Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[diver64]

I love lobster! I've had some bad/overcooked lobster so I hesitate to get it at restaurants around here. Plus it's usually around $30 a tail here in a restaurant.

I remember going over to Maine and getting a nice sized one for $5. Every grocery store had a live lobster tank and you could pick your own. One restaurant had one in the lobby and you could pick out yours for dinner.

 

[diver64]

Yes they do View attachment 1201428

Stepfather spent the usual week at hunting camp and didn't get one. The last Saturday he was sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee in his bathrobe and saw one about like that drinking out of the pond behind the house. Got up, went downstairs, got the rifle and shot him out of the kitchen door in a bathrobe and slippers.
Kicker is he then put it in the back of the truck, got all his hunting clothes on and took it to camp where he took all the pictures. lol

 

[SS396driver]

Stepfather spent the usual week at hunting camp and didn't get one. The last Saturday he was sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee in his bathrobe and saw one about like that drinking out of the pond behind the house. Got up, went downstairs, got the rifle and shot him out of the kitchen door in a bathrobe and slippers.
Kicker is he then put it in the back of the truck, got all his hunting clothes on and took it to camp where he took all the pictures. lol

I took this one a few years ago . Just came in after splitting and looked out the back door he and a few does were milling around my wood pile. First day rifle hunting season and I was done in 20 minutes

 

[MustangMike]

Thank God the cavalry arrived

One day he’ll go to bed at a decent hour on a Friday night so he actually gets to the Farm on time

Funny how deer season he has no problem waking up View attachment 1201439View attachment 1201438View attachment 1201439View attachment 1201441View attachment 1201437View attachment 1201436

So, now I see why you didn't tell me!!! Let me know in the future, or when either of you can make it up to the cabin.

And you're getting old .... !!!!!! OK!!!

 

[MustangMike]

Struggles of my ancestors, and no free lunches!

My grandmother's ancestors (Irish/Scottish) were involved in the fur trade with Canada way back when and had purchased some valuable properties on both sides of the George Washington Bridge. My Aunt (the one who owned the farm in upstate NY) got hit by a car when she was young, and they said she would never walk again.

My Italian grandfather paid to have two of the best NYC surgeons return from vacation to operate on her. She not only walked, but also gardened, every year till she died at 93. But he had to mortgage the properties to pay for it, and the depression came in and he lost everything.

Even though my grandfather was college educated (very unusual back then, especially being the son of a street sweeper) he ended up scooping ice cream at my grandmother's ice cream shop during the depression.

So don't tell me that everything was given to my ancestors like they are currently being given to illegal immigrants because it is just not the truth. Nothing was "given" to them, and they worked their fingers to the bone doing whatever they had to do to make ends meet. To infer otherwise is just plain insulting.

 

[Logger nate]

The big rope and the big saw, bringing the biggies' for the woodchucks too?
Great saws(although the 562 does have it's quirks(particularly the earlier ones like that one). Bummer they added weight to the 562 on the later models, makes it weigh pithing a few ounces of the 371, and just a few more less than a 372xp OE. I like them all though . Be safe.

Mark 2 is lighter and mo better

 

[Squareground3691]

OR, Coast , gorging myself on Dungeons Crabs

 

[Lee192233]

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.

Trust me, I spend more time overthinking stuff than I should. I'm not too proud to ask other people's opinions about my plan of attack. More than once I've missed the easier and what should be the obvious way of doing something.

I think ramps are a good solution. 6-8" will make a big difference for your back.

 

[MechanicMatt]

This ash had a horrible lean the wrong direction, a big rope and a Silverado helped persuade it to go the right way

 

[MechanicMatt]

Gonna have to run the splitter for a bit to get caught up

 

[Squareground3691]

The world according to EM , we’re the side racks supposed to go to haul wood ,

 

[diver64]

JB Weld the cracks then wire weld a piece of metal over it. Did my Kohler engine the Cub Cadet and 2 years later it is still holding up

 

[Lee192233]

Scrounged up a little Green Bay gold this morning with my boys.
Hopefully we'll add some to the freezer over the long weekend. Probably the last fishing trip of the season with my boat. I will winterize it over the next couple weeks. Last year I procrastinated and froze the wash down pump. Won't make that mistake again!

I hope everyone enjoys their Labor Day weekend!

 

[MechanicMatt]

 

[H-Ranch]

Started dividing up some smalls from the FIL's barn today. I collected a few items, including this.

It's 100 lbs and I just want to know if it's really true that I can break one.

I'll unload the rest tomorrow to see if there's anything else worth reporting on.

 

[djg james]

Scrounged up a little Green Bay gold this morning with my boys. View attachment 1201557
Hopefully we'll add some to the freezer over the long weekend. Probably the last fishing trip of the season with my boat. I will winterize it over the next couple weeks. Last year I procrastinated and froze the wash down pump. Won't make that mistake again!

I hope everyone enjoys their Labor Day weekend!

Small Mouth?

 

[djg james]

Gonna have to run the splitter for a bit to get caught up View attachment 1201518View attachment 1201519

A REAL man would just use the Fiskars

 

[Lee192233]

Small Mouth?

Walleyes, a 24" and 22".

 

[MechanicMatt]

For YEARS I split all the wood by hand
9years ago when I got promoted to manager, my first bonus check, a hydro came home!

 

[MustangMike]

They never used to have them around here, but then they stocked some in some of the NYC reservoirs (there are a lot of them around here).

I have never caught one, but I hear they are good eating.