No cutting today have to get my splitter out before it gets buried and dump the load in the trailer. 
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Assuming it is a wood working tool, I would guess a spokeshave. Actually looks like the foot rest off a old barbers chair
They are cute till they chew all the wire harnesses in your vehicle that leads to over 100 butt splices.No.
Like you, can't have them digging around or eating every bit of new growth off the veggies in the garden. They are fun to watch though, most don't realize they climb, funny seeing them in a tree, or resting on top of a t-post just hanging there like they are dead, although I've seen them like that and dead too.
I've shot them and then they run off only to get them at a later date with scars where the bullets went in and out, they are tough little suckers.
When my neighbor moved in he thought they were cute as did his wife, that didn't last long, then he had traps on all the holes under his pole barn.
I had to trap and relocate a whole family of them a few years ago
Looks like a great helper you got there cowboy! 
I've had to deal with many of them over the years. One was particularly destructive... chewed the wires off the oxygen senor in my car, dug all around the foundation and under the shed. That one led to me getting a large Havahart trap... cannot shoot in this neighborhood! Raccoons in the attic at my parents' house led to be getting an even bigger Havahart trap and an excluder. Squirrels in my brother's attic was another fun project... Those rodent critters have kept me busy!They are cute till they chew all the wire harnesses in your vehicle that leads to over 100 butt splices.
I can't imagine anyone would want your relocated woodchucks around!
I can't shoot outside here either, so I catch them in the havaheart trap and bring them into the garage, close the doors and put a 2 X 6 in edge in back of them, don my earmuffs and use a 22 hollow point to dispatch them.
They got all my broccoli two years ago, so last year I added and electric fence around my garden (inside the regular fence so the dogs don't get to it).
As a result of that, and the caterpillar organic spray I got at Home Depot, we had a good broccoli harvest last year.
I can't shoot outside here either, so I catch them in the havaheart trap and bring them into the garage, close the doors and put a 2 X 6 in edge in back of them, don my earmuffs and use a 22 hollow point to dispatch them.
They got all my broccoli two years ago, so last year I added and electric fence around my garden (inside the regular fence so the dogs don't get to it).
As a result of that, and the caterpillar organic spray I got at Home Depot, we had a good broccoli harvest last year.
I use the cci cb 22lr ammo, sounds like a cap gun. When getting rid of raccoons in a trap.
It’s illegal to relocate a woodchuck or any other animal unless it done with animal control . I dispatch them and other Pests regularly
I'll have to measure a few rounds and check but I probably split a round that size into at least least 8 splits. I also deal with a lot of stuff that is cut quite short such as the 3' rings I have currently. To make them light though for the tree guys to handball off to the truck, in this particular case it was up some steps and down a path beside the house and out to the street, they get cut thin. These current ones are 5-6" thick. So after splitting I end up with a lot of half house brick sized cubes. These are not only numerous but need careful stacking or the stack falls. On the plus side they dry well and burn well, but I do wish o could throw a couple of 12" rounds in the stove!
On year when I was in elementary school we were absolutely overrun with chipmunks. I love chipmunks but they were EVERYWHERE. We didn't want to kill them so we started relocating. The first one I live trapped was brought 1/2 mile down the road by four wheeler. I think he made it home before I did LOL. Then we started bringing them across the lake. After releasing the first few on dry land we started dumping them in the lake about 20' from shore. Holy crap those things can swim fast!
That is some good old NY government logic...you can kill animals but you can't move them!
It's illegal to relocate wildlife off your own property in NY. As such, mine get relocated such that they compost in place or in the landfill... Depends on what I've got going on after they are dispatched in the basement with a .22 CB Long from a revolver. No way can I use my woodchuck guns, .22 Hornet or .257 Roberts, here!
I ended up putting in raised beds (double high 2x8s) 3 seasons ago, filled with compost, and the woodchucks have not bothered them. They did climb up into my back-line neighbor's raised bed vegetable garden last year but they left the other woman's vegetables alone and focused on her flowers. I'm the defacto nuisance wildlife control for those women... and the tree service guy! I cut down storm damaged trees at one Sunday... I still need to finish up at the other house. However, there are bird nests with eggs in the tree that needs work so we're going to wait a while.
