Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Hope everyone is ready to get your scrounge on this weekend .
Wont be long and we will be going to the work in the dark and coming home from work in the dark everyday, I already do it many days . Unless you're one of those guys down under I guess .

sounds a bit like my life... i go to bed when it is dark, and arise once interim usually in the dark! and i pull the covers up... if not enuff dark!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Getting 41/2 inches of rain today WTF , we’ve had over 12” of rain already this month, this sucks ,

saw that... on national weather coverage last nite... another storm for your area.... and heat central USA to E coast... N-S

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Some of us see the sun all day as we are retired from the daily BS.

down here, all day, day in day out! .... some times too much of a good thing

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Rain predicted all day here again! Guess it is better than drought!

When I was at my upstate property on the 23/24th, I dug some drainage troughs for some of the larger puddles on my logging roads (originally made by skidders and/or bulldozers from the bluestone quarry). Almost hard to remember how dry it was up there in the early spring this year ... almost all the puddles were dry, very unusual.

i always see stuff like this in the lawn on W side of house up at ranch... sunglasses suggested!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Damp,cool and drizzly here today. The shop cats were chilly. So......
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nice fire!

we, down here are always up for a nice campfire.... other day

 

[MustangMike]

The forecast keeps changing! Instead of just today, it is supposed to rain almost all day tomorrow too. Predictions are for a total of 5" of rain, flooding is already being reported in a lot of areas.

 

[Squareground3691]

The forecast keeps changing! Instead of just today, it is supposed to rain almost all day tomorrow too. Predictions are for a total of 5" of rain, flooding is already being reported in a lot of areas.

NY city flooded

 

[MustangMike]

A lot of the parkways in Westchester are also closed.

Most of the parkways are named after rivers: Saw Mill River, Hutchison River, Bronx River.

Old pictures of the rivers look like rivers. Due to all the construction, they all now look like streams, so when it rains everything gets backed up!

When you stifle drainage, you get flooding! Instead of fixing the drainage problems, they keep trying to raise the parkways up. Some of them actually sink every year, so every few years they repave to bring them back up to where they were before.

A while back, my brother was the engineer in charge of the new water drainage system in Peekskill (Westchester County). There was a small stream that had to run uphill to make it to the Hudson River. My brother accomplished this by piping a larger stream parallel to the smaller one and creating a vortex where they joined to suck the smaller stream uphill. The decades of flooding (near the river) stopped, and some of the local business owners near worshipped him!

 

[sean donato]

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Yep, sums it up pretty well. Moved some wood over to the splitter last evening after work, left foot deep ruts with the kubota in the back yard. Pretty much sick of the rain at this point.

 

[sean donato]

Ended up loosing the auto return function on my splitter valve. Turns out it's a non adjustable detent. Still functions like a normal valve. Took it apart this morning and it looks like there wasn't any grease in the back aide under the cover amd wores the ball in the detent down to nothing. I ordered a selection of bearing balls.... and a new valve. Work the evening shift this weekend so I won't be getting much done anyway. I'm taking this as a sign that I need to finish the shop and start log splitter 2.0.

 

[chipper1]

Some of us see the sun all day as we are retired from the daily BS.

So you're not up as long as me .
I was up at 530 this morning, with no light outside, so I just spent money on the net and got caught up on AS lol. Once I got some light I got started on the vans brakes, got to the second side and I needed a caliper(mine was seized up), so I came inside and figured out who had one. Then I dropped the trailer from the excursion and then ran to town for my caliper, got the excursion washed, then went to o'reillys Cylinders 5 and 10 missing and a lean condition, wouldn't you know those are the back two cylinders. The back passenger side seems like it's so far back you should be able to change it from the passengers seat thru the glove box . Seriously, it waaaaaay back there on a v-10!
Then we split some wood and got the little trailer loaded up for going camping for a bit. Hung out at the neighbors and talked to him and the tree guy he's hired(insurance wanted license and bonded,I'm not), and listened to the little bit he's doing for 6100, and how he's going to trash his yard . Whatever, it's not on me, but it kinda is because I'm the one who will be cleaning up much of the mess...
Now I'm just waiting on the family to get their pop in a group so we can go start a fire at the campground . Sure hope half a face cord of wood is enough for a couple nights out .

 

[chipper1]

will u settle for pix of the new chips??

