Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This 30" 80 foot tall school marm snag pretty much turned into splinters, tooth picks, mulch, and dust. Instantly upon impact! Good stuff! View attachment 1009633View attachment 1009631View attachment 1009632Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

wondering.... how old are trees like that?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

thankyouverymuch! BUT, there's plenty of "goverment" beef on the property, they just aren't keeping all the grass mowed! lol

SR

well, i guess the owner knows what he is doing! a place as such no light responsibility... but down here normal years... solution would be simple. more cattle! it's just that i have never seen a Texas ranch or ag ops... cattle, where shredding was the solution vs adding more cattle. but, those fresh cuts do make for pretty pix!

(memo to self: think i would want a wider shredder ~ )

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

All these new cartridges introduced these days are rediculass in my opinion. Especially these new "long range" cartridges! If you cant do it with a .308 don't bother trying! As far as hunting cartridges go. There's not a thing wrong with the Originals!!! .30-30, 45-70, .243Win, .308Win, .300 WM, .338WM, and of course let's not leave out the all American 30-06! Just to name a few. We all have our options on our favorite originals. Weather it be a standard deer cartridge, or a belted magnum. However, you can take all these new short mag's and 6.5's and cram'em! For generations there's already been plenty of outstanding cartridge's out there to choose from! That can do anything you need done! IMOP the industry dosent need a bunch more taking up valuable and hard to get brass and primer's! Lets get real here!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Nope, but I've seen them used. They do a great job, just don't let those chips fly down your shirt.

lol, same with overhead, out of position welding!! don't ask me how i know!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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That was close View attachment 1009677Guy I work for on weekends occasionally wanted me to try out their “new” Timbco buncher View attachment 1009678View attachment 1009679

swell pix! i seen the lake early on... the last one is where i would want to build my cabin.... lots of nice water runways...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

well, i guess the owner knows what he is doing! a place as such no light responsibility... but down here normal years... solution would be simple. more cattle! it's just that i have never seen a Texas ranch or ag ops... cattle, where shredding was the solution vs adding more cattle. but, those fresh cuts do make for pretty pix!

(memo to self: think i would want a wider shredder ~ )

It's family vacation/ATV and hunting property so he likes to have it look nice. I've been going there for years, but he just would like me to be there more and more, even to stay there.

Pretty soon he will be asking me to skid logs, cut/split wood for the HUGE fireplace in the big house, as he already mentioned it to me. I did it last year, I'll probably do it this year too.

SR

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Looks cold and wet...I'm a bit jealous lol. I spent my "vacation" doing side work in 90F+ temps and on loose/steep slopes...wearing long sleeves because of the copious amounts of poison oak I was wading through.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Im just one of the guys with a chain saw. Just like the rest of us on the forum here bud! We all have a trick that puts coin in our pockets and meat on our grill's!

so was the guy on The Trail... his shows and tales were quite interesting to say the least. per admin u may be just another subscriber, but while being modest and humble is a courtesy, i hardly think you are just a bit more sawdust....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You call that a wagon?

Now this is a wagon! A War Wagon!!!
View attachment 1009684Sorry bud. I'm just take'n the piss out of ya a little bit. I couldn't help myself!

it's ok, KK! i get your point. reminds me of the pix wcc posted up the other day... but alas, even by Alaska standards... yours is merely the next load firewood run for the fire in comparison ..

ie, no wood, no fire! for me, i actually prefer 5 min scrounges....

other day took me about 2 1/2 mins to fill my cargo bay! all oak. curb side, cut and ready for me...

storms of late have dropped plenty limbs. a man could make a career out of just gathering firewood...

and i have a yard full of cleaned out pines... got enuff kindling now for rest of the year and into next...

i like ur pix! even if a bit over center for me... actually, looks to me like one good bump... bounce or two ... and you might be reloading it all again...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It's family vacation/ATV and hunting property so he likes to have it look nice. I've been going there for years, but he just would like me to be there more and more, even to stay there.

Pretty soon he will be asking me to skid logs, cut/split wood for the HUGE fireplace in the big house, as he already mentioned it to me. I did it last year, I'll probably do it this year too.

