Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[bob kern]

Your squaw doesn't like the wheelbarrow in the house, dang bet she doesn't let you put saws on the kitchen counter either . Hard to find a good squaw these days .

Mine don't even like me to leave it in the wheel barrow on the porch and insists on using a rack. Some day, I'm gonna mod me a" pretty " wood rack on wheels and cut out at least on time of handling every piece!!! Lol

 

[chipper1]

Well since I already had that much work in that short axe handle ,I went ahead and worked it down good enough to take a few swings with it for grins and giggles. Really don't notice it being a little off. Guess I'll use it for a bit and get a better feel for it before I decide to finish it on our or change it. It was just a green slab of hickory from some regrowth on a stump. It was coming down anyway so nothing lost. When I get a chance, I will cut some and let them dry.
Anyone have experience with heart wood from a larger tree vs a 4" young tree? Obviously the wood will be quite different but one can't help but wander. I don't normally cut young hickory trees but have done a job or two thinning some thick woods into a nice yard with just a few mature trees.

I was gonna respond to this post in the good morning thread and say ask here, well, now it's here lol.

My delivery drivers love drops where I work. They know I'll have coffee if they're desperate and a bathroom! If there trailer is cluttered, I let them drop pallets and put excess shrink wrap and band strap in my dumpsters. I know how to help get difficult loads off too.( Aka 12' pallets put on the tuck with fork extensions at the dock and now it's at my place and I don't have extensions) I know that's your favorite chipper!
Had one bring me donuts once because drops at my place we're" an oasis of sanity in a desert of stupidity some days!!! "Lol

It's sure nice when people get that there's a lot of crap a guy goes thru out on the rd, then again, most the guys we are delivering to go thru a lot of crap at their place of employment and then get treated like crap by drivers .

Mine don't even like me to leave it in the wheel barrow on the porch and insists on using a rack. Some day, I'm gonna mod me a" pretty " wood rack on wheels and cut out at least on time of handling every piece!!! Lol

Dang, guess you got the crazy you can deal with .
One day I'd like to build a dormer over the front porch and make it into a 3 season room. If I do that and seal it up decent I thought it would be cool to put a wood rack just inside the windows that go out onto the porch, then I could open the windows and just fill the rack from outside, keeping much of the debris outside. But for now I'll just run the wheelbarrow inside on my trashed carpet and not worry about it, but once the kids are gone or older and I redo the flooring, things will change .

 

[bob kern]

Chipper I wish you'd been there a while back. Had a lady that had only been driving about a month. She clearly had not been taught how to do a " hard drop" as we call it down here. Aka shove the pallet right off the edge of the gate vs trying to turn every one of them around. I told her I promised that as soon as the pallet jack wheels dropped off the edge , the pallet would stop. Scared her to death the first time but then she said" you have no idea how much that's going to help me! " She probably weighed a whole 95 lbs and watching her try to 180 a 2000lb skid of copy paper was sad to see. I told her just to remember to go slow and only jack it up enough that it would roll and no more and she'd be fine.

 

[JimR]

I wouldn't want pick up my blocks that high. I split 90% ash on a 30" pine stump with a 17" tire on top. Put the block(s) in tire and walk around with an ax or splitting maul and is faster than the wood splitter I do not have - no gym membership needed.

The day will come when your shoulders tell you enough is enough.

 

[farmer steve]

Don't be burning this stuff!!

 

[Sierra_rider]

Don't be burning this stuff!!


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I'm guessing they think someone is going to come and pay them to remove that tree? I'm always amazed by the fakebook/craigslist tree people...unless the tree is made of gold, I'm not climbing it without being paid.

 

[Vtrombly]

I have a set of 2x10s that I use as a ramp that goes up just over a foot onto the front porch(its about 6' long), I run the wheelbarrow up it to get wood into the house. I back up onto the step near the door and then set the stands down and lifting the tires off the ground, then walk the wheelbarrow backwards into the house, then I wheel it right next to the stove/wood storage. It takes a few good sized loads to fill the rack, then when it's gonna be very cold out I'll pull one more full load right in. That wheelbarrow pretty much lives in the entryway all winter. When it's muddy out I load the tractor bucket up and then get everyone to help carry it in the house, it's usually not a big deal to leave the front door wide open then as if it's muddy, then the temps are warmer.
I also made a nice ramp to go onto the front porch on the other side that I used to move to the step going into the house too. But that was a lot of extra steps walking around to the opposite side of the porch and then you had to move it as well. That one was only about 5-6" tall and a few feet long, I made it with 2x4's and wolmanized plywood.

Yeah that would probably be the easiest way. Way better than carrying it up the steps. The fireplace and where I stack it is right inside the slider so that works well. The back deck I can get about a half a face cord on the back deck and a decent amount inside next to the fireplace. I have the wood tarped outside but it still gets a little damp from the outside air so bringing it in makes it allot better.
My Squaw does not have a problem with the wheelbarrow. She does however have a problem with not being warm so filling up the wood is not a problem.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I think you need some baling wire in there somewhere . That's some jury rigging.

Definitely a backyard rigg'n! And a backyard rigg'n that works well at that!

 

[chipper1]

Chipper I wish you'd been there a while back. Had a lady that had only been driving about a month. She clearly had not been taught how to do a " hard drop" as we call it down here. Aka shove the pallet right off the edge of the gate vs trying to turn every one of them around. I told her I promised that as soon as the pallet jack wheels dropped off the edge , the pallet would stop. Scared her to death the first time but then she said" you have no idea how much that's going to help me! " She probably weighed a whole 95 lbs and watching her try to 180 a 2000lb skid of copy paper was sad to see. I told her just to remember to go slow and only jack it up enough that it would roll and no more and she'd be fine.

