Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[turnkey4099]

Woke up to snow changing to rain and high wind. Cancelled my appointment to be at the small locust scrounge to help pull a fair size BL up out of a deep creek. Butt end down in the creek, bank about 7' high. He couldn't lift it with his big tractor but thinks he can pull it up stream aways and then down. Possible tomorrow.

Tomorrow may not happen. This compuiter refused to boot yesterday and now it doen not go to black screen if no used like it should. Been thinking of buying a new one and I may do it tomorrow. Maybe that will cure the "Find the downloaded picture" problem.

 

[Squareground3691]

Something to do , always had files laying around, Lol

 

[WoodAbuser]

Something to do , always had files laying around, Lol View attachment 1128974

New filing system?

 

[Squareground3691]

Squirrels would love to gorge at the bird feeders, but catz n terror dogz keep em away from the house.

Squirrel neutralizer, Lol

 

[GrizG]

They had a big recall on these due to the knives or hammers coming apart and spewing metal.

Geez! i'll look into that! Thanks!

 

[JimR]

Geez! i'll look into that! Thanks!

I goofed. It wasn't TroyBilt. It was DR that had the safety recall. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/D...er-Chipper-Shredders-Due-to-Laceration-Hazard
From what I read they were giving full refunds. They told the owners to either return them or cut the spark plug wire and throw it away. I missed out on a like new one three weeks ago for free. The owner had cut the plug wire and told me about the issues with them. Somebody beat me to it to pick it up. I did some research and found the recall.

 

[JimR]

Squirrels would love to gorge at the bird feeders, but catz n terror dogz keep em away from the house.

My pellet rifle has fun with the Country rats.

 

[GrizG]

I goofed. It wasn't TroyBilt. It was DR that had the safety recall. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/D...er-Chipper-Shredders-Due-to-Laceration-Hazard
From what I read they were giving full refunds. They told the owners to either return them or cut the spark plug wire and throw it away. I missed out on a like new one three weeks ago for free. The owner had cut the plug wire and told me about the issues with them. Somebody beat me to it to pick it up. I did some research and found the recall.

I found the DR recall... Oh well, guess I won't be getting a new one for free. My travel, as well as the donor's, this weekend delayed my receipt but it will happen...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Geez! i'll look into that! Thanks!

IMO, DR equipment is pretty LOW quality! Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on it.

SR

 

[mountainguyed67]

I also brought a leaky tilt cylinder down to put new seals in it, my son and I got it nearly apart yesterday.

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Before it went back to the pressure washer.


It‘s obvious why it was leaking. It’s leaking on the inside of the seals, the other cylinder was leaking on the outside of the seals. The metal surface was too pitted and I had to replace it. This one the metal surface looks good though, that’s good news.

 

[GrizG]

IMO, DR equipment is pretty LOW quality! Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on it.

SR

I wouldn't... I've seen them! I've got a Troy-Bilt freebee coming my way... From what I've been told it needs routine maintenance... Hoping that proves true but even if it needs some parts I'm okay with that if it's sound overall.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I wouldn't... I've seen them! I've got a Troy-Bilt freebee coming my way... From what I've been told it needs routine maintenance... Hoping that proves true but even if it needs some parts I'm okay with that if it's sound overall.

Evening guys,
I'm 150 pages behind...... probably missed tons of essential other stuff.
Hopefully y'all are doing well.

Been scrounging gobs of logs of late.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Few more pics....

 

[JimR]

IMO, DR equipment is pretty LOW quality! Personally, I wouldn't waste my money on it.

SR

But high priced.

 

[MustangMike]

We all had a good time opening WE, but with 7 hunters only one of us saw a buck, and my grandnephew harvested it. It was a very nice 9 pt buck.

The only other person to see deer was MechanicMatt. He is a VG hunter, and only saw a couple of does and some tails. When Matt went on his paid hunt in NC, he got 2-9 point bucks and a doe ... none of the other 25 hunters got more than one deer, and the overwhelming majority of them got skunked!

