Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[SS396driver]

Installed . I’ll be using the same wood to make the countertops at some point in the future I’ll turn this into a coffee table ,the shine will diminish in a few hours I used butcher block conditioner on it

 

[xraydaniel]

I have too much grass and if I don't use it, it turns to weeds. My grandfather was the rancher, I make my money from other things. I was never into being a cowboy and neither was my father. Now my neighbor is a real cowboy and he runs about 30k head on my land in the summer. Him and my grandfather were good friends so I just let him use the grass for free as a thank you for helping my grandfather in his later years.

It goes on for miles and miles...

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Nice

 

[JRM]

Nothing like the last minute . Making a temporary filler for where the old cooktop was . Buddy’s drum sander is on the Fritz so I’m doing it somewhat old school . View attachment 1222333View attachment 1222334View attachment 1222335View attachment 1222337View attachment 1222336View attachment 1222338

Good looking grain there. A little spalting on the edge? What type of wood?

 

[xraydaniel]

Upstate is beautiful, I live in the Hudson valley which is equally a beautiful. Just don’t really care for my state’s politics, but we don’t discuss those in this thread. View attachment 1220808View attachment 1220806

Upstate is beautiful. The Great St. Lawrence property on Wellesley island has been in my family since 1910.

 

[xraydaniel]

Took my 14 year old to the home range to try out the Mak-90 and a T91 clone at the 100 yard steel target. She was thrilled

 

[JimR]

I dropped another 21" Ash today with a split off into two leaders about 12 inches in diameter. It is all bucked up now and most of the branches have been chipped up. I missed my landing spot by a few inches and destroyed a Maple tree that I wanted to leave. Oh well, shat happenes.

 

[SS396driver]

Good looking grain there. A little spalting on the edge? What type of wood?

White oak . The edge does have some spalting but it’s still solid.

 

[JRM]

I always felt spalting added beautiful character to the wood.
My son and I made a picnic table out of some pin oak before he left for the service. The tree was what we built the boys tree fort in when they were little. A storm uprooted it so I salvaged what I could. The table was the end result. A few of the boards have a little more Spalting in them than I'd like but so far is holding up well.

 

[SS396driver]

Spalting makes some interesting designs

 

[WoodAbuser]

Spalting makes some interesting designs View attachment 1222385

Looks like he finally got the roadrunner.

 

[MechanicMatt]

After watching my grandmothers fiasco there were a couple of family members I never spoke to again including my mother and aunt. I have little time in my life for vindictive, selfish and greedy people.

That sounds all to familiar
My mother’s mother, my beloved grandmother is battling cancer. She alternates my house and my sisters (2 weeks at a time). We do our best, but it’s a loosing battle. The last two weeks of her life the vultures swoop in….. her two daughters (mom being one of them). They lawyer up and battle over the inheritance. Absolutely DISGUSTING

My mom is my mom and always will be. She has done things in the past that disappointed me, but nothing like when her mom passed. And then the way she blew through it all…..

Just upsetting

 

[MechanicMatt]

One of the secret places to look for old Chrsler Hemi's were big farms with irregation pumps. They used 354 Hemi's. Also farm generators, and the old Air Raid sirens. All ran on NG. I read some were documented with over a million hours and we're spotless on the insibe.

I have a 454 BBC that powered a generac generator

It is SPOTLESS inside!! Propane…..

 

[MechanicMatt]

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When you are the “outdoors” uncle and all the nephews and bro-in-laws are meeting at your house at 4:45 on thanksgiving morning for the annual hunt.

You have to be prepared….
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[MechanicMatt]

One of them is coming “sometime late” (straight from the night life) to crash in your man cave

You set him up right….

Reminds me, I need to go unlock the door…

 

[MechanicMatt]

My dad told me straight up, none of us kids get a dime

I’m the executor, he wants it split up for the grandkids
He has step grandkids that he loves like they are blood and they love him back the same.

That’s his wishes and that’s what will happen

I have three grandpas
Pop pop (Dads dad) I knew and loved
Poppy, I didn’t know. He was my moms dad and was a loser and passed away young
Grandpa Newt (my moms moms second husband)

Newt treated my sisters and me like we were blood

Loved us unconditionally! I see our relationship the same way my dad loves his step grandkids

They love him the way I loved Newt

Hell, truth be told… I wouldn’t be the man I am today if it wasn’t for Newt helping to mold me into the man I am today!

We shared a birthday and we were pretty much best friends

He had a biological daughter and two step daughters.

On his deathbed, he pulled me into him and whispered into my ear “you always were my boy” and then passed (tearing up as I type this)

So I have NO problem carrying out my fathers wishes towards his step grandkids

My sister, she doesn’t understand it, feels his blood grandkids should inherit it all, but I know his heart and what is the right thing to do….

 

[MustangMike]

Newt was a good egg, always enjoyed talking with him and/or doing projects with him.

But he did challenge me a bit. My brother (Matt's Dad) was telling him how well I could drop trees, and we were at his house to drop one. So, he goes about 30' from the tree and said to me "drop it here" and hammered a tent peg halfway into the ground. Well, after the tree fell, he could not find the tent peg ... and I had his respect after that!

 

[chipper1]

But he did challenge me a bit.

I thought he was hard to talk to, at least with that a cutter would have a chance lol.
Nice job .

 

[EchovsStihl63]

Yup… Generally inheritance is a gift, not an entitlement. Those thinking they are entitled probably don’t deserve consideration…

Yep, and looking back I definitely had a sense of entitlement that I was blind to until after the fact in my situation. But when you’re fresh and young you think you know more than you really do about life.

What I thought was a nice gesture to help my dad out by taking care of where he grew up was really a brat move. I should’ve let him come to me with the idea if it was to ever happen.

It’s just hard to watch him work himself to the bone trying to do it all, and also delay his retirement for years over it, I try to help when I can but life spares little time when you’re an adult unfortunately.

 

[sean donato]

My pops estate was pure hell. 4 years to settle it. Biological mother sued the estate since she was written out of the Will by both my grandparents. (There's a back story, but I don't want to get into that ) which she ended up winning rights to 30% of the estate, mostly due to my uncke running out of money to keep fighting her. Then my biological sister cleared the house of all money, jewelery and valuables when she moved out. I suspect her mother had something to do with it, but we could never prove it. Outside of my uncle and one cousin, I have zero communications with anyone thats related to me by blood since the Pops estate was settled. Nor do I want to have anything to so with those vile woman. There's zero redemption for the things there done to my grandparents while they were living, let alone not honoring their wishes after they had passed.
I don't understand it, and don't wish things like that to happen to anyone. Such greedy selfish people in this world.

 

[sean donato]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
This is the first time in a lot of years I have off. We're having my family's Thanksgiving at mom and dad's place. I'm very much looking forward to it. Been too long since we were all together. I'm always reminded this time of year how blessed I am to have them.