Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

I think that's a big miss on GM's part.

They were cool as heck, but so few were sold that I understand why they dropped it.

 

[svk]

last nights dinner
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Amazing

 

[svk]

Hi guys, long day here. I left the house at 6:30 to drive my golden over to west central Minnesota for Training . He will spend a month there and then a month back with me and then go there for three months for both water retrieval and also Upland flushing. It will be awesome to have one dog that earns its keep around here. Got back to town around 4:30 and then had to do a couple hours of work before coming home. I made a big batch of beef vegetable soup tonight before bed. It’s going to be about 32° overnight so I put it outside on top of the smoker to cool down as the whole Dutch oven was very hot. Hopefully no four legged visitors come and take it away.

The lake is finally opening up here so it will be boating season soon.

 

[svk]

I’ll save the detailed story for another day because I’m getting pretty tired but a while back I did a food photo shoot to help promote my cast iron cooking for a nonprofit fundraiser. I finally was able to get the photos uploaded tonight.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

I’ll save the detailed story for another day because I’m getting pretty tired but a while back I did a food photo shoot to help promote my cast iron cooking for a nonprofit fundraiser. I finally was able to get the photos uploaded tonight.

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We finished dinner a while ago but now I’m starving!

 

[turnkey4099]

I got the doctor's report on my last checkup. It is so unbelievable I just have to share it

"I am writing to inform you that your recent blood tests have shown no signs of anemia or infection. Your kidney function tests are stable,k Your liver function tests are excellent, Cholesterol results are also overall excellent."

I'm a lousy cook so my diet is a basic 'meat&potatoes' but I do eat a lot of fruit (2-3 servings/day) and nuts. It must be all the 'wooding' I do. On of these days one item will fail and that will lead to a collapse of everything else. At 88 I for sure can't complain.

Out to the willow bush in the morning. I bucked out 24 rounds of a woodcutters dream. Tree was a blow down with the roots still in the ground. I started with the 400 wearing a 20" bar and ending with 24" that didn't quite reach all the way through.

Pictures will hopefully come this weekend. I have learned how to download gthe camera but then I can't find the pics on the computer, they don't show up in the "picture" file - neighbor said he will be over this weekend.

 

[mountainguyed67]

That near the store?

That‘s the employee/friend toilet & shower building behind the store. I know them, and have spent time there.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Gee whiz they had to cut their way in with a chainsaw!

I don’t know what they were doing with the chainsaw. I have heard of people using a chainsaw to cut hard packed snow though, seen video too. Either that or a lot of chipping at it with a shovel.

 

[user 158015]

Nice report turnkey! Congrats. I too love good lab reports and I am much younger.

 

[Cowboy254]

Scrounged up some firewood at the cabin.

No you didn't. Because if you had scrounged, there would be pics.

 

[WoodAbuser]

No you didn't. Because if you had scrounged, there would be pics.

There are dozens in my minds eye. One of the best things about my cabin is the lack of cell signal.

 

[chipper1]

There are dozens in my minds eye. One of the best things about my cabin is the lack of cell signal.

So without cell signal your camera doesn't work .

 

[chipper1]

I like my 2.7L ecoboost, but the late 90's diesel pickups I've driven would twist the crankshaft right out of that little ecoboost if you put them head to head. And it will not get 25mpg under the absolute best of conditions.

I'll sell you my 98 Honda Odyssey, it gets 25mpg .

So, this pond will be, what, 2’ deep?

I guess ya have to be there…

Gotta start somewhere, I'm a pond rookie lol. Honestly I'm surprised I got as much done as I have this yr, I was thinking it would be something to tinker with for a couple yrs, then again, it could still turn into that.

It’s all relative. When I was talking to the dispatcher at the local company I hired to haul the loader up, he couldn’t figure out which one I was talking about at first (It had been dropped in his yard by a long haul truck, that would not go up to the mountains). When he finally got it, he said “Oh, the little one”.

That being said, mine is rated to lift the weight of ten of yours (To a 2’ bucket pin height). The payload of mine is the weight of 5.6 of your machines.

But I don’t think mine will be digging any backyard pools.

Yep, the little one .
I get that. When people tell me that 80k is a lot to haul(talking about semi's), I just laugh as I used to haul nearly double that every day for many yrs. Good thing I didn't have to haul those loads up your hills, it was bad enough on our "Michigan mountains" .

You try Stihl 33RM semi chisel, probably be ideal for ur type of cutting,

That's what I use on dirt filled pipe too .

 

[WoodAbuser]

So without cell signal your camera doesn't work .

Glad u understand the issue.

 

[Lee192233]

Being a tech I've been the guy you should walk right past!

 

[WoodAbuser]

Being a tech I've been the guy you should walk right past! View attachment 1079368

got it.

 

[chipper1]

Being a tech I've been the guy you should walk right past! View attachment 1079368

Or just understand, that's how life is in the rust belt .
When I was at the shop we would buy snap-on taps/dies, they always had a fresh supply of the ones we ran into hot exhaust manifolds lol.

 

[Lee192233]

Or just understand, that's how life is in the rust belt .
When I was at the shop we would buy snap-on taps/dies, they always had a fresh supply of the ones we ran into hot exhaust manifolds lol.

Yeah, it doesn't pay to get too stressed about it. The customers usually understand why the bill was higher than expected. That's the beauty of smart phones. I take a picture, print it and the customer then sees what I was dealing with.

I sometimes think about the techs down south who get the opportunity to work on a snowbird's rusty heap. I bet it's a rude awakening when they put their impact on a bolt that always comes out down there and it snaps right off.

 

[svk]

Yeah, it doesn't pay to get too stressed about it. The customers usually understand why the bill was higher than expected. That's the beauty of smart phones. I take a picture, print it and the customer then sees what I was dealing with.

I sometimes think about the techs down south who get the opportunity to work on a snowbird's rusty heap. I bet it's a rude awakening when they put their impact on a bolt that always comes out down there and it snaps right off.

I wish those guys who made YouTube videos with 30 year old stuff with no rust had to work on some of the rusty crap that we normally deal with!

 

[WoodAbuser]

I wish those guys who made YouTube videos with 30 year old stuff with no rust had to work on some of the rusty crap that we normally deal with!

They would say a lot of bad words.