Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[GrizzlyAdams86]

My city knows exactly who heats with wood and is pressuring them to switch to electric heat pumps. At the same time a tourist train spews enough particulate matter in one day to probably equal a year’s worth from all the wood heated homes. Politically the city and county don’t have the will to kill off the railroad…

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The city and county won't say anything since it's a revenue stream. On a similar subject the Minnesota Commercial (MNNR) that operates largely in the heart of the Twin Cities was "encouraged" by the powers that be to get rid of all of its remaining Alco diesel locomotives (the same builder as the ones in the original post) to help with air quality, nevermind the ever increasing vehicle traffic (and airline traffic) that they think mass transit and bike lanes will solve (a long story for another day). MN Commercial had the last 2 remaining RS-27 locomotives in existence, and Alco's are well known for their ability to make lots of smoke.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Just brought the tote back up with another weeks worth of wood (At the current rate anyway). 9° when I left here this morning.

 

[sean donato]

Not sure on that Sean. Might be a statewide average. I thought it was a bit on the low side.

I thought it was a bit low too. but the prices seem to fluctuate from area to area and time of year. I'd bet everyone jacked their prices for this cold snap.

 

[H-Ranch]

Is this your wheelbarrow @H-Ranch ?
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LOL, I think I've carried everything in the pic with my wheelbarrow, but a fancy rack like that is for them rich folk. My efforts look more like a firewood/chainsaw accessory game of Jenga.

 

[sean donato]

So been fiddling with a new joystick for the kubota. Needed to add some buttons for the third function. Came up with this set up so far. 3rd time I've printed it. Not my design, just been tweaking it to suit my needs. Think I need to resize the stick one more time before I cut the rod down to size. Sad part is, I'll have less money in printing all the prototypes and the final stick then what the switches cost.

 

[SS396driver]

One of my neighbors came over to ask if he could fill up some water bottles. His water line froze coming into his house he said it’s done it before . I had two 15 gallon water barrels I had been using when my water was out I filled them and brought them over on the Kubota . They are coming over later to take showers . Suppose to warm up over the weekend hopefully it thaws out for them .

 

[H-Ranch]

Not my design, just been tweaking it to suit my needs.

Maybe I'm having trouble seeing it, but is that control designed for a left hand operation? The way it's shaded makes it look like your fingers would wrap that way. Probably have to hold it on my hand to make sure it "feels" right, which I'm sure is a big part of the reason for prototyping.

 

[GrizG]

Until I bought my property in Hancock in 1985, we used to hunt out of Margaretville.

My Uncle used to live up there and a co-worker owned a cabin (off the grid). In addition, my Uncle knew many of the farmers. But, little by little folks died or sold and I found my property (50 acres for $300/ acre) just in time to keep the family hunting tradition in the Catskills going. At the time, most of NYS was still shotgun only for deer, and we wanted to be rifle hunters (as we collected and reloaded).

We could not drive to the co-worker's cabin, so we backpacked food and water up the mountain every year. In addition, I did not have a chainsaw back then, so we went up several times in the off season to shoot and cut wood with bow saws. The cabin had an old (original) wood burning cooking stove/oven. You had to have a lot of small wood to feed it, and the "heating" wood stove was not airtight!

Good thing I was younger then, it was a lot of work!

In the 70s I hunted Arkville, where the train station is located, off Drybrook Rd. We backpacked into the state land and camped. In the 80s we hunted Bloomville which is where the U&D corridor ended. Also hunted Andes in the 80s. Up behind the Andel Inn on 28. I like that area!

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

A typical Central Hudson bill View attachment 1235657

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

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Thank you for the break down on the utility bill. Your E bill looks a lot like mine here in Maine. If I could not understand it all, which I cannot, then I could spend a day or two calling to find out what it all means...if anyone would talk to me. Then, once I understood it all, I could do what you, and everyone else, has to do, which is shut my mouth and pay.

 

[sundance]

I guess I’m the odd duck, I don’t mind cutting in the summer. But it’s usually after 5 when the angle of the sun isn’t too bad. I like sweating out all the toxins

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

 

[sean donato]

Maybe I'm having trouble seeing it, but is that control designed for a left hand operation? The way it's shaded makes it look like your fingers would wrap that way. Probably have to hold it on my hand to make sure it "feels" right, which I'm sure is a big part of the reason for prototyping.