Matt pushed the deer that Chris got, and Chris was in Matt's ladder stand. The stand is on the NE corner of my property, and Matt pushed the 50 acres next door for him. Matt had just started to push the 50 acres when he heard the shot, so the bucks are VERY skittish up there and stay well ahead of you. Most of the bucks seen or taken the last few years have been pushed by someone else.

The other problem we have is "baiting". Someone on the other side of the mountain got busted a couple of years ago ... he brought up thousands of pounds of feed and joked that all the deer for "miles around" were on his property. He still does it, just to a lesser extent. It is likely why we had numerous large bucks on our property trail cams in Sept. that all seem to have disappeared in Oct.

I'm glad that someone in our group at least got one, but hunting up there has been very frustrating (to say the least).

 

[JimR]

I figured it has been week and a half since I poured my ballast weight. It works great. I still need to fab up the top link. I'm thinking about building a tool tray on the top of the barrel and attach it to my upright.

 

[GrizG]

We all had a good time opening WE, but with 7 hunters only one of us saw a buck, and my grandnephew harvested it. It was a very nice 9 pt buck.

The only other person to see deer was MechanicMatt. He is a VG hunter, and only saw a couple of does and some tails. When Matt went on his paid hunt in NC, he got 2-9 point bucks and a doe ... none of the other 25 hunters got more than one deer, and the overwhelming majority of them got skunked!

Matt pushed the deer that Chris got, and Chris was in Matt's ladder stand. The stand is on the NE corner of my property, and Matt pushed the 50 acres next door for him. Matt had just started to push the 50 acres when he heard the shot, so the bucks are VERY skittish up there and stay well ahead of you. Most of the bucks seen or taken the last few years have been pushed by someone else.

The other problem we have is "baiting". Someone on the other side of the mountain got busted a couple of years ago ... he brought up thousands of pounds of feed and joked that all the deer for "miles around" were on his property. He still does it, just to a lesser extent. It is likely why we had numerous large bucks on our property trail cams in Sept. that all seem to have disappeared in Oct.

I'm glad that someone in our group at least got one, but hunting up there has been very frustrating (to say the least).

My parents had a neighbor who fed the deer for at least a couple decades. Last year, at age 82, he had heart surgery and didn't feed them. After months as an inpatient he was released and sold the house. Every day around 3 PM the deer still congregate behind his house. I wonder how long it will take for that behavior to change. The deer have ravaged my parents' landscaping in years past when there was a heavy snow cover or ice... I imagine that will be a regular feeding stop for them now that the vegetables aren't being put out for them.

 

[MustangMike]

Finally took a deer today, a good-sized doe right before dark.

Took it locally with the shotgun - Rem 870 12ga with Hastings Rifled Slug barrel. Loaded with Hornady SST slugs.

All the times out bowhunting, and nothing comes close enough, first time out locally with the shotgun and the deer comes within bow range!

Big relief to finally have venison for the freezer ... I went empty last year and was starting to think I lost my ability this year!

Was hunting from a self-climbing treestand!

 

[gggGary]

Different neighbor, more dead ash. "Take what ever you want". He swipes from my drying racks to boil down maple syrup. We get a couple jars

Foreground is our fenceline.
right between the posts.

She was a lot of help, had all the brush over the fences while I was still cutting.
It wanted to go where i needed it, but did a plunge, set the wedges then cut the back strap.

prolly two face cord.
There's three more behind this one.

 

[MustangMike]

I think this buck is teasing MechanicMatt! Matt hunted from our tripod stand a lot this opening WE.

Now that we are not up there, this guy walks by during legal shooting hours (about 60 yds away in a shooting lane).

The way it goes!

Good to know there are more still up there. I will be going up this WE with my daughter, friend Harold and his son Jesse.

Matt can't make it as he will be visiting his oldest daughter in college.