Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[user 189412]

Dang, that is some snow. Lived in Lafayette, Colorado when they had a massive snowstorm. Dec/Jan 86,87 We were living in a trailer. The flue pipe for the NG furnace got covered up during the early morning hours and the interlock shut the gas off. We had a heated waterbed and I didn't notice the furnace shut down. The waterbed kept the room above freezing, but when I open the bedroom door and went to the kitchen it was at a guess well below freeze. I didn't have a ladder to get on the roof so I pack the snow to get on top. I dug out the flue pipe, it was a foot taller than me, I am 6'2". I moved back to the desert March of 87.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Interesting. I’ve seen this type of thing before, thought I’d share it here.

 

[Lionsfan]

Looks fun...I take it you didn't have to dust anyone today?

These jobs always look kinda fun to me. Was it a repower with a different brand or a like for like swap?

All 4 of them have to come out. The thrust bearings are fried (at the minimum).
No dusting, but I was forced to supply adult beverages to maintain order at the end of the day.

 

[Lionsfan]

Snagged a wide clutch cover and dogs for the new Jonsered. If anyone needs a full wrap for a 572xp, it's yours for free. It was way cheaper to buy the kit than buying the cover and dogs separately.
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Did the same thing with my 372 a few years back. I'm still baffled they can/will provide the kits so cheap.

 

[JimR]

Seems different states have different prices . I wouldn’t be shocked at say a 50% price increase but over 940% is just plain stupid . I checked Cigna united health and Humana all were more than WellCare’s premium. Just sucks I have to pay 38$ to get 25$ worth of meds every month . And if you go without part D when you have Medicare A &B you get fined for every month you had no insurance for perpetuity when you do sign up for it .

The real key here is if you need an expensive drug that $38 a month will be irrelevant. I was paying $56 a month and my drugs were well under that. I was quite happy that I found Wellcare at the price that I did. I have one prescription that I have a stockpile of that will last me for the next 2 years. When I stopped the refills that one prescription was $469 every 3 months. What happened was that I didn't need to use this medicine twice daily. It didn't take long to get a stockpile of it. Twenty months from now I will get a new prescription based on my current usage. I'll have a 4 month surplus on hand. This is a sealed inhaler that won't go bad.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

At a buddies house last night hanging out, He had this on his bench.

 

[grogetr sawguy]

What? My beef is the 940+% increase over last year . Maybe you didn’t comprehend my meds cost me $ 25 per month . Which is incidentally the actual price I would pay without insurance . The script plan doesn’t pay out until I pay I believe $ 500 out of pocket .

Has nothing to do with my vehicles. I take a low dose BP med which my Dr has me on even though my PB isn’t technically high I’m just below the threshold without meds doing it for preventative measures and I take omeprazole for treatment of a minor ulcer I’ve been on it just over 3 months .I will be off that end of the month as my endoscopy showed it has healed . My Losartan is 9 bucks a month same as if I walked in with no insurance.

940+ % increase is just crazy

I don’t take any medicine so I got a $0 cost policy to just stay qualified for if I ever do need it. I believe it is a WellCare insurance. That might be a good idea for you.

 

[JimR]

I installed my heater yesterday on my tractor. I made up a bracket out of bed rails to hold the heater. I mounted it in the hole were my right rear view mirror would go. I still need to buy some heater hose, find the upper hose outlet on my motor and run the fused power wire to the battery. I installed the fan switch on the lower part of the dash near the heater on the downside to keep any water from getting into it.

 

[SS396driver]

The real key here is if you need an expensive drug that $38 a month will be irrelevant. I was paying $56 a month and my drugs were well under that. I was quite happy that I found Wellcare at the price that I did. I have one prescription that I have a stockpile of that will last me for the next 2 years. When I stopped the refills that one prescription was $469 every 3 months. What happened was that I didn't need to use this medicine twice daily. It didn't take long to get a stockpile of it. Twenty months from now I will get a new prescription based on my current usage. I'll have a 4 month surplus on hand. This is a sealed inhaler that won't go bad.

