Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Not sure I’d be up for this technique…
One other way you can tell it's harvest season here in the Upper Midwest is when BNSF moves it's "surge fleet" power around for the grain rush. This is the biggest power move I've seen, 29 locomotives.
benz66
Used to sell firewood for $5 a face cord, deliverd
Looks like the left overs from one of Warren Yahr's stories about being a smokechaser in Idaho in the 1930s. With winter approaching, Some of you may want to read his book by a fire in the woodstove. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/smokechaser_warren-yahr/1110691/#edition=2970914&idiq=23517788
Warren was a great guy. His stories are interesting and entertaining. In his later years he taught himself to make violins. From what I understand, they were fine instruments. I know his son and DIL.
benz66
Used to sell firewood for $5 a face cord, deliverd
That's pretty wild. Along the mainline, I'd see them drag an extra engine or 3 in a freight train. or 2-3 engines in a string, but never anything like that. Looks like buffet has them change logos every year. Must have been at least 6 different logos/paint schemes on the orange ones.
Didn't end up getting a chance to work in the 1-76 last night. Talked with my logging buddy after work, decided not to work in the truck. But, he said he'd be over to help work on the shop after dark. So I went home and cleaned up the ness from working on the wood stove, after I added 24" feet to it and wrestled it to its new spot. Got the room cleaned out so we could move around. He came over around 8pm, around 12:20 we had the whole room insulated. save one wall I need to run electric in yet and a few triangle pieces I need to cut out yet. I had the buddy heater going and we ended up turning it back down to one heating element. You could feel the difference till we got done. Room was nice and toasty. Thermometer was up to 70* in the main shop from 60* when we started.
The story as to all the logo/scheme changes was when BNSF came up with it's "Heritage I" scheme the ATSF people claimed it was "too BN", so then "Heritage II" was created by adding the ATSF cigar band to the nose (but it said "BNSF") and changing a few other things (if you ask me this was the dumbest scheme and I don't care for it at all) and everybody was unimpressed with it. But when Berkshire Hathaway (Buffet) took over the new wedge/swoosh "Heritage III" was implemented to squash all the bickering and since then if a locomotive is rebuilt or in need of a full repaint it now gets the H3 (or H4 on the older locomotives, the only difference between H3 and H4 is the yellow striping is narrower on 4). The reason some SD70Macs and some Dash 9s were delivered in the BN Executive or ATSF Warbonnet colors but with BNSF markings was to get motive power out on onto the road ASAP until a new scheme could be created, some Dash 9's were delivered in grey primer until they could get painted. Due to all the differences in the BNSF paint schemes has lead to some interesting "Frankenscheme" locomotives, especially on the Dash 9's that can have up to 4 different paint schemes on 1 locomotive.
The STI H.L.? Couldn't they have lifted that slab up instead of removing the mill?
benz66
Used to sell firewood for $5 a face cord, deliverd
the Ai was not trained to say stihl, so it came up with sti H. L. It seems close to half the youboob crap is AI, or AI voice now.
Guess I never hit post earlier
.That's awesome.
Bet he's grateful to have you to do the work on his equipment.
I got the north wall of the main cleared in mine last night. Made a plan to get it finished including thickness of insulation and all the nailers needed to install steel liner in there, which I found for $2ft. The panels are only 6' long and actual outdoor panels, brand new from a canceled order, I can just lap them and two will cover from floor to ceiling(12'). Now to get it all marked out and insulated! Sometime lol. Unfortunately theres a ton to do in order to get it sealed up and ready to heat, and after buying all the wire I did last week, the proverbial pocketbook is a little thin.
Still haven't figured out what I want to heat with, a nice wood stove with a backup propane setup would be nice. Good friend of mine said his brother has an overhead propane unit(maybe a renzor?) and he has a good sized tank for it. He said he never uses it and he'll see what he wants for it if he's interested in selling it.
Ended up getting a couple inches(four pieces of 1/2") added to these two sections in the barn. Also all the "nailers for the panels up, except the top right spacers and the top board, as I ran out of wood. I'll add more insulation between all the nailers and then a 2x4 on the outside of the posts and I think its ready for the liner
in these two sections, still need to get the header moved to flush with the post, behind it insulated and the left side of the bay door. Then I just need to wait for the cash to roll in...
