Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[GrizG]

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.

Yup… Generally inheritance is a gift, not an entitlement. Those thinking they are entitled probably don’t deserve consideration…

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

My son did extremely well deer hunting despite the fact that there are very a few deer up here. He got a very nice 10 pointer up at our cabin. The next day, he was hunting with his grandfather and got a five pointer and the following week got a very nice eight pointer with me. I joked I’m going to have to get a second job to cover all the taxidermy fees lol.

Congratulations!
Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[SS396driver]

Nothing like the last minute . Making a temporary filler for where the old cooktop was . Buddy’s drum sander is on the Fritz so I’m doing it somewhat old school .

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

Ain't got much this eve, cept to say I had to zoom in on Grizz Adams86 latest profile pic...cheers to you if you know her...

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It's the Dillon Precision 2009 calendar if I remember correctly.

 

[Haywire]

A little fir scrounge from up on the hill.

 

[Philbert]

‘Happy Thanksgiving’

to all you turkeys!

Philbert

 

[SS396driver]

Installed . I’ll be using the same wood to make the countertops at some point in the future I’ll turn this into a coffee table ,the shine will diminish in a few hours I used butcher block conditioner on it

 

[xraydaniel]

I have too much grass and if I don't use it, it turns to weeds. My grandfather was the rancher, I make my money from other things. I was never into being a cowboy and neither was my father. Now my neighbor is a real cowboy and he runs about 30k head on my land in the summer. Him and my grandfather were good friends so I just let him use the grass for free as a thank you for helping my grandfather in his later years.

It goes on for miles and miles...

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Nice

 

[JRM]

Nothing like the last minute . Making a temporary filler for where the old cooktop was . Buddy’s drum sander is on the Fritz so I’m doing it somewhat old school . View attachment 1222333View attachment 1222334View attachment 1222335View attachment 1222337View attachment 1222336View attachment 1222338

Good looking grain there. A little spalting on the edge? What type of wood?

 

[xraydaniel]

Upstate is beautiful, I live in the Hudson valley which is equally a beautiful. Just don’t really care for my state’s politics, but we don’t discuss those in this thread. View attachment 1220808View attachment 1220806

Upstate is beautiful. The Great St. Lawrence property on Wellesley island has been in my family since 1910.

 

[xraydaniel]

Took my 14 year old to the home range to try out the Mak-90 and a T91 clone at the 100 yard steel target. She was thrilled

 

[JimR]

I dropped another 21" Ash today with a split off into two leaders about 12 inches in diameter. It is all bucked up now and most of the branches have been chipped up. I missed my landing spot by a few inches and destroyed a Maple tree that I wanted to leave. Oh well, shat happenes.

 

[SS396driver]

Good looking grain there. A little spalting on the edge? What type of wood?

White oak . The edge does have some spalting but it’s still solid.

 

[JRM]

I always felt spalting added beautiful character to the wood.
My son and I made a picnic table out of some pin oak before he left for the service. The tree was what we built the boys tree fort in when they were little. A storm uprooted it so I salvaged what I could. The table was the end result. A few of the boards have a little more Spalting in them than I'd like but so far is holding up well.

 

[SS396driver]

Spalting makes some interesting designs

 

[WoodAbuser]

Spalting makes some interesting designs View attachment 1222385

Looks like he finally got the roadrunner.

 

[MechanicMatt]

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.

That sounds all to familiar
My mother’s mother, my beloved grandmother is battling cancer. She alternates my house and my sisters (2 weeks at a time). We do our best, but it’s a loosing battle. The last two weeks of her life the vultures swoop in….. her two daughters (mom being one of them). They lawyer up and battle over the inheritance. Absolutely DISGUSTING

My mom is my mom and always will be. She has done things in the past that disappointed me, but nothing like when her mom passed. And then the way she blew through it all…..

Just upsetting

 

[MechanicMatt]

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.

I have a 454 BBC that powered a generac generator

It is SPOTLESS inside!! Propane…..

 

[MechanicMatt]

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When you are the “outdoors” uncle and all the nephews and bro-in-laws are meeting at your house at 4:45 on thanksgiving morning for the annual hunt.

You have to be prepared….
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[MechanicMatt]

One of them is coming “sometime late” (straight from the night life) to crash in your man cave

You set him up right….

Reminds me, I need to go unlock the door…