Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I scrounged a broken fishing rod for free at a garage sale yesterday.
It will become part of a magnetic firewood measuring stick.
Philbert
It will become part of a magnetic firewood measuring stick.
Philbert
Load of free Pine already cut up. Thought it was a homeowner by the ad but turned out to be an arborist. I loaded my truck then helped him load his and he was a happy camper. Said he'd call me next time. Hopefully I made a friend with benefits (firewood benefits to be clear). Lol
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Haven't been cutting any wood lately but still have repairs to do. Log trailer has been sitting there empty for a month or more, one of the tires blew. I usually run them at 50 lbs, not sure what happened but glad it was just sitting there. It sure went to heck though.
While on the subject of wood & tires, does anybody who hauls allot of wood in their pickup, do you add some air to your tires? Should I be adding air to my tires when I know I'll be loading up. Or do you just follow the psi that's on the door sticker? I have dodge 1500, 35 psi
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Always check the rating on the tire. For heavy loads, especially at highway speeds, the pressure should be near the max recommended.
The rating on the vehicle is for normal driving.
The rating on the vehicle is for normal driving.
On my Ram 1500 I went to 10 ply tires and run 70 PSI. It handles better, but does bump harder. Kinda makes it feel like a real truck, Joe.
I bartended last night and came home late and got treated to a northern light show. This pic was taken by my sons boss. Guy is a really talented photographer. This is over Georgian Bay. From my place it was a little less spectacular but still a wondrous thing to see. We don't see them often from here.
I run my tires near the max recommended ON THE TIRE. It drives me nuts when I get an oil change and the service tech drops the air pressure to what is listed on the little tag in the door jamb. I do my own oil except in the depths of winter and always tell the service writer to leave my tires alone and they sometimes still change them.While on the subject of wood & tires, does anybody who hauls allot of wood in their pickup, do you add some air to your tires? Should I be adding air to my tires when I know I'll be loading up. Or do you just follow the psi that's on the door sticker? I have dodge 1500, 35 psi
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The one guy always argued with me (I didn't bother getting into the fact that I actually used to do his job) and I finally told him I was fine with my tires wearing out early as I got significantly better mileage all along and that more than covered the price of the tires.
MechanicMatt
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Steve you were a advisor?? I'm looking for one right now, took the shop from averaging 600 hrs a week to 900 by cutting lose slackers and hiring talented techs. Now trying to find the right mix of advisors to get to the magical 1000hr mark. Our owners own 7 dealers, we used to be in 4th place for monthly gross, they fired the last manager of 14 years and gave some crazy mechanic that was always the "voice" of the shop a chance to run things and now we are the #1 shop out of all 7. I was a pretty good mechanic so I can spot other talented techs to hire them, in all honesty it's been a be-otch to find good advisors......
No, actually was a marine mechanic and also ran a rollback and a couple race cars during college. And worked at a car dealership doing many roles.
Cool pics and good memories
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Hauled a atv trailer load out the woods behind the house. Luckily for me I found two more Ash trees the beetle got to. This 262xp is a mean little machine. Didn't even break out the bigger husky.
Flint Mitch
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Cut up this blow down for a buddy. I think it's popple? Was rather large though.
Cut up a double crotch section and the wood was very figured
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Cut up a double crotch section and the wood was very figured
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I went out past the gate on Sunday to pick up some rock for a dry stack wall that I put along the driveway , figured I'd best bring a saw if I was going to scrounge up some rock lol
Rock , spruce , maple and birch
Rock , spruce , maple and birch
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That stump is proving to be a problem even for a decent sized tracked loaderCut up this blow down for a buddy. I think it's popple? Was rather large though.
Cut up a double crotch section and the wood was very figured
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