So there's a "left" and "right" joy stick file the guy posted. But I'm fairly sure he had them mislabeled. I printed the "right" side one first and it didn't feel right in my right hand. Fingers didn't even land intuitively near the buttons, so I printed out the left and it fit my right hand great. Thought I was crazy, so I had my wife and kids hold them both, and pick which one they thought felt good in their right hand, all three of them picked the one that is marked "left."
See of you can see the difference in these pictures.



Left and right in the orientation they should be in. (Don't mind the scale difference.)

This is the "left" one in my right hand. (Smaller one.)

Better pic of the "left" one

This is the "right" one.
The contors are just all off for sitting nice in your right hand.
Kinda hard to articulate with just the pictures, I'll try to get a few better shots when it's finished.

 

[sean donato]

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

Last time I did that I could hardly move the next day, and my head let me know i did something really stupid as soon as I woke up. getting older is for the birds.

 

[sundance]

Good on you. Burn baby burn! It seems backwards to me that they are even talking about stopping people from heating their homes with a renewable resource like firewood when there are still people with oil furnaces. I'm going through more wood in my little shop these last few days too. An armload usually lasts me the evening keeping it around 60-70 and I've been stepping out to grab a second

Last time I did that I could hardly move the next day, and my head let me know i did something really stupid as soon as I woke up. getting older is for the birds.

2 comments:
1. Quantity makes a difference.
2. Practice does matter.

 

[JimR]

I guess I’m the odd duck, I don’t mind cutting in the summer. But it’s usually after 5 when the angle of the sun isn’t too bad. I like sweating out all the toxins

I also cut a lot during the Summer. I don't mind sweating and it keeps my weight down. I don't know how much cutting will get done this Summer with the new puppy. He and I are going to be visiting nature a real lot. I told my wife that I need a sidecar for motorcycle. She asked why. I said that the dog needs a place to sit. LOL

 

[MechanicMatt]

I can agree. Evenings to install toxins, days to sweat them out.

Exactly!!!

 

[sean donato]

2 comments:
1. Quantity makes a difference.

2. Practice does matter.

1.That was full when I started

2. Not much practice these days. Actually a rare occasion for me to drink at all.

 

[H-Ranch]

Thought I was crazy, so I had my wife and kids hold them both, and pick which one they thought felt good in their right hand, all three of them picked the one that is marked "left."

OK! I thought I was the crazy one and was not seeing something correctly. I think I agree with your entire family just looking at the "left" and "right" versions. Simple enough error, he made a naming error in the files. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 

[MustangMike]

In the 70s I hunted Arkville, where the train station is located, off Drybrook Rd. We backpacked into the state land and camped. In the 80s we hunted Bloomville which is where the U&D corridor ended. Also hunted Andes in the 80s. Up behind the Andel Inn on 28. I like that area!

We hunted up on Hubble Hill, behind what used to be the Kass Inn. Back in the day, they catered to hunters and were sold out every opening week.

My Uncle knew Elbert Hull, and I met him when I was a teenager. He lived on Hubble Hill Road. Elbert was a farmer, a water witcher and logger. The HS kids did a project about his life before he passed. Elbert could tell my brother, and I did not believe in water witching, so he had us each "try his forked stick", which he said was a good one, and I'll be darned if it did not pull down hard where he told us water was passing underground. I never doubted anything Elbert told me after that.

Elbert pointed to some taller grass growing in the field. He said the cows won't eat it because they know radiation comes out of the ground there. My uncle had purchased Elbert's old sawmill to use as a hunting cabin, and Elbert cautioned him to never sleep in one of the rooms because radiation came out of the ground there. Years later we heard about Radon, and then we knew what Elbert had been telling us was.

When Elbert ran the sawmill (by himself, and I'm sure way before chainsaws) he told us he would cut down a tree, buck a log, then hook it up to his horse, who was trained. While Elbert cut the next tree or log, the horse would take the log down to the sawmill, back up to unhook the log, and return for the next log.

We also enjoyed going into town each year and seeing all the trophy mounts in the Margaretville Hardware store, including the famed Jackalope!

The world was a different place!

 

[farmer steve]

I also cut a lot during the Summer. I don't mind sweating and it keeps my weight down. I don't know how much cutting will get done this Summer with the new puppy. He and I are going to be visiting nature a real lot. I told my wife that I need a sidecar for motorcycle. She asked why. I said that the dog needs a place to sit. LOL

If you get the sidecar Jim, just make sure you teach him to lean in the corners.