Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

No scrounging today, however tomorrow I'll be helping a buddy (or mate, if you're down under) fell some pins on his open lot. He does a large garden on that lot, and they're starting to block the sun on his crops. I think they're only 25-30 foot tall. I think the 241 will do fine, but I might take the 361 just in case.

Then, we're going to build another new horizontal bee hive. I picked up three hives from a commercial bee guy that made like 125 splits recently, and they're doing awesome. Hoping they do well this year, and next winter.

I'm hoping this weekend I can get into the woods to drop and drag out some dead ash to start a pile for processing. I think I'll drag a handful of logs over to one spot, then bring the splitter down and buck/split it all up. Leave the mess in the woods. While walking the woods hunting shrooms, I found a BUNCH of dead ash still standing, and several that are on the ground. One of the standing ones is quite big. Lots of firewood in that tree.

 

[Haywire]

Nice area! Great pictures! Take your helper?

Sure did! He had that top box full to burstin' with Ponderosa cones by the time we were done! haha
Nice work up on that spruce!

 

[rarefish383]

Cut it into rounds

That's funny. Terminology is as different from East Coast to West, as it is from Down Under to Up Over! When I came here I was talking about using a Disston DA211 2 man saw to block down a giant Tulip Poplar. Some one from out West jumped on me and said, "I needed to learn my terminology". It cracked me up that I was a licensed and insured MD Tree Expert, he was a weekend warrior. I was 4th generation in the Tree Business, and he had been scrounging for a couple years. We had 5 members in the family that owned Tree Companies, and he had a friend with his grand fathers pick up. If we were taking a tree down, and we had roped out all of the canopy, and did not have room to throw the log, we said, "we were blocking it down. If we could throw the log, and had to cut it into fireplace length, we said "we were blocking it up". The local loggers and some of the younger guys used the term bucking, and we all knew what it meant. When I first came hear, what came to my mind when guys said they were cutting rounds, were cutting cookies. When I'd hear a term I wasn't used to, I did as MG67 did, just ask. Some terms we used were, a climbing line was called a skinning line. When the climbing line got retired to a light rigging line, we called it a lowering line. If we had cut a few flip lines or chokers off the end of a 150 foot skinning line, and it was too short for a lowering line, we called it a tag line. Tag lines were the oldest ropes left in service, used to pull trees over, or with a lowering line to help pull it away from something, like wires. They were all the same 1/2" rope. But, by the term we used, a rookie would know exactly what was wanted. Maybe one day I'll write a brochure with Translations of Tree Work Terms, once I learn my terminology.

 

[Haywire]

That's funny. Terminology is as different from East Coast to West, as it is from Down Under to Up Over! When I came here I was talking about using a Disston DA211 2 man saw to block down a giant Tulip Poplar. Some one from out West jumped on me and said, "I needed to learn my terminology". It cracked me up that I was a licensed and insured MD Tree Expert, he was a weekend warrior. I was 4th generation in the Tree Business, and he had been scrounging for a couple years. We had 5 members in the family that owned Tree Companies, and he had a friend with his grand fathers pick up. If we were taking a tree down, and we had roped out all of the canopy, and did not have room to throw the log, we said, "we were blocking it down. If we could throw the log, and had to cut it into fireplace length, we said "we were blocking it up". The local loggers and some of the younger guys used the term bucking, and we all knew what it meant. When I first came hear, what came to my mind when guys said they were cutting rounds, were cutting cookies. When I'd hear a term I wasn't used to, I did as MG67 did, just ask. Some terms we used were, a climbing line was called a skinning line. When the climbing line got retired to a light rigging line, we called it a lowering line. If we had cut a few flip lines or chokers off the end of a 150 foot skinning line, and it was too short for a lowering line, we called it a tag line. Tag lines were the oldest ropes left in service, used to pull trees over, or with a lowering line to help pull it away from something, like wires. They were all the same 1/2" rope. But, by the term we used, a rookie would know exactly what was wanted. Maybe one day I'll write a brochure with Translations of Tree Work Terms, once I learn my terminology.

I think most folks could figure out what means what. Just that some like to be difficult.

