Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Weber_Steaks]

This maple branch came down in the winds yesterday, makes for some great firewood. Bark is falling off so its super dry.

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[farmer steve]

This maple branch came down in the winds yesterday, makes for some great firewood. Bark is falling off so its super dry.

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Looks like a @Backyard Lumberjack scrounge to me.

 

[Be Stihl]

Had some strong winds last night so I went up on the ridge to check if anything had broken. Sure enough a medium size shaggy bark hickory uprooted and took out a smooth bark hickory or vice versa. Even on flat ground so I don’t have to roll rounds downhill @loggernate style. Should be dry by 2022, hopefully

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[JustJeff]

Who doesn't love a good dog story?

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[MustangMike]

OK, you asked for it!

It was in the late 60s, I was home from HS because I was actually sick (and I almost NEVER stayed home sick). As a result, I was only wearing a bathrobe. It was garbage day, and no plastic cans back then, they were all galvanized metal.

I hear a buch of metal banging and look out the window and 3 kids from the nearby Middle School are knocking over the neighbor's garbage cans into the middle of the road. I go out on the front porch and yell at them, and they laugh at me and say "what are your going to do, your wearing a bath robe"?

I told the I did not have to do anything, that my dog would (Rex was lying on the front lawn). They responded that they see that dog all the time and he does not bother them. I told them that he would if I told him to. They argued back and forth, insisting the dog would not bother them.

I finally got sick of them, and wanted to give them a scare. I knew the dog would use judgement instead of just listening to me, he was that smart, so I hollered REX (and he got up), I then pointed to them and yelled "sick em". The dog went at them like a bee line, all three of them tried to run, but Rex went past them, turned, and with his back up and his teeth bared he went back and forth backing all three of them up. They were screaming "call him off, call him off" I responded "are you guys going to behave"? They replied "we won't do it again, we won't do it again" (they were terrified, they never expected the dog to do what he did).

I hollered "Rex Come" and he returned and layed back down on the lawn. I never had trouble with those kids again.

I had never taught Rex to do that, but I knew what he would do. He was a one in a million dog.

 

[JustJeff]

I had an exceptional dog once, ruins all future dogs. I was weeding the flower bed because my mother was coming to visit and the dog was laying on the porch. I worked my way along the garden till I crossed the sidewalk to the other side. When I started weeding the dog raised her head and "graw raw rarw" like some dogs do when you talk to them, she rarely did. She did this twice as I continued weeding, then sighed heavily and got up and came over. She rooted her nose down in a dwarf juniper, prickly I'm sure, until a copperhead came out the other side. I killed it with the shovel and she layed back down.

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[H-Ranch]

Who doesn't love a good dog story?

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Another! Another one, @MustangMike !

 

[Cowboy254]

I did get some bad news this morning.

It was not unexpected, but my Mom passed at 91 years old.

Very sorry to hear that, Mike. Knowing it is coming doesn't dampen the loss at the end much. My condolences.

 

[H-Ranch]

Widow neighbor had a couple big spruce taken down and asked the tree service to put it behind the barn so I could pick it up. Actually specifically said that right before they started. Anyway they just dumped it at the edge of the woods in 3 locations. 2 of them she could see from the house which bothered her. If I didn't take it she was going to call them to get it moved - no problem, I took care of it.

 

[MustangMike]

Another! Another one, @MustangMike !

I have several more, I'll post another one tomorrow.

And that is one heck of a good story too Jeff … which reminds me, I also have a great story about the dog my day had when I was real little.

It is funny because both of our dogs were 1/2 German Shepard (Moms) with unknown Dads, and both dogs looked like German Shepard's but were blond. However, my dog was only about half the size of most Shepard's at 45 lbs, but my Dad's dog was about twice the size of a normal Shepard … it was 150 lbs when it was only 9 months old. He was not as smart as my dog Rex, but he did really rise to the occasion one day when it really mattered.

 

[Cowboy254]

Wind hit here last night, according to the wife. I slept through it. LOL

Sounds like you should have passed on the late night souvlaki.

 

[Cowboy254]

Hey, if you guys want to hear some of the stories about that dog just say so, I'll share. They may take up a bit of space though.

I love dog stories! I love dogs a bit too much though, and can't cope with losing my best mate. So I stick to cats. Stihl hurts when they leave but I can manage. 6 years old is way to young to lose Rex, though, Mike.

