Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Don't know how I missed this back in June, but before I retired I was a Licensed and Insured MD Tree Expert. That means I took the MD Tree Expert Exam, and passed. Also took the ISA exam, and passed. That makes me a real live Arborist, with a capitol A.

me, too... i scrounge so much.... i am near certification....

Certified H'arborist! lol

(scrounger, for the uninitiated! )


see ya

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Finally got the stone spread out for the shop amd leveled up. Took my roller over it, but likely I'll borrow my uncles tamper and run that over it a few times. Wish my work schedule didn't suck so bad, would have ran and got mesh and got that in and forms up. Guess that will just have to wait till next month when I have off a few days in a row again.

mine, too!

pine needles. non-stop. and it is not even Fall yet....

other day, then next day had to rake again. bit less but still same pita!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Sometimes you feel like a nut.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Ya got many good years ahead its just a number, key is never stop working the body,

haha, yeah right! just wait til ya inch on up there...

numbers:

teeth implants
heart by-pass
new hip
knew knee...
chemo
etc

i am still but if life don't tell ya, your body will!
none of that for me... but the numbers... $$$$ well, shucks... its just a number!

'sure, # 3, please....'

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SR

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Don't worry about me, I'm not planning on punching out. I've got too many fish to catch. I just miss the old guys that have gone on, for what ever reason. I retired from UPS. The tractor trailer drivers bid their vacations twice a year. So a guy would bid to a different shift and a year or so would go by before you missed him. Then you ask someone, and they say, oh, he died a while back. On line forums are like that. Like I say, if you get bummed out, just go fishing, works for me.

wow - that is a rare fish... for the average fisherman! what did u do with it. make tunafish salad?

or toss it back?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Plus, I was curious how many people would ask what my name means?

2 + 2 =.....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One of a kind ? Lol

no, but rare by any standards....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I spent yet another day rotary cutting,

and there is more to do there.

SR

know what ya mean! same here... cut, rake...bale!

other day: my first square bale

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I don't have to ask Joe, but your younger than me, so don't worry!

That is also a nice fish though!

My biggest was a 45 lb yellowfin, but I got it on a spinning rod with 12 lb test line! The Captain was very surprised!

i got some salmon other day. and some red snapper. on the counter behind all the fish on ice... was a salmon. $15-18#s or so. not 40/45... but big, even by Texas standards...

some of it i cooked outside over hot oak coals....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Mow money

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This year's harvest is coming along nicely. i added a new saw to the stable. Dewalt 18" electric. After a month's use I can recommend an electric for cutting brush. NoI can also t having to start a saw every few minutes speeds up brushing out a tree. I can also run it without wearing hearing protection.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It took me 3 hours yesterday to mow over at the farm using my JD X485 with a 54 inch deck. More than 4/5ths of that grass can be cut with my Kioti and a Landpride 7 foot deck. I can't use the Kioti on that grass yet because we have had way too much rain and the ground is saturated.

these late July and Aug grasses up at farm growing slow of late. there last weekend. takes me 2 1/2 hrs or so to do the compound areas and FM frontage, sans trimming. i don't need to cut any of it, but i want to...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I had a 69, out of all the cars I wish I could have, that's one, the others are my first and second cars owned, a 70 Impala 2 door, and a 72 Lemans T-37 with a 68 Firebird ram air II motor. The cuda only had a 318,
Maybe one day I'll build another higher performance car, I already have most everything to build another 96/97 Suzuki 750 GSXR.
Buying this would make the project go a bit quicker, and for the price .
I've got a bunch of frames/titles, so I could have it on the street in a matter of days, it might get me in trouble though...
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sounds fast! just what you need! ???

yesterday, we was stopped at the X bit before my street. 2-way stop. waiting for traffic to turn, the i could cross. and behind the one before the one turning was a not rice rocket with a imo... not long for this world rider!... and all of a sudden... around the car in front of him... in a loud explosion of noise... i looked up.... as he clutched and screamed into those gears... front wheel carried all the way!!....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Well I got the pulleys off . Had to make a sleeve as the old shaft is 3/4 new one was 5/8 . That was easy but I then had to make a new keeper key . I scrounged up a piece of SS flat bar that after I cut down and shaped worked perfectly. View attachment 1103955View attachment 1103956old keeper didn’t work View attachment 1103957View attachment 1103958View attachment 1103959almost looks like I know what I’m doingView attachment 1103960

wasn't so sure just what u was working on. til i saw the old oil cap. an ol Briggs?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

U da man!

looked bit touch n go. breeze for him!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I was at a Forest Service meeting last night, the wilderness ranger said at 10,000 feet there’s still ten feet deep snow. They’ve had a large number of trees down too. One stretch had 190 trees, last year that same stretch had 40 trees.

sounds good! i saw other day plenty of tree lines and glacier pix then and now... snow lines not raised, snow lines gone!

 

[SS396driver]

It’s alive ….
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I had to take the muffler off the back of the seat got hot .

 

[SS396driver]

wasn't so sure just what u was working on. til i saw the old oil cap. an ol Briggs?

From the early 60s

 

[WoodAbuser]

It’s alive ….
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I had to take the muffler off the back of the seat got hot .

Off to the races! Looks like fun.