Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

Mountain laurel Joe.

 

[KiwiBro]

Mountain laurel Joe.

That's another thing - since when has coffee been called a cup of Joe? I for one don't want to know what Joe tastes like. No offense to any Joes.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

I was splitting some wood with the Hydro late this afternoon and I noticed a little scratch in my hydraulic oil filter that is leaking.

Are these the same as car oil filters? If so, anyone know the match up for a Countyline 22 Ton splitter filter (TSC 1822617?)

Mike, just changed mine on Speeco 22 ton. Printed on filter was S390601A0 crossed to Oregon 83-014, MTD 723-0405. Was told if micron rating is lower, will cause back pressure and will allow fluid to by-pass filter. You probably know more than me, but replaced mine with that Oregon 83-014, MTD 723-0405. 10micron rating.
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[svk]

This was the last of the six saws on my bench, was dreading checking the damage! Hard for me to believe some Neanderthal could do this to a saw!

What inhale happened to that?

 

[svk]

I haven’t heard that before.

I don’t know what region of the south or Appalachia calls them that.

To me, “Beans” are thick like baked beans. Bean soup is thinner. Soup beans just sounds dumb.

 

[svk]

This was my day. Pic of a few of the rocks we liberated from the road. About 9 hours in the hour meter so far. Another hour or two tomorrow and we’ll be through.

 

[hamish]

And if a hammer won't fix it it's an electrical problem

Politely refer to it as an up and down wrench to confuse generations.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Good friend owner of Great Lakes Tree Removal gave me a call and asked if I wanted any free wood. Sure, location, close and he would be there in an hour to remove stumps. Pulling them owner is building a garage. Friend had bid job before (about 2 months ago) and was too high for complete removal, chipping brush. log removal, pull stumps and grade for garage. A friend of owner that Barry does lot clearing, calls him and asks if he would be willing to stop back by and re-bid job. Got there and trees had limbs removed in a pile with wood stacked through-out. Stopped over and scrounged this small amount of wood and will return after they work it out. Owner cannot understand why his complete clean up bid is now higher than before. Barry tried to explain it now involved more man-hours to dig through brush pile to chip brush and stack logs. Owner started stacking brush and piling separate, as I was cutting loose logs he stated this was much harder work than he imagined. Cheaply done gives cheap, problem job and fair bid would have produced clean flat site with no work from owner. When I left, believe owner was working out price to complete job as originally bid.

 

[svk]

Good friend owner of Great Lakes Tree Removal gave me a call and asked if I wanted any free wood. Sure, location, close and he would be there in an hour to remove stumps. Pulling them owner is building a garage. Friend had bid job before (about 2 months ago) and was too high for complete removal, chipping brush. log removal, pull stumps and grade for garage. A friend of owner that Barry does lot clearing, calls him and asks if he would be willing to stop back by and re-bid job. Got there and trees had limbs removed in a pile with wood stacked through-out. Stopped over and scrounged this small amount of wood and will return after they work it out. Owner cannot understand why his complete clean up bid is now higher than before. Barry tried to explain it now involved more man-hours to dig through brush pile to chip brush and stack logs. Owner started stacking brush and piling separate, as I was cutting loose logs he stated this was much harder work than he imagined. Cheaply done gives cheap, problem job and fair bid would have produced clean flat site with no work from owner. When I left, believe owner was working out price to complete job as originally bid. View attachment 824554

Great story! Funny how he opened the wallet once he realized how much work he would be doing.

 

[Jeffkrib]

With all this talk on air leaks, I have a question. Say you buy a second hand saw and it has an air leak, you give it tune and it idles and four strokes when you lift out of the cut as it should. Would it be safe to run and not cause any harm if the tune is correct despite the air leak?

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Some here in central PA call it "far wood".

I call this "firewood", not sure what you guys call it in your region of the country/world. Sometimes referred to as "fire wood" here also. Uncommonly known as "wood" but that often confuses some to believe it is brush, pallets, old fencing, construction debris (including drywall, plastic, and metal), or anything made from a tree or a wood-like substance.
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[rarefish383]

Mountain laurel Joe.

Close, but no banana. It's Wild Azalea. I used to have about 12 of them. These might be the last 3. Two are about head high and one is about 8'. They will get to 15'. The leaves are smaller, lighter green, and not as dense as Mt Laurel. The flowers only last for a few days. So, it's a special treat when you get to see them. Several years in a row I've gone down back and there were nothing left but dried up flowers.
http://sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/4h/plants/Wild_azalea/index.html
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=rhca7

 

[rarefish383]

Some here in central PA call it "far wood".

I've been known to put a piece under my tar, so the truck don't roll away.

 

[rarefish383]

Not sure what the flower is, but you have Chestnut Oaks in the background of the last pic.

Yes, my lot is almost all Chestnut Oak. I had a few big Reds, but they have all died off. The last big Red is ready to come down, it still has its bark and a few leaves down low, but the top is falling apart and dropping 10" diameter limbs all around my fire pit. As soon as I get the last two trailer loads of 8' logs cleaned up I'll drop the big one. It'll have many nice live edge benches in it.

 

[Philbert]

This was my day. Pic of a few of the rocks we liberated from the road.

Gonna use those rocks for landscaping, or just push them off the road?

Philbert

 

[MustangMike]

Mike, just changed mine on Speeco 22 ton. Printed on filter was S390601A0 crossed to Oregon 83-014, MTD 723-0405. Was told if micron rating is lower, will cause back pressure and will allow fluid to by-pass filter. You probably know more than me, but replaced mine with that Oregon 83-014, MTD 723-0405. 10micron rating.
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Thanks, I guess they are different than auto filters, so I will have to make a trip to the store. My Nephew also gave me a reference to a Purilator H32010.

 

[MustangMike]

I think I better either find a # on my filter, or bring the darn thing to the store with me!

 

[H-Ranch]

I did get these in tonight along with one I didn't get a pic of (you'll have to imagine like this except split.) 3 of these will be for fire pit and the largest one I may try to make a barn owl nesting box out of. Looks to be perfect with almost a little roof over the entrance.

 

[MustangMike]

What inhale happened to that?

I'm still trying to figure out how he possibly could have done this! I guess because the guy is a good climber, and critical to the operation, he gets a lot of leeway!

 

[muddstopper]

As annoying as some of those sayings are, you can’t hold it against people for using terms that they were brought up with.

The two that I can’t stand are when people call tomatoes “maters”. Or calling cooked beans “soup beans”.

I liked the story about CTYank (John) and spike60 (Bob) at a GTG one time. For those of you who don’t know the personalities, CTYank is IMO a really strange dude and Bob is as matter of fact as you can get. Bob was telling a story and John kept correcting him about “depth gauges” and “rakers”. Finally Bob stopped, looked directly at him and said “John, around here we call them RAKERS!”

Well I had sliced maters, sliced taters, and soup beans seasoned with middling meat and cornbread for supper tonite. AND IT was GOOD!