Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Lee192233]

I was gonna scrounge some wood but 3°F and 15-20 mph wind kept me here...
Got the wood box loaded up...

It's a mix that's heavy on black ash with some maple and oak mixed in.

Stay warm fellas!

 

[Lee192233]

All 4 of them have to come out. The thrust bearings are fried (at the minimum).
No dusting, but I was forced to supply adult beverages to maintain order at the end of the day.

Why did the thrust bearings fail? Are the engines mounted to transmissions or are they direct drive with variable pitch propellers?

 

[benz66]

The real key here is if you need an expensive drug that $38 a month will be irrelevant. I was paying $56 a month and my drugs were well under that. I was quite happy that I found Wellcare at the price that I did. I have one prescription that I have a stockpile of that will last me for the next 2 years. When I stopped the refills that one prescription was $469 every 3 months. What happened was that I didn't need to use this medicine twice daily. It didn't take long to get a stockpile of it. Twenty months from now I will get a new prescription based on my current usage. I'll have a 4 month surplus on hand. This is a sealed inhaler that won't go bad.

My friend with a sawmill was in Agent Orange. He got the cancer a few years ago. last year I met up with him at breakfast. He said one pill he was taking was $1300 each, so $1300 a day! His are supplied by the VA, so you and I are paying for them. Ouch!

 

[SS396driver]

My friend with a sawmill was in Agent Orange. He got the cancer a few years ago. last year I met up with him at breakfast. He said one pill he was taking was $1300 each, so $1300 a day! His are supplied by the VA, so you and I are paying for them. Ouch!

For his service we should be . Hope he beats it

 

[Circle B MN]

Some wood piles behind the barn. Little cold to be out there today.

 

[Lionsfan]

Why did the thrust bearings fail? Are the engines mounted to transmissions or are they direct drive with variable pitch propellers?

There was no clearance between the flywheel bolt heads and the input shaft of the transmissions. They didn't catch it during assembly. We caught it a month ago while removing a transmission to change a bad output seal.
This is the newest boat in our fleet, 5,000 hours and change on that set of engines. According to Yanmar, those engines should have ran a minimum of 30,000 without touching the lower end. We had the pan off one of them in the boat. You can only see so much with the crankshaft in place, there is a 50/50 shot they will be salvageable. According to Yanmar, there is ONE new crankshaft available for resale, and it is in Japan. Hopefully, we will have them all out and shipped to the dealership by the end of next week.

To answer your other question, no props on this one, it is a jet drive.

 

[H-Ranch]

Debated on going to the scrapyard today and eventually made it despite the cold and wind. Scrounged this up for $20 - it would still be a deal at twice the price. Plus got a handful of smalls that my daughter and I both picked up, so it was a worthwhile trip.

 

[jblnut]

Some wood piles behind the barn. Little cold to be out there today.
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No kidding. Twas a balmy -7 here over by Albany. Best part of it being cold is that it always seems to make one of the cattle waterer heaters fail. I had one that was pretty frozen up this morning and I had to tear it apart and put a new element in it. That was an hour of fun playing in the water when it’s cold out.

That’s some nice wood piles you have there !!

 

[JimR]

For his service we should be . Hope he beats it

I lost a friend almost 2 years ago. He also got nailed by Agent Orange In Nam. His lungs eventually gave out on him. His smoking didn't help it out any either.

 

[Lee192233]

There was no clearance between the flywheel bolt heads and the input shaft of the transmissions. They didn't catch it during assembly. We caught it a month ago while removing a transmission to change a bad output seal.
This is the newest boat in our fleet, 5,000 hours and change on that set of engines. According to Yanmar, those engines should have ran a minimum of 30,000 without touching the lower end. We had the pan off one of them in the boat. You can only see so much with the crankshaft in place, there is a 50/50 shot they will be salvageable. According to Yanmar, there is ONE new crankshaft available for resale, and it is in Japan. Hopefully, we will have them all out and shipped to the dealership by the end of next week.

To answer your other question, no props on this one, it is a jet drive.

Sheesh...that's a pricey mistake.

Reminds of the time we had a young guy put an engine in and he didn't realize the torque converter popped out of the pump. Didn't matter, he used the bell housing bolts to pull it tight. Put it all together and the engine ran but lo and behold the transmission didn't work due to the smashed pump.
He then got to do his first transmission replacement.
It was an expensive lesson but he learned something.

 

[Haywire]

Fresh powder overnight. Made the cross country run over the pass to get a few things at the market. More fun than taking the truck.

 

[SS396driver]

Never was one to sled or snow ski . I don’t even like getting in my Dodge to plow . Only reason I’m still in the snow belt is my mom .

 

[Lionsfan]

Sheesh...that's a pricey mistake.

Reminds of the time we had a young guy put an engine in and he didn't realize the torque converter popped out of the pump. Didn't matter, he used the bell housing bolts to pull it tight. Put it all together and the engine ran but lo and behold the transmission didn't work due to the smashed pump.
He then got to do his first transmission replacement.
It was an expensive lesson but he learned something.

You bet this is gonna get pricey. I will be shocked if this is resolved without ending up in court.

 

[svk]

Had the oven on yesterday. Might as well fill it up. Since @svk hasn't posted any cast iron cooking or baking pix I figured it was time.
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A couple for 12 inch honey whole wheat flat breads and
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blueberry muffin bread. My CIT for now.

Beauties! Sorry I’ve been slacking.

 

[Squareground3691]

Berry muffin bread and x-mas chainsaws. What could possibly be any better. Hasn't seen wood, yet..
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Look familiar lol ,

 

[farmer steve]

Wood pic for youse guys. 4 buckets of nice dry ash toady.Where's @ Londoneil?

 

[Haywire]

Debated on going to the scrapyard today and eventually made it despite the cold and wind. Scrounged this up for $20 - it would still be a deal at twice the price. Plus got a handful of smalls that my daughter and I both picked up, so it was a worthwhile trip.View attachment 1231252

Nice find. You'll be moving up in the world on that thing.

 

[grogetr sawguy]

That’s who I have . No zero cost plan here. Looked into it I would need to be on Medicaid for a zero plan and I don’t qualify. I could have gotten a $25 a month part c which had scripts but my Dr and my pharmacy weren’t on their “list” and I’m not going to find a new Dr . Took me two years to find one I liked and trusted

Yeah I think you’re right about it being different state to state. I’m in Illinois. They have ya by the short hairs and don’t care.

 

[Lionsfan]

I installed my heater yesterday on my tractor. I made up a bracket out of bed rails to hold the heater. I mounted it in the hole were my right rear view mirror would go. I still need to buy some heater hose, find the upper hose outlet on my motor and run the fused power wire to the battery. I installed the fan switch on the lower part of the dash near the heater on the downside to keep any water from getting into it.

Just looked at the pics and noticed you're an open station man. I like your thinking.

 

[djg james]

I got the impression that a lot of you guys were appalled at IL requiring a FOID card to buy ammunition. Being in IL, I didn't really think about it since I've never had an issue with it. Go into a store, show your card and buy your shells. Even an online outlet only required a photo copy of the card sent to them before they would sell/ship ammo to me.

Well, a store I wanted to make an on-line purchase will not sell anything to me. The local Academy Sports store is out of stock. The on-line CS will not ship to store or take my FOID card for an order. Their CS is single level, no supervisors or someone with a brain. Their system is not setup to accept FOID cards so IL customers loose out on the sales. I'm pi$$ed.