Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

My cousin has a little tester thing like that. Just has a fill with water to here line and a fill with gas to here line. Pretty neat how it works. Even better to convince a customer when you take fuel out of their mower, saw, outboard tank and let it sit there wile you get the paper work started and show them hoe much corn juice is in the gas... they let sit in their (fill the blank) all winter.

Pretty nasty when you see it in a boat since the tanks are so big. It's amazing how much water ethanol absorbs.

Did you guys see that they were talking about raising it from 10% to 15% . What's the chance that Billy Gates just bought up all sorts of farmland and all the sudden this just magically happens .

 

[chipper1]

Is that is Lebanon PA?

If it was it would have been spanked before loading .

 

[WoodAbuser]

Pretty nasty when you see it in a boat since the tanks are so big. It's amazing how much water ethanol absorbs.

Did you guys see that they were talking about raising it from 10% to 15% . What's the chance that Billy Gates just bought up all sorts of farmland and all the sudden this just magically happens .

I have learned over the last two years that the only difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about six months.

 

[MustangMike]

This is a good summary of Bill. His trucks were always clean and bright red w/gold lettering. His work vehicles included a HD Ford PU, a couple of Kenworths and a Peterbuilt (there may have been more). He always waived to both me and my wife when he passed in the opposite direction, and he worked 7 days a week, long hours every day, so you saw him a lot. Everyone who lived here for any period of time knew him, and he did favors for lots of people.

He was always friendly and polite and had a great reputation for hard work and honesty. I will miss our talks which often included saws, work, family/kids, and fishing.

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/25148736/william-b-henry

 

[Logger nate]

Wow that’s terrible Mike, sorry to hear. Sounds like he was a great guy.

 

[chipper1]

I have learned over the last two years that the only difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about six months.

Glad you see it, many have learned nothing over the last two yrs.
I like to say, a conspiracy theorist is someone who sees what's going on before others . The timing of the facts being revealed may be 6 months, or maybe they will be hidden by the powers that be. Some people are just more in tune to their surroundings than others, much like Joe saying he always looks up and many of us the way we see what's happening with trees/or could happen. If anyone spends any amount of time looking into what's going on around them on a larger scale, it's easy to see there's a lot of manipulation happening and more than we ever want to believe .

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I'm seeing ads for £150-180/m³. A cord is 3.5m³ and £1=$1.2 so ...$450 for a cord, delivered to the curb.

What's the saying? ' don't like the weather in TX? Stick around!'.
Used to visit Dallas lots, experienced 40f drop in temp in half an hour as a front came over and once with snow on the ground for most of the week followed by sunshine and 80+f weekend.

out of the next 10 days, 7 are forecast to be 100f here or higher! one day @ 102f!!!

sure makes me miss those cold, wet, drizzly foggy mornings in S London area....

 

[MustangMike]

Was over 90 here yesterday, but nice and cool here today.

It is also my youngest grandson's first Birthday!

We will all be getting together at my other daughter's house this afternoon.

 

[Logger nate]

Was 30* here Wednesday morning. Crazy weather, couldn’t work Monday because it was too muddy, fresh snow above 6000’, got up to 75* Thursday. Working in area with no cell service during the week so trying to catch up. Did bring home the first load (small) of wood of the yearMight have cheated a little to keep the log at a good bucking height and out of the dirtHope everyone has a great Father’s Day weekend.

 

[JustPlainJeff]

I'm curious @Logger nate, do you guys at higher elevations have to do anything different with your saws to get them to run correctly/better at your heights? I would think that this would be where a 500i would shine with the fuel injection? I'm guessing that your carbs are tuned a little differently than us relative flat-landers.

 

[JustPlainJeff]

I posted this yesterday, and have only gotten one response, which surprises me. So, I'll post the link on this thread, and hope that some of you guys have some input to this, so I can make as much of an informed decision/purchase as I can.

I'm buying a standby generator after losing power again this week. If any of you guys have a standby generator, or know a lot about them, I'd appreciate your input on them. Thanks.

https://www.arboristsite.com/thread...e-home-standby-generator.360924/#post-7762634

 

[Logger nate]

I'm curious @Logger nate, do you guys at higher elevations have to do anything different with your saws to get them to run correctly/better at your heights? I would think that this would be where a 500i would shine with the fuel injection? I'm guessing that your carbs are tuned a little differently than us relative flat-landers.

