Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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What is the span of this bridge?
xraydaniel
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I’m lighthearted Francis. Go shine my shoes now.
No worries. It’s all good…he didn’t do you wrong.
He used to be one of my best friends, but it’s water under the bridge. Apparently the “cool” guys over at the now defunct saw pigs were worth selling me out for. His loss!
The Shooters Apprentice
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I’ve currently got a 330 Polaris for the wife and a 400 Arctic cat for my self with 5 speed and high/low range for 10 forward gears and a locking front diff, and i often find myself wishing it had more power, especially in reverse.
The 330 is about worthless for pulling, but rides nice.
The 330 is about worthless for pulling, but rides nice.
Raven Coll
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My favourite broken bolt removal technique uses a mig welder (or a tig if you have one) weld onto the end of the broken piece is as tall as a nut. then while still warm give it a good pounding with a hammer (to help loosen the broken bolt in the block) then drop a nut over the piece sticking up (say a 3/8" nut if a 5/16" bolt) then fill up the hole in the nut welding the nut to the bolt. Undo bolt. sometimes I may break a nut off 2-3 times but it virtually always works. i find it much easier than drilling out or using a easy out. If female thread is at all damaged afterwards then helicoil it. For grade 5 bolts I am happy with 1.5D helicoils, if grade 8 2D and if capcrews and threading into aluminium then I want 3D (you can stack two 1.5D's).
Hopefully the fix is not too much of a nightmare.
But, if you are a semi driver a 4-wheeler is , well, anything on the road with 4 wheels to your 18
Yeah, I know. There are regional differences, we’ve kidded around about it before. Like the square tree thing, a few people got a laugh out of it.
I like the Stihl chainsaw bar scabbards. They have a spot on it for a scrench to snap into.
This one does too. A bit gimmicky but might be useful?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHAINSAW...T-IN-TOOL-KIT-3-16-12-TO-16-BARS/361893561333
That style vertical is the only way I’d split vertical.
40' over the river
Be EXTREMELY careful when weldinng or even grinding on Galvanized..... Welding or burning galvanized metal creates Phosgene Gas see here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosgene
The leaves on the ground and the bark look alot like Turkey Oak here in the south of the south?
I took a few days off and I was almost 20 pages behind, hence the multiquote- sorry.
Only because you said you made a ramp, and it looks like you are on a nice flat spot, I dug up this old pic. I bought a Harbor Freight Motor cycle lift. I had pics where I dumped a load of 30" oak blocks on the court, then went back to get another load. When it was time to start splitting I put the lift between the pile and the splitter. Lowered the lift flat to the ground and rolled the blocks on, then lifted it to the level of the table on the splitter, or you cold just bring it up to the beam. I'd split a thin slab off and let the heavy part rock back on the lift. When all the wood on the ground was split, I backed the trailer up to the lift, raised it to the height of the trailer deck and just rolled the blocks on the lift, then raised them to the height of the splitter. I must have deleted those pics. This pic is of smaller stuff, but you get the idea. Yes I know the tire is flat! I got so many reply's about that flat tire I went out and bought a bigger splitter. Seemed like a valid reason, flat tire on small spitter, get a bigger splitter?
That sounds pretty nice. Our lake has a fifteen fish 10" or longer limit. Only occasionally do we catch a 14". Average is 12".Now I know how my dad felt for the first 15 years of my life. Im pretty lucky I am on a lake that fast limits of 10-14" ones are easy to come by with the possibility of 18" 2" white mister twister and 1/32oz jig is all I use.
Have you ever seen one of those log arches that the casket companies use? I don't know why they use those great arches to move concrete boxes? I want one of them!Just straps from the steel plant. I bet one of those skidding cones would work better so the log wouldn't dig into the ground. If you could build or buy a log arch that would be the hot ticket. I think a few guys in the thread have posted pics of there log arches. I have to go across a 250' bridge over a river so I prefer to have the wood bucked in my dump cart. I've done some interesting things with the 3 wheeler
Oh wow thats a great idea I hadnt thought of that. Looks like it works out pretty good too!Only because you said you made a ramp, and it looks like you are on a nice flat spot, I dug up this old pic. I bought a Harbor Freight Motor cycle lift. I had pics where I dumped a load of 30" oak blocks on the court, then went back to get another load. When it was time to start splitting I put the lift between the pile and the splitter. Lowered the lift flat to the ground and rolled the blocks on, then lifted it to the level of the table on the splitter, or you cold just bring it up to the beam. I'd split a thin slab off and let the heavy part rock back on the lift. When all the wood on the ground was split, I backed the trailer up to the lift, raised it to the height of the trailer deck and just rolled the blocks on the lift, then raised them to the height of the splitter. I must have deleted those pics. This pic is of smaller stuff, but you get the idea. Yes I know the tire is flat! I got so many reply's about that flat tire I went out and bought a bigger splitter. Seemed like a valid reason, flat tire on small spitter, get a bigger splitter?
Spent a good bit of time at my Ranch over the holidays. Drank lots of golden soda, ate alot of meat with my fingers right off the campfire, got my dogs worn out every day, lots of family came out to enjoy, Piggly Wiggly ran up a yearling towards the cabin, and the Poogins tried to vector it, but of course, they are kind of beach bums, and not serious hunting dogs.
Had to get after this Swamp Chestnut Oak, and there was a small element of danger, with the 50' Palm under tension, with another 50' out of the picture to the right on top of it (theres another much larger tree in a different direction I have to get at yet). It took a bit of time, I grappled the top and the small stuff, and the big hollowed out Oak that used to be standing dead and started a brush fire pile as big as a van. Lots of green brush because I also pushed over 4 six inch Ironwood and a few beat up Magnolia and a few small palms, Green as can be, and I didn't even have to use a tire to get it all burning?
Had to get after this Swamp Chestnut Oak, and there was a small element of danger, with the 50' Palm under tension, with another 50' out of the picture to the right on top of it (theres another much larger tree in a different direction I have to get at yet). It took a bit of time, I grappled the top and the small stuff, and the big hollowed out Oak that used to be standing dead and started a brush fire pile as big as a van. Lots of green brush because I also pushed over 4 six inch Ironwood and a few beat up Magnolia and a few small palms, Green as can be, and I didn't even have to use a tire to get it all burning?
Sounds like enough for dinner and then some
KK
I know you appreciate the red bro! Please excuse the low quality pics as I have to take pics of pics on my real old pos ph from about 4 yrs ago
