Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[GeeVee]

Good question! I'm going to be looking for "tires and rims" fir my splitter on line. I've no idea were to start.

I bought tires mounted on rims off of amazon for a trailer, cheaper than on tire on a shelf locally, delivered in two days, just your average 15" load D, five lug, but fit the bill, and probably not far off from buying another set.

I live on the beach, so rusting out rims is common, wearing a set out, is not.

 

[GeeVee]

Am home this afternoon, learning how to get around. My wife is a retired RN, so I have the best caregiver possible.

The ice machine is gold. It features a pad that surrounds my knee, held in place with velcro. Water passages inside the pad hold cold water that is pumped from a cooler on the floor with a mixture of ice and cold water to supply the pump. Only downside is the ice melts and has to be refreshed about every 3-4 hrs. Had an on-duty nurse to handle that last night. Not sure if I'll feel right about asking my home nurse to get up, drain water, and fetch ice 2--3 times tonight.

Amazing the technology we have these days. A new knee! When they wheeled me into the operating room yesterday morning, the array of equipment, and the numerous attendants scurrying around were astounding. Purdy damn cool stuff.

OH YEAH, the Ice pump is the shitzle..... I have one still, loaned it plenty, knees, Shoulders, even wisdom teeth......

Here is a tip, depending on the size of your cooler. Freeze 32 oz gatorade bottles, the solid blocks last way longer than ice cubes. Get well soon.

 

[svk]

As long as the rim fits and doesn't have an offset that would cause the tire to rub on the inside or outside of fender well you are fine. I was just talking about the tires themself.

My main trailer has rims from Ford cars from the 60's and 70's.

 

[GeeVee]

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Oak and I believe Hickory didn’t even hit the overload springs
Two pallets of wood pellets for my daughter . The Dodge handles anything I throw at it .
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SS, EXCEPT for that trailer jack you forgot about when the tailgate was down..... LOL. I've played that song before.

 

[GeeVee]

Had kind of a lazy day today. Split a little wood. Cleaned up my splitting area, dug out some more logs from the bottom of the pile, cut a few of those logs. Played with the gz4000 ryobi clone. (I ended up with 2 ryobi clones to fix the gz4000.) Ended up grabbing the 192tc. Kinda sad when a 40cc saw has less power then a 192tc..... something is wrong with it, it started right up, idles very strong, good transition to high rpm. Dies in the cut. Just no power. Its a parts saw, so I wasn't expecting much and I did just buy it for the clutch cover. Ill.play with that this winter after I get the 200t back together. Since it gets dark out so quick, I was inside and bored. Went back oit and grabbed the little fiskers hatchet I keep at the splitter. I broke the handle years ago and just welded a pipe on it. The pipe is pretty slick and I found some paracord. Pretty happy with the results. Could have been a little tighter when I started out, but I think it will hold.
Need to find some steel to make the hitch for the forks, but at most it's a phone call and some $$ away....

If you want to spend less, make some Saber tooth tiger teeth for the forks, and skip the grapple, kind of like the big teeth the loaders log handle off of trucks, just smaller?

 

[djg james]

As long as the rim fits and doesn't have an offset that would cause the tire to rub on the inside or outside of fender well you are fine. I was just talking about the tires themself.

My main trailer has rims from Ford cars from the 60's and 70's.

Yes, I understand. If I were to buy tires on rims, which I'm not ruling out, I'd put a straight edge across the inside if the tire and measure the depth to the hub. As well as bolt pattern.

 

[djg james]

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Oak and I believe Hickory didn’t even hit the overload springs
Two pallets of wood pellets for my daughter . The Dodge handles anything I throw at it .
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Don't remember if you said, but what size Dodge is it? Mine, a base 2 WD 1500 with the new shocks, only squats a little when loaded and hitched to a full 5x8 trailer.

 

[svk]

Check Walmart, sometimes their tire center sells trailer tires with rim for what others charge for the same tire.

 

[SS396driver]

Don't remember if you said, but what size Dodge is it? Mine, a base 2 WD 1500 with the new shocks, only squats a little when loaded and hitched to a full 5x8 trailer.

3500 HD with plow package

EDIT : 2007 one of the last with 5.9 CTD ,full 8 ft bed at the time it was hard to find one

 

[SS396driver]

SS, EXCEPT for that trailer jack you forgot about when the tailgate was down..... LOL. I've played that song before.

Wasn’t the jack . Was the upright for the winch . You can see them

 

[GeeVee]

I might have shared my firewood getter about 4000 pages ago?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Wow! That is a nice deer. What do you think it field dressed at?
What part of the 'Midwest' are you in?

I have no clue, he was big, but I've never weighed a deer in my life.

Here he is, before rifle season,

SR

 

[farmer steve]

4 buckets of ash today with a little HVBW. Dropped the one ash and took a limb off a HVBW.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Mr Please. Lol

Nice!

 

[Squareground3691]

Nice!

Old school sounds like a Cummins diesel when idling . Lol

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Old school sounds like a Cummins diesel when idling . Lol

I'd STIHL race ya!

 

[Squareground3691]

I'd STIHL race ya!

Maybe some day , my Kodiak friend in the meantime letter rip !!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Maybe some day , my Kodiak friend in the meantime letter rip !!

Roger that!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Thanks, I just dyed the plastics the other day. I'm normally not a guy that cares about flashy saws, but I figured it was warranted for a saw with ultra-custom internals.

I wish I could take you up on that offer...maybe it depends on what you've had done to the 661. The 566 is running pretty well as is, but I know I can do better. I'm hoping to get some cutting in at work with it this next week...maybe pick up some more power when the rings seat.

I've actually got a couple of more pistons coming, as I'm pretty sure I can pick up some added grunt on this saw. I screwed up cutting the top of the piston that's in it, and I didn't get the shape I was after. What's the old saying? Measure twice, cut once?

I like a sharpe looking saw. Especially if its a modified stock hot rod saw! They definitely turn heads. How did you dye the plastics and what kind of dye? Dose the dye scratch off exposing the orange again?

 

[turnkey4099]

No snow in Maryland but here is a pic that my dad took of the 1966 blizzard. First cold snap here, 23f now, and back to daytime 40's 50's for the week.

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I went through that one at a tech school, Syracuse U. Got up in the morning and no sight of any cars. Flat snow covered area where the parking lot was. I don't recall the amount but only here and there ione could see an aerial sticking up. It was a week before everything was back to normal. 4 days before we could even get out of the parking lot and then only because we residents had shoved dthe street and dug out all the cars.