I agreeMy 2016 srw 3500 has a payload 4440lbs in the bed. Iv had that in there and she was just past level. Plenty of room before it was on the axle bumpers
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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I agreeMy 2016 srw 3500 has a payload 4440lbs in the bed. Iv had that in there and she was just past level. Plenty of room before it was on the axle bumpers
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If you know of anyone who has chickens or other type animals that need litter, they will be extremely happy to relieve you of those piles. I keep my neighbor supplied with my noodles. She just called and will be delivering my supper - potato soup.
501Maico
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Scrounging my own tree. A mature Chestnut Oak that has been slowly dying off and base rot is now showing up. With most winds from the west, there was a good chance of it falling on my house if left too long and it was too tall to fall in any direction. I used the 2511 for a few cuts on the trunk until the diameter got to big for the 12" bar. My son was helping on the ground and he hauled up the Makita via a pulley I had attached to my harness for the rest of the cuts. That was nice on my arms not having to pull it up. I just went low enough to safely drop the tree.
I used flat cuts with mini wedges to keep the bar from binding at the end of the cut, chunking down either 16" or 32" lengths.
I used flat cuts with mini wedges to keep the bar from binding at the end of the cut, chunking down either 16" or 32" lengths.
A few loads with some of the splits that my 15 year old daughter made today.
If it's a walnut stump clean it up and mill it... some of the best looking walnut for shop made veneer and gun stocks comes from the stump!
Olduhfguy
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It's all about figuring where the stress is, and calculating where it's going to go 'cause there's no way to stop something that heavy if it makes up its mind to move
Hey guys.
Last night the gf and I went to a burlesque show. It was really good and very entertaining (both comedic as well as the dancers). Today we slept in and then I did a little vehicle maintenance-put the summer tires on my truck, a trip to town to attempt to grab groceries and wash the car (car wash was closed), and walked the dogs a few times. Spring is coming, slowly.
Last night the gf and I went to a burlesque show. It was really good and very entertaining (both comedic as well as the dancers). Today we slept in and then I did a little vehicle maintenance-put the summer tires on my truck, a trip to town to attempt to grab groceries and wash the car (car wash was closed), and walked the dogs a few times. Spring is coming, slowly.
It's elm. It was a double stem, and there is a seam with inclusion pretty close to the middle. I'll probably clean it off a bit with the hose and then cut from the middle out on each side as I could probably move half of it "pretty easily" in comparison to the hole thing lol.
I was talking to a guy at church tonight and he said a friend of his has a machine that makes stocks. He sold him walnut trees that were hollow and the guy would use the crotch wood and leave the rest, then he would make firewood out of it. I never knew there was a machine like that an individual could buy.
Stock duplicators are pretty simple machines. Springfield Armory was using them by the time of the Civil War.
https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/machines.htm has a photo of a wooden duplicator at Springfield.
There is a video here of a metal duplicator.
A woman on YouTube makes airplane props on a homemade duplicator. This video shows a Sopwith prop in process
A couple of my associates at Colonial Williamsburg, VA made a duplicator that used two routers (one spun counterclockwise and one clockwise) so they could make two items at a time.
That's so cool!
Been kinda avoiding dropping this one for a while now.
But after getting three other ash in this area down and cleaned up, crunch time had come.
Gotta love it when a plan works! Removed the gate and fence wires then dropped it in the middle of all three posts and it gently rolled against the gate post. Zero damage. Also dropped another one a bit further back in the woods out between fence posts. That one was balanced to slightly back leaning, had to wedge it over.
Allison helped haul the brush and it's all bucked up, fencing, gate back in place. Several more hours with the maul and hauling to the wood stacks to go.
A bit bigger than they look here, about 3 cord from 3 trees.
But after getting three other ash in this area down and cleaned up, crunch time had come.
Gotta love it when a plan works! Removed the gate and fence wires then dropped it in the middle of all three posts and it gently rolled against the gate post. Zero damage. Also dropped another one a bit further back in the woods out between fence posts. That one was balanced to slightly back leaning, had to wedge it over.
Allison helped haul the brush and it's all bucked up, fencing, gate back in place. Several more hours with the maul and hauling to the wood stacks to go.
A bit bigger than they look here, about 3 cord from 3 trees.
Mulberry?
Here's a video with a better look at the stock duplicator at Springfield Armory. It is in the background in the opening scene:
I wasted 9 minutes watching that stupid thing. Part 1, where is part 2so we can see some thing actually happening to shape it?
This video shows two generations of duplicators in use at Springfield Armory. I was amused the first time I saw this video as I recognized that the early scenes of blacksmiths and gunsmiths was filmed at Colonial Williamsburg, VA and that I knew people in those scenes... Lots of good tinder for fire starting coming out of those stocking processes! I used to go to the cabinet shop to get plane shavings to start our forge...
Patience is a virtue... See the next one I posted...
A few more today.
Who's got time for patience theses days lol.
Thanks for sharing the videos, never seen those used for stocks, but I've see similar for other things, especially lathes.
Didn't do anything with the stump today, no duplicator here lol. I did however think about bringing the hose out there lol. I need to figure out where the split is so I can clean that part of the back side of it, then flip it and clean the other side so I can cut it from the top.
Not sure I'll even be able to lift half of it, but half will fit in the bonfire pit, kind of.
My son’s and I removed a tree at the front corner of our house today. Over the years it grew up against the house, and made spooky haunted house sounds when the wind blew. It was one of the three forks of the trunk that was rubbing the house, and another was really close. It would have looked weird to leave only one, so we brought the whole tree down. It was a weird wood, so we didn’t keep any. Got the whole mess cleaned up already too.
Now that the wind and rain has stopped, I went back out to the farm to get started. One stem of this peppermint was long dead, and as it turned out, full of termite junk.
Some sections were ok but other bits had about 12 inches of a 16 inch round full of termite refuse and mud. Blurk. At least it hardly needed a touch to split and there will be some ok wood in it.
I then made a start on the other stem which was green and untouched by termites. Stihl a little bit to go there but I was running out of light so I chucked some bits in the trailer and called it quits. I'll be able to get out there and do a bit more in the morning.
Some sections were ok but other bits had about 12 inches of a 16 inch round full of termite refuse and mud. Blurk. At least it hardly needed a touch to split and there will be some ok wood in it.
I then made a start on the other stem which was green and untouched by termites. Stihl a little bit to go there but I was running out of light so I chucked some bits in the trailer and called it quits. I'll be able to get out there and do a bit more in the morning.
