Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Not for nothing but it bothers me when corporations making billions of dollars pay no taxes, and individuals who speculate and manipulate pay a lower rate that people who perform physical work or provide services, etc.

But then, we would have to move this to the Political and Religious threads section.

Philbert

Care to explain to me why you think a Corporation should pay any taxes at all??? Think about, it is not a real person, it will either pay salaries (which are taxable) or pay dividends (which are taxable) or expand their business (which also creates more taxable income). So, why should a corporation pay any taxes???

You think the government can do better with that money??? PLEASE!!!!

You should view the Corporation like a pass through entity (like a partnership), taxing it just reduces it's effectiveness and improving the economy.

 

[Philbert]

Care to explain to me why you think a Corporation should pay any taxes at all??? Think about, it is not a real person . . .

Yet it shares the benefits and rights of being a legal 'person' in terms of liability and speech, among others according to 'Citizen's United'. Let's move this to the other forum and discuss it there.

Philbert

 

[dancan]

Thank You dancan You but a big smile on my face ,the wife also liked it.
God Bless

Glad you liked it .
Ave has a great channel , well worth watching .

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Haven't got real far but ran the 2065 and 445 a little. Just getting stuff out and ready to go seemed like a big. F''ert. Probs drag the brush in a while. The chunk it up tomorrow. My burn spot was right below that so it had to be done.

 

[Cowboy254]

Mill it or see if someone wants to and leave you with a slab to play with:
https://www.lucasmill.com/Sawmilling-Contractors

Nice idea, but probably not practical, for a few reasons. In any case, IIRC it might also have a termite pipe up the middle which might mean it's less likely to be blue gum which the local termites don't seem to like as much. I've read that it's difficult to keep the white gums from warping and splitting as they dry.

 

[Ryan A]

What does everyone like for wheelbarrows/yard carts? Most jobs/scrounges look like the above. Suburban/City homes so tractors aren’t an option.

 

[dancan]

Social distancing is good for you they say so ,,,
Jerry and I decided that it would be best to stay away from people so we went out to go look at a nice spruce that needs to be dropped for a fella and then go drop that hemlock that I got called to cut .
**** , what a long steep walk to get to the tree .

That's the neighbors drive , the frost is coming out of the ground so no getting up that without a 4x4 .
Went up and down that twice , once to find the tree and then back to cut the tree .
Sure am glad I quit smoking about 20yrs ago lol

It was both leaning and heavy on the downhill side so she came down real fast !
I sectioned off to the first big whirl of branches so about 16' and about 24" at the small end .

 

[dancan]

What does everyone like for wheelbarrows/yard carts? Most jobs/scrounges look like the above. Suburban/City homes so tractors aren’t an option.

I've used wheelbarrows , 2 wheel dollies with bigger tires and my homemade version of an arborists log dolly

 

[Deleted member 150358]

What does everyone like for wheelbarrows/yard carts? Most jobs/scrounges look like the above. Suburban/City homes so tractors aren’t an option.

I think a lot of guys like a big tire dolly for rounds. Otherwise hard to beat a good contractor wheelbarrow.

 

[MustangMike]

Funny how that idiot accomplished things with the economy in 3 years that all the smart guys (both parties) were unable to do for over 3 decades!

I'll take the idiot for another term!

 

[svk]

What does everyone like for wheelbarrows/yard carts? Most jobs/scrounges look like the above. Suburban/City homes so tractors aren’t an option.

I have a wheelbarrow at each place. Sometimes I have both at the house in the winter so I can have an extra load by the wood door.

 

[dancan]

After Jerry and I dropped that hemlock we went over to a houselot that I had cut in the fall .
The contractor grubbed the lot and put the wood off to the side .
I knew one of the neighbors and he asked me if sell him some of the small wood for firepit wood .
I told him to drag all the small he needed , no charge .
That worked out well , he got all the smalls he wanted and kept telling the woodticks to move along , don't touch that woodpile

Brought home a nice round of spruce

Not too sure about that other stuff ?

 

[mountainguyed67]

Spring is in the air. Saw 50° for the first time this year.
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Burning out the stump?

 

[KiwiBro]

Nice idea, but probably not practical, for a few reasons. In any case, IIRC it might also have a termite pipe up the middle which might mean it's less likely to be blue gum which the local termites don't seem to like as much. I've read that it's difficult to keep the white gums from warping and splitting as they dry.

Fair enough. There aren't many gums in general that are super stable when drying. There is a great book on milling aussie hardwoods that details everything from felling to drying, written a while ago but relevant to all but vaccum kiln drying.

 

[Haywire]

Burning out the stump?

Swedish candle.

 

[dancan]

I busted up that round of the spruce up because it's dry , now a chunk of it is in the furnace [emoji41]

 

[U&A]

What does everyone like for wheelbarrows/yard carts? Most jobs/scrounges look like the above. Suburban/City homes so tractors aren’t an option.

Best thing ever for this. Besides something with a motor anyway.


https://www.lowes.com/pd/Gorilla-Carts-6-cu-ft-Poly-Yard-Cart/1000065359

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[KiwiBro]

Spruce is a swear word here.
The Europeans are selling mountains of them to China and it's messing with our log sales and prices.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Had an absolute blast today with the wife and girls

 

[U&A]

Had an absolute blast today with the wife and girls

I cant see the pics for some reason Matt....[emoji53]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]