Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[old CB]

But we're afraid of the same thing. Wounded deer would run onto a neighbors yard and traumatize their kids. Daddy, he shot Bambi!

Yep, the rumor here is that several years back a bow hunter shot a deer that ran up and dropped dead next to some kids waiting on the school bus. Then we have a married couple who are always circulating petitions and hounding the county commissioners to expand the no shooting zone in the more densely housed neighborhoods. These assholes piss me off mightily, as hunting was strong here long before they arrived. They even got the commissioners to rule that bows and crossbows count as "firearms," so as to prevent bowhunting in most of the district. Good news is that hunting is allowed on private property (while a huge part of our district is national forest, where the no-hunting can be enforced).

 

[sean donato]

Yep, the rumor here is that several years back a bow hunter shot a deer that ran up and dropped dead next to some kids waiting on the school bus. Then we have a married couple who are always circulating petitions and hounding the county commissioners to expand the no shooting zone in the more densely housed neighborhoods. These assholes piss me off mightily, as hunting was strong here long before they arrived. They even got the commissioners to rule that bows and crossbows count as "firearms," so as to prevent bowhunting in most of the district. Good news is that hunting is allowed on private property (while a huge part of our district is national forest, where the no-hunting can be enforced).

Sad times we live in brother, sad times indeed.

 

[chipper1]

Feel free to do your research. Let me know when you find out the truth. Might want to start with the V2 rocket.

You know I've already done it right, I was the one who brought it up

When you start looking into DARPA and all the things they did and are doing in the name of national security it's a pretty scary rabbit hole.

You mean like Facebook or is it LifeLog .
But I'm sure it's all for our own good .

That little 3.5 sure looked fun. How many hrs did you put into it to get the top all cleared off.

 

[chipper1]

Mean while my kids run around with deer legs that were just cut off yanking on the tendons to make them wave..... not raising any snowflakes over here. Kill um and grill um.

That's what I'm talking about.
My guys do a good amount of butchering, hundreds of chickens at a time with some friends in the fall.
Here's an old picture, when you said the deer leg thing it's what came to mind.

 

[old CB]

Mean while my kids run around with deer legs that were just cut off yanking on the tendons to make them wave..... not raising any snowflakes over here. Kill um and grill um.

Reminds me of one time cutting a field of oats hay (late May, early June?), I saw something odd between the windrows behind me. Found a fawn that the swather had neatly decapitated. Searched but could not find the head. But that perfect, soft-haired little body was without defect, still curled up where momma had left it. At dinner I brought it home to show the kids, toddler up to 8 or 10 yr-olds I seem to recall. My wife thought it a terrible thing to show them, like they'd be traumatized. None of them remember it now.

 

[Lee192233]

You know I've already done it right, I was the one who brought it up

You mean like Facebook or is it LifeLog .
But I'm sure it's all for our own good .

That little 3.5 sure looked fun. How many hrs did you put into it to get the top all cleared off.

The last 20 years have been the biggest data mining/spying operation on citizens in the history of the world. Can you say Patriot Act?

I have about 2.5 hours into tearing the top off. Book time is almost 14 hours. Not a bad job, just lots of ancillary stuff to take off to get to the engine.

 

[MustangMike]

Good post CB, but what bothers me is the hypocrites out there that talk "green" but don't accomplish it.

If you look at the facts, Trump reduced CO-2 emissions by 25% over Obama/Biden, and that is huge! Conversely, Biden increased CO-2 emissions 6.5% his first year in office (before the war with Ukraine and Russia started).

The reason is simple, under Trump almost all of our electric was generated with Natural Gas, which is much cleaner than oil or coal. When Biden restricted natural gas production, we started using oil and coal to generate our electric again.

I could go on, but that is the major gist of it. There seems to be more talk about going green than action, and if the pollution is in someone else's backyard, it seems like it is not important even though they say it is a global problem.

I also think that addressing water pollution is under rated. Even though many waterways are much cleaner now (as you have noted), there are basically no waters (fresh or salt) where it is safe to eat the fish harvested on a regular basis. That is a real shame, as fish should be an important part of a healthy diet.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Today's scrounge at the golf course. Put the new Hexa chain on the 462. This ash log was hard and solid. Lotsa noodling. It was 10-12' long. 20" bar just made it. What's in the truck pic is how much I got out of it.
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How do you like the new hexa chain?

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Oh, I hesitate to wade into this in the company of friends, and science isn't my strongest stuff, but . . .

Yes, the climate has shifted numerous times over the millennia, but the models that I believe were developed in the 1950s pointed to the carbon dioxide that all our fuel-burning releases as holding heat in the atmosphere. (jeez, someone more up on this could explain it better.) And the incremental warming of our atmosphere seems to bear out those predictions. While most of us don't see/feel the effects--we see weather, not climate--those in the extreme north and south regions do. Glaciers in the far north, and ice cover in Antarctica, for instance, are receding at an alarming rate.

Besides general climate warming--which is undeniably happening, for whatever reason--the models also predict more extremes of weather. Which we DO experience: hotter hots, colder colds, heavier rains & drier dry spells, later frost dates, more severe storms, and so on.

Dave Schultz (PhD), who worked for NOAA and taught at U. of Oklahoma when I lived there--we were kayaking and camping buddies--explained it much better. He's in England now. And two scientists up the road (everyone lives up the road here, I'm at 6400 feet, the low end of our district) are in total agreement.

