Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I get my wood from arborists.

i get mine from down the street!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Pickles is often reflects my relationship with my lovely partner. That and The Lockhorns

those always made me chuckle!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I have two Wilton vises, here's the second one,

SR

my mechanic's vises are Craftsman 5". and i have 2 of them on my 16' long shop workbench... one gets more use than the other. just likke me - they are over 40 years old!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

This build has 70k the truck itself has 180k

Some of the hickory slab wood from my milling .

I’ve had that before View attachment 1100843

My wife’s prayer flags didn’t even think of them but yes it’s always a wing and a prayer

flags i was thinking more as in pizzaz... sorta like a car lot!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Actually, The service manager (also retired) and I hunt together. My consuming and expensive hobby. I've hunted in just about every state as well as Canada and the house is loaded with mounts, much to my wife's dismay. She don't like the eyes looking at her all the time... lol Here are just a few Mulies I've shot in Nebraska, Montana and New Mexico... plus our place in northern Michigan

i watched a mulie outdoorsman show i recorded from couple days ago last nite. used air guns! actually air bow guns. they titled it suggesting they took hundreds, but actually barely got 3! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Ours as well as the rentals get cleaned every spring when the winter covers come off. What I do is soak the condenser coils down with a solution of Dawn diswash detergent and hot water and let it soak for an hour or so and then take a hose with an adjustable spray nozzle on it set to a fine stream and start at the top and of the units and wash them to the bottom or until the water comes clear. All the junk comes out the bottom. Do that every spring plus I check and lube the cooling fan motor.

i was thinking some Dawn would be good, too. i mean... warm soapy water sure is mean to old dirt n grime. we use it for pots n pans KP. i know how u might check the fan motor, but wondering how you lube it?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

So is the new HF vise and it's under 200 bucks. Not made in USA but then today, what is?

HF made of 'duty cast iron'


wilton vises still made in USA, well some select

more on the subject:

https://usamadeproducts.biz/tools-shop-tools-vises.html

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My friend and me cut this load of firewood the other day,

Anyway, today was the day I pulled it to his house, and we got it all split/stacked,

Well, now it's time to cut another load... lol

SR

imo, your friend has a good friend!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

The "special" glues have been around for ages now. 3m, lord fusor, sem,sika, ect all have been making adhesives for these purposes for well over 15 years now.(possibly longer, I only started using it around 2007) From steel, aluminum, frp, to flexible plastics there's loads of options for adhesives. I haven't welded a non structural panel since I was first introduced to the 3m system. They are all very straight forward and easy to use.
Tr

we got in an fone device other day. for the life of me, i could not get the cardboard end to give it up and open, i tried and tried... the two flaps were stuck seemingly forever like two lost souls in he**!

and i commented: how come what glues i buy at here or there "World's Best" always break with ease... but omg... look at this! totally impossible.

i want some of that glue!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Once you start sweating you are all set for the rest of the day. Just keep hydrated. Going from being nice and comfy to the total sweat part is what I hate.

i am ok. just have to start out with the right attitude, then get into the groove. i can stay there all day. can be tuff to do other things, errands, etc... then try to get into the groove. i usually find indoor excuses...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That's like telling a coke addict, "bet you don't want another line" .
Here's a buddy of mine's old chevy, this is the same guy who's still running a 7900, 81yrs iirc.
This was taken after most everyone else had left the car show, he's on the left.
View attachment 1100961

clean!

i was going to ask, is that u on the R, but then thot... who is taking the pix??

 

[H-Ranch]

Cleaning up some miscellaneous kibbles and bits in the yard today. And splitting up some of the recent ~12 truckloads.
Also scrounged up this from a buddy a few weeks ago. He got it for free from a guy moving out of state and asked for my review of it. (I'm almost thinking he must be mad at me for some reason! )
I told him I expected it to be slow and that the foot pedal is in the way for rounds of the size that I actually would need to split. I was right on both counts, but it technically did split some wood.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

.Scf: I'm a closet pyro at heart.

Nice rides.
Welcome to AS/the scrounge thread .
I run by your place on 23 on a normal basis heading to ohio.

