Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[rarefish383]

Some friends called and asked if I was still doing any tree work? I said I'd be over in a few minutes and take a look? If needed I have a good climber. Got there and it was 3 tall Fir trees. Shot a tag line up in them and dropped them one at a time. Took the Brush Bandit down by the fence where they wanted the chips. Brought my JD X540 over on the small landscape trailer, then hooked the trailer up on the X540. Once the tree hit the ground I pulled up next to it and loaded all the brush on the trailer. Each of the big trees took 4 loads, the smaller tree took 2-3. I had my daughter shoot a video of the last load, mostly because I wanted to see how long it took me to chip a load. Six minutes and 39 seconds. Sorry for the long video, feel free to stop it, you can only watch so many limbs go through a chipper.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I feel like getting an air rifle to pop at a free squirrels. ... The ****ING bushy tailed rats have been Chewing holes in my high quality tarps and continually chewing the paracord I'm tieing it on to my stacks with! I've a4' wide stack along my garden fence, with a good slope to the top so once tarped the rain runs off well. Small clips hold the tarp and paracord ties it to the fence posts.... Except twice in as many weeks I've found the tarp on the ground and all my ties neatly severed.... Little ****ers.

I've been eyeballing a 22 cal airgun, but I never do it since I don't have any reason not to shoot real guns where I am. Lately the Smith&Wesson 586 no dash has been on squirrel duty, but I've whacked quite a few with the 10mm too.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Remember this load of firewood my friend and me cut, some time ago,

Anyway, it was sunny 70 today and he came over this afternoon to help split it, so we got set up and started splitting it,

We rolled those big brutes right onto the splitters beam and fairly quickly filled the metal tote with some nice splits,

then got started filling my "self unloading" trailer,

With THAT full, I needed even more room, so I went for my snowmobile trailer, and we filled that too!

Soon we will be back to the woods, getting him a load too!

SR

 

[sean donato]

They have been getting lots of pics of a bear in my neighborhood recently, mostly at night.

Recently, a 10 year old kid was attacked in CT in his backyard.

Black Bears have definitely been expanding their range in NY.

We've been seeing more around our area too. Have 2 up at camp in Pine Grove. Few farmers around my place have said they've seen tracks. I'm not terribly worried about them right now..
On the gun size thing. I get these emails with different gun and outdoor related articles. About once or twice a month there's a bear attack report, been a surprising many that have been killed with 10mm auto in the last few months. I figure it has more to do with being easier to shoot than one of the hand cannons that no one wants to shoot enough to be proficient with.

 

[sean donato]

Forgot to mention, I ended up doing less wood work then I wanted today. I donned my cloggers this morning after waking up, and realized they don't have rear pockets! Kinda shocked me. Front pockets were big enough to fit my wallet in, so off I went about my day. They are pretty hot to wear. The legs particularly. The fabric over your arse is super thin. I like the little vents in the legs. Between them and the thin back fabric they arnt too bad to wear. Didn't do any actual sawing today, but plenty of splitting and I can say, besides being a bit warm they are very comfortable and fit well. I got a medium size. I'm 5'9" 210 lbs. 34"x 32" pants normally, and these fit real well. So far I like them, besides missing a rear pocket. Well and a wedge pocket like my chaps have would have been nice too... im more likely to wear these then my chaps.

 

[Brufab]

I've been eyeballing a 22 cal airgun, but I never do it since I don't have any reason not to shoot real guns where I am. Lately the Smith&Wesson 586 no dash has been on squirrel duty, but I've whacked quite a few with the 10mm too.

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Them is the worst squirrels red and pine. They chew thru and on everything. I have a ton of fox black and gray squirrels around my place, never an issue but one of those in the pic above will do serious damage

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Ok, I’m gonna brag for a second. Decided to just grab the 460 rancher because it’s lightweight, and I’m just cutting off the pile out back. Cut a couple rounds and decided the chain needed touched up. Ever since I got my grinder, I’m just gone by my dads golden standard of swapping chains when they go full, and then grinding a whole pile when you run out. Today, I didn’t feel like pulling the chain off when it wasn’t really that dull, so I decided to just touch it up with a file. I don’t think I’ve filed a chain since I got my grinder so figured a little practice would be good.

