I'm confused. You found the 24 too heavy, and yet you left it mounted? Its like 4 mins. to go back to a 20, or an 18?
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Mate I agree! Driving around a nice bush block checking the boundary fences and scrounging some wood is a great way to pass the time.
Back at the scrounge spot trying to get something useful out of what's left. Had a little bit of rot in it unfortunately. Also needs some bow ties to control checking. Thinking about an outdoor serving bench for BBQ's, one end flat up against the wall. Gonna run it through a friend's thickness planer and then decide if it's firewood or not.
It wasn't fun dragging this 40m back to the car solo.
It wasn't fun dragging this 40m back to the car solo.
I have a couple Silvey Bar Shops and a third heading this way soon. They can do a lot of different things to get a bar back.Yes, we use it fir deburring. The other guys use a roller press to squeeze spread rails. I don't mess with the roller press. IMOP, once the rails spread. The bar is done!I've never seen any significant amount of bar life gained from pressing spread rails. Seems to me the rails spread back open fairly quick.
Hedge will burn hot enough to burn up an old stove. I would hate to try to burn it in a new stove made from Chinese steel. It is best suited for the use it has served for decades and that is as fence posts. As some noted it can be used as tool handles. I worked with a couple guys that thought they were going to use it to make long-bows. They destroyed my jointer knives and burned up the motor in Powermatic 66 table saw. Needless to say they never got tehe bows done.
I swear you folks in Australia have about every single creepy crawly dang thing on earth.. I would venture a guess that your continent contains the highest number of species that can kill or seriously inflict pain on a guy.
The Amazon may give them a run for their money on that!
Been processing hardwood pallets in my free time and burning them. My local feed mill and hardware store gives them to me for nothing.
It is all rough cut untreated oak and hickory.
It is all rough cut untreated oak and hickory.
My daughter Krystle and I spent an enjoyable WE up at the cabin.
The daytime temperatures were warm (in the 50s), but both nights dropped down to the mid to low 30s, so we did use the woodstove.
Although we went up there mostly to hunt turkey and grouse, we did not see either, but we did see a little Black Bear while turkey/grouse hunting and saw two small deer on the way out. We also saw a barred owl on the way out.
On the work side we cleared shooting lanes for some of the stands and brought down some firewood (Cherry and Stripe Maple).
On the downside:
1) The lack of turkey, grouse and deer is disheartening. Our trail cams just seem to capture the same three doe over and over again. Perhaps it is due to the dry summer, or perhaps the severe inflation has resulted in an increase in subsistence hunting out of season. The logging roads provide a lot of access to our mountain.
2) Our beautiful view from the lifeguard stand has been spoiled by several huge windmills on the horizon. Windmills would not be feasible w/o tax subsidies, which means my tax dollars are helping to pay for these monstrosities. Very annoyed!
Sorry the pics don't capture the fall colors properly. If you expand the 1st pic, you will see the windmills (8?) on the horizon. They are monstrosities!
The daytime temperatures were warm (in the 50s), but both nights dropped down to the mid to low 30s, so we did use the woodstove.
Although we went up there mostly to hunt turkey and grouse, we did not see either, but we did see a little Black Bear while turkey/grouse hunting and saw two small deer on the way out. We also saw a barred owl on the way out.
On the work side we cleared shooting lanes for some of the stands and brought down some firewood (Cherry and Stripe Maple).
On the downside:
1) The lack of turkey, grouse and deer is disheartening. Our trail cams just seem to capture the same three doe over and over again. Perhaps it is due to the dry summer, or perhaps the severe inflation has resulted in an increase in subsistence hunting out of season. The logging roads provide a lot of access to our mountain.
2) Our beautiful view from the lifeguard stand has been spoiled by several huge windmills on the horizon. Windmills would not be feasible w/o tax subsidies, which means my tax dollars are helping to pay for these monstrosities. Very annoyed!
Sorry the pics don't capture the fall colors properly. If you expand the 1st pic, you will see the windmills (8?) on the horizon. They are monstrosities!
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For the majority of my 3 sons formal educational years I taught high school shop classes in the same district they attended. When my youngest was in sixth grade they had moved the sixth grade to the junior high which was in my building but had a totally different administrator. That same year was my first year of teaching an exploratory 8th grade shop class. The junior high administrator was trying to tell me how to do my job and was trying to micro-manage things. I am not a guy who appreciates micro-management. My high school principal was never like that and I went weeks without even seeing him/her. I battled with the junior high guy who thought he was my boss. At the same time my son in 6th grade was having issues with a kid that he had issues with since grade school. Now my son is good sized kid and the other kid was pretty decent but more athletic. My son had and still has a pain tolerance that is unbelievable and fears little. He came home and said the boy had been calling him fatazz. I told him to ignore it in the beginning but after awhile I said just hit him . He said "dad you want me to hit him" I said yeah beat the snot out of him as it will not end til you do. Well a week or so later the junior high principal calls me in my shop and tells me I need to come over on my prep period to discuss my son. I go over and he proceeds to tell me that my son hit the other kid. I asked why and he said my son said the other kid called him a fatazz. I looked at the principal and said"why you bothering me with this trivial crap" he said..'well your son said you told him to hit him" I said "yeah" He replied "did you tell your son to hit him". I said "well yeah but I also said beat the snot out of him" The principal was dumbfounded. He said "why did you tell him that" I said well he called him a fatazz didn't he" The principal said "yes but...." I replied " but what, it is a done deal, now I got work to do" and I left. Of course my son was suspended and that was good with me. He proved his point
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Never heard of a Silvey Bar Shop.
