Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

speaking of fishing and the Big One that got away... neighbor lady posted up other day on neighborhood forum....

 

[chipper1]

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Awesome sounding.
I wouldn't want it on the "drivers" side, too loud .

 

[chipper1]

I had that exact truck back in the day, 1970 that I paid $1,000 for in either 1979 or 80. I cut and hauled my share of firewood with it too.....it was a good old truck until I let my brother and Jack Daniels use it one night.

Welcome to AS mr beaver, and the scrounging wood thread.
I'm a bit south of you, near GR .

 

[chipper1]

Now, about that scrounging...

Mitch texted me on the morning of the marathon that he had a tree down. Big bifurcated candlebark snapped off at the base. Took a big branch of a blue gum and a peppermint on the way down. On a bit of a slope too. Definitely met the key criterion - ugly.

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I mostly cut the branches and piled up the junk. Would have been very good for bonfire material for the initial flare up but next bonfire is too far away in May.

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I think I'll use most of the big stuff for bonfire core. Candlebark wood is ok for firewood but the bark is thick and full of ash so unless you want to clean out the fire box every few days you need to debark. Since I currently have access to an enormous amount of dead peppermint, I won't bother with that. Tidying this up helps Mitch out. He is going to use the excavator to bring the big stuff down once the ground is dry enough. Ended up with this for the morning before I had to go to work.

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Scrounge on

Yeah, looks like a nice little hill to work on there. Good thing you been doing all that cross training to stay in shape for firewooding .
Should make some nice firewood for ya .

 

[JustJeff]

2013 F150 supercrew long (6.5) box 3.5 EcoBoost. I averaged 13.8l/100km or 17mpg, in murican, over the last 6000km. That's combined, city, hwy, towing. Love the turbo motor, nothing tows like it in a half ton. 90% of torque is in by 2000rpm so you don't have to buzz it hard, just let it lug.

 

[WoodAbuser]

2013 F150 supercrew long (6.5) box 3.5 EcoBoost. I averaged 13.8l/100km or 17mpg, in murican, over the last 6000km. That's combined, city, hwy, towing. Love the turbo motor, nothing tows like it in a half ton. 90% of torque is in by 2000rpm so you don't have to buzz it hard, just let it lug.

Thanks for the conversion for those of us that are metrically challenged.

 

[MechanicMatt]

So me and the oldest nephew headed to the farm to check our deer rifles. I brought the .223 so I could check zero for coyotes. Afterwards we glasses the fields looking for woodchucks. Seen one, but he saw us first. But we did see a large healthy herd of deer. No bucks, but the ladies make great buck bait once the rut kicks.

 

[SS396driver]

has a tach? what is rpm at 60 mph?

Over 3000 rpm’s gets a little buzzy . I used a tach and dwell wired up to check it

 

[SS396driver]

I want it and this and this Cummins 12v

 

[MechanicMatt]

Mark, you ever see the old Chevys on Shoddy Hollow road on the way to Ottisville?

Go past the road to your sisters, make a right on Shoddy Hollow and they are on the right, just before the end of the road.

 

[MechanicMatt]

This hunting app is wild!

 

[xraydaniel]

Happy weekend fellas. Be safe, have fun, and praise God.

 

[MustangMike]

A first, we have 3 bear in one picture on the trail cam ... and a coyote a few hours later ... and still no deer!!!

Frustrating! Too many predators.

We plan to bow hunt up there next WE, but maybe I'll have to also bring my 223 and do some coyote hunting! We are allowed to shoot them at night.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Morning boys and girls. Heading out later this morning to help take down a very large Ash and a couple of pines that are not doing well. They are on my churches property. Getting some sawdust therapy! Might even take some pix for you all.

 

[Squareground3691]

Another rainstorm weekend WTF , like several in a row, MFer’s

 

[farmer steve]

Thanks for the conversion for those of us that are metrically challenged.

I wasn't sure if the RPM's were metric or not.

 

[JimR]

Please don't disrespect puppets that way.

Okay, cut his strings.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Another rainstorm weekend WTF , like several in a row, MFer’s

7 in a row for my neck of the woods!!

Beyond frustrating!

 

[JimR]

Security, water and food.

We have our own water supply.

 

[Squareground3691]

7 in a row for my neck of the woods!!

Beyond frustrating!

Certainly is Matt , work all week it nice outside , weekend comes and it sucks , Lol