Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

I have a very few "few different birch" on my upstate property, and some larger ones were cut down. However, White Birch seem to be getting very rare (I think I only have one on the 50 acres) and Black Birch seem to be invading, mostly replacing what used to be Ash and Black Cherry.

When you scape the bark on a small piece of Black Birch it will smell like Wintergreen.

 

[MustangMike]

Went out tonight and found the steaks that boarder them and drove a colorfully painted T post DEEP in the ground. She ripped my other one out that had a “posted” sign on it because it was “in her yard” She wont get this one without a truck or tractor. Went through roots

I believe removing any surveyor marking is illegal. Good luck with the dispute, that can't be fun!

 

[svk]

I believe removing any surveyor marking is illegal. Good luck with the dispute, that can't be fun!

It is, but those things are always pulled “in the night”.

Back in the early 80’s when a new fellow bought land on the road past the cabin (the big house that burned last winter) it was discovered that the property lines were very far off base depending on which side you measured from. It was determined that the north measurement was correct which basically shifted 11 property lines by several feet.

To make matters worse, the snake of a surveyor who had originally done the south measurement (and his family originally owned the land to the south of us) pulled stakes in the night then wanted big bucks to resurvey it. My dad got a different surveyor. A few of the folks were ok due to woods along the old lines but some ended up owning a chunk of their neighbors yard and in one case, half of their neighbor’s cabin. Squatters rights prevailed there. Eventually that cabin owner bought out his neighbor on the other side to consolidate his lots and dismantled the cabin that was half on the neighbors.

Even though that surveyor has been dead for over 15 years it still boils my blood. His name was Richard and he sure was a DICK!

 

[svk]

I have a very few "few different birch" on my upstate property, and some larger ones were cut down. However, White Birch seem to be getting very rare (I think I only have one on the 50 acres) and Black Birch seem to be invading, mostly replacing what used to be Ash and Black Cherry.

When you scape the bark on a small piece of Black Birch it will smell like Wintergreen.

Mike, I know there are a decent amount of grey birch in upstate NY. Very similar to a white birch although I believe they branch out with horizontal limbs like an oak versus white birch branches usually grow upward in a V shape from the trunk.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Starting in my cousin’s straight gassed 290. Going to turn it into a Asian topped 390. With MM and TA.

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I've done two of these now - LOVE the muffler mod! Runs like a raped ape.
Question: Why put the piston and cylinder in the oven along with the bearings? I get the bearings in the oven & crank in the freezer - works like a charm. Are you baking off any solvents or anything?
Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[rarefish383]

Sorry guys I love mustard. Yellow, grey Poupon, or horseradish mustard.

I put grey poupon on these reheated dawgs last night. Toasted the buns too for that extra crunch.
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My wife's grandmother used to make a Horse Radish/Red Beet sauce that was FANTASTICLE. My wife has all of her recipes, one day I'll try making some. Boy do I miss all of that Slavik food at the reunions.

 

[U&A]

I believe removing any surveyor marking is illegal. Good luck with the dispute, that can't be fun!

It is.

She pulled my original T post that had a posted sign on it. That T post was just inside the Survivors steak (on my side)


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[rarefish383]

Not sure what kind of birch i have in my swamp but they are big. Nit sure if they are 20” but i would say possibly close to 18”.

Ill check and get pictures tomorrow if I remember. Lot going on the past few days. Neighbor is been very verbally aggressive towards me all the sudden. Property line issue. I called the cops to start a record. Good thing i had it surveyed a few years ago.

Went out tonight and found the steaks that boarder them and drove a colorfully painted T post DEEP in the ground. She ripped my other one out that had a “posted” sign on it because it was “in her yard” She wont get this one without a truck or tractor. Went through roots[emoji23]

Ordered a 5 camera security camera system just now to.

Trying stay ahead of this.


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Property disputes are a royal pain. On one hand, if you own ten thousand acres, some one can not go to the most remote section and squat, and try to claim your land. On the other hand, we had customers that lived in row houses in Wash DC. Every house had a garage, but no door in the back, leading to the house. You had to walk out of the garage and down a sidewalk into the back yard. The garages were old and in pretty poor conditions, so one neighbor was going to build a new one. When they surveyed, they found out that the neighbors side walk was on their property. Since the walk had been there since the 30's, with several owners of each property, and never any disputes, the people with the walk had to buy it to keep it.

