Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

Things like that are unfortunate. Your also run into family members not wanting to let go of anything too. There is a piece of property that my grandfather owned that was originally part of a tract of land from the land grant system from when the colonies were settled.

I showed strong interest in wanting to take it on and continue farming it but some people are just stubborn and nothing could be worked out. I am the only one that would be interested in not flipping it for a quick cash grab but I can't afford to buy my sister out of it when the time comes as its in a prime development area so I just try not to think about it.

I ended up buying my own piece of land with a 1880 something house on it

I’m beyond blessed with the Farm my pal lets me hunt. His grandfather knew his one grandson would never part with the property so he left it to my pal Joe. I’m sure there were some upset relatives, but Joe… he was one happy fella. I met Joe 15 years ago and we hit it off. I remember the first time he showed me “his gramps farm”. Since he has taken ownership he has really focused on cleaning up some of the fields to get more hay out of them.

Uncle Mike, he is hoping we can get over there and finish clearing the trees from that one spot….

 

[MustangMike]

Uncle Mike, he is hoping we can get over there and finish clearing the trees from that one spot….

I can bring the saws, but my back will have to improve for me to be of much help.

Let me know (in advance) when is good for you. I told Lynne we were not going to the cabin till next WE, so she made plans with Dennis and Haley for this WE.

Hopefully, we can get some hunting in also ... I'm still void of a deer this year.

 

[SS396driver]

Installed some wheel spacers on the 68 the rear tires got lost in the wheel well . Common issue with 67-68 Chevy trucks the rear is about an inch narrower than the 69 up trucks

Also got the Chevy blanket today for a make shift seat cover

I’m going to order another and have them sown together so I can make an actual skin for the seat

 

[BeatCJ]

I periodically combat sciatic nerve pain. They wanted to take a disc out of my back 4 years ago and I told them to fly a kite. I do an exercise routine almost every morning that usually keeps things in check, but lately I've been suffering. Have been going crazy wondering why nothing I do to get rid of the pain is working ... then I remember, I had a physical late last month.

I always say "no" to any vaccines (covid, flu, etc.) but my Doc convinced me that I should get the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine, that it was very effective and had very few side effects. Well, I just got done researching the side effects and they include fatigue, muscle pain and joint pain!

Side effects from a vaccine like pneumococcal pneumonia are similar but more mild than the disease itself. If you're still feeling it a month later, I would suspect something else.

I got the flu vaccine and shingles vaccines at the same time. I was pretty miserable for about a week. OTOH, I had the flu 2 years ago, and tore my retina from coughing. Getting that fixed was WAY worse than the shot. Shingles is another un-fun thing, but when I had it not near as bad at what I had witnessed. Probably worse than the vaccine, though. I'll never get two at one time again, though.

My doc and I spoke about pneumonia vaccines. His take is that at 63 and otherwise healthy, he would wait. I've survived several bouts of pneumonia over the years, but not that type. Most are secondary infections. Of course, it's something I consider, my great grandfather died from pneumonia. at the age of 95, in 1959. Today it would be curable. The pneumococcal type is much harder to cure, so it's a risk benefit thing on your part.

 

[JRM]

Love the name, Luke!

It wasn't the name itself my wife rolled her eyes at so much as the reference. Our other labs name is Bo - think Dukes of Hazard. Wife has a pretty good sense of humor but even she thought it was cheesy. Like I told her, it's just the good ol'boys......

 

[JimR]

It wasn't the name itself my wife rolled her eyes at so much as the reference. Our other labs name is Bo - think Dukes of Hazard. Wife has a pretty good sense of humor but even she thought it was cheesy. Like I told her, it's just the good ol'boys......

All you need now is the General to haul them around in.

 

[diver64]

I feel for you. I went through a similar situation when Dad passed away. Still Pi$$ES me off when I think about it. All my sisters wanted the cash so we had to sell Dad's boyhood farm that he plowed with a team of mules when he was a teenager. Luckily, I sold it to Dad's boyhood friend, who has adjoining property and the current farmer who use to farm it for us. Dad didn't really want to split it up, but this was the best way to insure it went to the right people who appreciate the land.

Sorry to hear your problems but as I found out the hard way, have someone in the family die and have money involved then you will see people's true character.

 

[MechanicMatt]

It wasn't the name itself my wife rolled her eyes at so much as the reference. Our other labs name is Bo - think Dukes of Hazard. Wife has a pretty good sense of humor but even she thought it was cheesy. Like I told her, it's just the good ol'boys......

Ohhh believe you-me, I know exactly the reference. That’s why I love it!!

 

[GrizG]

Sorry to hear your problems but as I found out the hard way, let someone in the family die and have money involved and you will see people's true character.

…and see how fast other family members rewrite their wills to cut people out completely after seeing the true character of relatives!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I managed to get some rotavating done today,

It's one job with a tractor I don't mind doing.

SR

 

[MustangMike]

My Dad was a lawyer, my Mom a Paralegal and the office manager. She told me a long time ago that there are more family disputes over inheritance than you can believe, often about stuff they had no idea existed! (Which is why she said it made no sense). Don't expect anything and you will be happy if you get something, but not disappointed if you don't.

 

[MustangMike]

One thing that has helped me in the 23 years since that collision is doing Chi Gung warm up exercises

This was posted on another site and seems to help (and his explanation makes sense).

