only thing scrounge related today is the fire in my stove keeping us warm.

 

[MustangMike]

Was the last day of regular season here, and the first snow of the year yesterday, and I love hunting in the snow!

But I did the right thing instead, and took the 3 Grand Kids sleigh riding ... they loved it.

Still got 9 days of Black Powder season left, and can't use the rifle in my County any way, so will try to get out again soon.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Flatbroke, you nailed it. Babysitting adults and a body going to flab. I joke with my assistant manager, I'm a cheerleader a babysitter and a fire extinguisher. Build them up, keep them out of trouble and most importantly deal with the fires (pissed customers). I used to be in really good shape except for my knees. Now I have what my nephews call "office chub". I have two older nephews 20 & 22, no matter how much they worked out they couldn't beat me arm wrestling, sadly after a year in the office the one gets me both left and righty while I can still hold off the older left handed one with my right arm. But he DESTROYS me lefty. I used to whoop them easy. Ahhh the joys of office life. At least the pay is really good.

 

[MechanicMatt]

So father in law who is a outdoorsy guy got my kids gift cards to BassPro. What fun is shopping online. After getting home from church we loaded up and made the 1.5hr drive to Bridgeport CT. Had a blast, kids got fun stuff and I picked up a nice set of insulated work gloves. On the way home we roll past a very large shopping mall. Palisades Center, they have a lego store. My little one comes over with a Lego set telling my wife she needs to get it for me. I LOVE this kid!!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Oh yeah, I think one of you guys was at BassPro too, there was a guy with his wife, toddler son and baby daughter, he was wearing a STIHL hat. Thought to myself "I wonder what his screen name is?"

 

[95custmz]

You've got Chainsaw Addiction Disorder, when you start thinking like that. LOL