Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

There were buses back then?

Yeah, I was born after you, the dinosaurs were gone too .

Wait, do you mean there was one guy in the golden generation that didn't walk up hill to school and home?

Fixed .

 

[chipper1]

My good friend lives in Steamboat CO and was sponsered by a snowboard company called Libtech. They make snowboards, so he painted his "log truck" with their name.

I **** you not, he would go out to where they were logging and would have them put a log on top of his car, as you can see in the picture. We would then cut it up for his firewood in the winter. In the rear seat is an old Stihl 041. He was a bit crazy.

Almost went there for our honeymoon, but decided on Whistler Blackcomb, mainly because of the elevation. It was awesome!
I know of that company, although I ski. I did snowboard once, but that's a long story.

Your friend would fit right in here .

I managed to get some vinyl on the walls in my new shop, unfortunately I'm not sponsered by them lol.
Got the carpet tiles down too, they even have oak leaves on them .

 

[David chung]

I live in new yorks hudsonvalley . My taxes are 6,000 for 1 acre , i work for a lady that has to sell her house in town . Because Her property and school taxes add up to over 25,000 a year . Her yards smaller than mine . But she has a small window store front . Her taxes was 12,500 last year . Doubled in one year . Cause all the city people bought everything up, and i mean its really weird , its all men who like men . Its sad

 

[JimR]

It’s been nice listening to the rain last night and this morning

Yesterday afternoon it cleared up long enough for me to bring in some more wood, drop another dead Ash tree and buck most of it up before dark. Then the rains came back again and will last thru a good part of today. The ground is really wet again.

 

[SS396driver]

Yesterday afternoon it cleared up long enough for me to bring in some more wood, drop another dead Ash tree and buck most of it up before dark. Then the rains came back again and will last thru a good part of today. The ground is really wet again.

Went to snow

 

[JimR]

It’s idle time, I have a corrections truck in my shop right now, 8,000 miles. Cam bearing failure

Has enough hours on it that the 33-1 calculation shows it to have over 140,000 miles

Guess how man oil changes it’s had???

Zero oil changes.

 

[diver64]

In 2022 I was invited out to visit a family I know that had moved out near Durango, CO. Once I got west of Lincoln, NE I got off the interstate and stayed off them across Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado and back. My only regret was not taking more time off so I could see and do more, but that gives me a reason to go back out there again. Put just shy of 2600 miles on my 08 Chevy (that already had over 200k miles on it), and it was the first time I went over the Continental Divide.

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I drove a semi over Wolf Creek a number of times. Beautiful scenery.

 

[JimR]

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No, no, no ,no ,no, keep that stuff out there. I have at least 20 dead or dying Ash trees to take down before the snow comes. Many of them are roadside/ electric wires heavy. I will have to hook up my logging winch on most of them to make sure they fall in the right direction.

 

[farmer steve]

No, no, no ,no ,no, keep that stuff out there. I have at least 20 dead or dying Ash trees to take down before the snow comes. Many of them are roadside/ electric wires heavy. I will have to hook up my logging winch on most of them to make sure they fall in the right direction.

I like cutting dead ash when there is snow on the ground. Especially along the field/ pasture edges. After I cut up the firewood and haul away I take the bucket and scoop snow and all them little branches off the field. Easy clean up.

 

[chipper1]

Zero oil changes.

Maybe they thought it was electric and didn't need them

 

[Billhook]

I thought that we had been hit by one of Putin’s missiles or drones when I first saw it!

 

[Billhook]

 

[ElevatorGuy]

No idea why I didn’t buy this fiskars years ago, Awesome firewood tool.

 

[Haywire]

Elk herd moving through the valley

 

[MechanicMatt]

I live in new yorks hudsonvalley . My taxes are 6,000 for 1 acre , i work for a lady that has to sell her house in town . Because Her property and school taxes add up to over 25,000 a year . Her yards smaller than mine . But she has a small window store front . Her taxes was 12,500 last year . Doubled in one year . Cause all the city people bought everything up, and i mean its really weird , its all men who like men . Its sad

Yep!

I hate the tax man as much as I hate the oil man….

Probably more!!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Well, I had guys spread out all over the Farm. Uncle MustangMike was in what I call “the front field” he had deer and Turkeys, unfortunately the deer either didn’t stick around long enough for a shot or were over 500yards away. The one that he did sneak up on close enough to get a good shot at, wasn’t much bigger than a golden retriever

I had my best friend since 4th grade and my good buddy from work on opposite sides of the “back field”. Turkeys were teasing Billy all morning. Then about 9:15 Big Mike made it happen.

 

[sean donato]

Thinking of oil changes, I finally changed the oil in my wife's escape and the truck today after work. Gave the truck a pretty good over look. Finally found the small coolant leak I've been smelling for a while now. Stupid thing had a pin hole right in the middle of the radiator. One tiny little hole. Took half an hour of pressure on it till I found the drip off the bottom of the fan shroud. Rad support isn't in the best shape either. it's not shot yet, but it's getting there. Since I had it in the shop anyway, I unloaded all the random fluid film, pfc, under coat and noxudol cavity wax cans I had laying around in the frame and under the cab. Ive Been slowly cleaning up in the basement and moving stuff out to the shop, and found 3 open cans of fluid film, one nearly full can of pfc, 4 partial cans of the cavity wax and 2 full, very old cans of 3m undercoat. Blasted the insides of the rockers and front cab mounts with the rest of the cavity wax, then shot the frame with the undercoat and fluid film and pfc, got most of it covered. Should be OK for another crappy PA salt infested winter. Never ceases to amaze me how little rust is on it for being a 96 with over 200k miles on it.

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

I have been screaming for over a decade that school buses should run on Natural Gas.

Nothing like jogging down the road and have a diesel bus start moving in front of you ... not pleasant!!!

The technology to run on Natural Gas or Propane has been around for a long time. Heck when I worked in a warehouse in the 70s all the forklifts ran on propane. They were considered "safe" to run inside!

Yes, propane forklifts work well inside, if you do not mind the black layer of byproducts of their combustion that collects on top of cartons than are in the warehouse for more than a month or two. With the rate at which electricity prices are rising, I may take the forklifts at our plant back from battery to propane.

 

[JimR]

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I thought that we had been hit by one of Putin’s missiles or drones when I first saw it!

That tree has gut rot.

 

[JimR]

Hauled out another Ash this afternoon. I took a look around the tree scrape. I found a lot of these nice 2.5" wide deer tracks in the soft ground.