The same public relations outfits that served big tobacco for years, putting out the word that smoking was no threat to health, now serve big oil/gas by poisoning the public discussion on climate change. Within companies like Exxon-Mobil, these companies have for years had very private and closely held policies to deal with their reactions to climate change as it affects their operations. Shipping, for instance, may open up in far northern regions where ice has prevented it.

I am not an alarmist when it comes to climate change. I believe its effects are damaging to human interests. But I am an optimist, and expect that when we do finally get serious about the problem that nature will allow a turn-around when we make the proper adjustments. My #1 evidence of nature aiding our attempts to undo former wrongs is the Cuyahoga River. I remember when it caught fire--yes, the river caught fire from an overload of waste. I'm told the Cuyahoga is pretty much a sportsman's paradise now. And in all my doings in woods and agriculture, I've seen nature turn quickly to heal past damage. Seems like healing and growth are nature's default settings.

O boy…
hasn’t been any actual warming for 20 yrs…

 

[turnkey4099]

I thought they were a useless home owner gimmick. My wife's uncle bought a cheap $59 knock off. He couldn't get the chain on it, so he sent it home with her, for me to figure out. All it was, the adjustment pin the bar goes on, was screwed almost all the way out. When he put the bar on, the chain was too short. I screwed the pin down and put the bar and chain on. While I had it, I had to test it. I'm pruning all of the Spruce and White Pine around my daughters 2 acre lot. The previous owner did all but nothing maintaining the yard for 25 years. Except, he cut the Pines and Spruce back at eye level, about 6' out, so he could drive the mower sort of close. Of course, all those stubs died and made like Porky Pine quills sticking out. I've got pics of me bleeding like a stuck pig trying to get into the trunk of the tree to flush all those stubs off. That little toy saw worked great for that purpose. I could wiggle in sideways and with one hand start stripping stubs. We've taken down over 30 trees in her yard. My Brush Bandit 65 has a 6"X12" feed. I try to chip as much as I can. Sometimes a Y will get in the feed and the rollers just can't crush them down. I had the little toy under the chute. If a limb wouldn't feed, I just backed it up, Zip, zip, and put it back in forward and all is good. I just might go get me one of those little toys.

The "useless gimmick" was my impression when I unboxed it. Gonna give it an honest try maybe Wed. Tomorrow it is back to the dealer. They sold me the wrong spare battery - looks the same but It won't fit into the charger and the contacts on it aren't even near the same. I hate to lose the day tomorrow as the next weekhas "showers" almost every day.

I'll try it out on my spruce trees that need lower limbs removed.

 

[turnkey4099]

Sad times we live in brother, sad times indeed.

We had a letter in our local paper complaining about my neighbor butchering out a cow. "kids on the school bus could see that...". My aching A$$. This is rural farm country and if a kid hasn't seen that they haven't been looking.

 

[PEK]

We had a letter in our local paper complaining about my neighbor butchering out a cow. "kids on the school bus could see that...". My aching A$$. This is rural farm country and if a kid hasn't seen that they haven't been looking.

Here everybody who has a pig goat etc butchers them at home, the kids here help, no mamby pamby people here.

 

[user 158015]

is that an XX75 shaft

Today's scrounge at the golf course. Put the new Hexa chain on the 462. This ash log was hard and solid. Lotsa noodling. It was 10-12' long. 20" bar just made it. What's in the truck pic is how much I got out of it.
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[Squareground3691]

Where's KK been? Thread's been a little quiet this week.

El Chapo , El Loco Lol

 

[SimonHS]

You might consider putting a winch on that mill... I did that to mine back before Granberg came out with their winches. I used a boat trailer winch with paracord on a wooden mounting plate. It makes the job a lot easier than pushing the mill and the cuts are more consistent. I have the paracord anchored to a pully on chunk of wood in the background of the photo...

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Saw this setup (on LinkedIn of all places) this morning which removes the drudgery of turning the winch handle:

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Maybe I just misread the original post.
You should know by now I'm not into twisting peoples words, if I do I will highlight what I change and say "fixed" with this guy looking up at the previous post .
That being said, at least I got that mistake out of the way for the month .

hi chipper - good to know! i always thot the lil guy just rolled his eyes and looked up at ceiling!

posts? still got a few more to set.

 

[farmer steve]

How do you like the new hexa chain?

I thought it cut pretty good. Not sure if I could tell much difference between it and a new standard chain. It held up pretty good on that hard ash. Will be putting the file to it today to see how the hexa file works.

is that an XX75 shaft

Not sure what that one is. A buddy gave me a couple that used to shoot competition. I just had a customer ask me how I have my wood so uniform when we were loading the wood he was getting.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Thankfully I have never made a mistake. Once I thot I did, but I was wrong.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Sad times we live in brother, sad times indeed.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That's what I'm talking about.
My guys do a good amount of butchering, hundreds of chickens at a time with some friends in the fall.
Here's an old picture, when you said the deer leg thing it's what came to mind.
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hundreds huh?? WOW!! this lil side yard operation made quick the process..... the grated device is the de-featherer. plucking a bird is not exactly fun. pre-preps did include some time in hot water, as in hand plucking. actually, the entire flock was in hot water!!! lol. demise day but moments away... then to the freezer, pot or grill. the brother of my av flock had picked up about 100! and at $7.00 butchered, they were going fast. overalll, a bit on the raw side, if u will pardon the pun. here is a bit of a foto essay on the subject from couple days back. once those feathers started flying, reminded me of a crew of arborists making chunks... chips, chickendust and a few feathers!! just some country boys at work!

.fresh off the grill...