Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

He said it was a 2 cord trailer. And silver maple. He didn't mention if the trailer was overloaded.

that's how i read it, too!
i guess just more of his clowning around!...

we pro-level!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

probably not, lol. The trailer they had was a “2-cord” but I doubt it would hold that much Without taller sides. Logs were about 12’ long but the stack was no more than 3 1/2’ tall. We’ll see…

well, i am pretty sure the kid's small atv pull behind is a 2-cord trailer! heck, i seen the pix!!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Woot! Finally got around to fixing the furnace/blower. It's the original furnace, but with the OWB, I really only use it for the blower and duct system. It's about 28 years old so no service parts are available even if some energetic heating and cooling company wanted to try to fix it (and I wanted to pay them!) Sure enough, the old relay had a cracked solder joint, rattled, and had a stalagmite on one of the contacts so that explained the sticking. Soldered in the new relay and we are back in business! Cost: $25 for 6 relays versus $4000 for a new furnace. Somebody deserves a present! Anybody want to buy 4 new relays?

not me H-R! i been chasing my tail yesterday and today, too... hunting for heat! found it, and as such... i am buying 4 new Limiter switches! (what ever they are??)

good luck with your furnace...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My friend Harold and I set up the cabin walls using my rope winch. On a later WE, my brother and MechanicMatt joined us to set up the ridge beam on 17' posts.

We strapped extension ladders to the posts (taller than the posts) with a pulley up high to hoist up the ridge beam.

Was a lot of work!

WOW! looking good! i like it!! bettern than Off Grid tv show....

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Oh yeah! Right on! That's what Im talking about! Nice done! Did you ever at all bottom out the overload spring up against the rubber stop. I use to all the time on my Tundra. It was standard procedure! Anything less was mediocre at best! You bottom out against the rubber stop on every little bump you hit going down the road? That's when you know your tastefully "OVERLOADED!!!"

I didn’t even look, felt ok. New suspension coming this winter, Time for bigger tires!

 

[Squareground3691]

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/outd...new-york-maybe-the-nation.html?outputType=amp

 

[Brufab]

14f down here they say we could see this xmas weekend.... so much for global warming...

Better up Mr Brutus

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Any of you real old timers ever seen one of these air pumps. I contacted the Hemmings old car club up in Vermont about it. The gentleman told me that he has only seen one in all his years of working around with old cars. I'm trying to find a value of it. I searched everywhere and can't find one like it. It screws into a spark plug hole and uses the engines compression to make the pump work. I don't have the hose for it just could easily make one up.

That's the way dad put air in the tractor tires when I was a kid.

I still see them around... Deere had one that attached to the flywheel of their 2 cylinders.

SR

 

[MustangMike]

Early October 2015 ... The plywood sides are up and the windows are in, but still no door and the roof is not on yet. We put cement board all around to stop the porcupines, but one still climbed up the door opening and chewed our plywood pretty good.

This is when Harold said if he had a video of me to post on U-Tube we would not have to work anymore!

We were sleeping in the new cabin (or at least trying to sleep) without any front door and a mid-sized bear kept coming back after we chased it (4 times). On the 4th time the bear bit Harold's cooler and flung it 15' into the air, and I instinctively yelled at it and as it ran I chased it for about 50 yards ... wearing nothing but underwear and boots and a flashlight in one hand and my Glock 40S+W in the other. The bear did not come back after that, and we finally got some sleep!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Santa and Rudy... day after Christmas....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

but on Christmas Eve....

 

[svk]

You may already know this, but Im going to mention it fir those that don't Sir.
When bucking the root wad off a Windfall. Very often the root wad will clam shell shut back down to the ground. If it has been blown up hill on steep grade? You can almost count on it. One should never walk to close a distance behind the bottom of the wad to look at it once bucked off. Many have been killed this way! Also, If bucked incorrectly by simply bucking straight down? Once the root wad starts to close back down to the ground. The trunk can often slab without completely breaking free of the root wad. In turn, the wad will then often drag the entire tree length with it. If limbs are present near the butt of the tree length? A limb could very easily and probably will! Sweep you right off your feet. If the limb is big enough it can possibly pin you down, and/or break off and run you through, maybe break off causing the tree to roll or drop if the limb was suspending the butt of the tree length...
How much time ya got. So many different extremely dangerous senerio's are probable! Its scary just to list a few! Blowdown get taken too lightly too often by novices with a saw. Simply because they think. "Oh! Its already on the ground! What harm can it do?"
Very dangerous blowdown they are! Very dangerous!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

Very good advice.