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yeah, we do well for each other. He's been a long time family friend, but till I moved down the street I didn't help him out much. We've become very good friends over the past 10 odd years. Gotten me out of more then a few jams, and honesty has kept me in wood for the past 4 years at least. Even all those oak beams I used In the shop he gave me. Really great guy. One of the few I'll drop whatever I'm doing and run to help, no questions asked.Guess I never hit post earlier
That's awesome.
Bet he's grateful to have you to do the work on his equipment.
I got the north wall of the main cleared in mine last night. Made a plan to get it finished including thickness of insulation and all the nailers needed to install steel liner in there, which I found for $2ft. The panels are only 6' long and actual outdoor panels, brand new from a canceled order, I can just lap them and two will cover from floor to ceiling(12'). Now to get it all marked out and insulated! Sometime lol. Unfortunately theres a ton to do in order to get it sealed up and ready to heat, and after buying all the wire I did last week, the proverbial pocketbook is a little thin.
Still haven't figured out what I want to heat with, a nice wood stove with a backup propane setup would be nice. Good friend of mine said his brother has an overhead propane unit(maybe a renzor?) and he has a good sized tank for it. He said he never uses it and he'll see what he wants for it if he's interested in selling it.
Ended up getting a couple inches(four pieces of 1/2") added to these two sections in the barn. Also all the "nailers for the panels up, except the top right spacers and the top board, as I ran out of wood. I'll add more insulation between all the nailers and then a 2x4 on the outside of the posts and I think its ready for the liner
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Your shops looking good. Sure takes time and a pile of money to do anything these days. Understand that 100%.
Wyoming_Outback
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So I was out getting a neighbor a load of firewood. Had scoped the tree I wanted to start with on my Friday run, and gotten everything all set up when I got there yesterday morning. This included putting my 400 in the road on one side, and my gas and oil cans on another side, and then climbing up this steep hill to the tree. I was about 95% of the way through the back cut, so maybe 10 minutes of running saws into the process, when I happen to look up, and see a side by side on the road heading back out to the highway from hunting, maybe 100 yards from where I had the road blocked off. So I stop, and turn off my saw, just out of an abundance of caution. Now, when I've shut the road down before for other trees I know would go across the road on these forest service roads, everyone coming along has ALWAYS stopped. Every single darned time. But not this couple of hunters. They go, without slowing down at all, around my saw, and then around my gas and oil can. I can also assume that they heard my saw running while hang back out to their side by side. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted, and freaked out due to being pissed off that they didn't stop, and scared that I honestly could've hit this side by side. So I started my saw back up, and made sure no vehicles were going to drive by, and dropped that tree.
Other than that the tree went where I wanted it to, right in this hole between a bunch of spruce, and bucking it was a piece of cake.
Other than that the tree went where I wanted it to, right in this hole between a bunch of spruce, and bucking it was a piece of cake.
Took the 68 to my daughters for the safe trick or treat . Pretty big event in Wappingers falls stop at Minnewaska state park
benz66
Used to sell firewood for $5 a face cord, deliverd
Some people are just after Darwin awards. We need to let more idjits collect their Darwin awards, and have less "safeties" to protect idjits from themselves. An old logger friend asked me to look at his washing machine. It has a lock for the lid. That is ridiculous. anyone stupid enough to reach in while the tub is spinning deserves to have their arm twisted off. I remember the old "Easy" washers with extractor like extra high speed spin in an open tub. Nobody i ever heard of got their arm twisted off. Back then idjits were allowed to collect their Darwin awards. Common sense, folks!
Unfortunately, it is very common for rail trail users to walk/bicycle right into a tree work zone. A “traffic cop” doesn’t stop some of them… This is one reason I set the hinge with a plunge cut and use a trigger whenever possible. It gives me one last chance to make sure there are no users creeping up on getting swatted.
I had my 68 in the garage at the rental house( two doors down from my daughters house ) so I set it up too
Grandkids love Pops old trucks
Grandkids love Pops old trucks
EchovsStihl63
ArboristSite Operative
That video was a repost bot as I call them. The dude doing the actual work is a cool dude and has his own page w/o the AI voice over.
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