Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Ryan A]

Hoping this Ash scrounge works out Saturday. Would love to put up a cord or two for the fall, easy access too.

 

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

I got 8 tons of mostly red oak and cherry, pine, mulberry, ash and sugar maple dropped for free the other day. I usually I pick up my own wood but the wood fairy fluttered in this time

 

[Ryan A]

Anyone here hunt morels in the spring? Almost that time of year.....

 

[mountainguyed67]

Anyone here hunt morels in the spring? Almost that time of year.....

No. I too prefer first hand info, but was curious what was out there.

 

[Dave1960_Gorge]

Really I have seen cars on the road that shouldn’t be . Bald tires things falling off can’t tell ya how many break ball joints and hub bearings loosing a wheel . Cars need to be safety inspected because most people have no clue
And most of the charge goes to the independent station that performs the inspection .

What can happen when you put off getting new tires...this happened while I was driving my old Blazer (1988?) to a shop to get new tires a few years ago. Had just been passing a truck in the fast lane on I84.

 

[svk]

What can happen when you put off getting new tires...this happened while I was driving my old Blazer (1988?) to a shop to get new tires a few years ago. Had just been passing a truck in the fast lane on I84.View attachment 897183View attachment 897183

Yikes

Looks like the wheel was ok? Did you hurt the fender?

My soon to be former plow truck came with 7 tires, all of which looked great but turned out to be 15 plus years old when I checked the date codes. Every one of them either blew, threw tread, or bulged and I changed them before they blew.

 

[svk]

Anyone here hunt morels in the spring? Almost that time of year.....

I have tried but always miss them. They usually don’t show up here till early June. And I find them but they are already rotten.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Some people think that the electric clothes dryer is the household appliance most responsible for shrinking their clothes; actually, it’s the refrigerator!

Philbert

that's fer sure....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You may wish to straw away from using those bottles for fuel, when they begin the breakdown you get all sorts of nasties mixed into your fuel mix, messes saws up good.

hi h - guess u missed my update... read about that PTE etc breakdown... one molecular set against another... lots of bottles here, so now i destroy each after use, toss out and use new. also got new water and the new bottles are thicker. sure is convenient out along the fence lines, though... lol like my lil fuel farm....

thanks for the comments...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I got 8 tons of mostly red oak and cherry, pine, mulberry, ash and sugar maple dropped for free the other day. I usually I pick up my own wood but the wood fairy fluttered in this time

nice score! free beer and free wood!

thanks for the vid OFR ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Really I have seen cars on the road that shouldn’t be . Bald tires things falling off can’t tell ya how many break ball joints and hub bearings loosing a wheel . Cars need to be safety inspected because most people have no clue
And most of the charge goes to the independent station that performs the inspection .

sadly, happened down here few weeks back. mom n son in truck heading home from baseball game son played in... just bit N of town... and then it happened! over the median came flying a tire and wheel! SMASH! 140 mph closure rate!! and right into driver's side w/s. it was instant! so sad. and i was saying... ' is with that!? hard to believe that truck that lost the wheel n tire did not know he had bad bearings, etc. no doubt was howling... now the Dad is howling sad! bad wheels and the perp was at 70 mph! son injured, but will recover. my!! how life can change in an instant....

should be a manslaughter charge if u ask me...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

The old lady had a couple of days in hospital last week so I thought I'd head down to see her. Might as well take a load of wood down too. The challenge was to see if the wood stacked against the shed would fit in the Ranger tub and trailer.

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I knew I got married and had kids for a reason.

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Wood loaded...

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This much left...

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lol, just made it!!

 

[Dave1960_Gorge]

Yikes

Looks like the wheel was ok? Did you hurt the fender?

My soon to be former plow truck came with 7 tires, all of which looked great but turned out to be 15 plus years old when I checked the date codes. Every one of them either blew, threw tread, or bulged and I changed them before they blew.

Rim was OK. The tires were miss- matched and nearly bald; 3/4 were probably legal, but they were also old —- you could see the cracks in the rubber. A third tier vehicle for me that sat around or I lent to my climber who often had trouble keeping his vehicles on the road.
Point is, a Statey could have written me a ticket, or at least a warning and I would have gotten the tires sooner. We were talking about how annoying vehicle inspections are , but they do serve a purpose .

 

[svk]

sadly, happened down here few weeks back. mom n son in truck heading home from baseball game son played in... just bit N of town... and then it happened! over the median came flying a tire and wheel! SMASH! 140 mph closure rate!! and right into driver's side w/s. it was instant! so sad. and i was saying... ' is with that!? hard to believe that truck that lost the wheel n tire did not know he had bad bearings, etc. no doubt was howling... now the Dad is howling sad! bad wheels and the perp was at 70 mph! son injured, but will recover. my!! how life can change in an instant....

should be a manslaughter charge if u ask me...

I’ve carefully limped some pretty bad bearings into the shop but for people to drive till it stops is bad news.

I’ve also had three bad ball joints break. Two on the same vehicle a few weeks apart on either side and one on another vehicle. Hate to say it but the same shop did all three and it was the replacements that broke. Overtightened? Bad parts? Don’t know but the shop installed new ones for free.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

What's your first favourite? I have a few favs for different reasons. I made a couple videos on my channel about how to use a baseball sized chunk of wood to add smoke to bbq and I used hickory for steak and saved some of it to make a second video on steak and egg breakfast tortillas. I tried a chunk of mulberry with steak but it didnt come out right. I have a feeling that fruitwood is not good for beef. I think I used apple with beef once and didn't like it but otherwise, I've been using hickory and sugar maple. Maple goes well will salmon. And sugar maple KOs oak with brisket

1 oak
2 pecan
3 mesquite

also like:

1 Alder
2 apple
3 hickory

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I'm a huge fan of apple. Used some apple to smoke a chunk of brisket this weekend and it was delish! Scrounged up a salmon on Sunday. Great weekend!

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WOW! that salmon: how did u cook it? salmon!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

A fellow Ontarian! You live in a beautiful area. I hope to do some tourism up the Bruce Peninsula this season. I have a 17 ft fish n ski with downriggers but have never used them anywhere yet. However, I do go to the rivers for salmon and trout

swell trout pix! impressive.... on a fly? i bet fun to land....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Embraced the snow and went skiing today View attachment 896554View attachment 896555

x-c skiing - i can feel the chill in the air....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I got married and had kids too. One is an Occupational Therapist, and the other programs Missile Defense Systems. They both say the reason I sent them to school, is so they can BUY their firewood, and not have to MAKE it.

for some, makes sense... but i like the billionaire who still likes to mow his own lawns....

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[Ontario Firewood Resource]

swell trout pix! impressive.... on a fly? i bet fun to land....

Thank you, not on the fly. Flyfishing is not that big here, most do float fishing with drift reels. I used to use one but it wasnt good for my wrist so I switched to spinning. I use mostly roe bags or dew worms.