Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[bob kern]

Well my youngest had a near death experience yesterday. My poor wife had slaved for two days fixing everything imaginable for 30 ish people that were coming to Christmas dinner. Turkey, ham, dumplings and rolls from scratch, pies,sweet potatoes,corn,beans, just to mention the basics!
After the prayer, she got a plate and asked him what he wanted. He looked her square in the eye and said these words he quickly came to regret!
“ can you fix me a peanut butter and jelly”
I thought sure his days on this earth were through!!
I wanted to laugh so bad , but she was too close to several sharp objects!!

 

[turnkey4099]

Chrismas day opened with temps just at freezing, sunny, mild breeze so I celebrated with 3 hours split/pile on the woodpile. Felt real good to be out there again after sitting out miserable weather for a week and a half. Had trouble maneuvering the garden tractor and trailer in 2" dense snow. A garden tractor and trailor of rounds does not work well in snow even with chains on, espectially when hooked up to push vice pull the load. Front end just wants to skid even for mild turns. Did have to pull out the snow blower to clear the area and make roads to/from the rounds pile to the splitter.

In the house now and body telling me that sitting on the nether region for a week and half did not do me any favors.

 

[Cricket]

Sounds like the dealer was using those plates illegally on another vehicle . Plates numbers are not reused . When you turn them in they are destroyed. And they couldn’t transfer a plate from one person to another . Only vehicle to vehicle same owner
Dealers usually have new plates on hand and give you a temp and then go register the truck . Some do everything in house

Michigan allows transfers between immediate family members (or used to, back when that was relevant to me), but yeah, other than that, no place I know of allows it.

 

[Cricket]

Merry Christmas!
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Dang - from its butt, I thought that deer was a Quarterhorse!

 

[svk]

Dang - from its butt, I thought that deer was a Quarterhorse!

That’s about the fattest doe I’ve ever seen lol.

 

[svk]

Good eats at the K residence tonight.

 

[dancan]

Merry Christmas all you scrounging yahoos !!!

 

[svk]

Well guys, this was the most enjoyable Christmas of my adult life.

For the first time in 21 years, nobody fought at Christmas. My ex and her family were notorious for brewha’s at any holiday and it was a ****en pleasant break to not longer have to deal with that ********.

 

[pdqdl]

Sorry to hear about your 21 year loss. Keep looking up!

 

[MustangMike]

Mother Nature can be cruel! We are driving down I-684 just past exit 4 on our way to my SIL, and on the right shoulder of the road a Beautiful 8 point buck is following a doe!

Did not think the rut was still on, but I guess it is! Told my wife I'd sure like to see that in the woods!

MZ opens again tomorrow for one last week (but not down there, the deer was in Westchester County, which is bow only - and no cross bow).

 

[muddstopper]

Deer season will reopen here as soon as my wife starts planting her flowers. Either sex will be fair game.

 

[esshup]

Mother Nature can be cruel! We are driving down I-684 just past exit 4 on our way to my SIL, and on the right shoulder of the road a Beautiful 8 point buck is following a doe!

Did not think the rut was still on, but I guess it is! Told my wife I'd sure like to see that in the woods!

MZ opens again tomorrow for one last week (but not down there, the deer was in Westchester County, which is bow only - and no cross bow).

October, November, December and January all have varying strengths of the rut. It all depends on the buck to doe ratio. Any unbred does come back into estrus the next month. I've seen fawns in late October that still had spots on them.....

 

[chipper1]

Santa hooked me up this year
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Nice tool he dropped you there .
Great utilitarian piece .

 

[Lee192233]

Still awake Chipper?!? I took a long post Christmas Dinner nap and here I am. Thanks for the compliment on the tractor. Hoping to get out in the woods tomorrow afternoon and drop a couple more ash trees.

 

[farmer steve]

Mother Nature can be cruel! We are driving down I-684 just past exit 4 on our way to my SIL, and on the right shoulder of the road a Beautiful 8 point buck is following a doe!

Did not think the rut was still on, but I guess it is! Told my wife I'd sure like to see that in the woods!

MZ opens again tomorrow for one last week (but not down there, the deer was in Westchester County, which is bow only - and no cross bow).

My buddy told me he had a 4 point chasing a doe around his yard this past week. I had what would have been a 20"+ 8 point (had 1 side broken off above the brow tine) down in the pasture a little over a week ago acting rut stupid. I was able to sneak up to about 60 yards from him to get a pic and i had an operator error on the cellphone camera.