Funny stuff.
I used to watch guys struggle to unload skidded steel coils off the side of the flatbed. I'd ask if they wanted help, they'd get pissy and say I do this all day, to which I though, maybe it wouldn't take you all day if you'd take a little advice . I had rubber strips on my trailer, set one on the forks and the skid stays right on the fork to the edge, don't have to try 20 times to move it . That's the difference between working in a few plants receiving, and unloading at hundreds of places every yr for many yrs, you get plenty of exposure to different, and sometimes better ways of doing things.
And when you're as small as she was, you're gonna need as many "cheats" as you can get.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

You just gave me an idea KK that will save me time I'm going to take some scrap wood to make a ramp that I can take on and off the steps on my deck. We stack a big stack in the house next to the fireplace and another one on the deck by the door. Making a ramp will save me a ton of time. Great idea.

Yeah roger. The ramp you see in my pic is removable. It's only really used fir filling the porch. Another backyard Jerry rig that I made out of scrap lying around the property. Didn't cost me much at all to slap together. A guys gotta sometimes make due with what hes got on hand. Especially when its a 100 miles round trip to the hardware store and gas station!

 

[farmer steve]

I'm guessing they think someone is going to come and pay them to remove that tree? I'm always amazed by the fakebook/craigslist tree people...unless the tree is made of gold, I'm not climbing it without being paid.

I think the ad did say bring qualified tree guys for removal.

 

[Vtrombly]

Yeah roger. The ramp you see in my pic is removable. It's only really used fir filling the porch. Another backyard Jerry rig that I made out of scrap lying around the property. Didn't cost me much at all to slap together. A guys gotta sometimes make due with what hes got on hand. Especially when its a 100 miles round trip to the hardware store and gas station!

Absolutely I'm sure time is precious up there anything that saves time is a bonus. I'm not that far from a store here but I also dont believe in not having anything either. I have bins full of hardware and fittings and all kinds of stuff lamp sockets, screw in fuses, nails, screws, stuff of my grandfathers here he was from the great depression so nothing got thrown away if it could be used. I dont know how many things have broken that I've reached into those bins and have repaired without going anywhere.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Absolutely I'm sure time is precious up there anything that saves time is a bonus. I'm not that far from a store here but I also dont believe in not having anything either. I have bins full of hardware and fittings and all kinds of stuff lamp sockets, screw in fuses, nails, screws, stuff of my grandfathers here he was from the great depression so nothing got thrown away if it could be used. I dont know how many things have broken that I've reached into those bins and have repaired without going anywhere.

Yeah exactly! Nothing gets thrown away out here if it might have a possible use anytime in the future! I've had stuff that I salvaged off broken crap sitting in coffee cans and milk crates on the shelf fir years! I'd move it to get to something else and tell myself "Erik! Why do you keep this garbage?" Then the next week I'll just happen to need a piece of that garbage on some sort of project or another! Never fail's.

 

[chipper1]

I think the ad did say bring qualified tree guys for removal.

I always love the "must be licensed an insured".
I like to send them messages and do a bit like on the "Highly Valuable Black Walnut" videos.
Since some may not have seen it yet lol.

 

[farmer steve]

I always love the "must be licensed an insured".
I like to send them messages and do a bit like on the "Highly Valuable Black Walnut" videos.
Since some may not have seen it yet lol.

I sent that vid to one lady that had a crazy HVBW ad. The ad was gone in about an hour.

 

[chipper1]

I sent that vid to one lady that had a crazy HVBW ad. The ad was gone in about an hour.

Ive sent it to a few of them too, that's after messing with them for a bit, "my time is highly valuable, everyone in the universe knows it"

 

[rarefish383]

Anyone have a Lincoln Powerluber battery grease gun? A friend gave me one. When I opened it up to put a new tube of grease in it, I saw the previous owner had used it filling from a large grease tank, not the standard tubes. The seal on the spring loaded shaft wont fit in the tube. I took the tube back out and the seal fits the sleave tight, without a tube in it. All I can assume is it has two seals, one for tubes and one for bulk filling? Can anyone confirm this?

 

[farmer steve]

Anyone have a Lincoln Powerluber battery grease gun? A friend gave me one. When I opened it up to put a new tube of grease in it, I saw the previous owner had used it filling from a large grease tank, not the standard tubes. The seal on the spring loaded shaft wont fit in the tube. I took the tube back out and the seal fits the sleave tight, without a tube in it. All I can assume is it has two seals, one for tubes and one for bulk filling? Can anyone confirm this?

Joe, Google the model number. I looked up that brand and there are some free manual downloads. What I looked at didn't mention different seals but I may not have had the proper model although it did mention different modes of filling. Good luck.
EDIT: I did find some parts diagrams also online. None I looked at showed much in the way of the plunger assembly though.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Mine don't even like me to leave it in the wheel barrow on the porch and insists on using a rack. Some day, I'm gonna mod me a" pretty " wood rack on wheels and cut out at least on time of handling every piece!!! Lol

We use a black plastic jet sled to move wood from the shed to the house. Normally I try to keep a good amount on the pouch stacked, but we use plenty form the shed too.

When it’s real cold I’ve seen the wife unit drag that sled inside the house so she doesn’t have to go out on the porch and get wood

 

[djg james]

Yeah exactly! Nothing gets thrown away out here if it might have a possible use anytime in the future! I've had stuff that I salvaged off broken crap sitting in coffee cans and milk crates on the shelf fir years! I'd move it to get to something else and tell myself "Erik! Why do you keep this garbage?" Then the next week I'll just happen to need a piece of that garbage on some sort of project or another! Never fail's.

Truthfully, I've done some jury rigging in my time. My Brother HATES it when I jury rig something. Even when I spiff it up a little. It still works. And I have a garage full of things that I look at and say to myself "I'm going to need that some time".