My old neighbors were great folks. They put up a fence. The company that did the work used a tractor with a post hole digger on it. When it hit stone, they stopped drilling. So, after about 10 years the fence started falling down. John had passed away from ALS. So, Bonny decided to put up a new fence. This time she put it 4' on her side. We paid for half of it, and I offered to help put it up. When I saw them putting it up way on her side, I brought it up. Said I didn't want to have to mow 4' of grass between my garden and her fence. She said, don't worry, just let your garden expand back to the fence. My new neighbors are nice, and don't care about the fence. But, what happens if the next set of neighbors aren't nice.

 

[svk]

My wife's grandmother used to make a Horse Radish/Red Beet sauce that was FANTASTICLE. Boy do I miss all of that Slavik food at the reunions.

I love ethnic food. My paternal grandparents were both Nordic. As people know, Scandinavian/Nordic food is pretty bland. But my grandmas recipes were Americanized and were all excellent. But I also love the German, Polish, and Slavic influences that were brought to the area. Honestly we have the best assortment of sausages in the US and I’ve tried a lot of other areas. The only thing we don’t have homemade up here are the southern/Cajun style like Andoulle and boudin. But we have world class Italian, polish and “wurst”. Ironically some of the best “polish” is made by the Slavic folks.

 

[svk]

I've done two of these now - LOVE the muffler mod! Runs like a raped ape.
Question: Why put the piston and cylinder in the oven along with the bearings? I get the bearings in the oven & crank in the freezer - works like a charm. Are you baking off any solvents or anything?
Inquiring minds want to know.

I had washed the p and c with dawn and hot water to remove any dust or grit that had accumulated during shipping as they were just in a cardboard box. Wanted them fully dry before I started assembly so I cooked them for a bit.

 

[MustangMike]

I guess to keep everything straight it should be noted that White Birch is AKA Paper Birch, and Black Birch is AKA Sweet Birch. There is also Yellow Birch on my property, and I think River Birch also.

Yellow Birch gets the largest, with White and Black Birch rarely exceeding 2' in diameter. Black Birch has (by far) the highest BTU rating, and is often wet and stringy.

I once shot a leaning Black Birch tree with a 44 cal black powder pistol, and you would have thought someone opened the spigot on the side of the house. The sap just poured onto the ground. I have heard of people mixing it with Maple to make syrup.

 

[turnkey4099]

Well shucky darn. Truck failed again...at least this time it was the mechanic driving. Changing the ignition module only fixed it for a bit. The started to bring it home and it died on them. Still back in the car hospital being studied.

I had to cancel a planned day at Jim's on hte little locust scrounge, Need the truck to pull trees.

Put in anohter 3.5 hours at Von's cutting/piling brush from the big tree. Top is solid wood but trunk will be no good. Looks like about another 3 hours to finish cleaning up the brush. Figure a possible 1 cord off the big one and maybe another 1/2 cord off the top of the tree that came down with the big one.

Everything seems to be recovering well but the legs, they are still rubbery and I have to be very careful moving around.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Our neighbor to the west put up their own signs.


This is in line with the signs, and described in the deed.

 

[KiwiBro]

Just the one Kahawhai/Aussie salmon this morning, which went back to fight another day. Nice to finally get back on the water though.

 

[KiwiBro]

I've done two of these now - LOVE the muffler mod! Runs like a raped ape.

Question: What were you doing that caused you to be either present at the raping of an ape or at the very least witnessing it running having been raped?
Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[U&A]

Question: What were you doing that caused you to be either present at the raping of an ape or at the very least witnessing it running having been raped?
Inquiring minds want to know.

They get bored up there in WI


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[H-Ranch]

Smallish load that is the end of the maple that was down and the ground was pretty wet to push the wheelbarrow anyway. Felt like I needed to get out of the house though, even with the light rain.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

They get bored up there in WI


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It's because our roads are better (margianally) ;-)

 

[djg james]

The log yard is full of Maple now, mostly Hard Maple. I don't cut any recently because I tried to burn some and it just sizzled even though dry. I'm lucky, I've got all the Oaks, Hickories, Cherry, Locust and hv Black Walnut I can manage. But do you scroungers burn Hard Maple?

 

[JustJeff]

The log yard is full of Maple now, mostly Hard Maple. I don't cut any recently because I tried to burn some and it just sizzled even though dry. I'm lucky, I've got all the Oaks, Hickories, Cherry, Locust and hv Black Walnut I can manage. But do you scroungers burn Hard Maple?

It's crap! Send me your address so I can come make sure it's properly disposed of!

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