Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[ElevatorGuy]

I'm still waiting for someone to say they miss the ole crappers that would flush a big turd and ALL the toilet paper with just one flush .

Yep, The 70s house I grew up in, blue turlit! Seemed like 8 gallons of water at a time.

 

[GrizG]

https://midhudsonnews.com/2025/01/2...ce-choked-hudson-river-video/#google_vignette

That is Walkway Over The Hudson in the background.

 

[Lee192233]

https://midhudsonnews.com/2025/01/2...ce-choked-hudson-river-video/#google_vignette

That is Walkway Over The Hudson in the background.

 

[sundance]

Can't say I mind not being able to find incandescent bulbs, with few exceptions. Haven't found an led that works consistently in the freezer, or oven outside of that every light in the house is led. Between my wife and kids it's not uncommon to come home to an empty house and every flipping light is on. When we switched over to led bulbs the electric bill was $35-40 cheaper. You can get the led in whatever color you want, so I don't understand the complaint about bright white lights. The fixture above my kitchen table puts out the same dull yellow light with the led bulbs that it did with the normal bulbs. Just uses way less power doing it. Filimant doesn't look quite right, but thay doesn't bother me much anymore.

Got anywhere you want a light bulb for heat? I've got a sizeable wooden box in the garage for overflow canned goods. etc. Use an incandescent for heat. LED does pretty much nothing. Not sure what I'll do when my stock runs out.

 

[JimR]

*Overlooked Line In Trump’s Energy Actions Could Instantly Improve Quality Of Life*


As Section 2(f) reads, “It is the policy of the United States . . . to safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing and appliance industries.”

No more faucets that take 10-15 min to run dishwater, no more trying to get the dribble of water in the shower to rinse the soap out of your hair and eyes, no more crappy ccp washing machines that stink and have to be thrown out in 1-5 years. You will be able to take a dump and flush it away in one try. Wanna buy a gas stove? Go ahead! Does not help with the insco, but Fuds should not be a problem.

Overlooked Line In Trump’s Energy Actions Could Instantly Improve Quality Of Life​

OPINION
Gage KlipperCommentary & Analysis WriteJanuary 21, 20254:31 PM ET


Immediately after being sworn in, Donald Trump got down to business signing dozens of executive orders. You’ll hear a lot about the decrees to pardon Jan 6. prisoners, slash the federal bureaucracy, and reverse the climate agenda, but one of the most noticeable changes likely won’t make the headlines.
Buried deep in the executive to “unleash American Energy” is a line about … lightbulbs and shower heads?!
As Section 2(f) reads, “It is the policy of the United States . . . to safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing and appliance industries.”
You may not have noticed because the change occurred slowly and quietly. Maybe you moved into a new place in the last 10 years and just accepted the crappy shower pressure. Maybe the last time you went to the store, you just assumed they were out of incandescent bulbs; you’ll try again next time. But there would be no next time if the Green Mafia had its way. Taking away our everyday little joys and conveniences were part and parcel of the green agenda. https://cultured.dailycaller.com/preview1721396525645
We all know about the war on gas stoves.
Less known is the 2013 rule by Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency that mandated shower head manufactures meet a low-flow standard. You’ll stand under a cool trickle of water and you’ll like it, pleb!
Equally galling is Department of Energy’s decades-long march to phase out incandescent lightbulbs, which finally took full effect in the final months of Biden administration. Instead of the warm inviting light our ancestors took for granted, we are forced to live unnatural harshness of LEDs. You now can enjoy the same light in your living room as you have in your corporate cubicle.
Renewing oil independence or slashing federal bloat might have a bigger, long-term impact for the country. But it’s the little things we feel on a day to day basis. Strong water pressure, a homey natural light — these are life’s little joys we always took for granted. Trump’s restoration won’t just make life more enjoyable, but serves as a rebuke to the petty bureaucrats who believe they have right to control our lives in the first place.

The new washing machines s- ck. They do not clean dirty clothes. What do Biden and the EPA know about getting dirty. I hear that the new dishwashers s-ck too.

 

[JimR]

Last week I picked up a cheap 350 chainsaw to mess with. I bought a cheap China piston/cylinder to get it running again. The squish was .053, LOL. I turned the base of the cylinder and now have .022 for the squish. I'm waiting on a muffler heat shield before I crank this up.

Yesterday I scrounged up a one owner 455 Rancher with a 24" bar for $50. It runs pretty good. The guy bought it new and put a 20 inch bar on it. Then he bought another saw and put this one away. It fired on the first pull. Next week I'll clean it up and throw a 20 inch bar and chain on it.

 

[Stihl_Fanatic]

hear that the new dishwashers s-ck too.

Yep, they do. My elderly grandparent's dish washer failed. They are in their 90s, so I went to help them install the new one. They paid $500 plus for a new GE with my grandpa's veteran discount. The thing was so light I could life or above my head without even straining.
And as with every new dishwasher, it doesn't use hardly any water. Maybe 2.5-3 gallons at the most.
My dish washer is a 2006 Whirlpool Gold Quite Wash Plus. When it fails, I'm looking for something at least that old, maybe older.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My dish washer works GREAT and it's over 60 years old.

I'm not sure she will be happy I told you how old she is though! lol

SR

 

[retiredwiseguy]

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

Doesn't sound odd to me. I can't stand cold hands and slipping around on ice and snow

 

[Stihl_Fanatic]

Got anywhere you want a light bulb for heat? I've got a sizeable wooden box in the garage for overflow canned goods. etc. Use an incandescent for heat. LED does pretty much nothing. Not sure what I'll do when my stock runs out.

Have you checked with 1000Bulbs.com?
Last time I needed some (less than a year ago) they still sold them.

