Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

Not sure.
Lets get one thing straight, this is a stihl .

Thanks.
The barn siding/wood matches the black locust bark, and the rusted steel roofing matches the red oak leaves in the fall winter and spring.
I had a friend over one time and he asked "has that always been there", that's exactly what I wanted, something that blends in and doesn't look like a sore thumb.
Here's the view out the back window.
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And another angle to see the side door.
I plan on filling until the grade from near the woodshed meets the grade on the from where the picture was taken from, takes forever with my little tractor, but it would take longer with a shovel lol.
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Love it, beautiful man.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Dragged a little (very little) brush and got 2 wheelbarrow loads of small stuff stacked. Then got the mower started and moved so I could get the wood splitter out.

Dragged it over to where I had cleared a spot for it. 1 pull start! I was pleased with that! Split 2 wheelbarrow loads and stacked those too! Didn't want to over do it. Heck it was all of 9 steps from the splitter to the wood shed! This is the 1st split load.

Seriously trying not to smoke. Won't say quit cause this is day 1 and its pretty much all I think of right now. Carton in the other room is reassuring for some reason.

 

[dancan]

Bonus pics of yesterday's scrounge - my phone decided to work today. This is the couple o' cubes of peppermint from Mitch's on Saturday morning.

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My trailer full of scrounged peppermint just before going over to Ross's place.

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Then there was half a Ranger load of peppermint which I topped up with some splits of blue gum from recent scrounges - which is not properly dry but if he needs to later in the season, he can mix a split in at a time in a hot fire with dry wood and it shouldn't go too badly.

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How many cube can you stuff in the boat ?

 

[MustangMike]

Good luck with the quitting, don't give up on it!
Don't be one of them:
"Quitting is easy to do … I've done it many times"!!!

 

[dancan]

Dragged a little (very little) brush and got 2 wheelbarrow loads of small stuff stacked. Then got the mower started and moved so I could get the wood splitter out.

Dragged it over to where I had cleared a spot for it. 1 pull start! I was pleased with that! Split 2 wheelbarrow loads and stacked those too! Didn't want to over do it. Heck it was all of 9 steps from the splitter to the wood shed! This is the 1st split load.
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Seriously trying not to smoke. Won't say quit cause this is day 1 and its pretty much all I think of right now. Carton in the other room is reassuring for some reason.

What Mike said !!!
I've been quit for about 18 years from a 2 pack a day habit and the wife has been quit for 7.

 

[dancan]

How many cube can you stuff in the boat ?

 

[U&A]

Got one moved with the danger ranger. Set aside for wen i get a mill[emoji3526]

This one is only 8’ long but it is perfect. Going to use it to make a cool headboard.

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[LondonNeil]

@MustangMike , dang stihls always loosing fumbler bolts and breaking them off lol.
I think these ones were actually over tightened in an attempt to keep them in(after the others came out and did a bunch of damage to the matting surface) and they bottomed out and then broke, at least that's my guess.
Unfortunately the small piece of my extractor(all that's left after I broke it off a few times ) won't reach any further into the other broken screw and it's slipping. The "fix" for now is a wrap handle screw that goes into the bottom of a husky 372 tank(coarse threads) shortened a little so it doesn't bottom out and it will hold on the outer portion of the mount, it holds very well, but copious amounts of red loctite will be used!
Good luck on the projects.
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I need to loctite some bolts too after today. I mowed my lawn, they aren't big so its easily done with a push mower with a briggs and stratton engine. halfway through the mower stopped. '???' I thought... 'Can't be out of fuel already' looked at the fuel tank to see it had dropped off along with the carb which bolts too it! Last time i used it i had to service the carb and clean a well in the top of the tank, I guess i either didn't nip the bolts up or they lacked thread lock as the 2 bolts had vibrated out and lost themelves on my lawn. a rummage in my limited spare bolt box and ahh....its not metric... so ended up borrowing an M8 and M6 tap, tapping the 2 bolt holes and bolting it back together. got the rest of the lawn done, check the botls and find they are in need of a nip again. right...i need some thread lock on them then.

 

[JustJeff]

Pulled my trailer out from its winter spot and filled it from the fencerow stacks. I love this trailer and am so glad I built it. I can stuff it right next to the deck where I stack for the winter. Filled 2 of the 10 4x8 racks and still have some left to start another. Only burned 7 racks this year, have used up to 9 in winters past. So, half of next year's wood is stashed!

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[djg james]

Pulled my trailer out from its winter spot and filled it from the fencerow stacks. I love this trailer and am so glad I built it. ......

I lvoe your trailer too. I could haul a lot of logs in that. Build me one...

 

[djg james]

......This one is only 8’ long but it is perfect. Going to use it to make a cool headboard.....

White Oak? Quartersawn?