SR

hope we get to see a pix of it...

i have 7, all wood burners. several of mine are very big. Huge by most standards: Estate 54's... big enuff for my needs! i have thot of modding up 2 and joining them... twin stacks into Y... but it is still in idea-stage. i can remember back up in Seattle, over looking the sound... my HS bud had a bud and his dad was a RR guy. often had to turn locomotives, cars, etc back upright when they went over, logging up in High Cascades. that sort of thing. and he had a monster fireplace in his log cabin home. DIY all the way! take 4/5' stix with ease. actually, logs. but the two most impressive fireplaces to me are mr Henry Fords... and G. Hearst's! Fords fireplace so big, the firewood was put in from the back side. on a Model A tour up to FoMoCo and Henry's place... had dinner one evening in the LR and sat just in front of the fireplace. it was an '' time....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We want pictures, lots of pictures

we pix!!!

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

A few years back I took a 2 day long-range class to see if it would hold my interest before buying the equipment. Targets were every 100 or 200 yards out to 1200. I used the .308 rental rifle fitted to me by the instructor with foam rubber duct taped to the non-adjustable stock. Everyone else had 6.5 Creedmoors and the guy on the left was using a .338 Lapua. The last time I shot a centerfire rifle was my war surplus 98 Mauser somewhere around 14 years old. Guess I was lucky or a natural because I kicked everyone's butt. I will say, at least I was told, that 1200 yards is about the limit for .308. The holdover sounded ridiculous but I can't remember the number of feet.

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good shooting! some of the long range hunting shots in vids on utube are quite impressive and amazing! only thing i did not like about some of them... was the terrain. and having to pack out those big elk!!

thanks for the distant and close up pix of the shot zones...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My Squaw wanted to go pick berries last evening. And we had some competition! So we picked in a different spot View attachment 1009697View attachment 1009698

yep! just another poster, doing another afternoon's fun... just like all the rest of us... checking for bears in the neighborhood while out for some berry picking! wcc did some blueberry pie pix other day, fresh blue berries... hmm, seems he failed to mention the bears... LOL

those look like cubs to me! wonder where Momma was?? i mite have move down a bit in the berry patch, too!

swell pix! bit awesome, imo

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

1200? Somewhere around 15 feet of hold over! That's bad ass! Thanks for sharing that story! .308 Win Federal Match King in 168gr SBT factory ammo is 50" at 500. At 700 its starts dropping drastically!

feet!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Is that "sitting bear" doing tricks for food?

i think he may be waiting on Momma... see if she has seen 'the treat' yet!!! lol

 

[Lionsfan]

finally!

i wouldn't care to use a hand held set up, but bench mounted... they do make a clean cut! especially on bar, tube and angle...
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You would if you ever tried one. No sparks, no dust, no burrs, no heat, minimal noise and much more portable. If you can handle a circular saw you can handle a metal cutting saw. The one and only draw back we ever had was the cost and availability of replacement blades which were around $60 if our local suppliers had them in stock.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We definitely don't feed them. Not a good idea!

bear tales! well those with happy endings...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Very friendly looking guys, did you stop and give them a pat?

bear pix! and of the kids, too!! ... just when i was thinking... all this tread ever does is show cutting down trees and crack, rack n stack... LOL i was wondering if he was stopped, still going fwd... or had quietly put truck into R!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

No, my Squaw tried talking me into it. I said no. She called me chicken! I said "YUP!!"

dang!!! a good selfie running and could have been a great session in another Alaska realtiy show...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I completely agree with you! I mean I recognize that the short mag development did have its place because it allowed to use a more powerful cartridge in a shorter action however the fact that everybody needs their own special short mag and now everybody needs to make their own super magnums is ridiculous. And don’t get me started on the Creedmoors… A line of fad cartridges that does everything decent but nothing exceptionally well. Yet these gun writers act like that round will not only find the game, it will shoot them through the eye, then clean and cook them for you too. Ridiculous!

my Dad, rip... a highly gifted, skilled gunsmith... reloaded all his own. when he fired off a round, there was no doubt who had fired what! he was always into the ballistics...