What is it?Well in this thread there is a video posted. I believe it is post number 49,211 on page 3940...how could you have ever missed it.Never heard of a Silvey Bar Shop.
That is supposed to be my dry humor..https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/scrounging-firewood.252988/page-2461#post-7180227.
Here is another video.
Things were different when I went to school, even though I it was in Westchester County NY (which at the time was the wealthiest County in the USA).
I was taking shop class in the 8th grade and was being picked on by a 10th grader. I don't mean being called names, I mean when I was going down the concrete and metal stairs, he put his foot in the small of my back and I went down express (and numerous other physical incidents). Luckly, even though I was small for my age back then, I was pretty tough and survived it all with just bumps and bruises.
I complained to the Shop Teacher (who liked me but was also a WW II Veteran) and he told me that someday I would have to learn to take care of myself. I told him the guy was 2 years older than me and he just repeated the same thing. The bullying didn't stop.
Years go by and I'm a senior, and I'm 6'1". I'm at a burger place with my good friend Bob (who is 6'3") and Bob says to me "what's wrong?"
I looked over at the waiting line and told Bob "that guy (who was 5'10') used to bully me". Bob looks over and says, "he bullied you too?" Then Bob says what do you think we should do, I replied I did not know.
So, in a real loud voice Bob says, "Do you think we should beat the Sh** out of him now or wait till he eats?". The bully looks over and sees the two of us at the same table and he just turns around and leaves the place! It was just great watching him leave the place express like he had his tail between his legs!
Bob and I laughed, enjoyed our meal, and shared stories of what he had done to each of us.
Bob joined the Navy and was on Nuclear Subs out of Grotton CT. Unfortunately, he had some exposure during a near meltdown. He put his 20 years in, but then was diagnosed with cancer and only survived it for a few months.
Real shame, he was a good friend. When I had my first Mustang (a Black 67 Fastback 289 4 speed) Bob had a 69 Z-28 Camaro, and we palled around together a lot.
I was taking shop class in the 8th grade and was being picked on by a 10th grader. I don't mean being called names, I mean when I was going down the concrete and metal stairs, he put his foot in the small of my back and I went down express (and numerous other physical incidents). Luckly, even though I was small for my age back then, I was pretty tough and survived it all with just bumps and bruises.
I complained to the Shop Teacher (who liked me but was also a WW II Veteran) and he told me that someday I would have to learn to take care of myself. I told him the guy was 2 years older than me and he just repeated the same thing. The bullying didn't stop.
Years go by and I'm a senior, and I'm 6'1". I'm at a burger place with my good friend Bob (who is 6'3") and Bob says to me "what's wrong?"
I looked over at the waiting line and told Bob "that guy (who was 5'10') used to bully me". Bob looks over and says, "he bullied you too?" Then Bob says what do you think we should do, I replied I did not know.
So, in a real loud voice Bob says, "Do you think we should beat the Sh** out of him now or wait till he eats?". The bully looks over and sees the two of us at the same table and he just turns around and leaves the place! It was just great watching him leave the place express like he had his tail between his legs!
Bob and I laughed, enjoyed our meal, and shared stories of what he had done to each of us.
Bob joined the Navy and was on Nuclear Subs out of Grotton CT. Unfortunately, he had some exposure during a near meltdown. He put his 20 years in, but then was diagnosed with cancer and only survived it for a few months.
Real shame, he was a good friend. When I had my first Mustang (a Black 67 Fastback 289 4 speed) Bob had a 69 Z-28 Camaro, and we palled around together a lot.
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Just wanted to let you guys know that I posted some photos on the "Show Us your Stumps" thread, of some hazards I fell the other day if any of y'all wanted to check them out. 
Congrats! I recently hit 10,000hrs on my 9540. Kubota are great, keep 'em serviced and they'll run forever.She’s almost ready to come home , waiting on some work lights
This might be a more direct link
Well in this thread there is a video posted. I believe it is post number 49,211 on page 3940...how could you have ever missed it.
https://www.arboristsite.com/threads/scrounging-firewood.252988/page-2461#post-7180227.
Here is another video.
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Maybe euro is different or they are random. There are a lot of drivers in my set so I marked the one for my Makita and just verified it's a DD.
I had a similar problem with mine when it was brand new. Idle was OK and full speed was OK, but running the saw at any other speed took some fancy throttle fluttering or it would die and no amount of tuning would make a difference. A month or so later before trying the saw again I pulled the adjusters and blew some air through them and the problem went away, or so I thought. The weather conditions had changed and that is what made me think the saw was fixed.
I'm almost ready for a new chain now and the problem has mostly disappeared but every once in a while it wants to bog off of idle but nothing like before. I'm close to removing the CAT and wondering if that will make a positive difference.
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