Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

It can wait till the snow covers the beast of the east then.. Shoot me an address and I'll swing by with a maul.

We live up in NY pal

 

[FXJenkins]

We live up in NY pal

I got wheels, does”we” got beer?

 

[svk]

Lutefisk and meatball dinner at the Lutheran church tonight. For those wondering lutefisk tastes fine but the texture can vary from jelly to shoe leather and it stinks to high hell when it’s cooked.

 

[FXJenkins]

Lutefisk and meatball dinner at the Lutheran church tonight. For those wondering lutefisk tastes fine but the texture can vary from jelly to shoe leather and it stinks to high hell when it’s cooked.

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Gosh!...thanks for the header...and glad youre not incarcerated...

 

[moxiemaul]

Lutefisk... good lord can't I just got get a Happy Meal instead? I'll buy it and everything

 

[benz66]

I just had this experience with my mother’s washer…. I didn’t get a photo of the filter but it was so plugged up I had to clean it twice with a run in between. It wasn’t passing the water and this is what came out on the floor when I removed the filter!

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Was that a whirlypool made brand front loader? It appears to be a frontloader. Whirlpool brands: Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Amana, Jenn-Air, and Consul plus most kenmore and private label appliances sold in the USA, not made in china.

My Maytag made Maytag (Dependable, made in Newton, IA) does not have wunna dem. I ran out and bought a set as soon as I heard Maytag was gonna stop making them. It had already been making the crappy "Neptune" ones for a few years. IMHO, a used "Dependable" is worth more than any new washong machine, unless you get into the big commercial onees, but that is a whole different class.

 

[benz66]

My wood racks
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So Allison and I went over to a friends house, dropped, split, and stacked several dead ash for her.
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I was on the 8 pounder, women were using Fiskars.
Gotta keep the saws limber. Our friend felled and bucked up a couple of smaller ash, 10"ish, with her battery saw. I'm actually impressed with how well the saw works and how long a charge lets it cut. She's been attending gggGary's sawyer school and is getting the hang of it. Payment was some delicious home made chicken soup for lunch. I've had a shoulder bugging me, today taught it a lesson about slacking, feels better now.

Do you by any chance know Bruce and Jen Stuart in Barboo? (and Bean)

 

[benz66]

Lutefisk and meatball dinner at the Lutheran church tonight. For those wondering lutefisk tastes fine but the texture can vary from jelly to shoe leather and it stinks to high hell when it’s cooked.

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Followed by Ostakaka or appelkaka? I got invited by a Swede to the Swedefeed (they called it smørgasbørd) at the Swedesburg Lutheran church one time. It was fantastic. I really liked the Lingonberry sauce. Very few people who are not members of their church or relatives of members get to go to it. The tickets are sold out almost instantly. It is an amazing BIG DEAL and I was very honored to be invited to it, and I very much appreciate the experience.

 

[farmer steve]

Only saw 1 deer yesterday. Figures it was a buck since I already filled my buck tag. And a smart a$$ one at that.

 

[FXJenkins]

Only saw 1 deer yesterday. Figures it was a buck since I already filled my buck tag. And a smart a$$ one at that.
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Little Debbie’s are hard on 4 legged guts. True story we was moving from GA to VA and rented a very large U-Haul, I felt like B.J. McKay. Was all good till I gave my Siberian Husky Jack a raisin cream pie. Somewhere aroun Chattanooga he started turning circles in the cab. Next thing I remember is the **** hit the fan and now there’s a rest stop named after us.

 

[GrizG]

Was that a whirlypool made brand front loader? It appears to be a frontloader. Whirlpool brands: Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Amana, Jenn-Air, and Consul plus most kenmore and private label appliances sold in the USA, not made in china.

My Maytag made Maytag (Dependable, made in Newton, IA) does not have wunna dem. I ran out and bought a set as soon as I heard Maytag was gonna stop making them. It had already been making the crappy "Neptune" ones for a few years. IMHO, a used "Dependable" is worth more than any new washong machine, unless you get into the big commercial onees, but that is a whole different class.

Front load Samsung…. I have a top load Maytag. To me the front loads are fine for washing clean clothes but not dirty clothes. My “work clothes” often don’t come clean in the front loads… they don’t use not enough water to carry the dirt out. I know this from using my girlfriend’s LG and her prior Bosch machines.

That said, I had to replace my 29 year old Maytag last year. This because the controller for selecting the function and on/off wore out and a replacement wasn’t available. The new Maytag isn’t as good… it will never last that long. It’s lightly constructed in comparison to my previous one.

 

[JimR]

A couple questions. Why did the deer drop like a rock if it wasn't hit?

