Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Nice up here this afternoon so I went back for more punishment .
After we got the tractor and trailer on terra firma we scouted for a better path .
Here is where the new path will be .

I found four more dead blowdowns on the side of the trail , I delimbed and got them ready for winching at a later date .

It started to rain so I headed for the hills lol

More black spruce for the wood pile and I didn't get stuck this time

dancan on the move... takin' care of business!! everybody, thing... doin' their fair share! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Really busy weekend. Did front brakes on my Yukon which would have been straightforward if I didn't break parts and tools during disassembly due to rust and corrosion. Then I changed the oil which ended up taking about three hours. Idiots at Valvoline who did my last oil change must have put the filter on with a wrench as it was STUCK. Wrecked two different oil filter wrenches then totally destroyed the filter trying to get it off. Even pounding with a drift punch wouldn't budge it so I had to fire up the torch and melt the gasket which finally caused it to come off. What a clusterF.

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Then I helped the wife clean the garage. We got a bunch of stuff gone through and stacked in a somewhat organized manner.

Finally closed the evening by mowing and trimming before it was time for a fire and drinks at the neighbors.

Today I had a bunch of small projects with the biggest being replacing several sprinkler heads on my lawn irrigation system.

never heard of a filter on that bad. I mite have had a need to return to that shop and raise a little he**!~ grrr! but the proof is in the puddin'... well, pix for sure... there are 70,000 + in the stats here... I bet if u could poll all those names... you would be the only one who ever... I say ever... needed a torch to get an oil filter off an engine! wow!

>Then I helped the wife clean the garage.

nice guy!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Took some time out today to make a small video [emoji2]

nice day, nice saw... nice vid! man, that's a runnin' saw... reminds me of my hot lil Echo CS-271T

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Cut the last of my logs yesterday, mowed, trimmed. Went fishing this morning but motor gave me trouble before I could catch any fish. Made it most of the way back on one cyl and took the electric the rest of the way in. Came home to find wife had ordered 3 yards of river rock for a garden project and spent the rest of the day doing that. Dang boat motor!View attachment 504471View attachment 504472

dang that boat motor!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Cut down a Chestnut Oak today, and yes I took some damn pictures, but my computer involuntarily updated to Windows 10 and my DROID also updated and I can no longer figure out how to get the pics from the phone to the computer (and tech support was no help, they just just put them in a cloud)!!!

I'll be up at the cabin tomorrow, maybe figure it out after that ... these damn upgrades want to make me smash things!!!!

happened to us, too... upgrading to Windows 10 involuntarily... stopped that sh*t ASAP! got enuff to do w/o learning a new computer sys rite now...

> these damn upgrades want to make me smash things!!!!

I am not giving out suggestions nor advice, there MM... but I can offer some hints:

avoid:

but if u must:

BL, the backyard lumberjack

the heck u say, whatz u mean I don't look like no lumberjack?



ok, back to the

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Haven't been doing wood lately but I did do some scrounging and repurposing in my scrap steel pile. My wife took a load away a few weeks ago but I still managed to make it look presentable. My grandson loves minions but he wasn't real keen on this one. Once he decided he doesn't want his picture taken there is no stopping him. Maybe I should have made it a little smaller. I have to get some high heat paint and make my wife paint it yet but the 1st firing seemed to work good enough.
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>I have to get some high heat paint and make my wife paint it yet

and make my wife paint it yet

"yes, you will..... "

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

130' of E. saligna.
Plus a bit more for the fuzz on top.
Have coveted that burl for about 2yrs now. It's a very special find, me thinks.
Were two other trees tangled up with this one so dropped them all together. Seemed like the safest option as it's a steep gulley and I had limited escape routes if it started raining limbs.

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burls are cool curls... hope u will post up what u do or make with it...

 

[MustangMike]

KBro, that bark looks like a tree here called Sycamore, which is a soft hardwood. Is it the same over there???

 

[hardpan]

Thank you all for your kind words! This is a unusual place (thread) , Glad I can be a part of it.

Yes. It is like family here. I am lucky to have found it.
As I stood beside my dads casket, old friends filed through the line who have been through much worse and I realized I am fortunate to bury my parents and not my kids.

 

[chipper1]

130' of E. saligna.
Plus a bit more for the fuzz on top.
Have coveted that burl for about 2yrs now. It's a very special find, me thinks.
Were two other trees tangled up with this one so dropped them all together. Seemed like the safest option as it's a steep gulley and I had limited escape routes if it started raining limbs.

