Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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We sharpen our saws at 25° for chisel tooth chain, 30° for semi-chisel. We do almost exclusivly hardwoods, too, with plenty of mulberry, hedge, oak. Plenty of the softer deciduous trees, too, but rarely a pine or other conifer.
When hand filing, I just try to match up the witness mark, and that has always worked just fine.
The very worst. I don't think it has any soybeans in it at all. Just wheat. Unfortunately, Kikkoman is the flavor that most folks associate with Japanese stir fry. La Choy is prominently different tasting.
Soy sauce is little more than a concentrated batch of partly digested plant proteins. They concentrate the proteins, they get rid of the starches, and they "hydrolyse" the proteins so that they have a strong, meat enhancing flavor. When you cook your steak, you are breaking down the largely flavorless proteins to obtain their amino acid components. We can taste the amino acids, so we get lots more flavor out of a cooked chunk of meat than a raw one.
Read the back label on a lot of foods and you will often see "hydrolyzed vegetable proteins" as an ingredient. All this means is that they are adding some soy sauce equivalent to the mix so that it has a stronger & meatier flavor.
I took seven loads to people whose home survived the fire, but their firewood didn’t. Free of charge. They already have enough to deal with.
In the last pic I drove right by a burned down shop, log splitter burned, hand tools laying in the ashes, welder burned up, and some stuff unrecognizable. Their water tank melted, and already replaced. Power pole burned, and already replaced. Tree crews in there cutting down all the hazard trees, but they’re still green. Most of the nearby dry wood already burned. They have a friend loaning them a log splitter.
This is what I drove through to deliver the wood.
In the last pic I drove right by a burned down shop, log splitter burned, hand tools laying in the ashes, welder burned up, and some stuff unrecognizable. Their water tank melted, and already replaced. Power pole burned, and already replaced. Tree crews in there cutting down all the hazard trees, but they’re still green. Most of the nearby dry wood already burned. They have a friend loaning them a log splitter.
This is what I drove through to deliver the wood.
Dear lord, that's terrible. Glad your able to help out your neighbors. Cant imagine what that would be like.
Well, it may have wheat, but it has more soybeans than wheat, and it is brewed and it taste good!
We didn’t know them, we posted on their Facebook page offering to deliver rounds. The people in that area are still kinda unsettled, and leery of “disaster tourists” and people trying to take advantage of them. They’re welcoming of me once they know what I’m up to, and that I have land kinda nearby. I mostly avoided taking pictures, I only have that one after the last load, and it’s facing away from their house. The people from one of the places came to our place to get two loads. My wife was with me for the last two loads, so we’re inadvertently making friends. They’re really appreciative, and kept offering to get us something. And they have three horses, my wife loves horses. We plan on taking them more loads.
The burned truck in the still shot of the video is still sitting there.
It was a simple fix for the 193T - clean the spark arrester screen. I am cutting in a dense willow grove with no air circulation. All that willow fuzz from lasdt spring is hangin everywhere. I didn't even think about the spark screen but am diligent about cleaning the air filters.
All sugar in the gas does is clog up filters. It does not dissolve in gas. Turns into instant sludge in the bottom of the container. Bad enough I guess but ruin an engine? No.
Good on you and your wife Mountainguy.
I’m a believer in community. We’re all on the receiving end of help sometimes. When the tables are turned, we need to be the helper. I’m in a position to help, plus it helps me to get rid of excess fuel wood on our place. If we cut down all the dead trees at once we wouldn’t have any ground to walk on. It’s twenty acres of timberland with about half the trees dead. Sure it still has value, but I couldn’t bring myself to charge people in their situation. There has been an outpouring of community support with donations, but I haven’t heard of anyone else giving firewood.
Nice evening for a ride. The lake is skimming over now that the wind stopped. Warmer weather is on the horizon.
ReggieT
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My God! Absolute tear jerker!
Thank you, I stand corrected. I watched a history channel special on how they brew the stuff. I must have forgotten about any inclusion of actual soybeans.
That being said, that stuff sure does tear holes in your gut if you happen to be gluten intolerant.
Yes buffleheads. Mostly just buffleheads, hooded mergansers (edible), common mergansers (inedible) with a few mallards and bluebills left.
Just a cell camera.
Very nice of you
