Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

I bet they came here legally, were not on public assistance, and did not get free healthcare.

All of us have ancestors who came here, but they came here legally, worked their fingers to the bone to make it (and not off the books) and didn't get anything for free.

I find your response insulting to my ancestors. My great grandfather worked as a street sweeper in NYC to provide for his family. There were no "free lunches".

I'll stop before I say what I'm really thinking.

 

[MustangMike]

The F-150 is over 5 years old now, and even though it only has 31,000 miles it stays outside. I noticed when I was breaking it was getting a vibration, so I got all new rotors and ceramic pads. Advance Auto had a 20% off sale, so I got everything for under $500.

The backs were easy (as long as you have the tool to screw the pistons back in), and I did them both in less than an hour, but the fronts are more difficult. They have another bracket that has to be removed to get the discs off, and you need to turn the steering wheel to get access to them. Could not get them off at first, so I gave them a few raps with the 3 lb lump hammer, and with an extender on the bar they came off.

Each front took me over an hour, but it is done and rides like new now!

 

[mountainguyed67]

How are your schools funded ?

Dunno.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I bet they came here legally, were not on public assistance, and did not get free healthcare.

All of us have ancestors who came here, but they came here legally, worked their fingers to the bone to make it (and not off the books) and didn't get anything for free.

I find your response insulting to my ancestors. My great grandfather worked as a street sweeper in NYC to provide for his family. There were no "free lunches".

I'll stop before I say what I'm really thinking.

I can’t tell who/what you’re responding to.

 

[djg james]

Can you pull it up on car service ramps?

Da! I didn't think of that. I thought about having to build a platform, but that would be too heavy to move. But a pair of ramps! Sometimes my ingenuity just surprises me. Oh, wait.... that was your idea .

Edit: Seriously, I could make a couple of short 6-8" tall ramps to roll it up on. Then a longer pipe for the tongue.

 

[Lionsfan]

I bet they came here legally, were not on public assistance, and did not get free healthcare.

All of us have ancestors who came here, but they came here legally, worked their fingers to the bone to make it (and not off the books) and didn't get anything for free.

I find your response insulting to my ancestors. My great grandfather worked as a street sweeper in NYC to provide for his family. There were no "free lunches".

I'll stop before I say what I'm really thinking.

Go ahead and say what you have to say. Guaranteed, you ain't gonna hurt my feelings.

 

[SS396driver]

Dunno.

Wow

 

[djg james]

Got the rest of the Black Locust split and stacked. 5 or 6 PU loads ended up being 3-1/3 ten foot rows 5 foot high.

 

[chipper1]

Go ahead and say what you have to say. Guaranteed, you ain't gonna hurt my feelings.

Then what fun would it be to say it!.

 

[SS396driver]

Plenty of meals sorry for the screen but they would have scattered

Couple clearer

 

[MustangMike]

Go ahead and say what you have to say. Guaranteed, you ain't gonna hurt my feelings.

Was not you're feelings I was worried about ... you know they have "politically correct" monitors here!

 

[mountainguyed67]

I’ve felled 21 trees since the loader has been down, that’ll give me plenty of logs to move around once it’s fixed. I want to take some to our buddy’s sawmill, just down the road.

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That’s a 2 foot level, I was using it because I keep letting the bar tip droop. I hope doing this will help me get used to how I actually need to hold it, and will only be temporary.
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Different tree, I did this because the outside couple inches is rotten. It doesn’t do any good to knock a wedge into rotten wood.
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Look how far the tree fell from the stump on this hill.
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Did this one a couple days ago, it’s 4 feet across.

 

[MechanicMatt]

I can’t tell who/what you’re responding to.

Lionsfan said that my uncle having a problem with illegal aliens getting a hand out, he’d have had a problem with his ancestors coming over 200 years ago

Bit of a stretch…

 

[MechanicMatt]

Well, I’ll be getting up early to hit the farm tomorrow

Maybe I’ll remember to get a picture or two

 

[chipper1]

Plenty of meals sorry for the screen but they would have scattered View attachment 1201287View attachment 1201288

Couple clearer
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Nice.
We had some snacks running around our place today too . Guess there were some turkeys running around earlier, but I missed them.
Even some firewood in the pic .

 

[Lee192233]

Since we're showing deer pics. This guy is still around...
Last year

This year

I doubt I'll see him during daylight hours but anything is possible.

 

[benz66]

Nice, but are they on the books and paying taxes, or off the books and also collecting public assistance. There are a lot of shenanigans going on in the landscaping and tree service professions, but recently government seems he$$bent on keeping a closed eye on it.

We cannot have a Country where one group must pay taxes, but the other group does not; where one group has to abide by zoning regulations, but the other group does not; where one group has to comply with hunting and fishing regulations, but the other group does not; where one group has to pay high medical insurance and high deductibles, and the other group gets everything for free. This crap is not right and is not sustainable

You are right Mike, it is not sustainable. That is the plan. They are deliberately tearing the western culture apart. Kom me, Social -ist leaning and is lam -ists all working together. WHatever they call themselves (environmental, kom mun, social, marx, islam or progressive all are -ist). They are all working together to undermine western civilization.

Many of the amigos have several IDs. Maybe 1 or 2 on welfare, and perhaps a real one with legit work and paying in SS. May or may not be paying taxes. Probably, if they are deducted. For some reason they can afford New or fairly new pickups, new tools, expensive clothes and booze and tobacco that I can't afford.

I grew up with third generation Mexican Americans, and mexican migrant farm workers, with always a few wetbacks worked in to the families. They were all good people. I ate any form of Mexican food I could lay my hands on before anyone outside Texas knew there was Mexican food. The vast majority came here legally.

Now they are mostly wetbacks, and few are mexican. They get everything free. Some work to send money south.. If our gooberment simply stopped the flow of money south of the border, the invasion would slow, and out economy would soar.

 

[diver64]

This stuff is western Larch. The best BTUs in the northern rockies. Douglas fir is another good tree for burning.

Oh, ok. Seems east and west have the same name for different species of the same tree. I wonder if the eastern L. laricina would burn like L. occidentalis. I don't see why not. I'm going to try some next time I'm up north. With all the maple and yellow birch no one I know burns softwood of any type.

 

[diver64]

Since we're showing deer pics. This guy is still around...
Last year
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This year
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I doubt I'll see him during daylight hours but anything is possible.

They don't get like that by being stupid but they do make mistakes. You might be there for one.

 

[MechanicMatt]

On my way