 

[farmer steve]

Our washer is making some crazy noises here lately, I suspect it will die soon. I had heard of speed queen before but never looked into them. They’re 2-3 times the price of the typical Home Depot crap. However the high end washer uses a 1hp motor. The box store crap you’re lucky if it’s a 1/3hp motor. I never thought I’d be considering a $1500 washer but I just might! Our set is maybe 7 years old.

We looked at speed queen the last time the Mrs. wanted a new washer. Reviews are good on them but like you said the price sucked. We ended up at home depot and got a GE. (we had gift cards from credit card miles.) I figured we could buy almost 3 GE for the price of a speed queen.

 

[GrizG]

We looked at speed queen the last time the Mrs. wanted a new washer. Reviews are good on them but like you said the price sucked. We ended up at home depot and got a GE. (we had gift cards from credit card miles.) I figured we could buy almost 3 GE for the price of a speed queen.

I looked at Speed Queen last year when my nearly 30 year old Maytag’s switch failed and no parts were available. My conclusion was that a young active family with 3+ kids, that does 3+ big loads per day, would benefit from having a Speed Queen due to its durability. We older folks, who do a couple loads a week at most, wouldn’t realize the benefit. I bought another Maytag… probably outlast me at this point!

 

[sean donato]

I converted my wife to using a gas stove. She won't go back. Guess what we can do when the power goes out...cook.

I got plenty of ways to cook besides the stupid electric stove. So thats not really a worry. I just genuinely hate this new stove.

Got anywhere you want a light bulb for heat? I've got a sizeable wooden box in the garage for overflow canned goods. etc. Use an incandescent for heat. LED does pretty much nothing. Not sure what I'll do when my stock runs out.

I was waiting for someone to say something like that. No, I don't, nor would I use an incandescent light bulb for a heat source. It makes heat because it sucks at producing light, and since it makes light it's not an efficient heat generator. You can buy a ceramic heating elements that thread into a light bulb socket. We use them on the kids lizard tanks. Makes more heat and last way longer then incandescent or the "red" heat lamps. Like I said, out side of I need an incandescent bulb for the deep freeze, and oven I have zero use for them as lights or heaters.

 

[JimR]

Don't get me started on stoves. Ignore further gas, but the wife wanted electric and ceramic top. (Easy to clean.) Oir old coil electric srove of 20 years finally gave up the ghost. Oven control board fried, melting a few wires that went to the burner knobs. So off to lwes we go. $1500.00 later we have this stupid fancy new glass top atove with no knobs. Yep, it's easy to clean. But the stupid thing beeps all the time, the touch control doesn't pick up my fingers half the time and if you boil a pot over and hot water crosses some for imaginary line, the stupid thing shuts off. (After lots of beeping.) Did I mention it's easy to clean though? (Sarcasm added.) I hate it with a passion. I'll never get her pick out a stove thay doesn't have a fricken knob to operate. Oh yeah, the cats can turn it on when they jump up on it. The onky saving grace is its an Induction stove so nothing gets hot unless there's a magnetic pan on it. But it beeps and beeps, and beeps.......

My friends have one like yours. It drives them.nuts. it will get up to boiling point and shut off. After is stops boiling the stove comes on again and repeats itself again and again. I told them to return it because it is defective.

 

[JimR]

My dish washer works GREAT and it's over 60 years old.

I'm not sure she will be happy I told you how old she is though! lol

SR

Be careful, she walks, talks and carries a frying pan.

 

[farmer steve]

I looked at Speed Queen last year when my nearly 30 year old Maytag’s switch failed and no parts were available. My conclusion was that a young active family with 3+ kids, that does 3+ big loads per day, would benefit from having a Speed Queen due to its durability. We older folks, who do a couple loads a week at most, wouldn’t realize the benefit. I bought another Maytag… probably outlast me at this point!

My old maytag pump went bad. Part NLA. My parts guy (sells speed queen) did some research and found out the pump had been renumbered for newer models. And he had one in stock!! $50 and some bad words later I had it installed.

 

[chipper1]

The new washing machines s- ck. They do not clean dirty clothes. What do Biden and the EPA know about getting dirty. I hear that the new dishwashers s-ck too.

They know lots, dirt as they get! But, because they make so much being crooked, they can afford to pay someone else to do their laundry. Guess your right .

Nice score on the saws .

 

[H-Ranch]

We looked at speed queen the last time the Mrs. wanted a new washer... We ended up at home depot and got a GE.

I looked at Speed Queen last year when my nearly 30 year old Maytag’s switch failed and no parts were available... I bought another Maytag.

Those are both a fair analysis of the cost, and I did similar as a frugal Dutchman. After three repairs, we had replaced the original to the house, 20+ year old Kenmore washer with a GE. The GE lasted only a few years, so my patience was short with box store washers. We looked at Speed Queen and also struggled to justify the price. Walked through the scratch 'n dent area where lo and behold, they had a low end Speed Queen which is what we wanted (without all the fancy cycles and controls.) It had multiple scuffs on the top and front of the machine and had been previously installed. We picked it up for very close to the price of comparable big name washers. After I got it home, I used some car wax and lots of elbow grease and cleaned it up as good as new. We've been happy with it, maybe the only complaint is that it's a little smaller. They did say that it was rated for more weight than traditional washers so it may be a matter of how they are designed and tested.

 

[H-Ranch]

$50 and some bad words later I had it installed.

Oh, you use the same installation method as I do!

 

[Lionsfan]

Got anywhere you want a light bulb for heat? I've got a sizeable wooden box in the garage for overflow canned goods. etc. Use an incandescent for heat. LED does pretty much nothing. Not sure what I'll do when my stock runs out.

I have a room partitioned off in the garage that we use as a root cellar. Incandescent bulbs are the only heat source and it's kept our stuff from freezing down to -30.