Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Squareground3691]

Yup! And thats another thing that pi**'s me off about Filson!!!

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[svk]

Maybe yes, maybe no. One of the girls with my son on the bus is the daughter of one of the local cops! He probably would have suggested to be more discreet than to beat the snot out of someone at the local bus depot in broad daylight but he wasn't on duty. Once when my mate who owned a local restaurant had it broken into (which happened several times), the local cops told him that if he actually caught a guy in the act and had him under control, he should call them but that they would give him a few minutes to 'get his point across' before they came to pick up the thief who would presumably then be a bit worse for wear.

If it was an officer from the neighbouring town then who knows. An assault charge could potentially complicate my ability to work.

“Worse for the wear”. Love it lol

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Check this place out KK https://www.cianofarmer.com/ all hand made in Texas .

Thanks! I will!

 

[svk]

I have a 4-0 record in youth fist fights although in one fight the the kids brother (both of them were amongst my best friends) jumped me from behind as I was kicking his brothers butt. That fight started when the other brother threw an ice auger at me while we were out fishing because he was being a **** (he could really stir drama and be an ******* in his youth, now he’s an associate pastor lol).

I always had two rules on fighting. First of all do not enter a fight unless you’re sure you can win. Secondly, like my dad always said-if you get into a fight punch the guy as hard as you can as many times as you can until he’s down and don’t stop punching until he’s down. I’m not the strongest guy nor am I extremely quick but pain makes me angry (versus causes flight in many folks) and I also get a lot stronger with adrenaline-not everyone does.

 

[svk]

One of my friends grew up as a navy brat and lived in a lot of different places when his dad was stationed in other states. Some of them were definitely tough areas.

There was only a few navy kids in this one school and they all stuck together due to issues with the locals. He tells a story about one of the other navy kids got in a fistfight with this other local kid in and alley during school lunch. Well the Navy kid was getting the best of him and the other kids buddy pulled a knife and was going to stab him in the back. Wade picked up a chunk of 2 x 4 and knocked the kid with the knife out cold. That pretty much ended the fistfight as well lol. Of course the other kids go back to the school and tell the principal that they were assaulted by Wade. They call Wade and his dad into the office and his dad basically told the principal that you’re wasting my ****** time, if Wade said the guy had a knife he had a knife. Nobody got in trouble. Again this was in the 70s so probably a different world now.

 

[LondonNeil]

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Is Redex like SeaFoam?

i dunno..... Is seafoam like redex?

It's a little bottle of stuff you add to your (normally car) tank to clean deposits in carbs, injectors etc. I presume it's basically petrol with a lot of detergents asking the same line that decent fuels have anyway, just a lot of them.

The poblem could be due to the make of fuel I have switched to. Used to use shell vpower as it's known to have the best detergents, but swapped to Esso synergy as we've uped the ethanol in fuel and shell no longer guaranteed e free, only Esso do. I thought/think Esso is still a quality fuel, but maybe a few ml of redex in each mix might be be worthwhile when Esso.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

One of my friends grew up as a navy brat and lived in a lot of different places when his dad was stationed in other states. Some of them were definitely tough areas.

There was only a few navy kids in this one school and they all stuck together due to issues with the locals. He tells a story about one of the other navy kids got in a fistfight with this other local kid in and alley during school lunch. Well the Navy kid was getting the best of him and the other kids buddy pulled a knife and was going to stab him in the back. Wade picked up a chunk of 2 x 4 and knocked the kid with the knife out cold. That pretty much ended the fistfight as well lol. Of course the other kids go back to the school and tell the principal that they were assaulted by Wade. They call Wade and his dad into the office and his dad basically told the principal that you’re wasting my ****** time, if Wade said the guy had a knife he had a knife. Nobody got in trouble. Again this was in the 70s so probably a different world now.

Most definitely a different world now!

 

[sean donato]

Beware of that creep. He is a Narcissist. I have one too and can't wait until the man croaks. We are having a neighborhood party the day he goes down.

Pretty sure everyone that lives back my lane will have a party too, including his wife.

That will be poplar. Stack off the ground and top cover or it will rot fast. Low BTU's and burns fast.

Makes great starter wood, and shoulder season wood. Just enough burn time to get the house warmed up.

