Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[djg james]

Flat Free Tires??


Left my garden cart loaded with firewood overnight, and after unloading, drove off for a second load. Heard a thunk, thunk, thunk and noticed the tire. Pulled up to my compressor, thinking is was the other (pneumatic) tire but was surprised to find it was the no flat one. It's slowly recovering its shape with no load. Never thought that would happen.

Sorry KK. Some things weren't meant to be overloaded.


The sidewall of my garden cart broke in the corner. Easy repair with a small angle iron bracket bolted to the sides.

 

[U&A]

Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the bank

I predict another bail out for at least two of the big 3 (ford and chevy) from all the EVs they are being forced to make by our lovely Government.

 

[U&A]

Now,at my backyard ...
( Electric saws are nice and silent ,when your neighborhood is crowed enough )
My main firewood is strawberry tree ( arbutus unedo ) .As good as white oak ,if not slightly hotter burning ( but lacks just a bit the burning duration of white oak ) .
Olive tree,three-four different kinds of oak ,almond tree ,cherry tree and wild pear tree makes up for the rest of firewood.

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purrrrrrdy kitty.

 

[Squareground3691]

I predict another bail out for at least two of the big 3 (ford and chevy) from all the EVs they are being forced to make by our lovely Government.

All the big guns , are using Tesla universal charging systems now for all future EV,s

 

[svk]

Now,at my backyard ...
( Electric saws are nice and silent ,when your neighborhood is crowed enough )
My main firewood is strawberry tree ( arbutus unedo ) .As good as white oak ,if not slightly hotter burning ( but lacks just a bit the burning duration of white oak ) .
Olive tree,three-four different kinds of oak ,almond tree ,cherry tree and wild pear tree makes up for the rest of firewood.

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Great pics!

 

[sean donato]

I predict another bail out for at least two of the big 3 (ford and chevy) from all the EVs they are being forced to make by our lovely Government.

Wonder how many times we'll bail chevy oit before they just go under....

 

[KostasVolos]

Nice looking logs! What do you burn them on?

They look short, like the ones that are common in the UK. European stoves seem to be a lot smaller than American ones, with shorter fireboxes.

On a cast iron wood burner .


Our home is just above 100 sq. meters.This woodstove is more
than enough to heat all of it ,in just
couple of hours or so .

 

[U&A]

On a cast iron wood burner .
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Our home is just above 100 sq. meters.This woodstove is more
than enough to heat all of it ,in just
couple of hours or so .

always wanted one. nice.

 

[KostasVolos]

always wanted one. nice.

I have a second ,spare ( and totally unused ) one ,but wife use it as a ...corner lamp table !

 

[WoodAbuser]

I have a second ,spare ( and totally unused ) one ,but we use it as a ...corner lamp table !

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If one is good. Two is better.

 

[SS396driver]

Scrounged up a real nice low mileage Yamaha 1100 Silverado for the misses . Hers is getting tired has a lot of miles . And it was cheap

 

[Sawdust Man]

Okay fellers, here it is.


I might be a redneck....


I really don't like loading em like that, but due to our hill it's got to be done.
It actually tows & steers just fine.... it just looks stupid.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Okay fellers, here it is.


I might be a redneck....
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I really don't like loading em like that, but due to our hill it's got to be done.
It actually tows & steers just fine.... it just looks stupid.

"Redneck" No bout a doubt it.

 

[svk]

Well, we reached about 90° up here which is pretty warm for this area. My daughter had a doubleheader softball game, but it was pretty manageable because there was a breeze.

Took the dogs for the walk this evening and the bugs weren’t too bad.

 

[SS396driver]

Lovely day of sanding the four coats of filler primer initial sanding was with 150 dry paper worked up through 220-320 finished with 400 wet . Each step I used guide coat basically Graphite . Third picture was the 220 sand scratches while doing the 320 sanding . All the scratches from the prior step need to be removed . Then the whole process starts again with next finer grit paper . This was done on every panel on the truck . And people wonder why shops charge so much for restoration work the last picture the darker gray spots are high areas the epoxy prime base is darker than the filler so it shows high spots .

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Just the eggs.... never have been able to acquire a taste for duck meat... plus they're a pain to process.
I don't care for duck eggs, but my son thinks they're way better than chicken eggs so he eats em all.

Big yoke and really tough shells. They taste…well…like eggs,

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Someone has too much money...

Or too few brain cells…

 

[Cowboy254]

Now,at my backyard ...
( Electric saws are nice and silent ,when your neighborhood is crowed enough )
My main firewood is strawberry tree ( arbutus unedo ) .As good as white oak ,if not slightly hotter burning ( but lacks just a bit the burning duration of white oak ) .
Olive tree,three-four different kinds of oak ,almond tree ,cherry tree and wild pear tree makes up for the rest of firewood.

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Looks great, love the puddy cat on the table too

 

[KostasVolos]

Looks great, love the puddy cat on the table too

That is Nikitas ,a rather big male cat with plenty of African genes .


And a bit of info about strawberry tree,as firewood :
Strawberry tree growing here ( two species : Arbutus unedo & Arbutus adrachne and their hybrids ) is a very close relative to what is called Madrone ( Arbutus menziesii ) in the US.

Arbutus unedo generates an impressive 29~30 million BTUs per cord .It has low sap content ,no resin and a very thin bark which is flaking off very easily when dry ,thus leaves literally no creosote when burned .It's very hard,dense and heavy and once dry it becomes really a PITA to split.It takes about 6 months to a year to be seasoned .Largest trunks can reach up to 16" of diameter .
It has a distinctive fragrance when burned ( a very nice and mellow fruity smell ) and produces very little smoke ( personally have never noticed any visible smoke coming out of our chimney ) .When freshly cut the wood is either hay off -white or milky white colored with pinkish to blood red strikes /areas ,while when totally dry the wood takes a deep orange color .

( cut 2 months ago)


(cut 6 months ago,left to dry under the sun ever since )

It never grows straight and it grows back really fast ,even when cut flush to ground ( one trunk is cut ,about a dozen new saplings are growing back on the spot next year ) .
When dry is very harsh on chain cutters and trying to cut on certain areas( like branch splitting cites ) combined with a wrong "approach" can result in literally shaving few cutters off the chain .It actually feels like trying to cut a rock with a chainsaw- even the pro loggers with larger chainsaws and beefy cutters like those on .404" chains,avoid to mess with dry Arbutus wood.

It is considered to be one of the best firewood species .

 

[farmer steve]

I haven't used a maul in quite a few years.

At your age I can see why. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jim!! Hope ya have a good one buddy.