Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[KiwiBro]

Batteries are 'magic' to me. I have no technical knowledge of how they really work.

I know that my iPhone sometimes gets very warm from use. Not always.

I try to follow the manufacturers' recommendations on how to treat them. But it may be possible, that in some applications, Li-Ion batteries are more 'consumable' than 'durable'.

Have you tried to reach out to Makita?

Philbert

Not yet but will be in touch. It's not like Makita to screw this up but it just seems like too much of a coincidence to see massive degrade in batteries after using them in the CS. The circular saw can draw enough to heat the battery when cutting dense timber if I don't do it in a few passes, but nothing like the CS does. It also takes ages for a cooked battery to cool down too. Almost as if there's something akin to the thermal runaway that plagues Li-ion batteries happening. Their other CS tools use two batteries which must surely drop the amp draw from each.

 

[steved]

View attachment 773703 May have been a bit much but it sure beat trying to get around the yard with the truck. I spent a little time riding on the hood to help keep the front end down.

Ah, growing up I spent a good many loads of firewood riding the hood to keep the front wheels on the ground...good memories.

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[steved]

Wife, daughter, and I spent a few hours splitting...got about a cord split and stacked.

Not a lot, but this is for next season.

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[MechanicMatt]

Easily the biggest buck I have ever scene in my life. Missed him twice..... he was going full speed for the tree line and I’m a loser....

can’t believe how disappointed I am right now. Praying I didn’t blow him outta there....

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

View attachment 773457 Mid murder break with the FIL and @Bobby Kirbos in the bucket.

And here's @James Miller in the bucket.

 

[H-Ranch]

More of the downed ash trees. I counted 28 rounds and a few poles from a smaller collateral damage tree that was taken out with them. I quartered most of the rounds and only a few pieces are small enough that I can pick up from the end. Good stuff!

 

[MustangMike]

Happy Belated Birthday BYLJ … I was away for a few days!

 

[MustangMike]

Tons of sign up at hunting camp, and cold and snow. Deer, Bear, Turkey, Grouse, Coyote, Bobcat, and more! Was 15* opening morning and 10* the following night. The wood stove had all it could do to keep up heating the 2 story 20 x 24 uninsulated cabin!

We all saw deer, and luckily for me, Matt pushed this 8 pt to me. Two decent bucks in one year is the best I've ever done. This one was a little bigger than the last one (both rack and body).

As you can see, it is thick as crap up there, so there is rarely a clear shot, so I load premium bullets that will not blow up easily. The Ruger American in 06 got er done!

Matt sent his pics to my Daughter, and my Granddaughter sees them and says "Grandpa got a Snowdeer".

 

[MechanicMatt]

Great picture of the guy who taught me teaching my daughter.

 

[MechanicMatt]

After missing that monster, I gotta think of times like yesterday where it all just clicked and we got a nice one.

 

[steved]

Great picture of the guy who taught me teaching my daughter. View attachment 773790

I got one of those...

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[MustangMike]

Actually, all 3 of us (Matt, his Dad [my Brother], and I all participated in the teaching).

Matt had done a big "hook around" to push the deer, his Dad and Daughter were going toward him on the lower level, and I was approaching on the upper level.

After the shot I went over till I found the blood trail, then waited for them (her) to help me track it (tracking is always a learning experience).

 

[MustangMike]

I guess I should also mention on this site that our wood stove got a real workout. Heating an uninsulated 20' X 24' - 2 story cabin is a lot of work when the first night is 15* and the second night is 10* … that is pretty darn cold for mid November!

We pushed the poor stove to it's limits. The most challenging part is guessing the wind, to set the damper. Sometimes the wind changes a lot between bed time and morning, and it can really mess things up. The first night I closed the damper all the way because it was windy out, and all went well. The second night, I did not close the damper as much, but the wind died in the middle of the night. The cabin was getting fairly cool at 4 in the morning, so I woke up and went down and found the stove full of coals. I opened the damper all the way, stuffed some smaller pieces on top of the coals and all was well again. When that thing starts cranking, it burns everything down! (It is a Sotz air tight 55 gal drum wood stove kit).

