Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JimR]

Eat your hearts out. We had some fried ice cream. Damn it sure was good.

 

[sundance]

Built my first fire today. The girls wore me down lol.

We're on our 4th day. Enjoying it, by March / early April not so much.

 

[sean donato]

I finished getting my furnace together after work. Then started the tedious process of getting a small fire going for a few hours to let the new bricks settle in. Slowly took it up to 500* over about a 2 hour period. Bricks should be dry/settled in at that point. Gave it about a half load, since rhe house wasn't super cold. Gotta love burn season.

 

[H-Ranch]

Built my first fire today. The girls wore me down lol.

That's funny, Bob, I built my last fire. Well, if I do it right, that will be the last fire of the season anyway. It just happens that it's also the first fire of the season.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Any of you ever try this:

I usually drink Black Silk that comes from Sam's.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Any of you ever try this:
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I usually drink Black Silk that comes from Sam's.

Yeah... I'll make this, dillute with a bit of cold water and re-brew on the same grounds the next day.
My wife calls me cheap.
I say I just can't take that much caffeine.

 

[sean donato]

That's funny, Bob, I built my last fire. Well, if I do it right, that will be the last fire of the season anyway. It just happens that it's also the first fire of the season.

You have a boiler? I can't do that with my furnace till we're staying below 40*f during the day. Even then the house stays a bit too warm for my liking. I'd really like to get an OWB at some point. Heat the house and the shop with one unit.

 

[H-Ranch]

You have a boiler? I can't do that with my furnace till we're staying below 40*f during the day. Even then the house stays a bit too warm for my liking. I'd really like to get an OWB at some point. Heat the house and the shop with one unit.

Yes, I do. I ❤️ the OWB. But be warned, they are not for everyone. See link in my signature for my build thread if you are so inclined.

 

[chipper1]

I do hear people refer to open horse pasture sheds with a slanted roof as a lean to, and they don't lean on anything!

Those are called run-ins.

The ledger board(?) with the hangers for the half trusses is on the poles the main is built on... has nothing to do with the roofline, kinda like a dormer is a dormer whether it was built with the facia matching the rest of the roof or not .

 

[H-Ranch]

The ledger board(?) with the hangers for the half trusses is on the poles the main is built on... has nothing to do with the roofline, kinda like a dormer is a dormer whether it was built with the facia matching the rest of the roof or not .

Still not a lean to.

 

[chipper1]

Still not a lean to.

Glad it was per code here, if not, I couldn't have built my barn as large as I did 😆.

 

[Wyoming_Outback]

Sooo
Since y’all talking doctors and nurses…

My primary has a nurse that hates me

I’m 5’10’’ and in my prime sports days was around 145lbs

She gets me on the scale and I’m 168, I sigh, she asked what’s wrong. I told her I’m disappointed with how much I weighed. She told me “relax lots of woman weigh that much too”. My reply “yeah, they’re probably fat and miserable too”

She just walked out, 10 minutes later a different nurse comes in and is very short with me

Now the doctor comes in, he is a smart ass too

He tells me “you sure know how to make friends Matt”

Now, I’m not fat. But I sure don’t have the mean 6pack I used to have….

Now it’s a 1/4keg and needs to go.

If I was your nurse, and you said this, I'd laugh my ass off, to be honest.

 

[GrizG]

I like the title of this…

 

[H-Ranch]

Glad it was per code here, if not, I couldn't have built my barn as large as I did 😆.

Agreeing with the government bureaucracy - that's rich coming from you. I guess you're both right.

Still not a lean to.

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

Some pictures of the Northern Lights from last week on Thursday night. Normally where I'm at in western WI we usually just get the greens and a little bit of purple. It was a much better display than what I saw back in May. These were taken on my Pixel 6A on night setting.

 

[chipper1]

Agreeing with the government bureaucracy - that's rich coming from you. I guess you're both right.

Still not a lean to.

I'm not saying I agree with them, we had a plenty of issues getting everything settled . Now the actual inspector, he and I got along great. He was from just north of muskegon and knew a woman out there I did some trees for yrs ago, small world. I was just letting you know per code what they considered it.

Well...

 

[SS396driver]

Loaded up and ready to leave tomorrow morning for Denton North Carolina . This area had very little damage from Helene

 

[GrizG]

Loaded up and ready to leave tomorrow morning for Denton North Carolina . This area had very little damage from Helene View attachment 1211777

Bring some saws and swing by the damaged area!

 

[MechanicMatt]

We're on our 4th day. Enjoying it, by March / early April not so much.

Exactly

evening 3 here, by January I’ll be played out of it

This time of year is actually more annoying

We don’t use it during the day, so building it every night is annoying

 

[SS396driver]

Bring some saws and swing by the damaged area!

Would be nice but I wouldn’t take my truck there . Motorhome would be way too difficult to manage .