Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

I am excited to see/hear it run once you get the ported one back.

Me too bro. Having never had a saw ported, I'm curious as to how much it wakes her up. She was already an impressive little saw.

Thanks for the heads up. She seemed to 4 stroke even in the cut, so I'm guessing she needs leaned up a bit. I might play with her later today. I need to order more o-rings for the fuel and oil caps. I set the saw on a chicken hutch that's used to doctor up injured birds, and the wife chewed me good as it leaked all over the top. LOL.

 

[KiwiBro]

What are you going to do with all this scrounge?

Also, where are my kingfish? (I didn't request any but I feel entirely comfortable with demanding some after the fact).

Dunno about the firewood. Likely sell it once seasoned.
As for your kingfish




Neighbour gave me some more firewood rounds yesterday so will split that today then get back to my one-idiot-logging gig here. There's a bunch of alders along a boundary I've wanted out for years. Probably about 20 not so big trees but I hate how they are leaning over the neighbours land, so it'll be good to get rid of those. Some idiot (me) planted them way too close to the boundary. Not to be outdone with that level of idiocy I planted another row about 3m from the boundary fence and now have to thread the boundary trees I need to drop between all the others. I think collateral damage will be the phrase for today.

 

[95custmz]

Got the word on the truck, It was a known problem with Fords, something to do with the distributor that a $100 part will fix. Looks like it will be back home in a day or two. That truck sure doesn't owe me anything but I am sure putting a lot of money into keeping it running the past couple of years. 89 F150 2x...actually a 1x as the limited slip is shot .

Off to Von's in the morning to take down the problem tree. About 5' across, hollow with around an 8" ring of good wood ending in a big hole where a 2nd stem used to was. I do NOT like felling trees like that.

Sounds like the ignition module. On the older Ford trucks they were mounted at distributor. They later moved them to the driver side, near the firewall.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had a helper, help me cut this load of firewood,

Today I got started splitting/stacking it into my half cord boxes,

and then moving them to my drying area,

then it's "rinse and repeat!!" lol

SR

 

[turnkey4099]

Iv always wanted the opportunity to take down a dead tree with tannerite. This sound like a good time[emoji16]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

We had an ex army demolition man as a sergeant in the PD, I always debated getting some "professional" help but never asked.

Tree is down, one of the ugliest jobs I ever did. Had to resort to plunge cutting chunks out to make the undercut. Then plunge cut behind the holding wood around almost to the back on both sides, then cut the trigger. Nothing. Back to thin the holding wood. Nothing; A bit...well, really very stupid I didn't set any wedges. Time it finally gave up and went were I planned I found I had cut clear through on both sides.

 

[Cowboy254]

Dunno about the firewood. Likely sell it once seasoned.
As for your kingfish

With the rain we're getting at the moment, I wouldn't be that surprised to see a kingfish swim past the window. Then turning cold tomorrow with maybe a foot or two of snow on the hills.

 

[KiwiBro]

With the rain we're getting at the moment, I wouldn't be that surprised to see a kingfish swim past the window. Then turning cold tomorrow with maybe a foot or two of snow on the hills.

Wouldn't surprise me if you guys already have 11 of the worlds ten most venomous sea snakes.

 

[H-Ranch]

Cut up the broken maple out back and brought back one load. Still half of it standing that I'll have to cut later. It was getting dark but you may be able to see it was misshapen anyway. The old fence goes through it so it won't be cut too short.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Wouldn't surprise me if you guys already have 11 of the worlds ten most venomous sea snakes.

swimming past the window

 

[Ryan A]

View attachment 823129Digging into my snob wood stash up the road. Took a load of mulberry, hickory, and oak to the guy at work for his smoker.

I follow the scrounge thread when life/work permits.Maybe I missed it but did you get a trans for the 7.3?

 

[Ryan A]

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.

I try not to get too political or share personal opinion with other people.Quit for your family, if not for yourself.

My father died at age 51. Raised both my sisters and me by himself, was a two pack a day smoker. Dentist appointment for a root canal after school( also a teacher) infection from gums triggered the heart attack. Laid down at home as he didn’t feel well after the procedure. Never woke up. I believe smoking was a catalyst to the whole event.

Never had the opportunity to see me graduate college, get married, have children, or follow his profession.Miss him everyday and I wish he never smoked.....

 

[MustangMike]

Well, I got this bench off of my bench! It is half round Chestnut Oak with 4" thick Red Oak legs and some 5/4 treated decking for feet so it does not rot (it will be an outdoor bench). The top got a coating of Spar Urethane, the rest of it got a translucent stain.

Since I work outside (my trailer is my workbench) I have not been able to touch it for the last 2 days. But today was beautiful, and I got back to work!

