Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[bigfellascott]

The coals are nice at night. But I want the stove to be cooling off by the time the sun is up. The house catches full sun light most of the day so the stove doesn't need to be going during the day unless its really cold or cloudy.

Ah that makes more sense

 

[chucker]

"SORRY TO HEAR THAT STEVE" ..... Borrelia burgdorferi(maynoii, is what I have been suffering with for 5 years with no good results with the meds that were prescribed... just be prepared for a long period of aching joints and moments you will think you lost your mind! (CAD, IS NOT AN EFFECT OF THIS WHICH HAS NO CURE EXCEPT ANOTHER SAW) !!!!

 

[LondonNeil]

I found two of these gals in piles of pine that was going in the fire pit. Both in the spring when I was cleaning up all the scrap from firewood season. They do burn well, not much heat, no ash.

no idea what that is....but its ugly so i really dont want to find out!

 

[LondonNeil]

Best of luck kicking that Lyme into touch Steve. Sounds like you've caught it reasonably early at least.

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

no idea what that is....but its ugly so i really dont want to find out!

Black widow. The red mark on its body gives it away.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Snow here. Ran a saw but not for scrounging. Clearing ATV paths at my gf's land. 45 acres near Tar Hollow just east of Chillicothe, Ohio. Pouring down snow. Clothes are wet. Everything is propped/hung up by the stove. Should be dry by morning. Plow is on the quad now. Ill push off the driveway after work tomorow.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Ran that 445 in some 14-15" hard froze popal yesterday. The bar was getting hot so I stopped cutting revved it a couple times to clear it out before I shut er down.

Today cleaned the bar, sharpened the chain headed out to cut some more oak limbs.

Go to start the saw but couldn't budge the recoil handle! Damn thing musta heat seized when I shut we down. Dunno and won't tear into it until it gets cold here. Guessing it will be a $100 bill for parts.

I gotta learn to stay away from those water soaked logs when they are frozen. Just ruin too much stuff!

 

[rarefish383]

no idea what that is....but its ugly so i really dont want to find out!

It is a Southern Black Widow. Widow bites can be very uncomfortable to humans, bites can cause severe muscle pain, abdominal cramps, tachycardia, and can last several days up to several weeks. The last case of human death, reported to the Poison Control Center, was in 1983. A friend got bitten a couple years ago. He had severe flu like symptoms and a 104 fever. Put him in the hospital for a week. You could see the fang marks in the middle of the bite.

 

[MustangMike]

Encountered numerous large Wood Spiders doing the wood near my Daughter's house last year. Don't think they are harmful, but also don't think a bite from anything that large would be pleasant.

Seemed like almost every round had one or two of them! Just glad I was wearing gloves, back handed a few of them.

 

[Cowboy254]

Ah they are ok, it's the Tiger, Brown and Copperhead snakes that are more concerning to me, they have a habit of showing up regularly when out cutting wood and they can certainly be cranky little bastards that's for sure!

Brown snakes give me the willies. They are completely unafraid of humans so they don't move away when you come near and if you don't see them they can hit you as you walk past. I was taking the kids for a bike ride when they were little on a sealed bike path along our local river when a brown snake came up to the edge of the path coming up from the river. I yell at Cowlad who was 20m ahead to stay put while I grabbed Cowlass and we stayed perfectly still with this big snake a couple of metres away. It watched us for maybe 15 seconds deciding whether we were a threat or not then slithered across the path in front of us and went on his way. Tigers are 4/5ths blind and can get surprised easily and then get you. We have alpine copperheads up the hill but they're not much of a problem. There are also black snakes down here but they would rather avoid an argument, but it you try to hit them and miss then you can have a problem.

We've had one tiger and one black at our place, both became acquainted with my shovel.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Brown snakes give me the willies. They are completely unafraid of humans so they don't move away when you come near and if you don't see them they can hit you as you walk past. I was taking the kids for a bike ride when they were little on a sealed bike path along our local river when a brown snake came up to the edge of the path coming up from the river. I yell at Cowlad who was 20m ahead to stay put while I grabbed Cowlass and we stayed perfectly still with this big snake a couple of metres away. It watched us for maybe 15 seconds deciding whether we were a threat or not then slithered across the path in front of us and went on his way. Tigers are 4/5ths blind and can get surprised easily and then get you. We have alpine copperheads up the hill but they're not much of a problem. There are also black snakes down here but they would rather avoid an argument, but it you try to hit them and miss then you can have a problem.

We've had one tiger and one black at our place, both became acquainted with my shovel.

Ain’t taipan the really nasty/aggressive ones?

 

[Cowboy254]

Ain’t taipan the really nasty/aggressive ones?

They're the most venomous snakes but they're further inland. Don't worry, we have plenty of other ones.

 

[bigfellascott]

Ain’t taipan the really nasty/aggressive ones?

Yeah you definitely want to avoid those bastard things! had one that was so cranky with us it started chasing us in a mates 4wd LOL

 

[KiwiBro]

Connection crap so better posts when get back but for now, it feels good to be back tipping trees over but boy am i out of shape


Edit: how is it that I look fat in photos but the logs I photograph always look smaller?

 

[bigfellascott]

Connection crap so better posts when get back but for now, it feels good to be back tipping trees over but boy am i out of shape
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Edit: how is it that I look fat in photos but the logs I photograph always look smaller?

I can relate, I'm so out of shape and get knocked up in seconds now

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Connection crap so better posts when get back but for now, it feels good to be back tipping trees over but boy am i out of shape
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Edit: how is it that I look fat in photos but the logs I photograph always look smaller?

Looks like really dense wood.

I can relate, I'm so out of shape and get knocked up in seconds now

lol Here in the States “get knocked up in seconds” means you got pregnant in seconds.

 

[James Miller]

Work before play. Should be done by noon then going to get that cherry by the gate to my new scrounge area.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

You get much snow? We got 2-3”.

 

[James Miller]

You get much snow? We got 2-3”.

1" at most but people want there stuff plowed/shoveled . The yuppies get a false sense of security seeing a plow truck.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

1" at most but people want there stuff plowed/shoveled . The yuppies get a false sense of security seeing a plow truck.[/QUOTE
Hmmmm! Yuppies getting rid of snowflakes, I sense prejudice there, probably a lawsuit to follow.