I’ve still got it

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Them is the worst squirrels red and pine. They chew thru and on everything. I have a ton of fox black and gray squirrels around my place, never an issue but one of those in the pic above will do serious damage

I shoot every one that I see on my property

 

[sean donato]

Them is the worst squirrels red and pine. They chew thru and on everything. I have a ton of fox black and gray squirrels around my place, never an issue but one of those in the pic above will do serious damage

The f-ing chipmunks are the worst here. Chew your screens right out of the windows to get in the house. The dang squirrels ain't even that bad!

 

[JimR]

Dang vermin, good thing I got my .17HMR .

Pretty useless on a bear.

 

[JimR]

Ho
How do you start your saw?

With his hand.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I'm Mass we only have little Black bears. I wouldn't want to have to deal with Brown bears this close to my house. I would probably have to buy a .44 magnum.

IMOP, black bears and brownies can each be just as aggressive as the other twords people. I think it all just depends on the particular bear. Each aggressive bear senerio is different. However, an aggressive bear incident often involves sows with cubs, a bear protecting its food, the smell of human food or trash, or the smell of meat in a hunters pack. Regardless though, you simply can not predict them!

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

IMOP, black bears and brownies can each be just as aggressive as the other twords people. I think it all just depends on the particular bear. Each aggressive bear senerio is different. However, an aggressive bear incident often involves sows with cubs, a bear protecting its food, the smell of human food or trash, or the smell of meat in a hunters pack. Regardless though, you simply can not predict them!

Moose here are just as bad, except they are even more unpredictable. It’s always a safe bet that a bear will kill you, but moose almost seem to take pleasure is causing you pain and grief.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Black bears are not as big, strong, or mean as Brown Bears, but they are big and strong and you sure as heck do not want to be attacked by one (and it does occasionally happen).

A Black Bear can run 30 MPH and can climb. If you are in real good shape, and you track a deer (pushing hard) in the snow all day long, you can run it down, I have done it, but you will not catch up to a Black Bear, they just keep going.

Black Bears get much larger and stronger than a human. You do not want to get between Mom and her cubs or encounter a bad-tempered large male.

A 150 pound two year old brown bear cub or sub adult black bear will tear the toughest of any man a new a**! And do it easily! Both species are extremely fast and powerful!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Moose here are just as bad, except they are even more unpredictable. It’s always a safe bet that a bear will kill you, but moose almost seem to take pleasure is causing you pain and grief.

Roger that! Every year in Alaska and also probably Canada, more people are injured or killed by Moose than bear

 

[Kodiak Kid]

My new winter falling saw, XS 572 xpgw.
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That's a nice power saw!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I shoot every one that I see on my property

Good on ya! Me too! They seem to love stuffing my attic and woodshed with piles of spruce cones. So I love shooting them with my .22! It's a good deal for both the squirrels and I! Well actually, maybe not such a good deal for the squirrels!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Negative! He said his Mrs. Starts it!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I feel like getting an air rifle to pop at a free squirrels. ... The ****ING bushy tailed rats have been Chewing holes in my high quality tarps and continually chewing the paracord I'm tieing it on to my stacks with! I've a4' wide stack along my garden fence, with a good slope to the top so once tarped the rain runs off well. Small clips hold the tarp and paracord ties it to the fence posts.... Except twice in as many weeks I've found the tarp on the ground and all my ties neatly severed.... Little ****ers.

Take'em out!

 

[turnkey4099]

I may have made my last wooding trip for the year. Good rain Friday, a bit more today and more predicted off and on next week. I don't want to risk that badly rutted entry into my willow bush clearance project. I have around 8 cords willow still to put through the splitter plus around 11 cord of locust, maple and horse chestnut. Some of the locust was cut some 15 years ago!

Time to dry out the MS441 and MS193T. I'll keep the 362 ready to go, got a pile of locust limbs to cut up. Kinda miss not cutting any locust this year. My only source is some 25 miles away and with the price of fuel....