Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[GrizG]

Was beyond hot and sweaty bringing these home today

What kinda wood do you guys think this is?

Free?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Another rainy day here today so it was time for mulberry crisp. Used the pan I got a while back from svk.

I have several Mulberry trees; I really like the berries and always pick and eat quite a few of them each year.

SR

 

[GeneralKayoss]

Making a bench from some of the spalted maple logs I scrounged and milled.

 

[cat10ken]

I have a mulberry tree in the yard that has white berries when they are ripe.

The birds still make a mess only not blue.

 

[MustangMike]

Matt, I think that is Sugar Maple ... should be hard and good burning.

 

[sean donato]

Had my oldest neices birthday party today. Had a nice but somewhat awkward time. There were 3 other birthday parties in pavilions close to us, and for whatever reason the park had a ton of people in it. Several times we had to kick other people's kids out of our party.
Didn't do much in the shop, other then clean up/start taking unused lumber and stacking it on the deck over. My wife is already in a panic over having it cleaned out in time for my daughters birthday party next month. So I thought I'd appease her and get started after we got back home. Cleaning up did reveal I'll have ample oak to make a nice heavy bench out of. Which will be nice, as my " work bench" is an old interior door on saw horses right now.

 

[MustangMike]

Guess what I started reloading today for a certain Nephew of mine!!!

Should be good for anything that Zig Zags ... even though it only has one barrel!

 

[MustangMike]

Only loaded 3 to see how it groups. If it is good, we will load more and sight it in.

If not, we will try a different load!

I think my Nephew sent this gun (and his dies) over to me just to punish my shoulder! Launching a 300-grain bullet at 2,200+ FPS with a steel butt plate should wake you up pretty good!

As if my 348 launching a 250 grain bullet at 2,200+FPS wasn't stout enough! (Actually, with my slip-on recoil pad, it is not bad at all).

 

[vt4ster2]

I agree sugar maple just large heart

 

[Squareground3691]

Was beyond hot and sweaty bringing these home today

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Gonna be mid to high 90’s this week, that’s gonna be nasty ,

 

[MechanicMatt]

Happy Father’s Day fellas

 

[MechanicMatt]

Thanks uncle Mike

 

[svk]

Morning guys. Happy Father’s Day.

Very busy weekend. Wanted to get a couple of old boats going to do a cruise today (or I should say old motors) but the last few I’ve picked up have needed more than a quick fix. Plus we’ve got thunderstorms coming in later.

I have my sons venison tenderloin and backstrap thawed to cook today with some domestic meat. Also doing a fancy Elote style corn on the cob.

 

[Logger nate]

Happy Father’s Day!

 

[MustangMike]

Happy Father's Day everyone!

I'll be going over to my younger Daughter's house this afternoon for a cookout.

The weather is beautiful today!

Was great yesterday too, and the wife and I did 18 miles on the bike trail with Mtn bikes. Saw lots of painted turtles and moved a couple off the path.

 

[SS396driver]

You just rock the posts in? I'm thinking of rocking in piers (and capping with concrete) to let my 6x6s lie on. Really don't want to pour the whole hole.

Yup 3 ft down . I’ll be adding duck bill anchors to hold it down in case of strong wind

 

[Squareground3691]

Happy Father’s Day , everyone

 

[redray46]

I put mulberries on my cereal as long as they are around, but the best use is making mulberry liqueur . I pick and clean them, put them in a container in the freezer until I have about a gallon, then transfer them to a large glass pickle jar, cover with vodka and keep adding berries and vodka until it’s full, store in a cool place until Thanksgiving , when I pour the liquor off. Sometimes I crush the berries when I start, sometimes at the end as a second batch , depends on my mood . If the berries are really sweet, I don’t add any sweetener, but if I need to I will add a little honey Makes a very smooth, unusual flavored liqueur.ENJOY.
“HAPPY FATHERS DAY EVERYONE “

 

[GrizG]

Only loaded 3 to see how it groups. If it is good, we will load more and sight it in.

If not, we will try a different load!

I think my Nephew sent this gun (and his dies) over to me just to punish my shoulder! Launching a 300-grain bullet at 2,200+ FPS with a steel butt plate should wake you up pretty good!

As if my 348 launching a 250 grain bullet at 2,200+FPS wasn't stout enough! (Actually, with my slip-on recoil pad, it is not bad at all).

When I was a kid in the '70s I used to go to a road side informal shooting range just before deer season opened. My whole reason for going was to help guy sight in their guns... and to shoot a wide variety of guns on someone else's dime! There was no bench to shoot off. Rather there were boulders upon which you laid across or steadied yourself next to. It was astounding what guys were hunting with and how little they understood about the guns and sighting in. Of course there were a fair number of "bigger is better" guys who were basically afraid of pulling the trigger (squeezing seemed to be a foreign concept). Some of those big bore guns with steel/brass, curved, butt plates were unpleasant but it didn't stop me! At that point I didn't understand that the tightly curved (crescent) butt plates on smaller bore guns were not intended to be fired from the shoulder per se. Rather they were intended to be fired with the butt between the bicep and shoulder from an off-hand position. It would have been helpful to know that then.

 

[GrizG]

I put mulberries on my cereal as long as they are around, but the best use is making mulberry liqueur . I pick and clean them, put them in a container in the freezer until I have about a gallon, then transfer them to a large glass pickle jar, cover with vodka and keep adding berries and vodka until it’s full, store in a cool place until Thanksgiving , when I pour the liquor off. Sometimes I crush the berries when I start, sometimes at the end as a second batch , depends on my mood . If the berries are really sweet, I don’t add any sweetener, but if I need to I will add a little honey Makes a very smooth, unusual flavored liqueur.ENJOY.
“HAPPY FATHERS DAY EVERYONE “

Ah yes... fermented mulberries! There is a mulberry tree at my parents' home that attracts lots of wildlife. Deer, ducks, squirrels, woodchucks... The woodchucks, like the squirrels, climb the tree and go way out on the branches to get berries. What is very amusing is when there is a heavy crop and fermented berries are on the ground... drunk woodchucks! The odor of fermented berries is very pronounced for a few days and then it's all over for the season. That tree is not very big due to shallow soil and it has been declining. I've been pruning off big dead branches for about 10 years now and one whole side is dead now... it probably should be taken down but it would do no harm if it falls so I'm leaving it for the wildlife.