Yes if you have expensive scripts then it’s justified. My complaint isn’t the premium per se it’s the 949% increase in one year .

 

[SS396driver]

I don’t take any medicine so I got a $0 cost policy to just stay qualified for if I ever do need it. I believe it is a WellCare insurance. That might be a good idea for you.

That’s who I have . No zero cost plan here. Looked into it I would need to be on Medicaid for a zero plan and I don’t qualify. I could have gotten a $25 a month part c which had scripts but my Dr and my pharmacy weren’t on their “list” and I’m not going to find a new Dr . Took me two years to find one I liked and trusted

 

[WoodAbuser]

Had the oven on yesterday. Might as well fill it up. Since @svk hasn't posted any cast iron cooking or baking pix I figured it was time.


A couple for 12 inch honey whole wheat flat breads and

blueberry muffin bread. My CIT for now.

 

[.358 win]

Berry muffin bread and x-mas chainsaws. What could possibly be any better. Hasn't seen wood, yet..

 

[Lee192233]

I was gonna scrounge some wood but 3°F and 15-20 mph wind kept me here...
Got the wood box loaded up...

It's a mix that's heavy on black ash with some maple and oak mixed in.

Stay warm fellas!

 

[Lee192233]

All 4 of them have to come out. The thrust bearings are fried (at the minimum).
No dusting, but I was forced to supply adult beverages to maintain order at the end of the day.

Why did the thrust bearings fail? Are the engines mounted to transmissions or are they direct drive with variable pitch propellers?

 

[benz66]

The real key here is if you need an expensive drug that $38 a month will be irrelevant. I was paying $56 a month and my drugs were well under that. I was quite happy that I found Wellcare at the price that I did. I have one prescription that I have a stockpile of that will last me for the next 2 years. When I stopped the refills that one prescription was $469 every 3 months. What happened was that I didn't need to use this medicine twice daily. It didn't take long to get a stockpile of it. Twenty months from now I will get a new prescription based on my current usage. I'll have a 4 month surplus on hand. This is a sealed inhaler that won't go bad.

My friend with a sawmill was in Agent Orange. He got the cancer a few years ago. last year I met up with him at breakfast. He said one pill he was taking was $1300 each, so $1300 a day! His are supplied by the VA, so you and I are paying for them. Ouch!

 

[SS396driver]

My friend with a sawmill was in Agent Orange. He got the cancer a few years ago. last year I met up with him at breakfast. He said one pill he was taking was $1300 each, so $1300 a day! His are supplied by the VA, so you and I are paying for them. Ouch!

For his service we should be . Hope he beats it

 

[Circle B MN]

Some wood piles behind the barn. Little cold to be out there today.

 

[Lionsfan]

Why did the thrust bearings fail? Are the engines mounted to transmissions or are they direct drive with variable pitch propellers?

There was no clearance between the flywheel bolt heads and the input shaft of the transmissions. They didn't catch it during assembly. We caught it a month ago while removing a transmission to change a bad output seal.
This is the newest boat in our fleet, 5,000 hours and change on that set of engines. According to Yanmar, those engines should have ran a minimum of 30,000 without touching the lower end. We had the pan off one of them in the boat. You can only see so much with the crankshaft in place, there is a 50/50 shot they will be salvageable. According to Yanmar, there is ONE new crankshaft available for resale, and it is in Japan. Hopefully, we will have them all out and shipped to the dealership by the end of next week.

To answer your other question, no props on this one, it is a jet drive.

 

[H-Ranch]

Debated on going to the scrapyard today and eventually made it despite the cold and wind. Scrounged this up for $20 - it would still be a deal at twice the price. Plus got a handful of smalls that my daughter and I both picked up, so it was a worthwhile trip.

 

[jblnut]

Some wood piles behind the barn. Little cold to be out there today.
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No kidding. Twas a balmy -7 here over by Albany. Best part of it being cold is that it always seems to make one of the cattle waterer heaters fail. I had one that was pretty frozen up this morning and I had to tear it apart and put a new element in it. That was an hour of fun playing in the water when it’s cold out.

That’s some nice wood piles you have there !!