Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[stihly dan]

A pic of a stump from the latest scrounge.

 

[stihly dan]

After 2 months on this scrounge, this is my take that I have to split this winter by hand.

 

[stihly dan]

And a pic from the bed room.

 

[hardpan]

Just a bit north of you in Columbia.



The one i have is currently just a rolling chassis. It is a 73 and dad has owned it since 76 and he went with his boss to pick it up when it was new in 73. It has the unusual 3600 lb dana 60s under it NP 205 transfer NP 435 swiss watch transmission and 360 ci motor. It has 350,000 abusive hard miles on it and when we tore the second body off the rebilt 360 still ran and pulled like a champ. Dads boss used it to tow 15 or so ton pintle hitch trailers with it for its first 90,000 back before diesels were even concidered for pickups. Now i just need to graduate and get some funds to put it back together again.

Great story. The FE were some tuff old gals.
I think you'll fit in here. You off-topic with the best. LOL.
The funds, aw yes the fricking funds, yet another disparity amongst this crowd. Find the funds before you find the woman. LOL

 

[MustangMike]

The 360/361 FE motor was actually developed for the Edsel. It is a combination of a 390 block and a 352 crank (4.05" bore X 3.5" stroke) and should last just about 4 ever!

 

[hardpan]

And a pic from the bed room.

Some tape the "to do" list to the frig door but you view it from the bedroom window. That could work. LOL

 

[svk]

The 360/361 FE motor was actually developed for the Edsel. It is a combination of a 390 block and a 352 crank (4.05" bore X 3.5" stroke) and should last just about 4 ever!

390 block + 428 crank = x
428 block + 390 crank = y

Go! You are on the clock @MustangMike

IIRC one is 410, the other is 406.

 

[hardpan]

The 360/361 FE motor was actually developed for the Edsel. It is a combination of a 390 block and a 352 crank (4.05" bore X 3.5" stroke) and should last just about 4 ever!

I actually have a spare 360 sitting around. I bought the wrecked 76 truck as a 390 but the serial number says 360. It ran strong. Another one of those "some day" projects.

 

[MustangMike]

Who didn't know that!!! I had a 410 (sold it cause I did not want it). Wish I had a 406, that was a very good motor.

The problem with any of the motors with the 428 crank is they were externally balanced. 390, 406 & 427 all had the same crank (same size anyway), and were internally balanced. The 428 would come apart if you abused it. Conversely, you could beat the daylights out of the motors with the 390 crank and they would not come apart!

352 bore 4.00"; 390 bore 4.05"; 428 bore 4.13"; 427 bore 4.23"

390 crank 3.78" stroke; 428 crank 3.98" stroke.

A 427 block with a 428 crank gave you a 447 ci, any you could bore it to 454.

Wanna talk FE heads??? Oh, and we left out the 332, the first FE motor!

Virtually all the subsequent FE blocks were stamped "352", including my 427.

 

[Greenthorn]

@Greenthorn how'd the lever axe do in the wood? I've used one before and only liked it in ash.

Leveraxe is definitely a species specific axe, it did not like half dead/dried black locust.

 

[square1]

And a pic from the bed room.

FTR...we do NOT want to see a pic of your wood from the bedroom

 

[farmer steve]

FTR...we do NOT want to see a pic of your wood from the bedroom

+1

 

[stihly dan]

FTR...we do NOT want to see a pic of your wood from the bedroom

You don't know what your missing!! Magical Christmas hardwood.

 

[kingOFgEEEks]

Alright guys. In case I get busy, I'm just going to leave my holiday greetings and well wishes here now for everyone.

 

[MustangMike]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all!!!

 

[Fordhighboy1]

Great story. The FE were some tuff old gals.
I think you'll fit in here. You off-topic with the best. LOL.
The funds, aw yes the fricking funds, yet another disparity amongst this crowd. Find the funds before you find the woman. LOL

Already found me a woman but school is the one soaking up the funds right now. lol

Well that and CAD and duck hunting and....

 

[Fordhighboy1]

The 360/361 FE motor was actually developed for the Edsel. It is a combination of a 390 block and a 352 crank (4.05" bore X 3.5" stroke) and should last just about 4 ever!

The original 360 in that truck went 300,000 or so abusive miserable miles and dad only put another in it cause it was already built and the cab was off the truck. Though whoever built the current one did a heck of a job. They managed to build a 360 that could go oil change to oil change.

 

[Erik B]

Merry Christmas to all. Take tomorrow off but get back to scrounging on Saturday

 

[zogger]

Merry almost Christmas! Still raining and just a scosh below flood stage. Tomorrow might be lake city in the fields if it keeps up. Found one artifact today, managed to wade in a little by standing on a shaky log and snatched out a kids tricycle. Just all sorts of stuff get washed downstream. I got tons more "driftwood" branches and logs to scrounge and cut up once I can navigate back down there. Downstream barricade is still holding barely, upstream is completely torn out..

 

[farmer steve]

Merry almost Christmas! Still raining and just a scosh below flood stage. Tomorrow might be lake city in the fields if it keeps up. Found one artifact today, managed to wade in a little by standing on a shaky log and snatched out a kids tricycle. Just all sorts of stuff get washed downstream. I got tons more "driftwood" branches and logs to scrounge and cut up once I can navigate back down there. Downstream barricade is still holding barely, upstream is completely torn out..

nice pic of Zog dog. looks like he/she is on point.