Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[jolj]

Out with the old, in with the new...I got a new used wood stove, the best part is that it was free. It's a Jotul F500, which seems like a pretty nice wood stove from what I've researched. It's a lot nicer than the old Earthstove that it replaced. It's pretty air-tight and has a side door in addition to the glass door. That's a pretty nice feature and says it can take 24" long pieces.

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The old Earthstove put out a ton of heat, but didn't seal up that well. It was also designed for a 7" pipe and I modified it for 6". The reduction in size meant it took awhile to build a draft. It also wasn't the best for leaving you a bed of coals in the morning. I'll keep it for now and possible install it into my shop if/when I expand that building.View attachment 1027185

My wife has one of those stoves.

 

[Brufab]

This 60hp tractor, raking hay at 1200 RPM's, (Kuhn rotary rake) in a flat field, will burn two quarts of fuel an hour!

It's hard to believe it could so efficient, but it is!

Then again, put this rotary cutter behind it, run it at PTO speed and get into grass this tall or even taller that works the tractor,

and it will burn five to six quarts an hour!

SR

Thats incredible on fuel consumption. My remington chainsaws burn thru that and more in half the time and they only 5hp tops.

 

[Brufab]

My lie-o-meter said 10.1 on the way down to Ohio last weekend drivinginto a crosswind, on the way back it was up to 10.7. I can get it to read much higher if I have no trailer, those dang fold down ramps are like a parachute. Also, staying off the expressway with a trailer helps a lot.

The gate up on my 5x8 tsc trailer is expanded metal and it costs maybe 5mph and 5mpg I now run with it down on a garbage bag of packing paper to absorb the bumps, now it doesn't feel like I'm towing anything. Can you make the ramps removable

 

[bob kern]

Not a ton of old trucks here either. And it's getting tougher to justify diesel for sure between initial cost, fuel cost, and improved gassers. I still like driving them though!

I'm still an old school gasser guy myself. I seldom get far from the house and only occasionally run in to a hill so long and steep that I lose any measurable amount of speed. It doesn't bother me enough to tolerate the down sides of diesel. Smell, expense,smell,stupid expensive repairs, smell,may start may not when it gets real cold smell, etc etc. Did I mention the smell??
On the coldest night in my lifetime here in the valley my 76' Chevy with the old bulletproof 350 made it's way around to the neighbors jumping all their new fangled perty cars and trucks.
I will admit it took 5 or 6 cranks as opposed to the normal 1-1/2 cranks but I figured I would cut the ol girl some slack seein' she had recently turned over 280,000 miles!!
Now don't nobody go gettin' ur dander up. I know there is a time and a place for everything ,even diesel fuel ,but for my simple, close to home lifestyle any ol dodge, Chevy or pre 80's Ford with a V8 will do me plenty good.

 

[JimR]

YERR Baiting Him/Her/ItShit .. I Kinda Like that Subtle approach.
Why I commented on two of your posts seams odd to me, it isn't intentional But I did it anyway.

Narcissist waste their time trying to figure out how to get the best of everyone. Maybe it will keep the sick b-stard busy and out of my hair.

 

[JimR]

It feels more like one of the hubs is going out. I need to tear into it and check it out as soon as I get the head gaskets done on the suburban.

Had that same issue with my prior 2003 F250. I ended up swapping them both out for new ones.

 

[JimR]

Why Postpone a good party? Make the reason for the party OBVIOUS then Invite Him as a "SPECIAL GUEST".. (Attempt at humor).

No way I would invite an evil person to a party.

 

[JimR]

Went to whistler for our honeymoon. At the restaurant up top of whistler, there are bear tracks in the concrete from when they built it, pretty cool.
But yeah, I ain't messing with a bear in the wild. I did get yelled at for petting the bear cubs(medium sized) at the Wisconsin Dells, guess they should have made the fence higher

We saw 13 bears in 8 days up there. I love that area up there.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Had that same issue with my prior 2003 F250. I ended up swapping them both out for new ones.

I took it over to the old man’s house today and got it pulled in the garage and the front end up in the air. At my house on the ground I couldn’t find any shake in the front driveshaft, but once I pulled it for inspection I found just a hint of play in the read CV joint. Pulled a driveshaft out of the parts truck, and stuck it in there with some new u-joints and it’s good as new.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Lol, those older trucks are rare up here in the rust belt. Diesel here is 60 cents a liter more than gas. I drive diesels at work and have a couple die hard diesel buddies but I love my ford eco boost. A 2013 I've had since new. It tows like a diesel with excellent down low torque and the mileage gets better the longer I own it. I'm at 14l/100km which is about 17 US mpg for the metrically challenged. This is my average over the last 8000km/5000mi. 25% of that is towing my camper and a mix of city/hwy. I don't care about the peak numbers because it's the average that reflects the cost. The turbos make a nice quiet whistling whoosh when yanking a trailer full of sugar maple!

