Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

Life is forever getting wrenches thrown at you to mess up your life. I would start with the kitchen to keep her happy. Prices today have gotten totally out of hand. A good friend of mine priced a simple small bathroom remodel. One guy wanted $15K. Another guy was $7200 for the exact same job.

amen to that, always seems like something unexpected is happening.
I wish we remodeled the house right after we bought it, I bet it would have been 1/4 the cost.
She's slowly coming around to doing everything in the order I'd like to do it, and save the floors for last. So that's a positive. Still stuck on one kind of flooring throughout the house.

 

[EchovsStihl63]

That is one beautiful floor, and the boards are really tight to each other, after a lot of years. The old wood had few knots and that is harder to find now, and costs a lot more.

Thank you! and yes it is in remarkable shape to be 150ish years old and never covered (that I can tell). It had been refinished once before and someone filled the gaps with the saw dust/glue method, but I took a putty knife and scraped all of that out as half of it had cracked and came out anyway, plus I like the gaps in an old floor. They also had no idea how to use a belt sander and left divots all in the middle of the floor. I ultimately chose not to sand them out to preserve the thickness of the boards so that they can maybe last another 150 years.

 

[sean donato]

Thank you! and yes it is in remarkable shape to be 150ish years old and never covered (that I can tell). It had been refinished once before and someone filled the gaps with the saw dust/glue method, but I took a putty knife and scraped all of that out as half of it had cracked and came out anyway, plus I like the gaps in an old floor. They also had no idea how to use a belt sander and left divots all in the middle of the floor. I ultimately chose not to sand them out to preserve the thickness of the boards so that they can maybe last another 150 years.

it's no surprise they look so good. They had access to better wood back in the day. None of this second and third growth stuff that was planted for production. I like to salvage as much timber/lumber as I can and reuse it. I noticed a while back a pile of 2x I had gotten out of my wifes grandparents barn when they sold it had really tight grain and the new 2x I had just bought had really lose grains.(they collected wood, and never got rid of scraps. It was a treasure trove to me.) Looked into it, and it's actually a fact we're using crapier wood to build with then what they did 100+ years ago.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Looks pretty rough for sure , hope you make it through OK.

Lol!

Hey, I want to get the cold I’m supposed to get before it warms up. I’m being cheated out of it, plus it’s better to have more time to adjust.

 

[MustangMike]

it's no surprise they look so good. They had access to better wood back in the day. None of this second and third growth stuff that was planted for production. I like to salvage as much timber/lumber as I can and reuse it. I noticed a while back a pile of 2x I had gotten out of my wifes grandparents barn when they sold it had really tight grain and the new 2x I had just bought had really lose grains.(they collected wood, and never got rid of scraps. It was a treasure trove to me.) Looked into it, and it's actually a fact we're using crapier wood to build with then what they did 100+ years ago.

We also had lots of Chestnut trees that were very large and good for building material. (Fairly soft hardwood and bug resistant).

I believe the original Bear Mtn Lodge was built with it (has been redone with steel inside and wood facade).

 

[EchovsStihl63]

We also had lots of Chestnut trees that were very large and good for building material. (Fairly soft hardwood and bug resistant).

I believe the original Bear Mtn Lodge was built with it (has been redone with steel inside and wood facade).

These are mostly quarter sawn heart pine, very tight and straight grain pattern, this room has some random boards thrown in here and there, probably just using up left overs by the time they made it up there. The only bad thing about it is it dents very easily.

The kitchen is white oak, it is getting refinished next.

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

The tractor that starts with a "bang", the Field Marshal Diesel from England. Uses a 12-ga blank as part of the starting procedure.

 

[Lionsfan]

Been looking at wood stoves for my in-laws place the last couple months. Found one of these for 50% off this morning and pulled the trigger.

https://www.drolet.ca/us/en/wood-st...i-4OaPKGLdvd1UswXIoax72EuXhs3dxknnvWhi-OmOQQn

 

[tnflatbed]

I've been working outside for the last 4-5 hours, froze solid and can't feel my feet. I'm glad someone gets to reap the rewards .

 

[Haywire]

Are there really no Hockey fans in here??

 

[MechanicMatt]

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We better get that goal back!!

 

[MechanicMatt]

And the lead…


Let’s kill off this penalty

 

[mountainguyed67]

 

[mountainguyed67]

I did some research on this. Look at #4, I’m gonna start there.

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I compute over 25,000 watts startup, that’s over 7x. But that’s just for one leg. Don’t know how that works, seems like you’d have to double it.

This is once it was running.


This is one leg.


And the other leg.

 

[benz66]

Went down to the town garage they have a pile of sand and rock salt (very little) mix free for residents to take . View attachment 1243693View attachment 1243694
Driveway is two inches of solid ice

That looks like an alabama municipal de-icing operation. During the Jan blizzard aftermath, the tv showed a city employee sitting on a tailgate of a pickup sowing the sand/salt by hand, like sowing seed.

 

[mountainguyed67]

That looks like an alabama municipal de-icing operation. During the Jan blizzard aftermath, the tv showed a city employee sitting on a tailgate of a pickup sowing the sand/salt by hand, like sowing seed.

I guess people in Alabama handle snow about as well as people in Wisconsin would handle alligators.

 

[MustangMike]

I was showing someone my grouse picture, and they said they thought there was a second grouse. So I looked at it some more, and I thought I saw a 3rd grouse!

Well, I requested the video, and it be 3!

 

[farmer steve]

@sean donato. Show this to the boss lady.

 

[sean donato]

I compute over 25,000 watts startup, that’s over 7x. But that’s just for one leg. Don’t know how that works, seems like you’d have to double it.

This is once it was running.
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This is one leg.
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And the other leg.
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Each leg of 220 is it's own leg of 110. You don't double anything for amperage. You should be able to compare it to the data plate on the generator. Then measure the in rush on your radial arm saw plugged into line power then compare your measurements.

 

[sean donato]

@sean donato. Show this to the boss lady.
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She would loose her mind lol.