I dusted off the MMWS 241 for a little 'me time' this morning. One small wattle had fallen down and another one next too it fell down when I pushed it over (by hand). Ended up with a small @H-Ranch load of dry firepit wood and four beer boxes of kindling sticks with a few larger sticks of wattle on top which I'll either take down to family or give away locally.



It's Melbourne Cup day today, the race that stops a nation. Can't really get into horse racing, though Cowgirl doesn't mind it.

Mostly, I've been in my own little world recently. Anything interesting happening in the US atm?

 

[muad]

Sounds like you should have passed on the late night ice cream.

LOL, fixed it for you.

 

[James Miller]

Did they get rid of the P/R section? How am I gona get my late night entertainment without all that pissing and moaning.

 

[MustangMike]

6 years old is way to young to lose Rex, though, Mike.

You are absolutely right, and I had tons of guilt … he developed cancer after I left for college, I don't think he understood I would be back … it sucked!

I came home for a WE and he struggled to walk with me … my Mom took him to the Vet after I went back, and they had to put him down, cancer throughout his body.

You just have to focus on the bright side … I had a great dog for 6 years, wouldn't trade it for anything!

 

[MustangMike]

Rex and the Softball Game

I was in my mid teens and Rex and I were inseparable, he went everywhere with me. I was riding my bike and he was tagging along and I decided to go over to the Middle School to see if anything was going on over there. The Middle School used to be the High School, so it had a nice baseball field and football field.

Turns out there was a softball game involving some grown men, and some beer drinking. Rex and I stopped to watch the game for a while. Rex always used to play fetch with me and my friend Tommy. We would throw balls into the woods as far as we could, and Rex would ALWAYS return with the ball.

One of the guys hit a foul ball that went way off to the right of first base. Rex stood up and looked, and after a few minutes after they had resumed play with another ball, and no one had gone to retrieve the foul ball, off Rex went to retrieve the ball.

I was not worried about it, I knew he would soft mouth it, and he came back with it and dropped it right where they had several other balls to use during the game.

Well, as he dropped it, the guy who was on deck to bat (and had too many beers) saw him drop the ball and exclaimed "Damn dog is chewing our balls". He immediately swung the bat at Rex, who just side stepped it and moved back. (Rex was extremely fast). The guy must have swung the bat at him at least 6 times, first to the right, then to the left, and each time Rex jumped back and to the other side and the guy missed cleanly.

All of a sudden I noticed Rex stopped moving back, he just went side to side a few time, and then he went to the side and forward and I saw him croutch, and I hollered at the top of my lungs "Rex NOOOOO". The dog froze, the guy froze, it was almost like time stopped. At that moment the guy knew and I knew that Rex "had him", and that I had saved him.

I then told the guy that my dog did not hurt his ball, that he could check it (which he did) and that the dog had just retrieved a ball that no one else bothered to retrieve.

The guy apologized to us, the baseball game resumed, and the world returned to normal.

 

[Logger nate]

My son and his wife are getting ready to move into a rental place and stormy rain/snow predicted for this weekend so went over last night to split up some of the big fir for themsure glad the splitter has vertical mode, lol. Definitely a God thing they got this place, nothing available with all the people coming in and if something does come up it’s crazy high. They been looking for a year, this place has everything they want and very reasonable. Really happy for them. House, shop, barn, chicken coop and 40 acres to stack wood on

 

[muad]

My son and his wife are getting ready to move into a rental place and stormy rain/snow predicted for this weekend so went over last night to split up some of the big fir for themView attachment 865883sure glad the splitter has vertical mode, lol. Definitely a God thing they got this place, nothing available with all the people coming in and if something does come up it’s crazy high. They been looking for a year, this place has everything they want and very reasonable. Really happy for them. House, shop, barn, chicken coop and 40 acres to stack wood on

Sounds like heaven to me!!

 

[Logger nate]

Sounds like heaven to me!!

It’s really nice! They’ll probably get tired of me hanging out there, lol.

 

[SS396driver]

Had no power since Monday morning around 6 am . They just got us up and running and left me some nice white oak got 6 or 7 loads just from my dead end street . There's a big hickory down the main part of my road I'll get to tomorrow. Piles getting bigger every day