 

[rarefish383]

Scrounged up a motor for the 98 Honda odyssey yesterday.
The little hatchback didn't mind too much .
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Even saw some nice wood stacked out east of Ohare Airport. Some of those stacks are around 18' high lol.
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Saw this 350 on the way back, while I'm typically into Chevys more than fords, when they have Shelby on them there's a good chance they'll turn my head a little. Besides I figured Mike may like the pictures.
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Bringing back old memories. My buddy had a 65 Plymouth Belvedere with a factory 361, 4 speed. The motor was shot so he bought a 383 from the local junk yard. We both had a free class after lunch, so we ran up and had the owner, Dollar George, stick the thing in the trunk of my 65 Dodge Dart. heading back to school, if I hit a little bump, the front tires would come off the ground. Pulling back in the school, I goosed the engine a little as I went over a speed bump. The front end came up so high I thought we were going to get stuck with my trunk on the ground. Boy, the good old days.

 

[rarefish383]

I think most folks could figure out what means what. Just that some like to be difficult.

I think you are showing your wisdom, in a very generous way.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Threw some new to me wheels with some new tires on them. Put a magnaflow cat back on her and some new tubular control arms front and rear. Should almost be ready for summer cruising.
Stopped by to show the Bro InLaw and seen he’s housing one of his pals toys for a bit....

 

[H-Ranch]

Well it weren't pretty but I got that broken maple down. It's on the ground and I'm in having a beer so i guess all is good. Brought just a few ash rounds back since I had the wheelbarrow with rope and come-along and regular tools.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Bucking is what the sheep do ..

Bucking is a term the U.S. Forest Service uses, I volunteer with them.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Went out to the horse ranch with another veteran, we cut there once or twice a year.

We dropped the two dead trees.




Then I cut up what got left because their saw is too small. By then the other veteran had left, and the ranch woman helped me. She used a Kawasaki side by side to pull them out to the trailer. All of this is already seasoned.

 

[Logger nate]

Sure did! He had that top box full to burstin' with Ponderosa cones by the time we were done! haha
Nice work up on that spruce!

That’s awesome!
Thanks.

 

[Haywire]

That’s awesome!
Thanks.

He liked the looks of everyone he saw. "Dad, can we bring this one home?"

 

[Philbert]

State park campground had a couple spruce they wanted taken down. One was still green but rotten at the base, other one was dead and leaned toward fence and road, both about 34”. Wasn’t room to fall green one the way it leaned so cut top out then pulled stem the other way

Nice job and nice photos / videos.
Well above my pay grade!

Philbert

 

[Logger nate]

He liked the looks of everyone he saw. "Dad, can we bring this one home?"

Good times! Sure like working with my son, glad he’s back in the area.

 

[Logger nate]

Nice job and nice photos / videos.
Well above my pay grade!

Philbert

Thank you sir! Pretty sure the good Lord helps me out

 

[turnkey4099]

Where did you set the start lever when you tried to start it the second time?

Fast idle position. If I get it running tomorrow I'll try it on just idle.

 

[MustangMike]

Terminology changes fast!

Where I grew up any carbonated beverage was referred to as "Soda". If you went Upstate NY and asked for a Soda you got ice cream in it, and they referred to the carbonated beverage as "Pop".

Then there were the Wedge, Sub, Hoagie, Grinder debates, depending on where you were from.

Then I remember a girl ribbing me about my Italian last name. So I asked her what she had in her that she was so proud of. She responded that she was "Yankee"!!! Turns out she grew up in New England and did not have a clue what she was!

 

[Philbert]

Terminology changes fast!

Then there are those people who call the depth gauge a 'raker', and refer to reduced kickback chain as 'safety chain'!

Philbert

 

[KiwiBro]

Then there are those people who call the depth gauge a 'raker'...

drags

 

[Cowboy254]

Terminology changes fast!

Where I grew up any carbonated beverage was referred to as "Soda". If you went Upstate NY and asked for a Soda you got ice cream in it, and they referred to the carbonated beverage as "Pop".

Then there were the Wedge, Sub, Hoagie, Grinder debates, depending on where you were from.

Then I remember a girl ribbing me about my Italian last name. So I asked her what she had in her that she was so proud of. She responded that she was "Yankee"!!! Turns out she grew up in New England and did not have a clue what she was!

I can think of a line or two you could have used …