No, we need pics of the chain and the chips(and the chip pic needs to be much clearer .

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

No, we need pics of the chain and the chips(and the chip pic needs to be much clearer .

chains on order, enroute. i can handle the chip pix now though.....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

No, we need pics of the chain and the chips(and the chip pic needs to be much clearer .

ok, chain, too!
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[MustangMike]

I've had chains that look like crap but cut well, and chains that look great but don't cut so well. So, I don't pay much attention to how my chains look, just how they work.

If I'm not happy with them I try to fix them, if I can't fix them I replace them! Most of my chains have been on the same saws for a long time, unless they get badly rocked.

 

[Philbert]

Bill’s Saw

Bill, an ‘older guy’ I used to work with, was really proud of his Porter-Cable circular saw. He had the ‘contractor grade’ model, with the grease reservoir.

1/8 turn, every couple hours of run time to lube the bearings

Work provided most ‘big’ tools, but gave each of the maintenance guys, like him, a yearly stipend, for personal stuff.

His saw was about $150 in 1970’s dollars.

Always wanted one, but couldn’t really justify one. Even while remodeling our house: the Craftsman and Black& Decker stuff was more than adequate. ‘Good enough’. Plus, I was / am not a ‘contractor’.

Porter Cable was bought out, and dumbed-down to a consumer brand, sold at Lowe’s. When a couple of companies make all the tools, the brand names just become ‘extra stuff’ that compete against each other.

This is not the same model as Bill’s, but still nicer than what I have. And it was at a church rummage sale for less than the cost of a good replacement blade.

Some people just don’t like, or appreciate, corded tools anymore.

This was worth it just for positive thoughts of Bill whenever I use it.



Philbert

 

[MechanicMatt]

A lot of the parkways in Westchester are also closed.

Most of the parkways are named after rivers: Saw Mill River, Hutchison River, Bronx River.

Old pictures of the rivers look like rivers. Due to all the construction, they all now look like streams, so when it rains everything gets backed up!

When you stifle drainage, you get flooding! Instead of fixing the drainage problems, they keep trying to raise the parkways up. Some of them actually sink every year, so every few years they repave to bring them back up to where they were before.

A while back, my brother was the engineer in charge of the new water drainage system in Peekskill (Westchester County). There was a small stream that had to run uphill to make it to the Hudson River. My brother accomplished this by piping a larger stream parallel to the smaller one and creating a vortex where they joined to suck the smaller stream uphill. The decades of flooding (near the river) stopped, and some of the local business owners near worshipped him!

He created a Venturi, just like a carburetor

They say that the drains, instead of water coming up and out of them in downpours, they actually hear a sucking sound from them now

And yes, Home Mason Supply and Dains Lumber are forever grateful

 

[sean donato]

Bill’s Saw

Bill, an ‘older guy’ I used to work with, was really proud of his Porter-Cable circular saw. He had the ‘contractor grade’ model, with the grease reservoir.

1/8 turn, every couple hours of run time to lube the bearings

Work provided most ‘big’ tools, but gave each of the maintenance guys, like him, a yearly stipend, for personal stuff.

His saw was about $150 in 1970’s dollars.

Always wanted one, but couldn’t really justify one. Even while remodeling our house: the Craftsman and Black& Decker stuff was more than adequate. ‘Good enough’. Plus, I was / am not a ‘contractor’.

Porter Cable was bought out, and dumbed-down to a consumer brand, sold at Lowe’s. When a couple of companies make all the tools, the brand names just become ‘extra stuff’ that compete against each other.

This is not the same model as Bill’s, but still nicer than what I have. And it was at a church rummage sale for less than the cost of a good replacement blade.

Some people just don’t like, or appreciate, corded tools anymore.

This was worth it just for positive thoughts of Bill whenever I use it.

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Philbert

I got a bit of a chuckle this. Most my carpentry equipment is older then me, but even the newer stuff is still old enough to have cords or air line to power them. Nothing wrong with the cords in my opinion.

 

[Squareground3691]

We’ll still raining, over 5 inches of rain

 

[JimR]

Getting 41/2 inches of rain today WTF , we’ve had over 12” of rain already this month, this sucks ,

I know that feeling very well. My back field has not been fully mowed this year. I have another area that I haven't been able to mow this year due to way too much rain. Our grass never turned brown this Summer. I don't ever recall that not happening before.