Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Holy S word Neil, spending £20 - £30 on heating per day would suck big time.

Merry Christmas to everyone it’s already Christmas morning here. We are heading to the beach today expected temps of 30C (86F). The beautiful South Pacific is nice and warm this time of year.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Hope you get better soon .
Had a family brunch at my daughters today but my eldest son ,wife and grandson are sick so they couldn’t make it . Not Covid but fever chills and nausea. His house isn’t to far from my daughters so we dropped off a care package electrolytes, teas , tissues . Daughter in law was running a 102.5 fever that broke last night . Grandson just has the sniffles . Going to see them this New Year’s Eve as it’s my grandsons birthday View attachment 1043592View attachment 1043593

thanks for sharing! had a late brunch today. couple yard eggs, several bacon strips and tasty hashbrowns... followed by some eggnog and Holiday chocolates...

a lumberjack's special!
an almost Slam Pack...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One of my friends at the Fish and Game club, who is a few years older than me and a Vietnam Veteran, had a (old model) Ruger Blackhawk in 45 Colt Long.

He used to shoot that thing so well you would shake your head! Unfortunately, he is not as good as he used to be.

We also talk cars a lot. He as a Viper, some Camaros, some Vettes and used to have a GTO with a self-installed L-88 motor!

used to run a NIB 1967 L-88 427 in my '36 Ford 3-window... all DIY! mod/install.... (4-speed, 4:56's... 27-cent hi-test White pump only! if one don't know... the L-88 with correct rect heads is a 12.5:1 CR engine! idles about 900-1100 rpms. )

>Unfortunately, he is not as good as he used to be.

i bet he would say maybe so, but am still good once... as I always was!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

shop pix, great! any plow pix in action???

Not yet, and it bums me out too because it snowy today. I just finished up wiring the wench. Took way longer than anticipated. The wench is a 2500 Ramsey. The contactor and control switch are both Warren. I pretty much scrounged up all the parts. The only thing I had to buy was the wiring. And wiring connectors. A 2500 Ramsey is way overkill fir a 420 Honda 4x4, but there is no kill like overkill! Ha ha ha! I'll be able to set up block an tackle to a tail hold and yard logs up the steep with it though! Seriously! I'll post pics of that when it happens for sure, and it's gonna happen soon!

Merry Christmas everyone and always...

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware,

 

[cantoo]

The expression: "It is cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey" comes from the practice of putting iron cannon balls on a dimpled brass plate on the deck of a war-ship. When very cold the brass contracted sufficiently to cause the iron balls to fall out

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Colder than a Witch's tit in a brass bra!

a woman, stuck in airport, Chicago on news today, interviewed said, " I cannot even make up how cold it is outside, but it is so cold that it even hurts to be outside...."

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

The expression: "It is cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey" comes from the practice of putting iron cannon balls on a dimpled brass plate on the deck of a war-ship. When very cold the brass contracted sufficiently to cause the iron balls to fall out

i found it, too! guess his fone don't google....?

It is widely believed that a brass monkey is a brass tray used in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars for the storage of cannonballs (piled up in a pyramid). The theory goes that the tray would contract in cold weather, causing the balls to fall off.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

looks real cold there c'too! we heard upper areas N border to E... up to 12' snow!!... and or more. we, are finally warming up. stay warm, be safe. thanks for the pix! awesome.... hopefully we will break out of the cabin fever tomorrow! tonite i am burning some oak firewood that is every bit 45 years old. still solid as day one, w/plenty btu's. nice firewood for a Christmas Eve fireside fire. i pulled it as a treat....

i have about 2/3rds cord, mabe closer to 3/4s....

 

[SS396driver]

Only problem with hickory . Getting ready to load it for the night and it has a huge pile of coals

 

[Kodiak Kid]

The expression: "It is cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey" comes from the practice of putting iron cannon balls on a dimpled brass plate on the deck of a war-ship. When very cold the brass contracted sufficiently to cause the iron balls to fall out

That be right mate! Right it be! Merry Christmas! An extra ration of grog fir ye me good man!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

i found it, too! guess his fone don't google....?

It is widely believed that a brass monkey is a brass tray used in naval ships during the Napoleonic Wars for the storage of cannonballs (piled up in a pyramid). The theory goes that the tray would contract in cold weather, causing the balls to fall off.

Don't be need'n google fir that question when you' be a sailor mate!
Also, it not be theory mate. It be fact!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Don't be need'n google fir that question when you' be a sailor mate!
Also, it not be theory mate. It be a fact!

j/k'n ya, kid! and i'll take ur word for it... i just popped it up off the net...

headed out... watch movie with QB... Rumplestiltskin is playing!!! sip some sippin' whiskey fireside! a good one, first saw a version in 4th grade...

and, yes.. i do think some here can spin straw into gold!

 

[cantoo]

Just went out to refill the OWB for the night. Everything was frozen shut due to the swirling snow and high winds. Sure hope this crap is over tomorrow. Good bed of coals. Hard to get good pictures in the dark and the darn snow on the lens. Neighbour just posted that the milk truck didn't make it today due to all our roads being closed. Roads not expected to be open until tomorrow night at the earliest. Said they will be dumping milk in the morning. They milk around 100 cows with robots. Another neighbour with 150 cows will be in the same spot. In our day because we had a variety of animals we could just feed the milk to our pigs.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Went up to our mountain place today, I kept reminding myself to get firewood load pictures. I usually forget. We stopped on the drive out to take these. This is the rest of that black oak I bucked and noodled a few weeks ago, and some pine thrown in to finish the load.



This is a Forest road easement through our property, after loading the oak into the trailer we went up there and cut some pine. You can see it on the sides.


This is what we cut at the spot in the picture above, this is my son’s truck.

 

[samaritan]

Steve pretty much hit it head on. It's wood and it burns. Not the best, far from the worst.

5* about an hours ago when I got home from work. The wind has been a real killer though. Lots of downed trees across power lines and roads.

I just started burning some crab apple I got in the summer, Man it smells good!

 

[farmer steve]

MERRY CHRISTMAS scroungers'.

 

[501Maico]

What are those, when I pull the trigger mine just keep going bang.

Sorta like the bullet accelerator shooters on TV that thrust the gun forward while shooting and never need reloading?

 

[501Maico]

nice shop/pix! an engine lathe with chips in the bed... and none of the floor! amazing.

It's a good thing my shop isn't attached to the house, gives a fair chance for the metal shavings to fall off the tread of my boots before I get inside.

Exactly! The bottom of my shoes takes care of most of them. Tight woven throw rugs seems to pull them right outta the air, especially the small blue "c" shaped ones that make you go ouch and are near impossible to see or remove.

 

[501Maico]

I remember those days of having an 80 - 85 degree basement. I use to have a huge N24 Nashua woodstove down there. Man did that stove produce heat. Then I got stupid and finished off part of the basement and the stove had to go. Worse move I ever made. That stove could produce heat for a good 8 hours in any temperature. Now I have an insert up stairs that puts out a fair amount of heat. Back then I would fill my oil tank once a year. Now it is 4.times a year.

Did you experience no cold water unless you ran it for a while? I have never measured my ceiling temps but they must be 90+ judging from the cold water temps.

 

[H-Ranch]

Presents have been opened, OWB filled with scrounged firewood, and wife is cooking breakfast. Life is good.

Merry Christmas fellow scroungers!