Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Cowboy254]

I shot a mouse with a Glock in my shed once. One more hole I had to patch before I turned it into a wood shed.

Was it enough gun or would you have preferred something bigger?

 

[James Miller]

Was it enough gun or would you have preferred something bigger?

If you have to pick up pieces it wasn't enough gun.

 

[James Miller]

Our recently departed cat started out eating the entire mouse but in the last few years would only eat the front half and leave the back half on the floor for me to toss outside. The brain is the tastiest bit with all that delicious fat and protein. If you're a cat. Stihl, I was happy for her to be dispatching mice for us on a regular basis.

We had a cat that would bring us adult squirrels with just the brain missing. Wouldn' touch the rest of it.

 

[svk]

My friend had a dog that would routinely catch grey squirrels in his yard and upon dispatching thrm would swallow the whole thing. Never got sick either.

 

[MustangMike]

I know someone who watched a Bobcat do that (from his tree stand).

My 22 cal pellet rifle dispatches undead mice nicely w/o any real damage to the house. Usually the concrete floor in the garage is the backstop.

 

[Philbert]

We had a cat that would bring us adult squirrels with just the brain missing. Wouldn' touch the rest of it.

Great.

Zombie squirrels. . .

Philbert

 

[woodchip rookie]

Was it enough gun or would you have preferred something bigger?

Its what I had on me at the time. Groundhogs get the 17 or the 243

 

[JustJeff]

Snow on the weekend and 28 degrees today! That’s 81 for those who no habla metric.

 

[rarefish383]

Was it enough gun or would you have preferred something bigger?

Just think, in 1912 Savage advertised the "new" 22 HiPower for man eating Tigers and the other dangerous game. It spits a 70 gr soft point at about 2800 FPS.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Exploring

 

[woodchip rookie]

Found one of those super huge deadly Austrailian nope ropes

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Found one of those super huge deadly Austrailian nope ropes

Yeah, nope.

 

[cantoo]

Found a mouse last night, in behind the coil cover on our Walker lawn mower. Little bugger was dead but he had already done the damage. Got it all ripped apart tonight and new coil should be here tomorrow afternoon. And both Steiners are down. My wife was having a bad day for sure. This time of year is crazy for her. Lawn sweeping, lawn rolling and lawn dethatching.

 

[Cody]

Has anybody else here cut oak trees down shortly after the buds started forming? Had to take down a few smallish ones today and split them for the neighbor and couldn't help but notice how the bark peels off. It makes sense, just not something I've ever really thought of. Will the bark fall off easier as it dries as well?

 

[rarefish383]

Has anybody else here cut oak trees down shortly after the buds started forming? Had to take down a few smallish ones today and split them for the neighbor and couldn't help but notice how the bark peels off. It makes sense, just not something I've ever really thought of. Will the bark fall off easier as it dries as well?

I've got 5, 30 inch Red Oak logs that are going on 2 years old. They were taken down in full leaf. The ones that had no bark damage from dropping them, the bark is still holding tight. The 18" rounds I cut for the legs of my fire pit bench , the bark has all fallen of. The couple logs that had big chunks of bark ripped off dropping them, have started shedding bark.

 

[chipper1]

I've got 5, 30 inch Red Oak logs that are going on 2 years old. They were taken down in full leaf. The ones that had no bark damage from dropping them, the bark is still holding tight. The 18" rounds I cut for the legs of my fire pit bench , the bark has all fallen of. The couple logs that had big chunks of bark ripped off dropping them, have started shedding bark.

I have two reds shedding bark, they died a couple years ago when it was very dry, seems someone cut a bunch of their roots to build a wood shed .

 

[chipper1]

I have one of those mobile teasers. Also in the kitchen. Dog likes to lay on a window sill 25' away but has clear view of kitchen. Mouse peeks around cabinet, dog goes berserk. Had a new visitor last week, garter snake crawling out from under the electric elements on the range. How he got up that high is not a problem but WHY?? I pulled him the rest of the way out and released him back to his natural habitat, i.e., threw him out the patio door.

Very odd, about 5yrs ago I found a shed in the element of our stove, never found the snake .
@MustangMike we have had a few snakes on the wood pile over the years, it seems they like the heat they hold during the night. But we've never called one a pet lol.

 

[farmer steve]

Snow on the weekend and 28 degrees today! That’s 81 for those who no habla metric.

Hi Jeff.

 

[JustJeff]

Hi Jeff.

Lol! We went metric in the 70’s. I still have to convert to standard.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Lol! We went metric in the 70’s. I still have to convert to standard.

Yeah, they tried to push that carp on us then too. The Europeans who settled this land left Europe for a reason - they didn't want to be like Europe. We're still that way, and as a result, we Americans are not afraid to tell the rest of the world "fk off, we're doing it OUR way".