Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[wudpirat]

Shooting!. wanta talk shooting? I've got over seventy years experence.
Start with an accurate rifle/pistol.
Practice,practice,practice. A good coach will help, point out what your doing wrong.
I have a Win. 52B, 22LR that will shoot into one hole, but my FWB 300 air rifle will shoot into half a hole.
Match .177 pellets cost 1/10 the price of 22LR match, so that's a no brainer.
Get you a good air gun and practice, practice.
How you hold the gun, breath and heart beat and most important, finger on the trigger, gotta be the same everytime.
Now that I've derailed again.
Started to dig my hardwood out of the snow, got some split and drying next to the stove. Burn it tomorrow.
Should be less than 20% on my MM, good to go.
I just hope I scrounge enuff wood for next winter. This scraping the bottom to make it through the winter sucks.
Finding some youngbloods for help is harder find. They seems to disapear when it's wood time.
I'll get even, my will is not final.

 

[farmer steve]

my only scrounging today was going through a bin of wood in the pole barn and bringing some into the shop to make a fire. i had to. the wife's office is in my shop and she said the toilet seat was cold.

 

[MustangMike]

My 220 swift (a Ruger M77 w/26" Bull Barrel) used to shoot one hole groups at 100 yds with Norma Factory Ammo, which was loaded very hot (48 gr at a published 4,110 FPS). It still shoots well, but not that well anymore. That is the only rifle I have ever owned that I could not hand load more accurately than factory.

Those bullets were not good for chuck hunting though, they were very hard and did not open. I think they used it for big game in Europe.

I even found out what the factory load was, but Norma had discontinued that powder, so I could not duplicate it. It did like IRM 4064 almost as much w/53&55 gr bullets.

 

[MustangMike]

my only scrounging today was going through a bin of wood in the pole barn and bringing some into the shop to make a fire. i had to. the wife's office is in my shop and she said the toilet seat was cold.

Put a soft seat on it. We have one on the outhouse upstate, like sitting on a hot seat, instant warmth! (and those fools in Alaska bring the seat inside to warm it up!)

 

[dancan]

Well , no scrounging for me today , that daum dayjob keeps getting in the way
I did though get a chance to work a bit on another of my scrounged up scrounging tools today with some scrounged up parts .
Got this much accomplished and tested today .

Had to stretch the chains by about 24" and make up some of the cross pieces with a few sections of the same studded chain that I got from a friend of mine .
I've got to do a lot more work to get the front ones to fit but I hope to get them built this week .
That'll make for plenty of traction with the scrounged up scrounging tool
Hey Clint you should look into a bit of "Mechanization" with the money you'll be saving on that new rabbit food diet and veggie burgers

 

[MustangMike]

Gnarly looking! Those chains should make it go like a track vehicle!

 

[dancan]

It sure spins up gravel and digs a hole in a hurry LOL

 

[farmer steve]

went for a scrounge scouting ride down to the woods to the what needed cleaned up and look for next years scrounge wood. found a couple of theses guys crawling up my leg.you can see how hard they are to spot on darker colored clothing. FYI deer tick.
the tick got the BIC.

 

[MustangMike]

WOW, After all this winter they are out already! Those things are tough little B******s!!!

 

[farmer steve]

WOW, After all this winter they are out already! Those things are tough little B******s!!!

iv'e been checking for the little pr1ck$ for the last 2 weeks or so.seems once it's above freezing for a couple of days their out.

 

[Marshy]

Got a cat 5 leaner.

 

[_RJ_]

WOW, After all this winter they are out already! Those things are tough little B******s!!!

They've been out thick since late January here. Even found one on my kid and he was just in the yard.

 

[farmer steve]

Got a cat 5 leaner.

HMMMMMM..................

 

[Philbert]

Got a cat 5 leaner.

I assume that with the face cut on that side, there was some cable involved (and maybe a Cat)?

Philbert

 

[MustangMike]

I hope your bar, chain & powerhead survive the extraction! It looks small enough to put a rope on it and winch it the way you wanted it to go, but be careful!

Since Jan, those tick would have had to go through 2' of snow to get ya here, and they don't do that!

 

[MountainHigh]

went for a scrounge scouting ride down to the woods to the what needed cleaned up and look for next years scrounge wood. found a couple of theses guys crawling up my leg.you can see how hard they are to spot on darker colored clothing. FYI deer tick.
View attachment 418108 the tick got the BIC.

Wow, are they ever small!

Would suck to have to start wearing all white clothing in the woods?

Got a cat 5 leaner.

I'm guessing you really wanted it to fall downhill away from the lean (is there a rope high up on that tree?). Without being there, I would have notched it shallow with hinge on the uphill side, bore cut it out well in middle and pulled the trigger to let it fall uphill with the lean. Am I missing something?

 

[Marshy]

Your not missing anything. Tree has two trunks and I want both to go down hill right on top of some other ash that was dropped. No ropes or cables. Got some wedges in the backside. Any bets on the outcome?

 

[Philbert]

Maybe the tree is straight/plumb, and the camera angle is really tilted?

Philbert

 

[farmer steve]

Maybe the tree is straight/plumb, and the camera angle is really tilted?

Philbert

gotta be the camera...................or camera operator.

 

[zogger]

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