There's a few of us here.

not a closet here, i do campfires even in 101f hot afternoons!


other day and 98f out ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Maybe a nice husky orange .I think this one is 4", iirc I made those jaw covers 5 or 6". I snagged it up with a splitter and a couple saws. When I asked the guy if he wanted to sell it he said he was keeping it because his was broken, I said lets look at it, then showed him how easy it was to repair it, he said sure I'll sell it. I said what do ou want for it, $20, I gave him $40, and he was real please, as was I .Na, hate that grey on the husky clutch covers and other areas of the chassis .

me, too... but a Wilton calls for some respect. but... that said...

each to their own. as i can see the rationale for a junk ol rusty, busted greasie vise remaining junkyard dawg green!

oil to all moving parts, optional ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

and other stuff -

kids invited us over for a cookout yesterday for dinner. smoked bbq ribs! and the works, to include gobs of homemade blueberry cobbler and a full haf-gal of bluebell's Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream! came home with a mother of all doggie bags! enjoyed the company and fare ~


the youngest g/k and i made the tomato and cukes salad. he likes cukes so i showed him how to cut, etc. tomatoes and cukes from garden. i must not have eaten enuff.... (lol, was lost in nap 20 mins after dinner, 2nds on that blueberry cobbler! ) as br scale said less this morning less than the morning before...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

my mechanic's vises are Craftsman 5". and i have 2 of them on my 16' long shop workbench... one gets more use than the other. just likke me - they are over 40 years old!

I have an OLD Craftsman #6,

I don't think it's ever been used. I can't remember who made them for Sears, but they look like good vises for sure.

SR

 

[WoodAbuser]

I have an OLD Craftsman #6,

I don't think it's ever been used. I can't remember who made them for Sears, but they look like good vises for sure.

SR

Looks like it will work in a pinch.

 

[rarefish383]

Actually, they can be repaired as the aluminum sheet panels are glued together but it takes a special adhesive and skill to remove and replace them and most body shops lack the skill as well as the adhesive. Before I retired, I worked at a Freightliner dealership and our body and frame shop was eqiupped with and had the skilled body people to do it. They did it every day because late model trucks are a mix of fiberglass glue on panels and aluminum glue on panels.. They would take the damaged panel off with a heat gun, prep the joint with special cleaner and apply the 2 part epoxy, let it cure and stick on a new panel and then prep and paint the injured area. Freightliner and Western Star hoods are actually made in 3 individual pieces which makes collision repair easier and less costly. If you look at a Freightliner hood, you'll see a seam running from the cowl to the grill. That is where they come apart at. Western Stars come apart at the fender transition. The epoxy comes in a huge 2 barrel setup that requires a special gun to apply. Insurance companies pushed that because hoods are so expensive in one piece. Fords aluminum beds are totally glued together. It ain't Elmers Glue All either...lol

Because it takes skill and specialized tools, most body shops cannot do it.

What I found really interesting was frame straightening and riveted together sleeper repairs. They would strip the sleeper and drill out all the rivets with a special drill motor and rivet in a new panel but first they applied a waterproof compound to the seam. Lots of manual work involved but then crash repair on big trucks is always expensive. They would come in on a hook and leave like nothing ever happened. Same with the frames. We had hydraulic rams in the floor with retractable hooks and stantions in the reinforced concrete and they would measure the frames and pull them and make them straight again and then do alignments. I didn't work in the body /frame shop I was a diesel mechanic, worked primarily on big Cats and when it was slow I drove a truck for them. Worked there almost 30 years prior to retirement and it was a fun, well paying job and I made a lot of friends there that I see to this day.

When Cat got out of the on road diesel business, I retired.

The service manager (also retired) and I hunt together. My consuming and expensive hobby. I've hunted in just about every state as well as Canada and the house is loaded with mounts, much to my wife's dismay. She don't like the eyes looking at her all the time... lol Here are just a few Mulies I've shot in Nebraska, Montana and New Mexico... plus our place in northern Michigan

A friend wanted me to drive with him when I got out of college. He had a cab over Kenworth, I think it was a 74. He had it built for hauling oversize and over weight loads. He went with the cab over to save a few feet in length. It had a Cat V12 with twin 8-71 blowers. We were going up South Mountain, a little foot hill, in MD, with a crane tower on. It was bulky but not overly heavy. Another trucker got on the CB and yelled, "Man What's In That Thing"? I'm empty and can't catch up with you?! It was a cool truck, and a lot of fun. He traded it in on a 79 Trans Star Golden Eagle. Another truck backed into the IH in a truck stop and took off. Bent the frame and they never got it straight. I forget if it was the Teamsters or IH that went on strike right after they got it to fix. It wound up setting for four months. When he finally got it back he was so far in dept with back payments on the loan, he never recovered and got out of trucking.

 

[husqvarna257]

Went out this am to clear some of the brush and small trees away from our driveway. I had one oak tree that was growing right up with a large pine. I was cutting it down and it closed up and pinched the bar just at the end of the cut. The oak had a lean going right over the driveway, so I was confused. I put a tow chain on it and pulled it with the tractor. It came off the stump, but it was still vertical, and the chain had come off . I put the chain up higher and over a branch. The base was moving but it didn't want to fall. At long last it went down. There was a thick grape vine in the pine tree that wrapped itself around the top of the oak. 1st time for that.

 

[rarefish383]

Would this be a Matt Robinson perhaps?

No Matt Noviello, I think he's Mustang Mike's nephew?