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Looks nice Bro.
What will you be doing with the burl.
I know where there is a giant one right now.
The property it's on is right next to a property that was just logged and I'm sure no one would ever notice if I grabbed it as the property it's on is in foreclosure. I wont do it though, if I didn't earn it I wont take it, heck many times I don't want what I have earned LOL.

 

[dancan]

Haven't been doing wood lately but I did do some scrounging and repurposing in my scrap steel pile. My wife took a load away a few weeks ago but I still managed to make it look presentable. My grandson loves minions but he wasn't real keen on this one. Once he decided he doesn't want his picture taken there is no stopping him. Maybe I should have made it a little smaller. I have to get some high heat paint and make my wife paint it yet but the 1st firing seemed to work good enough.
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Great scrounge there cantoo !

 

[chipper1]

dang that boat motor!

Yes, that is a bummer.
That's why it's good to bring a Honda boat motor with.
It's one of the many products Honda makes unlike Ferrari.
Thanks for reminding me I need to list one or two of those .

 

[dancan]

Day off for me at the salt mine so time to put some wood away .

This is next winters wood in the shed , only 1 row in there , I need more ,,,,, Honest

 

[chipper1]

Yes. It is like family here. I am lucky to have found it.
As I stood beside my dads casket, old friends filed through the line who have been through much worse and I realized I am fortunate to bury my parents and not my kids.

Nothing like a little perspective hardpan.
So many of the times we have difficulties in our lives we forget about the others who have it so much worse.
I found myself complaining about the securement points on my trailer the other day and I was quite ashamed of my attitude.
I have so much to be grateful for including the zero turn mower I was loading on the trailer and the trailer itself, but I took my eyes off all that and got caught complaining. We are in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and I know I am well off in comparison to so many others here, I have no right to complain about such things.
I'm just glad I caught myself doing it.

 

[hardpan]

Nothing like a little perspective hardpan.
So many of the times we have difficulties in our lives we forget about the others who have it so much worse.
I found myself complaining about the securement points on my trailer the other day and I was quite ashamed of my attitude.
I have so much to be grateful for including the zero turn mower I was loading on the trailer and the trailer itself, but I took my eyes off all that and got caught complaining. We are in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and I know I am well off in comparison to so many others here, I have no right to complain about such things.
I'm just glad I caught myself doing it.

So true. I often have that little voice that reminds me.

 

[svk]

never heard of a filter on that bad. I mite have had a need to return to that shop and raise a little he**!~ grrr! but the proof is in the puddin'... well, pix for sure... there are 70,000 + in the stats here... I bet if u could poll all those names... you would be the only one who ever... I say ever... needed a torch to get an oil filter off an engine! wow!

>Then I helped the wife clean the garage.

nice guy!!

I thought about it but I'm sure they have lots of problems like this and would give me some canned bs excuse.

I really wish I had let them do the change this time and they could have fought with it.

 

[mortalitool]

Howdy fellas. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Saturday I went and got some manure from my wifes grandpa, tilled the garden and then threw on the manure and tilled that in. tilled some random spots around the yard and smoothed some things out. Sunday I worked on making some Adirondack chairs for a relative. Sunday evening we went and celebrated our friends college graduation at his house with other friends.

Hope everyone has a good Mooonday

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Looks nice Bro.
What will you be doing with the burl.
I know where there is a giant one right now.
The property it's on is right next to a property that was just logged and I'm sure no one would ever notice if I grabbed it as the property it's on is in foreclosure. I wont do it though, if I didn't earn it I wont take it, heck many times I don't want what I have earned LOL.

> heck many times I don't want what I have earned LOL



thank you C! first laff of the morning...

 

[hardpan]

I thought about it but I'm sure they have lots of problems like this and would give me some canned bs excuse.

I really wish I had let them do the change this time and they could have fought with it.

I can appreciate your frustration but man that is the most mutilated oil filter I have ever seen. I have wadded up a few but surely yours is a candidate for the "FUBAR Filter Hall of Fame". I'm wandering if they used a gasket sealer instead of coating the gasket with motor oil. LOL

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Day off for me at the salt mine so time to put some wood away .

This is next winters wood in the shed , only 1 row in there , I need more ,,,,, Honest

good pix, and in color, too!