They call salt "bait" in NY?
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Hauled that other Ash Tree down the steep slope this morning. Bought some 1/2" pulleys from Baileys that made the job a lot easier, set up like a Zip line and just lightly dragged the logs. The 15" Ash was no contest for my 460 Hybrid.
So I went to another location and dropped a partly rotted Red Oak that will be for next year's fire wood. The saw felt like a Beast with a 24" bar, even with the 8 pin sprocket, till one of the rounds pulled the bar to the ground. Did not have the time to sharpen or change the chain, so will finish it up another time.
Enjoy the pics.
So I went to another location and dropped a partly rotted Red Oak that will be for next year's fire wood. The saw felt like a Beast with a 24" bar, even with the 8 pin sprocket, till one of the rounds pulled the bar to the ground. Did not have the time to sharpen or change the chain, so will finish it up another time.
Enjoy the pics.
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Oh yes, many people have been busted for baiting deer with mineral/salt licks.
Unreal. That's not bait!
No new wood scrounging today but I built a wood rack outside by the entrance door for the burning season , I had to make it moveable because it's on the wife's flowerbed LOL .
It'll hold 40" x 24" x 8' , I put a roof on it and 2 ends covered , I'm just gonna use a tarp to cover the front where the back is against the house .
I made it out of the lumber from the scrounged logs and some of the longer 2x4's out of the trailer load of construction wood .
Only stubbed the finger once on the whole project , sure let me know I was alive LOL
It'll hold 40" x 24" x 8' , I put a roof on it and 2 ends covered , I'm just gonna use a tarp to cover the front where the back is against the house .
I made it out of the lumber from the scrounged logs and some of the longer 2x4's out of the trailer load of construction wood .
Only stubbed the finger once on the whole project , sure let me know I was alive LOL
Pics, or it didn't happen!
It aint purdy , pics tomorrow LOL
I'll trade you solid balsam fir for the half rotted red oak .
I'll trade you solid balsam fir for the half rotted red oak .
Ryan Groat
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Cleared an area for my new wood shed going up.
Right now the plan is 40x12 with 5 bays.
stihly dan
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Spent the day cutting and loading. Little brother got 2 loads I got 1. So far he is winning even though I am doing 80% of the work and all the tools and supplies. These oaks are getting heavier and heavier, I know its time to stop when my feet feel like there in concrete and the legs move in slow motion. Oh, and the damn cramps, hand and forearm cramps kill.
Full Chisel
Slingin' Stihls and runnin' Huskies
Got another small scrounge of red oak yesterday. This time it was a dead standing tree that was completely dried...almost petrified. Easiest splitting wood I have come across yet, I could have split the rounds with a hatchet. The bigger pile is gnarly and ugly pieces that couldn't be stacked...going to just toss a pile up on the porch to use for overnighters when the cold nights arrive. Still waiting to fire up the stove...
stihly dan
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Small is right, but it all ads up.
benp
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Cleared an area for my new wood shed going up.
Right now the plan is 40x12 with 5 bays.
You're going to need more site prep for 5 bays.....
Ryan Groat
ArboristSite Operative
I should have stated started clearing. However the from the view point of the picture it will be 40 deep and 12 wide. The shrub on the left of the picture will be gone and that shrub line will be the front of the shed.
There is a stack of wood there that's out of the picture that I didn't want to knock over with the tractor.
Oak is about the heaviest wood out there.
green oak= about 8000 lbs per cord
benp
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Some friends had a fisher wanting to take up residence with them in their hunting cabin......while they were there. Fun times...lol
The only time my dog has been porupined is when I shot one out of a tree. I thought he was preoccupied raising hell with a red squirrel about 50 yards away so I figured I could get away with it.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
In the blink of an eye he shot past me and "Booped" it with his nose on the bounce.
He just stopped and looked at me. He knew something was wrong. His nose looked like a pin cushion. lol
I had him lay down and rolled him on his side. I kind of sat on him while I pulled the quills out of his nose with a leatherman.
I got really really lucky that it was just his nose and that he didn't try to chomp it.
Let me guess Philbert...You are here all week and try the veal.
USMC615
Wood's Tougher Than Woodpecker Lips...
Nice little score, indeed.
Fired up the Smoke Dragon last nite.
Temps dropped to 34 Deg F and the house got chilly, toasty warm now.
Hey Zog, not an old wife's tail, When Good Ole Bud wus on fire watch on Bald Mt. he would wizz on the stump in front of the cabin before climbing the tower, within a week the stump was gone.
Hey Mike, that dude HAROLD is a keeper, I can't get anyone heren to climb a ladder, they all tremble like a dog passing peach pits. Dear old Dad has to climb on the roof to check the chimley for creosote. Sorry bunch if I have to say so.
Mike, your new cabin lookin great but I kinda like the looks of the old one, more like Deer Camp to me.
When I hunted in Me. many years ago, kill every porky you see, cut off all four feet and give them to Good Old Bud.
He would turn them in for the 50 cent bounty, fed the family one winter on the bounty money. He would offer to drop them into the trash on the way out after getting the bounty. Instead he would pocket them and take them to the next Town Clerk, and collect more bounty money. a slicky boy for sure.
I hit a porky with a .50 cal RB from my ML. turned him into a inside out bag of saw dust. Didn't save the feet as Bud had passed a long time ago.
Gotta go, lots of things to do, including making a place to store the two cord wood Billy dropped off, got two more cord coming. Good looking wood, mostly Oak, Maple and Black Birch.
Sorry guys, the cake and ice cream is gone but I do have some watermelon left if interested.
CUL, FREDM
Temps dropped to 34 Deg F and the house got chilly, toasty warm now.
Hey Zog, not an old wife's tail, When Good Ole Bud wus on fire watch on Bald Mt. he would wizz on the stump in front of the cabin before climbing the tower, within a week the stump was gone.
Hey Mike, that dude HAROLD is a keeper, I can't get anyone heren to climb a ladder, they all tremble like a dog passing peach pits. Dear old Dad has to climb on the roof to check the chimley for creosote. Sorry bunch if I have to say so.
Mike, your new cabin lookin great but I kinda like the looks of the old one, more like Deer Camp to me.
When I hunted in Me. many years ago, kill every porky you see, cut off all four feet and give them to Good Old Bud.
He would turn them in for the 50 cent bounty, fed the family one winter on the bounty money. He would offer to drop them into the trash on the way out after getting the bounty. Instead he would pocket them and take them to the next Town Clerk, and collect more bounty money. a slicky boy for sure.
I hit a porky with a .50 cal RB from my ML. turned him into a inside out bag of saw dust. Didn't save the feet as Bud had passed a long time ago.
Gotta go, lots of things to do, including making a place to store the two cord wood Billy dropped off, got two more cord coming. Good looking wood, mostly Oak, Maple and Black Birch.
Sorry guys, the cake and ice cream is gone but I do have some watermelon left if interested.
CUL, FREDM
Wood shelter in it's winter location .
