Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Do you think anyone has ever given gunny firewood for free?

Wonder if they got spankings?

 

[sean donato]

Speaking of gunny….this guy works it!
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Bums.... bet they want it delivered too.

 

[sean donato]

Happy Father's day men! Going to buy a new grill, my father's day present from my kids that I have to pay for.

 

[rarefish383]

Gunny is from Leb

Yeah, but there is only one Gunny, and lots of other good folk from that neck of the woods. My daughter went to Alvernia University just out side of Reading. Lots of her friends were from Lebanon. Didn't Gunny get a new name and get kicked off anyway. Did he ever make it back?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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

i feel bad... mine went bit beyond that! oh well, a FD gift the QB said.... now

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Awsome pictures Nate! Thanks for sharing, and when it comes to buck'n firewood. Gotta love them thar dangle heads! An easier "scrounge" there never was!!

so says KK... easy is as easy does! well, imo... sometimes i think fate brought me here just so i could have ez-pick endless supply of free oak firewood...

i do u know! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My latest equipment score. Picked up this aluminum wire feed off a good friend! With leads, spool gun, and bottle for only $2500!! I think it dose stick too, but it requires different leads.View attachment 996785

nice machine! my buzz box is a Miller. nice stand... a roller!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Happy Father's day men! Going to buy a new grill, my father's day present from my kids that I have to pay for.

have a good one! sd. remember today's motto.... no kids, no Father;s Day!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

https://www.sawagain.com/32-050-tsu...-390-440-441-460-461-462-500i-660-661-244fk4/

one application for me....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Low of 44 this morning and it’s going to be 90 tomorrow. Big breakfast tomorrow then I’m going to focus on “fun” projects with my kids such as working on our boat and repairing a 25 horse outboard that I have. The lake that I live abuts a lake within the boundary waters and that lake has a 25 horse limit. My 16’ Lund has a 30 HP currently So I’m going to be set up so we can swap motors quickly and then run in there when we feel like it.

Today the girls and I worked at the brat sale fundraiser for our Lions club then I went to a grad party for my sons friend before returning home for a well needed nap. Had thoughts of firing up the Sauna tonight but I don’t think I can stay up that late lol

won't be long wait here! already 89f. going to 97f. i was out in it yesteday, really could feel it. forecasts for upcoming days... as high a 105! and plenty triple digits days, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That sounds like a good day to me indeed! And you are fortunate enough to live in some of the best Walleye waters in the country, so I'm jealous! Was up in Baudette two years ago on LOW. I screwed up since it was our first time going. We kept our limit on the first day out, and then ended up drinking and playing cards for the rest of our time there as I was trying to stay within the regs. And as I understood them (I could have been wrong though) after you've caught your limit, you weren't even supposed to fish for catch and release until the fish in your freezer were consumed? If I would have been smart, we wouldn't have frozen them the first day, we'd have just eaten our fill, and then went out and caught more the next day. I'm pretty sure, that would have kept me legal.

Steelhead was on the menu here last nite. never had Walleye. poached with a cover to a cover/dish i poached (english term for LN, scrounged) a bit back while out on a scrounge hunt! this was a Sampler Plate... surf n turf for FD chow call later on. and fresh corn on the cob from garden corn patch! (looks like corn cob to me!)


the lemon is from SIL's front yard lemon tree out in California... cilantro and w/basil from the garden. (sh never frozen)

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Speaking of gunny….this guy works it!
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prob the longest post i ever did see here on the AS!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Won't be doing much cutting this coming week, unless I can drag my butt out there early in the morning, and I'm not much of a morning person! 95 is just too much for me. That's hot as ballzzzzzzz! LOL.View attachment 996848

shade is king for my projects!!!

add in a fan?.....

priceless!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

To hot for me. Id get heat stroke!

i can work out in it. most ranchers can! but... no chow. nada! eat anything and that's it!

hydration only. some then some soda for a jump...bump... water. and then for HH...

tools up and

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My heeler had a bad accident and broke his leg when he was just a pup, so hes had a bum leg ever since. Then just recently his CCL went out and he needed surgery if he was going to have any kind of a mobile life without a lot of pain. So I gave in to the Mrs. and we had the surgery done. It was way more than I have ever spent on a dog. However, he is young and also my little pard that goes everywhere with me. Im not a rich man by any means, but just happened to have the funds at the time to do it. Even though I was biting my tongue and grit'n my teeth. I Stihl agreed to have it done. The surgery is supposed to make his bum leg good for the rest of his day's so we'll see. I just hope I did the right thing.
The worst part of it all is. The Mrs. had me make sure to get something for her to cart him around around the property. While doing her gardening and while he recovers from the surgery. I asked with a laugh. "Where am I gonna find a dog stroller"? She asked "How many wheel barrows do we have, because I want your best one"!

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hope pet is fine. do like that wb on L... the other is ok, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Me too. I want nothing to do with the heat anymore.

lol, til winter arrives!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This is probably old hat to most of you guys. But I happened to catch a video of "Outdoors with the Morgans" last night. And at the end of the video, he threw a handful of wax coated wood chips on a couple of pieces of wood when he was starting a fire, and just a little bit started his fire awesomely! Then I started searching how to make them, what it would cost to make them etc.... Now I'm going to try to make my own. I'm sure I'll have to experiment a little bit to see what works best for me, and what works best in a campfire vs. a fire in the indoor fireplace, but I'm eager to give them a shot. Now I just have to have the wife find an old crockpot at Goodwill or some local second-hand store to melt the wax. Do you guys have any input to using these?View attachment 996889

for me, it is paper, pine needles, kindling, cedar preferred. then level 1 stix... and off n running.
works every time!
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[Backyard Lumberjack]

Got the wheelbarrow all greased up for the summer. Now it will lay a strip in first and second.

seeing is believing....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Happy Father’s Day fellows!!!

I was treated to breakfast and coffee in bed by my youngest daughter at 5:25 this morning. Thanked her profusely and fell back asleep till 6:40.

I’m going to finish up coffee and go pull the boat out of the water soon so we can start working on it.

guess no fishing out on the lake today... oh well...

have a good one svk. sounds like its off to a good start! ~

there was a bit on Texas Country Reporter last nite i caught. fishing down on the Gulf at Port Isabel. a guy said, don't need no boat to go out there... fishing is super right here!!!

biggest fishing dock in Texas: Pirate's Landing...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My friends son made fire starter from wood and wax, I hear it works very well.

Was thinking of making some from Noodles and Wax. Just form it in a block, then slice off some with your knife to start the fire.

we make fire starter with a rake! lol