 

[GrizG]

This was posted on another site and seems to help (and his explanation makes sense).

It does... and is not functionally unlike what I did/do.

I worked with a personal trainer for a couple months before I did the bicycle trip from CO to WA through the Rockies and Cascades with my son in 2011. The whole agenda was to try any and everything that could help me keep going while on the road. I was in my mid-50s when I did that trip... and smart enough to know I could cripple myself if I wasn't careful. Between riding and sleeping on the ground most nights during the trip that was a real possibility!

The trainer presented me with a wide variety of options geared towards potential physical issues and pre trip strength building... Yoga, Pilates, Balance Ball, weight lifting, etc.... Once on the trip I needed a short list of things that worked... I knew I wouldn't have the time or energy for drawn out routines! I quickly found the Yoga warrior poses 1 and 2 worked well and in a similar way to the video you posted... They helped me lengthen the tendons and muscles that start getting shorter and tighter after spending hours and hours, day after day, for weeks and weeks when I'm on a bicycle trip. Doing that eliminates the pull I feel from my heel up through my lower back and relieves any sciatica issues that crop up. Combined with the chi gung warm up exercises while in the sleeping bag (which let me get up off the ground!) I was fine up until the crash in Lowell, ID. I cracked ribs on that one but that's another story.

Hopefully you will quickly find a short list of things you can do to gain relief without a bunch of drugs and medical providers... After all, they are incentivized to keep you as a patient for a long as possible!
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[diver64]

…and see how fast other family members rewrite their wills to cut people out completely after seeing the true character of relatives!

After watching my grandmothers fiasco there were a couple of family members I never spoke to again including my mother and aunt. I have little time in my life for vindictive, selfish and greedy people.

 

[svk]

I’ve seen it happen too. Many times.

My grandmother’s family had a cousin and the cousin had no siblings or children. When she died, she left her inheritance to my aunt (grandma’s next older sister) because those two were very close and the cousin wasn’t that close to the rest of the siblings including my grandmother. My grandma and all but one of the siblings had no issue with this but the oldest sibling threw a fit and didn’t speak to my aunt for many years.

I didn’t speak to my father’s sister for many years. My dad passed away before my grandparents and as a result, we didn’t get his share of their estate because my aunt took much of it after grandpa died and grandma moved to senior apartments. The things that I wanted weren’t even of any value, but my aunt took them anyway and wouldn’t give them back despite what grandparents had said or like the war letters wouldn’t even give me a photocopy of them.

I’ve seen fights over the silliest things down to stuff as menial as Christmas ornaments.

The two ideas I like the most are 1) some families will give each kid a pot of money and then tell them they need to have an auction to buy all of the stuff from each other. Secondly, I know an older fellow who flat out told his kids and step kids that whoever helps me around the farm when I’m old will get all of my money. And he left everything to the som that helped him!

 

[EchovsStihl63]

Installed some wheel spacers on the 68 the rear tires got lost in the wheel well . Common issue with 67-68 Chevy trucks the rear is about an inch narrower than the 69 up trucks View attachment 1222020View attachment 1222021

My 66 F100 is the same way, Its got 15x8s on the rear and 15x6s on the front to make up for it. I have a 9in axle from a '79 truck that I am going to put under that will even the track width out so I can run 15x8s on all 4 corners.

 

[diver64]

I’ve seen it happen too. Many times.

My grandmother’s family had a cousin and the cousin had no siblings or children. When she died, she left her inheritance to my aunt (grandma’s next older sister) because those two were very close and the cousin wasn’t that close to the rest of the siblings including my grandmother. My grandma and all but one of the siblings had no issue with this but the oldest sibling threw a fit and didn’t speak to my aunt for many years.

I didn’t speak to my father’s sister for many years. My dad passed away before my grandparents and as a result, we didn’t get his share of their estate because my aunt took much of it after grandpa died and grandma moved to senior apartments. The things that I wanted weren’t even of any value, but my aunt took them anyway and wouldn’t give them back despite what grandparents had said or like the war letters wouldn’t even give me a photocopy of them.

I’ve seen fights over the silliest things down to stuff as menial as Christmas ornaments.

The two ideas I like the most are 1) some families will give each kid a pot of money and then tell them they need to have an auction to buy all of the stuff from each other. Secondly, I know an older fellow who flat out told his kids and step kids that whoever helps me around the farm when I’m old will get all of my money. And he left everything to the som that helped him!

Wife's parents are well off and in their 80's. Big house, land, diesel truck and giant fifth wheel, 7 figure investments etc. They recently got all the kids together at a family bbq and told them they were dividing things up and to let them know what they wanted so it would go into the will. That's the way to do it. Kids asked for antiques, agreed to sell the house and split the money or sell their share to one of the others and other stuff. Wife called me to see what we wanted. I told her nothing except, maybe, her dad's lightly used MS 261 if no-one else wanted it and maybe the lawn tractor with the snow blower attachment but if they wanted to sell them to a neighbor that was ok . Other than that whatever she wanted but she didn't want anything except some sentimental stuff with little monetary value.

 

[rarefish383]

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!

One of the secret places to look for old Chrsler Hemi's were big farms with irregation pumps. They used 354 Hemi's. Also farm generators, and the old Air Raid sirens. All ran on NG. I read some were documented with over a million hours and we're spotless on the insibe.