 

[JustJeff]

Nice tool he dropped you there .
Great utilitarian piece .
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I do agree that a rifle is indeed a tool. These AR style rifles just don't hold an attraction for me. Its just an asthetics thing. I've fired them and they're as fun to shoot as the next one. I love a wood stocked hunting rifle. I guess it's the way the shape flows because I've owned composite and laminate stocked rifles and thought they were attractive. A wood stocked rifle oiled and polished is a thing of beauty. Don't mind me though, I'll take form over function as I also have a thing for single shot rifles. Ruger number 1 for example.... During my ramblings it came to me that I've never seen a wooden handled chainsaw... Why not? Axe, knife, wheelbarrow all have wooden handles. Jeez, even a set of knife like scales could be set into the sides of a magnesium handle.. I think someone missed the mark here!

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[svk]

I do agree that a rifle is indeed a tool. These AR style rifles just don't hold an attraction for me. Its just an asthetics thing. I've fired them and they're as fun to shoot as the next one. I love a wood stocked hunting rifle. I guess it's the way the shape flows because I've owned composite and laminate stocked rifles and thought they were attractive. A wood stocked rifle oiled and polished is a thing of beauty. Don't mind me though, I'll take form over function as I also have a thing for single shot rifles. Ruger number 1 for example.... During my ramblings it came to me that I've never seen a wooden handled chainsaw... Why not? Axe, knife, wheelbarrow all have wooden handles. Jeez, even a set of knife like scales could be set into the sides of a magnesium handle.. I think someone missed the mark here!

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Truthfully I never felt a need for one of these until the last few months. I’m a classic deer rifle and fowling shotgun type of guy.

I did consider getting an M1 carbine instead of this.

 

[JustJeff]

This is the true meaning of Christmas! Lol! It would have taken me an hour to haul this up and stack it by myself. My 3 boys, or rather men, are all home and we did this in about 10 minutes. Last a month at these temps, just above freezing, or 2 weeks of -20.

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[chipper1]

I do agree that a rifle is indeed a tool. These AR style rifles just don't hold an attraction for me. Its just an asthetics thing. I've fired them and they're as fun to shoot as the next one. I love a wood stocked hunting rifle. I guess it's the way the shape flows because I've owned composite and laminate stocked rifles and thought they were attractive. A wood stocked rifle oiled and polished is a thing of beauty. Don't mind me though, I'll take form over function as I also have a thing for single shot rifles. Ruger number 1 for example.... During my ramblings it came to me that I've never seen a wooden handled chainsaw... Why not? Axe, knife, wheelbarrow all have wooden handles. Jeez, even a set of knife like scales could be set into the sides of a magnesium handle.. I think someone missed the mark here!

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Yep, great tools, everyone should have a few, just like saws .
If one is set up right you don't even notice the stock, same as with a wood stock.
I have wood, composite, plastic, and steel tools, what's important is they get the job done, but some are real pretty lol. No wood handled chainsaws here though . I have a hard time keeping tools from getting marred up, so as for the tools were talking about now, I wouldn't want one that's mint as I'd end up damaging it, and that would be a bummer.
Here's a couple I have with rubberized handles, that first one is louder than the second and it's 223/556, it has a muffler mod .


Not my picture .

 

[chipper1]

Still awake Chipper?!? I took a long post Christmas Dinner nap and here I am. Thanks for the compliment on the tractor. Hoping to get out in the woods tomorrow afternoon and drop a couple more ash trees.

Must have crashed out right after that post.
If I take a nap, I really needed it, it doesn't happen often; now sleeping in, that's a different story, but I stay up pretty late most nights so...
What size is the kubota. I may be looking at another rototiller later tonight, hoping he doesn't get any other calls on it. I'll be doing a bunch more grading with the kubotas here at the house today.
Be safe on those ash trees, keep and eye to the tops and wear a helmet, they are dangerous. I bet out of all the ash trees we had here that only a 1/3-1/4 of them are still standing, and only a 1/8-1/4 of those are still alive . Sure sounds like a nice time, I'm ready to do some cutting and wood processing, just need to do as much on the grading before the ground freezes again, may not get another opportunity until spring, and I could have grass growing on some of it if I get on it now.