 

[dancan]

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-buy-sell-other/cape-breton/firewood-for-sale-spruce-pick-up-only/1498118014
Daumit all to heck
Just too far to go .

 

[muad]

Pulled my trailer out from its winter spot and filled it from the fencerow stacks. I love this trailer and am so glad I built it. I can stuff it right next to the deck where I stack for the winter. Filled 2 of the 10 4x8 racks and still have some left to start another. Only burned 7 racks this year, have used up to 9 in winters past. So, half of next year's wood is stashed!

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That's a nice trailer, and tractor

 

[H-Ranch]

Dragged it over to where I had cleared a spot for it. 1 pull start! I was pleased with that! Split 2 wheelbarrow loads and stacked those too! Didn't want to over do it. Heck it was all of 9 steps from the splitter to the wood shed! This is the 1st split load.

Keep after it! Pretty soon you'll be doing 4 loads, then 20 steps away, then hand splitting, then eventually you'll just be carrying the logs! OK maybe not quite, but you'll have more energy for sure. Drag the brush, use the wheelbarrow, mow the lawn, whatever you have as a distraction if you need to. Good luck!

 

[chipper1]

OMG!!!! I just realized that. Wow, l had no idea LOL


Great pictures. Gives a better feel for your yard. I like the layout as well as the drive through.

Don't be too surprised, I've seen it on quite a few stihls, and I don't work on saws much and I don't own that many stihls.
What's funny is I've seen it on a lot less huskys in person, to be fair there are a lot more stihls out there than huskys.
It happens to them all, and all the more with a lacking of maintenance!

Thanks, I want to add a lot of fill back there and to raise up the shed around a ft and move it back and to the left looking at it from the house. It will be at almost the same angle to the house and the little "road" in front of it, but it will give me more space to back thru with the trailer. I knocked one of the post off the from right corner the other day carrying a large root ball, I need just a bit more room thru there.
I'll try to get a video of the back yard setup kind of a drive thru look, it will document how much I fill and moving the shed, and I can get a nice video of the woodshed bays full of wood , first time ever.

 

[H-Ranch]

Only one load of poplar from my place tonight. I did finish getting the trailer load from my new best friend put away. Took a reconnaissance walk through the neighbor's lot and it's slim picking for much more easy stuff that's still solid. There are a few on the other side of the swamp worth getting. Wound my way through my woods and found a couple more blow downs in the back.

 

[chipper1]

Love it, beautiful man.

Thanks .

 

[chipper1]

I need to loctite some bolts too after today. I mowed my lawn, they aren't big so its easily done with a push mower with a briggs and stratton engine. halfway through the mower stopped. '???' I thought... 'Can't be out of fuel already' looked at the fuel tank to see it had dropped off along with the carb which bolts too it! Last time i used it i had to service the carb and clean a well in the top of the tank, I guess i either didn't nip the bolts up or they lacked thread lock as the 2 bolts had vibrated out and lost themelves on my lawn. a rummage in my limited spare bolt box and ahh....its not metric... so ended up borrowing an M8 and M6 tap, tapping the 2 bolt holes and bolting it back together. got the rest of the lawn done, check the botls and find they are in need of a nip again. right...i need some thread lock on them then.

Sounds like someone may have forgotten to re-torque them, I've been there .
I like to tighten them while the engine is warm, usually takes care of the problem as long as the holes aren't wallowed out, but a bit of loctite can go a long way.
I had a mechanical moment today or at least I realized a past moment. Decided to go after getting my suburban up and running again, it's been down since last fall. So first I get the battery all charged up good, then I go out there and remove the air filter housing, then I start to look at the distributor(99 Chevy Suburban 5.7). For those who know they have all the wires for each bank of cylinders down each side instead of in the firing order, I'll say I've had way more problems with this design than any of the standard style distributors even if you don't include the current failure on my part. So I look at the top of the cap and I see the numbers on the terminals that correspond to the cylinder/the wire they should attach to. Well for some reason when I swapped the old distributor out I put the wires to the wrong terminals. I actually put them on as though the front terminals were for the front cylinders and so on until the back terminals were forth back cylinders, that's not at all how they go/work. The odd thing is I've done the cap and rotor and the wires 2 times other than this time in the 4 yrs I've owned it so I'm not sure what happened.
The good thing is the suburban is running great, even hauled a car to my buddies on the trailer with it today .
It's good, I'm glad I got that out of the way on Monday, the rest of the week should be smooth sailing .

 

[U&A]

White Oak? Quartersawn?

Looking at the grain I’m pretty sure it is red oak


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[MechanicMatt]

Uncle Mike, two things....
First, why does Bass Pro only show a model 92 in 44-40??? I want one in .357
Second, My neighbor had me set aside two LARGE pieces of Ash and one super straight Cherry, he wants milled.