In high school and college I had a 55 International Harvester R120 1 ton, 8' stake body. A friend had an old 15.5 gallon beer keg he was going to through away. I took it for a gas tank. Knocked the wooden bung out of the side and took the flip open gas cap off a Triumph TR6. It was about 1/32 too big to fit the bung, so a little grinding and we had it to a very tight fit. A little epoxy and it lasted for years. Came out from class one day and a County Cop was giving me a ticket for an illegal fuel tank. I said, "that's not a beer keg, it's a custom hot rod tank. Look right here, it's made by Firestone". Right next to where you screw the tap on the keg, was stamped FIRESTONE, Double Wall Stainless Steel, inside the standard Firestone logo. He was very nice and looked it over, said he liked it. He did ask me to make a better mount. Two wood wedges and a ratchet strap probably wouldn't pass inspection.Well it’s oak. Got a nice full barrel keg for my 68 . Gas tank is going to be a 15.5 stainless keg in the bed . Since I’ve home brewed for over 20 years I figured the brewery needed a work truck . Going to use a few live edge boards for stakesides and have the brewery name on it . “Lackawack Hill Brewery” Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it .
@MustangMike if I go legit I can write it off right ?
Need to make some nice big cradle brackets out of oak and either stain and oil it or maybe just oil finish itView attachment 983703View attachment 983705View attachment 983706
Since this is the new relocation thread. 
I set up one of my security cams in my pole barn the other day.i put some cat food out there for the farm cats and it was disappearing rather quick. 2 unknown cats, a possum and 2 raccoons last nite. We are allowed to relocate coons and the like to state hunting land with is only a few miles up the road.
I set up one of my security cams in my pole barn the other day.i put some cat food out there for the farm cats and it was disappearing rather quick. 2 unknown cats, a possum and 2 raccoons last nite. We are allowed to relocate coons and the like to state hunting land with is only a few miles up the road.
When we bought our current house there was woodchuck hole next to the garage foundation. My wife didn't want me to dispose of them so I trapped 1. I read that they can travel 5 miles back home so I relocated it 10 miles away, across 2 major highways just in case I got a real overachiever. 2nd one, same thing. On the 3rd one I told my wife that the H-Ranch Woodchuck Relocation Program was over! We don't have those discussions any more, she just doesn't want to know.
Back to the old house scrounge yesterday to take down PART of the smaller tree. Verticle cut down the parting line from two stems to 4 stems. ms441/32". Man! that was hard cutting. I know there are special chains and grinds for cutting end grain but I didn't have one. Back cut in and only had to correct once, bore in for the back cut Worked as planned. then looked at that mountain of brush right across the farmers acess trask. 3.5 hours later and dead tired cutting/stacking brush and the track was open, 90% of the brushing down and more than a cord of wood wating to be bucked on the ground.
Problem with the 441. Cold start and it fired and RAN on the first pull. Cut with it about 10 minutes getting those stems on the ground. Next time I picked it up it wouldn't fire. Pulled it out of the car when I got home and it fired and ran on first pull. Stopped at the chainsaw shop on the way shopping and talked to the guy. He suggested flooding I had to think about that. Yep, most likely. The 441 only has 3 positions. Off, Run, Choke and I had hit choke on the hot start.
Pictures, hopefully, to come if I can figure out how to patch the camera into the 'puter. Camera didn't come with a patchcord. I must have an old one in that big jumble of them.
Problem with the 441. Cold start and it fired and RAN on the first pull. Cut with it about 10 minutes getting those stems on the ground. Next time I picked it up it wouldn't fire. Pulled it out of the car when I got home and it fired and ran on first pull. Stopped at the chainsaw shop on the way shopping and talked to the guy. He suggested flooding I had to think about that. Yep, most likely. The 441 only has 3 positions. Off, Run, Choke and I had hit choke on the hot start.
Pictures, hopefully, to come if I can figure out how to patch the camera into the 'puter. Camera didn't come with a patchcord. I must have an old one in that big jumble of them.
WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Trapped a whole fam damily of woodchucks last year at my place. 8 of em. They all went to woodchuck heaven.
We have gray squirrels out the wazoo here. Chew the trash lids and bottom of the can itself. When my oldest daughter was born 12 years ago, my car was parked on the street for a few days while we were at the hospital. When we came home I went to start the car, nothing. Popped the hood and saw a nice partially chewed Kaiser roll and my wiring harness of the car chewed(soy). I have a deep distain for squirrels and the damage the cause.
There was a den with 5 or 6 pups under the deck at my parents' house 2 years ago. There were also 2 fox around... My mother, on two occasions, watched a fox sit there and wait for a woodchuck to come out and wander a ways from the den and then grab it. My son saw a fox there on Saturday that tried to get a grey squirrel but missed... I found a drop antler last week while picking up smalll branches so I could mow. Always a good time in the back yard!
This popped up on my time hop. I told the janitor that I needed a screen in my window, the squirrels were trying to get in. His response was don’t open the window……
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