Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

I guess my good morning post is late but good morning.

Rain and wind all night followed by slushy snow that is still coming down now. I do not think we will get all that much accumulation but it sure makes a mess.

Slept like crap last night, woke up with a headache and sinus drainage (I have bad seasonal allergies which are starting to fire up). A handful of Aleve has me feeling human again.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I guess my good morning post is late but good morning.

Rain and wind all night followed by slushy snow that is still coming down now. I do not think we will get all that much accumulation but it sure makes a mess.

Slept like crap last night, woke up with a headache and sinus drainage (I have bad seasonal allergies which are starting to fire up). A handful of Aleve has me feeling human again.

hi svk - hope you stay on the mend. i dont seem to have allergy issues, but many do down here. the pine and oak green pollen is in full swing. level: EXTREME! da'n stuff is everywhere...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Or can rupture them if shaken up too much.

me, too...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

FWIW my old friend used to use quart oil jugs as well as a tide laundry detergent jug for his mixed gas to fuel up his small outboard. The laundry detergent jugs were very sturdy and also have that little pouring snout so you could fill the top motor as you were driving.

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

 

[svk]

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Small outboards have a tank on the top of the motor.

Like this:

 

[MustangMike]

Both Hop Hornbeam and Hornbeam (AKA Blue Beach) are known as Ironwood. Hop Hornbeam is AKA Lever Wood and is supposed to be very good as a tool handle.

I plan to rehab an old peavey with some of it.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

hi MM - read your post on current work load. good to know rest of year is light-duty for you.... lol

hope not too political -

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Small outboards have a tank on the top of the motor.

Like this:
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oic

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Both Hop Hornbeam and Hornbeam (AKA Blue Beach) are known as Ironwood. Hop Hornbeam is AKA Lever Wood and is supposed to be very good as a tool handle.

I plan to rehab an old peavey with some of it.

speaking of tool handles and scrounges... i was out on a bike ride yesterday in my neighborhood. passed thru this one x-roads where 2 roads cross 2 time. (was on 3rd mile) nada! then on 3rd pass something caught my eye. my scrounge instincts kicke in! a glimmer glow under the sun's reflections. i down shifted the bike, turned around and got off to investigate. looked interesting as i approached it, but what was it. not your average junk in the street stuff... omg -

, 'lookie-here!'

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

my latest scrounge... skin a deer, carve on some wood.... etc, etc.... even open an Amazon package!! lol

a free Buck knife...

in excellent condition, too

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

sometimes, ya just get lucky! ~

https://www.amazon.com/Buck-Knives-284-Bantam-Knife/dp/B00TJSS6GE


(interestingly enuff, half the A-z price direct from the company... sans the shipping. free shipping from A-z, but twice the price... ? )

proved again: no free lunch! lol

Buck knives - nice! https://www.shop-buck.com/

 

[Logger nate]

 

[sean donato]

There are two things you never loan to another man.

1. Your wife.
2. Your chainsaw.

Well, at least he probably won't run your wife in the dirt?

I'd rather loan out my wife then one of my saws, she would get returned my saws wouldnt. Lol.

Was a but dissatisfied in last evening's endeavor. Got over to my mates place at 4:30. His other guy showed up, got up in the tree and started dropping the top out. Wasnt much left up there, took till about 6:30 till he was done. Hooked up a bull line, came down hooked the other end to a short log, did his face, and totally butchered the back cut. Tree fell 20 odd feet to the left of where it needed to be about 3 more feet would have taken out the kids swing set. My mate was too daft to understand what happened. But it's on the ground. I didnt even fire a saw last night. Till the other guy was done, it was pushing 7:15 and we were loosing light fast. I'll run over tomorrow after work and clean the top up, and cut the but down to 20foot lengths so he can haul it off to the saw mill. Big old poplar.

 

[sean donato]

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[olyman]

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[svk]

Don't hear the word daft too much on this continent. It is a good word though.

 

[husqvarna257]

So I got one more gift to go with yesterdays maple syrup. I wake up this am and a tick had dug in deep on my side. Had my wife get it off but it was in there. So spring is here with maple syrup, frogs calling in the pond, my wife's daffodils are coming up and the first tick.

 

[sean donato]

Let's try this picture again....

 

[sean donato]

Don't hear the word daft too much on this continent. It is a good word though.

Have a few mates that live over the pond, I seemed to have picked up quite a bit of their odd sayings.