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yesterday I went to get a load of white oak with a bit of cherry. Got it all loaded, the kids even helped on some of the small stuff which was nice.
View attachment 773340 All loaded and ready to go, but whoops it warmed up a little much .
View attachment 773341 So I had to drop the trailer after my dad tried pulling me out with his and dug just as deep first tug. My truck came out easily once the trailer was dropped. Looled at the weather this morning and could see it was now or never since it got down to 21 last night so I headed over to give it a try. Hooked up at an angle so I could pull one side out of the ruts the trailer was in at a time, and presto it came right out. I didn't slow down a bit and made a mad dash for the road, the whole time I could feel the trailer dragging in the soft yard, hopefully it didn't do to much damage .

I just caught wind of the snowman there, chipper. nice touch!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I guess I should also mention on this site that our wood stove got a real workout. Heating and uninsulated 20' X 24' - 2 story cabin is a lot of work when the first night is 15* and the second night is 10* … that is pretty darn cold for mid November!

We pushed the poor stove to it's limits. The most challenging part is guessing the wind, to set the damper. Sometimes the wind changes a lot between bed time and morning, and it can really mess things up. The first night I closed the damper all the way because it was windy out, and all went well. The second night, I did not close the damper as much, but the wind died in the middle of the night. The cabin was getting fairly cool at 4 in the morning, so I woke up and went down and found the stove full of coals. I opened the damper all the way, stuffed some smaller pieces on top of the coals and all was well again. When that thing starts cranking, it burns everything down! (It is a Sotz air tight 55 gal drum wood stove kit).

is this where the handmade table n benches is by you MM? I was thinking about it when I saw the hunting pix... maybe eating some heart or backstrap later in evening on it for supper.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I got out again today to cut a bit more of the Peppermint tree I've been working on lately, I think I underestimated just how big it is at the root ball end, I can cut it from both sides that part isn't the problem its the size of the rounds I cut off it that have me a bit concerned as I'm not sure I'm upto splitting them they are that big! (they would be just over a 1mtr across by the looks of it, that's a lot of time on a hand log splitter and I just ain't physically up to that I can tell ya, so I think I will have to leave the main trunk where it is unless I can get someone who's more able bodied to help me, then I might have a bit of a crack at it then.

I can't wait for the new Hydrolic Log Splitter to get here I can tell ya, no way I'm splitting all that lot by hand (doable but to hard on me these days) so easier options have to be found.

100 mile views...

no doubt - nice load of wood there, but it's that beautiful country vista views that really caught my attention! very nice country! ~

those 100 mile views! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Crazy to think that the lake only froze 9 days ago. View attachment 773704

swell pix svk! you don't see a pix quite like that every day! thx for posting it up...

big ice!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Happy Belated Birthday BYLJ … I was away for a few days!

so I see... hunting! ~

thanks for the wish MM - appreciate it. yes, it's just not the years! lol... of course, I do count my blessings... 27 or now 72! over 1/3 of my graduating HS class not around any more... cold thought!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Tons of sign up at hunting camp, and cold and snow. Deer, Bear, Turkey, Grouse, Coyote, Bobcat, and more! Was 15* opening morning and 10* the following night. The wood stove had all it could do to keep up heating the 2 story 20 x 24 uninsulated cabin!Matt sent his pics to my Daughter, and my Granddaughter sees them and says "Grandpa got a Snowdeer" .

guess he's ageing back at home?

 

[Cowboy254]

So like post ripping then? is that the sort of thing you've done there? (nice looking stick of wood by the way)

Not quite, I'd need a bar at least twice as long on that big log to walk along ripping that. Think of it as doing your chainsaw splitting before lopping off the rounds. At the fat end of that log, three rounds filled the trailer. I ended up taking 7 removalist boxes full of noodles home for Cowgirl to work into the soil in her (now deer proof) horticultural compound which she thought was good.