Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[djg james]

More power to you Jim ... especially at our age!

I never did climb, was afraid of heights.

I climbed trees as a kid, but would never do it at my age .

 

[farmer steve]

Clutch head . Used on GM windows and other places like headlamp doors . Pain in the butt to use

Yepper. I have that from when I had my '55 chevy panel truck. I think all the screws were clutch head on that.

 

[H-Ranch]

showed me photos of a momma beer

Import? Or domestic? Or home brew?

With that description, all we can say for certain is that it's antlerless.

 

[WoodAbuser]

A guy that has cameras out behind our farm next door showed me photos of a momma beer and two cubs behind my house and a 4, 6 and 12 point buck in that same area, plus two does.

Import? Or domestic? Or home brew?

With that description, all we can say for certain is that it's antlerless.

Were they Zig-Zagging? Grease gun at the ready!

 

[sean donato]

I just had to put a B+C on it and run it today! The bar was only 24", never ran it with one that short before ... she feels very strong (both crosscut and ripping).

Last year my tree guy gave me some logs for milling ... said there was just some surface metal I could remove!!! The small red oak is 36" and over 8' long, the bigger one is just over 7' long.

Today, the 066 did some partial crosscuts and then ripping so I could wedge the pieces up to get a look at the wiring! I thought there was steel in there with it, but I guess it was just a weathered copper ground wire.

What do you guys think, will my chain survive milling through copper? Or should I just keep going till I remove it?

Climbing up and down logs and hitting the wedges with a 16lb hammer is not as easy as it used to be, but I got it done!

Id mill threw it. Copper is pretty soft, may dull the chain a bit though.

 

[sean donato]

Well, I wasn't allowed to take any pictures, but we started on my buddies logging truck last night. Bunks are off, trucks all blocked up level, suspension is more or less free from the cross member we're replacing. Started taking the cross member bolts out and ended up breaking the 3/4" to 1/2" adapter. Decided we were in a good place anyway. He's gonna get a 3/4" drive 1 1/8" and 15/16" sockets today.
Since it's by sons birthday tomorrow (a whopping 6 years old!) This weekend is going to be pretty full preparing for his birthday, plus it's the first weekend of archery so we won't get much work done on the truck till Monday. All good, and more or less part of the plan.

 

[diver64]

pffffffffff why go to all of that trouble when you can do this!! Twist and tape baby!

In case you're actually wondering yes this is in my house and yes it is live, no I did not do it. So dude named Albert probably did it in the 50s while smoking an unfiltered Camel. I am currently getting all outlets on it rewired, hopefully will be able to turn it off tonight.

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When I renovated the bathroom on our new old house, actually tore it off and put on a new one I got into the space above the small room next to it to run new line upstairs. Sitting on a rafter was a giant ball of electrical tape about the size of a softball and 6 or 7 wires going in and coming out. Not ideal.

 

[Squareground3691]

Breakfast time ,

 

[JimR]

More power to you Jim ... especially at our age!

I never did climb, was afraid of heights.

At 71 I didn't know if I could still do it. I never climbed for a living. It all started when I was around 50 and needed to drop trees in front of the farm house. I guess that I have been lucky by not having a fear of heights. I used to climb a tree at my childhood home when I was around 10 years old. I would go all the way up to the top and sit up there for a long time. My mother would come out and yell at me to come down from up there.

 

[JimR]

Import? Or domestic? Or home brew?

I fixed it. Good catch.

 

[JimR]

Were they Zig-Zagging? Grease gun at the ready!

None of the above. They were sitting on feed piles the guy put out.

 

[djg james]

At 71 I didn't know if I could still do it. I never climbed for a living. It all started when I was around 50 and needed to drop trees in front of the farm house. I guess that I have been lucky by not having a fear of heights. I used to climb a tree at my childhood home when I was around 10 years old. I would go all the way up to the top and sit up there for a long time. My mother would come out and yell at me to come down from up there.

Haha, that was me too when I was young. Power Co. came and trimmed neighbors tree in the front yard running along the power lines. My Mom found me sitting on the uppermost branch stumps only feet from the power lines. A storm was coming and the tree was swaying. Man did I get a whooping.

 

[MustangMike]

Id mill threw it. Copper is pretty soft, may dull the chain a bit though.

I hate sharpening the 36" chains any more than I have to, so I will try to continue with my "dental surgery" to remove the offending wire.

It if gets too difficult, I'll just mill through it. A lot of boards in that Oak log!