The scariest experience I’ve ever had cutting was when I was bucking up a big blowdown pine tree, and my kids were all out in the woods “helping” aka playing nearby me (obviously staying a safe distance from the saw). I cut the main beam loose with about 6 feet left on the root ball, and it stood right up. It was a very stressful five or so seconds for me to locate all the kids in the woods.

 

[svk]

Don't worry, Global Warming Czar, John Kerry will have an excuse for it.

I forgot about that stooge.

He would’ve won had he possessed one ounce of personality.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I didn’t even look, felt ok. New suspension coming this winter, Time for bigger tires!

that's what they said on one of morning news bits. new motor, new suspension... new 0-60 times. 3 seconds! as more n more retro their early modles (was a 67 Mustang) with electroconverts! 650 hp, instant torque.

no varoom... just a click! and a big swoosh ~

 

[svk]

All the posts and beams are 6.5" X 6.5". Posts are 12' tall, with notches cut at 8' for the 2nd floor. The top piece is 27' long (24' cabin with 1.5' overhangs).

You may notice the 3rd post is Black Cherry, not Ash. Drilling the holes in the Cherry went twice as fast as drilling the Ash. My "storm ties" are self-made from 4" X 4" angle iron.

Posts are 8' apart to facilitate the plywood sides.

The new cabin gets lots of use! It has a wood stove, a sink and "appropriate furniture" even though we are off the grid.

Great pics. I really like the big windows in your second story. My cabin is on a lease site so we can only have single story buildings. Two story would be awesome.

The daughter by herself is the one who owns the Model 71, correct?

 

[svk]

Early October 2015 ... The plywood sides are up and the windows are in, but still no door and the roof is not on yet. We put cement board all around to stop the porcupines, but one still climbed up the door opening and chewed our plywood pretty good.

This is when Harold said if he had a video of me to post on U-Tube we would not have to work anymore!

We were sleeping in the new cabin (or at least trying to sleep) without any front door and a mid-sized bear kept coming back after we chased it (4 times). On the 4th time the bear bit Harold's cooler and flung it 15' into the air, and I instinctively yelled at it and as it ran I chased it for about 50 yards ... wearing nothing but underwear and boots and a flashlight in one hand and my Glock 40S+W in the other. The bear did not come back after that, and we finally got some sleep!

I chased a bear with a revving chainsaw once. It was his 4th time in my yard that morning. And his last. He didn’t come back for almost 2 months lol.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Great pics. I really like the big windows in your second story. My cabin is on a lease site so we can only have single story buildings. Two story would be awesome.

The daughter by herself is the one who owns the Model 71, correct?

MM: All the posts and beams are 6.5" X 6.5". Posts are 12' tall, with notches cut at 8' for the 2nd floor. The top piece is 27' long (24' cabin with 1.5' overhangs).

no doubt! those beams sure caught my eye...

and the homemade DIY walnut stain was most noteworthy! well, imo....

 

[MustangMike]

Great pics. I really like the big windows in your second story. My cabin is on a lease site so we can only have single story buildings. Two story would be awesome.

The daughter by herself is the one who owns the Model 71, correct?

No, my Niece (Matt's sister) bought the Browning Model 71. My daughter Krystle (in the picture) has a left-handed Ruger Amercian Rifle - Predator in 308 and got her first deer with it this year (with my handloads).

I believe she bought the 348 because last year she and my daughter were in the same stand when they saw a bear, and she only had a 243 and felt under gunned!

 

[MustangMike]

Notice our deluxe scaffolding for getting the shingles onto the roof! I think we put the door on in late 2015, but I don't have a picture of it till 2016.

FYI, Harold is a Vietnam Vet who did 3 tours. My brother and I have been good friends with him and his brother since Boy Scouts.

Harold's son worked at HD. Someone ordered those large windows then did not take them. No one would buy them, so we got them for free! All of the doors and windows were "re-used". The others in these pictures are reclaimed after my house fire. We disassembled the two damaged bay windows and used what we could on the cabin and out-houses.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

duty/chores calling. pipes to wrap #1 on today's agenda list...


hope all u guys ready for the cold!... and got all your xmas shopping done! any last minute shoppers??