 

[turnkey4099]

I hand file also and do both sides from the same side of the saw. Flip the file around and do a pul stroke on it to do the inside (left) of the chain. So I probably am getting the top angles different and stray from the witness mark.
I got good news yesterday. I ran into the tree guy and he said I could have any of the wood he had dumped to the side away from the burn pile. I always ask if its location is questionable at the dump site. He and another guy sell fire wood and I don't want to take something they were saving. Lots of Mulberry and R. Oak in there.
The point being, I'll get the saw into the basement and give the chain a thorough sharpening and see how it cuts today.

I mount my saw upside down in the vice and file both sides right handed push stroke. Stand at the end for one side and alongside it for he other. Rarely have a chain cut crooked.

 

[Brufab]

It's been a odd relationship with Richard. He let himself into my house to look around when we were moving in. Then put up posted signs all around my property. (His property horseshoes mine.) Then he decided to park a 53' trailer right on the one side of my house, in which he had it brought into my drive way and backed it into position through my yard. (Township and cops didn't do a thing about it.) Has chairs set up on the property line facing my house. He was also coughs looking in the window of my neighbor across the lanes house. Right after I had my property surveyed, he disagreed with 2 of the pins, ripped them out and pounded T posts in where he thinks the line is. Township made him remove them and pay to have new pins put back in. I really don't have the time of day for him.

Got a married couple worse than that at our other cottage on the lake. Our poor cottage is now basically useless as they sucked all the fun out of it☹

 

[Brufab]

Anyone have any 1st or 2nd hand experience with century heating woodstoves? It's half the price of the jotol I was trying toget. Just bought a duravent chimney vent kit. Last one at tsc, not any at other tsc around up here. Lady said alot of stuff is on back order.

 

[Brufab]

Luckily, they're still in the minority around here. One of my neighbors is an 80-something year old guy, he's probably a 1/4 mile away, but always drives over to say hi when he hears me fire up the triple-port 066. He says he can always tell exactly what saw it is and figures there's something interesting happening if he hears it. I've asked him if he thought it was too loud...his response was "#@%$ anyone that does!"

That's awesome!, when i was tuning my remington super 770 up a few guys from down the street thought I bought a couple 2 stroke dirt bikes and was holding out on them I could only imagine how loud it is on the other side of the lake when I'm running WOT infront of the metal garage door. I can usually hear people talking on the far side beach when its not windy out.

 

[Sierra_rider]

I filled up the firewood staging area this a.m., it sits next to my front door. It's got more pine than oak, as I don't really need that "coals in the morning" effect until about Decemberish.

I need to get rid of that gas stove in the pic, the problem is nobody wants them lol. I replaced my old wood stove with another free wood stove. I'll post some pics later when I get up to the house, but someone was getting rid of a perfectly good Jotul with a glass front door...pretty awesome stove, even has a side door as well. It was a bit rusty as they left it sitting outside during the last little storm, but cleaned up nice with a wire wheel and some stove paint. I can't wait to try it out.

 

[sean donato]

Took the diesel powered wheelbarrow for a spin and got about half the Poplar from the decent neighbor. Got a good amount cleaned up. I'll get the rest here soon. Then to get it split and stacked.

 

[Sierra_rider]

It's not anything too cool, but I've always run pretty aggresive falling dogs on my saws...the problem with them, is they usually don't let the saw sit flat. I had some 1" 6061 rod and chucked it up on the lathe to make a spacer for my 400. The saw sits flat now and isn't wobbly.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Man I really hate you guys sometimes with all the cool woods you get. Here in alaska we have firewood or no wood

 

[Brufab]

Man I really hate you guys sometimes with all the cool woods you get. Here in alaska we have firewood or no wood

Maybe @Kodiak Kid can put you on something, that guy probly logged half of Alaska out based on all the pics he posts

 

[MustangMike]

Some of the wood I split last Wednesday and this morning, some of it was starting to go bad:

Red Maple, Shag Bark Hickory and Red Oak.

 

[MustangMike]

My heavy equipment:

 

[MustangMike]

In the afternoon I used my 28" bar Hybrid to cut an Ash into two rounds, then noodled each round to make it easier for the owner to move and split.

I got the noodles, which I will bring up to the cabin for fire starter.

I then hung my climbing tree stand and cleared the shooting lanes a bit. As you can see, the woods there are pretty thick!