Made it for my neighbor "Big Chris". He is 6'6" and 350 lbs. He came over after work and sat on the middle and it did not budge, and a big smile came over his face! Then we each took and end and carried it over to his house. Chris is strong as an Ox, but about half way over he looks at me and says "this thing is heavy"! Yea, a little bit!

I was glad he liked it so much!

 

[MustangMike]

I also got 3 saws ready to go back to their 2 owners, but no one picked them up!

A MS 440 had a "loose muffler". Really, it was missing 2 muffler bolts, another bolt was cross threaded, and the muffler gasket was missing. Getting the cross threaded bolt out was tough for the entire length of the bolt, I kept working it back an forth so I would not snap it. I replaced the missing bolts and gasket, cleaned up the threads, and assembled with liberal amounts of Loctite and made them as tight as I dared!

A MS 460 had an of/off switch that did not work. Was jammed full of wood chips. Removed the switch, cleaned out all the chips, oiled it a bit, and put it back together … good to go.

My brother said his 241 would not start. Went to change the fuel filter, but it looked brand new, so I dropped it back in the tank and the saw popped on the 3rd pull and started (in run position) on the 4th pull. I think he must have flooded it. Just as well, his chain really needed a sharpening … he just does not keep up with that stuff like I do, just views it more as a tool to keep using till it doesn't work!

Oh yea, and I did 3 more tax returns and called my clients (who are related and are down in FL) to review them.

I guess it was a busy day, but not so boring as I did a variety of things.

 

[KiwiBro]

Turned out to be quite a few rounds at the neighbours she didn't want. So the stash is coming along nicely.



*edit* just looking at this photo it encapsulates my idiocy very well. See those trees up against the boundary fence? They are the ones (about 20 of 'em) I have to drop tomorrow. You'll see the smaller ones just inside those boundary trees. i have to somehow save them. Then, the icing on the cake is I just put a row of firewood in the way too. Sometimes I do marvel at how absurd I can be.

One good thing today has been I finally got to see the gear the harvest crew are using on the neighbouring farm. The skidder is one of those big, tracked things. A bit like this image:

It was skidding directly up a fairly steep slope and the ground wasn't anywhere near as chewed up as I thought it would be. I really wanted to walk over there and ask if i could ride along for 1/2 an hr.

 

[James Miller]

The shop said drop it off as soon as I can get it out. Problem is one 180 pound man vs 500 pound monster trans don't play out so well. Got some coworkers coming to help pull it hopefully this week.

 

[muad]

Power company came and bored a new primary to the house, and removed the huge transformer from behind the barn. The transformer is now on the pole.

When the left, they were kind enough to leave the old primary wires from the transformer to my house (which I'll use to power the barn now), and they left me the pole. Lots of copper left on there too. Gonna make some fence posts out if it.

 

[svk]

Well, I got this bench off of my bench! It is half round Chestnut Oak with 4" thick Red Oak legs and some 5/4 treated decking for feet so it does not rot (it will be an outdoor bench). The top got a coating of Spar Urethane, the rest of it got a translucent stain.

Since I work outside (my trailer is my workbench) I have not been able to touch it for the last 2 days. But today was beautiful, and I got back to work!

Made it for my neighbor "Big Chris". He is 6'6" and 350 lbs. He came over after work and sat on the middle and it did not budge, and a big smile came over his face! Then we each took and end and carried it over to his house. Chris is strong as an Ox, but about half way over he looks at me and says "this thing is heavy"! Yea, a little bit!

I was glad he liked it so much!

That looks great Mike.

 

[farmer steve]

The shop said drop it off as soon as I can get it out. Problem is one 180 pound man vs 500 pound monster trans don't play out so well. Got some coworkers coming to help pull it hopefully this week.

I know a good supervisor if you need one.

 

[rarefish383]

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Don’t see any labels or markings.

They look like my hooks. Belt looks like mine too. My belt has a couple more rings and snaps, but it’s so old, we still carried paint pots. We had to paint any cut over one inch. Our pole saw heads had a spring clip that held a paint brush so you could paint small cuts from pruning. No leg straps on mine.

 

[rarefish383]

Did you let your daughter in on it?

Being observant in itself isn’t a bad thing, it’s what you do with that information.

An old coworker used to take off the same week every year to go camping at Cunningham Falls, Md. One year he met Rick Dempsey, the ball player, there. The year his son turned ten, the we’re setting up camp and he saw two guys walk by holding hands. He looked at his son real quick, but he didn’t seem to notice. Then they were walking up to the falls, and two guys were in the middle of the trail necking. His son did notice that, and asked why the two guys were kissing? Turned out it was gay apprecation day at the park. I don’t think Rick ever went camping again.