Yeah have to lean them out more for sure on manual carb. All my current saws are Auto tune or fuel injected, which I much prefer. Conditions and altitude change a lot for me so it’s nice to not have to adjust carbs. Also doing something to increase compression helps, even ported saws with lowered cylinder to increase compression only read about 130 psi here, at least on my gauge. I normally prefer husky but I have to say the Sthil 500i has ran great at higher elevation and very good power to weight. Still hate the flippy caps though! Lol

 

[WoodAbuser]

I posted this yesterday, and have only gotten one response, which surprises me. So, I'll post the link on this thread, and hope that some of you guys have some input to this, so I can make as much of an informed decision/purchase as I can.

I'm buying a standby generator after losing power again this week. If any of you guys have a standby generator, or know a lot about them, I'd appreciate your input on them. Thanks.

https://www.arboristsite.com/thread...e-home-standby-generator.360924/#post-7762634

No experience personally, but have helped monitor a standby diesel generator with a huge battery backup at a place i used to work. I know from research that there are standbys that run on gas, diesel, ng and propane. The better choices would be other than gas. Propane stores practically forever without issues.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Love the logging picts, I'm still stuck here mowing tall, thick grass instead of going to the woods!

that is, after I pumped up a low tire on the tractor,

I was sure glad I had my tire pump in the truck!

As for backup generators, I have a small Honda "Inverter" generator for running just a few things at a time, and a Winco 15kw PTO powered whole house generator, for when I want to run the whole house. It works GREAT, and my tractor is always ready to go.

But we are a low electric use household, so I mostly just use the Honda as it's just so quiet and has such low fuel usage.

SR

 

[sean donato]

If it was it would have been spanked before loading .

Yeah I would have been there to get it

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

swell AK pix there KK... just seems like a lot of hard work to me. but then... down here it rains oak... all the time. maybe i am just spoiled...
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there are 3 scrounge spots on my street and next. all ez pickin's... 2 oak and one pecan...

tempted, time will tell...

got my wood scrounge gloves back in serviceable condition! holes in finger ends suk!!

actually, 4... one is pine in my yard! that one is a given!! lol

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Good mornin wood abusers near and far.

A good morning indeed! Slept in till 8:45 this morning can't get anything done that way!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Not a good week. Rain/dry/rain, rept. 3 days on the weekend house bound due to rain, Tues dry but I needed to wait for the dirt roads to dry. Wed, doc appointment. Thur to the willow bush clearance, no go, too wet at the entrance gto get in. Planned to go on to the Horse Chestnut one but somehow the truck took me back to the old house maple. I did spend a few hours taking a couple rounds off that huge butt. 32" bar on the 441 would not reach all the way through and then it was a man killer getting the round turned far enough to noodle down to a size I could handle. Did come home with some wood.

Just back today. Willow bush still to wet, looks like it will take a week to dry out, so returned to an old willow scrounge. I had cleared that one last year but there was one good willow down a gully. 4 hours today clearing crap out of the way and had it ready to fell. 4 hours is about my limit so home.

MS193T was cutting fine then next time I picked it up the chain jammed. Lots of try this, inspect the sprocket, nothing. It felt like it was catching in the drive sprocket. I finally spotted it as teh bar nose sprocket. Saw down now until a new bar. Fortunately I had my old Husky top handle to finish the day.

More rain tonight. If dry wx tomorrow I'll tryi pulling that willow out of the gully on Sunday.

I'm way behind on the amount of wood harvested by this time of year. Only have about 2.5 cord willow and 2 cord maple. No locust at all so far this year.

hi tk - very scarce down here of late ! ~130 TX countied in Fire Bans

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Good mornin wood abusers near and far.

was tired of wood abusing my fingers...

now ok for hack, stack n rack duty! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Pretty nasty when you see it in a boat since the tanks are so big. It's amazing how much water ethanol absorbs.

Did you guys see that they were talking about raising it from 10% to 15% . What's the chance that Billy Gates just bought up all sorts of farmland and all the sudden this just magically happens .

there go the fuel lines....