I’m paying about 1.00 less then gas and about 1.70 less then pump diesel here for the forbidden fuel I run.

 

[JimR]

I think that's where I'm at too I can still get my firewood and keep this thing going. Even old trucks are a ton of money. When I got it it ticked something fierce when it started up. I thought it was a sticky lifter. But a friend of my dad's was over and asked me what oil was in it which was 10W40 via the manual. He built race cars for years and he told me get that out of it V10s dont like heavy oil and put 5w30 in it in the summer and 5w20 in it in the winter. I did and it's never ticked or banged again so that solved that. Other than that it just doesnt heat up in the winter wont blow heat for crap. It has such a huge block and rad that it never gets warm when it's cold out.

Try changing the thermostat.

 

[Logger nate]

I’m paying about 1.00 less then gas and about 1.70 less then pump diesel here for the forbidden fuel I run.

Kinda nice that’s it’s all the same color there, well used to be anyway.

 

[Logger nate]

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Kinda nice that’s it’s all the same color there, well used to be anyway.

No dye in the cheap stuff where I am and have never seen any kind of enforcement

 

[chipper1]

The gate up on my 5x8 tsc trailer is expanded metal and it costs maybe 5mph and 5mpg I now run with it down on a garbage bag of packing paper to absorb the bumps, now it doesn't feel like I'm towing anything. Can you make the ramps removable

Not easily. That's one of the reasons I built the 25' trailer, I wanted something I could haul for longer distances without as much wind resistance.
I used to have an aluma brand aluminum 6x12 that the ramp folded into the gate, it was real nice when empty and for hauling a splitter or a quad it worked well too, much more and you had to have it up. I hauled some pretty good loads with it and my mini vans .


Then I got this 20' aluminum. This was a light duty trailer and I thrashed it pretty bad, That's why I wanted the 25' trailer to be built much better. That being said it did a lot of work for me and I totally got my money out of it even after the repairs I had don't to it and the new wheels and tires I put on it.
Didn't take much to squat it.

These are the logs @Sawyer Rob cut the siding for my woodshed from, thanks again Rob .
This was a pretty good load.

 

[GrizG]

I've encountered quite a number of snakes over the years while running saws, picking up rounds, etc. I've even severed a couple that were inside trees I felled... that was creepy. Those experiences pale in comparison to this one:
https://news.yahoo.com/indonesian-womans-body-found-dead-074648781.html

 

[djg james]

Not easily. That's one of the reasons I built the 25' trailer, I wanted something I could haul for longer distances without as much wind resistance.
I used to have an aluma brand aluminum 6x12 that the ramp folded into the gate, it was real nice when empty and for hauling a splitter or a quad it worked well too, much more and you had to have it up. I hauled some pretty good loads with it and my mini vans .
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Then I got this 20' aluminum. This was a light duty trailer and I thrashed it pretty bad, That's why I wanted the 25' trailer to be built much better. That being said it did a lot of work for me and I totally got my money out of it even after the repairs I had don't to it and the new wheels and tires I put on it.
Didn't take much to squat it.
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These are the logs @Sawyer Rob cut the siding for my woodshed from, thanks again Rob .
This was a pretty good load.
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I can't believe you could put that much weight on a 2-wheeled (single axle) trailer. My tires can 'handle' only about 1000# each. I put only about half that on the trailer because of the frame.

 

[Vtrombly]

Try changing the thermostat.

It was changed right before I got it. The gauge warms up to the set level and stays there. During the summer it will blow heat just fine all day long but during the winter its luke warm while going down the highway and at idle its basically cold and the more speed of the fan you give it the cooler it gets too. Only thing I can think of is when its below 30 degrees the motor stays so cool that it cant maintain the temp to keep the coolant warm.

 

[Lionsfan]

It was changed right before I got it. The gauge warms up to the set level and stays there. During the summer it will blow heat just fine all day long but during the winter its luke warm while going down the highway and at idle its basically cold and the more speed of the fan you give it the cooler it gets too. Only thing I can think of is when its below 30 degrees the motor stays so cool that it cant maintain the temp to keep the coolant warm.

Seen more than one truck running around in the winter with a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator. I bet you could still buy one of those bras that goes over the grill also.

 

[sean donato]

I've clocked it before going up north at 9 its however a big V10. Yours I believe is a 6.8? This thing is an 8.0L if you get north of 65 MPH it's really bringing the gauge down. But as far as power no diesel can come close to it. But it's by far an odd ball and not easy to find parts for it for that fact I would have preferred the 12 valve.

They were rated for something like 310hp, and 450ft lb torque. They were also totally unrelated to the viper engine. Reasonably reliable, towed decently well. Not a replacement for a 5.9L. The 160hp was rated at 450ftlbs. Just went up from there with the 190/210hp models, then the 24valves and common rails killed off any big block/large cube gasser.
For your no diesel can come close, I'll argue that heavily all day.