And why didn't you catch the "shooting high" when you sighted the gun in, or checked it on paper?? Surely, you checked the gun on paper before going hunting.

Inquiring minds want to know... lol

SR

I have no clue as to why the deer dropped. My guess, and only a guess is the the slug may have grazed its back. We could not find a blood trail anywhere in the snow. I had bought this gun as my first shotgun new for $99 at Prime Value Mart for bird hunting. I never took it out to see how it was shooting a pattern. I shot quite a few Partridge and Pheasant with it that Fall. I never took it out to sight it in for slugs before deer season because it didn't have a rear sight on the barrel. Later that day my buddy and I tried to sight it in at 50 yards. The gun was shooting 9" high and to the right by 4". We took the barrel off and looked down it. You could see the barrel was curved off to the right and upwards. I wanted to buy a slug barrel for it when I bought the shotgun but there were none available. When I bought my Remington 1100 I made sure that I bought a slug barrel for it.

 

[JimR]

USPS Informed Delivery can be amusing…. I scrambled the tracking number.

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Recently I bought two tractor tires. Fedex emails that they are out for delivery. The Fedex truck shows up to drop off my tires. The tires were never put on the truck that day.

 

[JimR]

Those adjustable chokes were terrible… I had one on a Steven’s single shot and my neighbor had one on a Mossberg. When you adjusted the choke setting it moved the point of impact. That was a problem with birdshot and slugs!

The barrel itself should have been straightened at the factory as part of production. A co-worker at Williamsburg’s gunsmith shop worked as a barrel straightener for one of the quality aftermarket barrel makers when he first got out of gunsmith school. He told me about the process… the details of which escape me these years later. Barrels we made in the shop (hand forged, reamed and rifled) needed straightening too. Straightening has always been a given in making long barrels… not with much shorter handgun barrels. Whether a manufacturer’s QC was up to snuff is a different story!

The barrel got bent by the stamping of the name. You could see the barrel had got crushed slightly in that area.

 

[JimR]

On to hunting deer yesterday. Too lazy to get out of bed yesterday and I F------ up. Just around 7am my wife says that there is a truck out front parked across from one of our locked gates to the woodlot. The person sat in the road for a good 5 minutes. We couldn't see anything in the woods. Around 10am I go over there to cut up a downed Ash tree. The whole area is loaded with deer tracks. There are 19 acres over there. I drove my tractor all around checking deer tracks. All 13 roads on our land had deer tracks in them. My guess is that this person had seen the deer walking around over there. I missed it. I did go over and sit in my favorite spot later in the day until dark.

 

[svk]

Those adjustable chokes were terrible… I had one on a Steven’s single shot and my neighbor had one on a Mossberg. When you adjusted the choke setting it moved the point of impact. That was a problem with birdshot and slugs!

The barrel itself should have been straightened at the factory as part of production. A co-worker at Williamsburg’s gunsmith shop worked as a barrel straightener for one of the quality aftermarket barrel makers when he first got out of gunsmith school. He told me about the process… the details of which escape me these years later. Barrels we made in the shop (hand forged, reamed and rifled) needed straightening too. Straightening has always been a given in making long barrels… not with much shorter handgun barrels. Whether a manufacturer’s QC was up to snuff is a different story!

My dad had told the story that he knew someone’s adjustable choke blew out in the duck blind and landed out in the decoys lol

 

[svk]

Followed by Ostakaka or appelkaka? I got invited by a Swede to the Swedefeed (they called it smørgasbørd) at the Swedesburg Lutheran church one time. It was fantastic. I really liked the Lingonberry sauce. Very few people who are not members of their church or relatives of members get to go to it. The tickets are sold out almost instantly. It is an amazing BIG DEAL and I was very honored to be invited to it, and I very much appreciate the experience.

That’s cool. They posted last night that they served 243 dinner (in a town of 600). This church is well known for having the best lutefisk around.

 

[gggGary]

Do you by any chance know Bruce and Jen Stuart in Barboo? (and Bean)

Sorry I don't

 

[GrizG]

Recently I bought two tractor tires. Fedex emails that they are out for delivery. The Fedex truck shows up to drop off my tires. The tires were never put on the truck that day.

… or they fit the driver’s personal vehicle?

The guys from NY probably know what’s in the package USPS advised is coming my way. My girlfriend said that as long as the package isn’t big enough to hold a person it’s probably okay.

 

[MechanicMatt]

I got wheels, does”we” got beer?

Coors light??? I know a lot of guys call it water, but I like it. Should have invited you up for the “haul to the house”