Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

Got the parts to fix my tractor today. Hydraulic pump decided to take a crap on Saturday when it was so cold. Luckily I have some good friends that are better mechanics than me. Pump was a tad over $1,200. Hope back to scrounging wood tommorrow.

 

[cantoo]

Viking seems to be a Northeast thing, maybe they’re not shipped this far often.

They are pretty popular 11 and 12 foot for a single or tandem axle truck around here. This is the style we had on the loader and trucks. I couldn't tell you which one was/is better.

Used Municipal equipment here is sold at several different auctions including Richie Bros. Find our what your local Township does with their used equipment, sometimes it gets traded in to Dealers and you might be able to buy off them. FYI, Viking-Cives equipment is made not far from Just Jeff and I.
https://www.vikingcives.com/

 

[rarefish383]

Sweet you have a 600 series? We have a 651, seems to do all we ask of it.

Had. I bought a Massey 135 and it just out worked the old Ford, so I sold it. I know where there is an N series I can get cheap, but I don't know if i want to mess with it,

 

[Brufab]

Had. I bought a Massey 135 and it just out worked the old Ford, so I sold it. I know where there is an N series I can get cheap, but I don't know if i want to mess with it,

We have a 9n we use for light work, it's really reliable but it's also really worn out.

 

[Brufab]

So I just got my first facebook ban....24 hours for saying drug dealers should be hung to dry.

So I take it they weren't caught in the rain without an umbrella

 

[MustangMike]

I think I may end up moving the mount back to the next cross member in the bottom of the frame.

I thought it looked good where it is.

As a reference, I measured from my front tire to the plow and it is about 18", so I hope that helps you with your decision.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Used Municipal equipment here is sold at several different auctions including Richie Bros. Find our what your local Township does with their used equipment, sometimes it gets traded in to Dealers and you might be able to buy off them. FYI, Viking-Cives equipment is made not far from Just Jeff and I.
https://www.vikingcives.com/

Here a snowplow that size is Caltrans or County, I know some private plow places in the mountains have former trucks from both of those. Not sure how they got them, I can search for auctions from those two entities. I looked at the nearest Ritchie Brothers auction in the past, they didn’t have any.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Pump was a tad over $1,200.

Ouch!

 

[GrizG]

Went out and cleared three ash off the trail today. The two in the foreground and one a bit further down the trail in the background. Dominos played by the storm's wind last week took the two... I used my MS261 today as where these trees impacted the trail they ran from about 16" down to about 12" so I didn't see the point in using the MS461. Also, I had to carry the saw quite a ways to get there as I couldn't get the bollard out of the ground at the closest road crossing... it was a saturated and swollen 8x8 PT post in a steel bollard base. The vines were troublesome and time consuming to remove and I was afraid I wasn't going to get the job done on one tank of fuel. It will probably be spring before I can get a truck in there...

By coincidence, my cutting partner happened along on his bicycle on his way to the auto parts store. He stopped and helped move debris off the trail while I cut. We had a brief conversation also... another local bicyclist was killed by a motorist yesterday afternoon not far from the auto parts store. Seriously, this is a small city and this is the 4th bicyclist run down and killed in the past two years.

On the way home I hit the saw shop for a new rim sprocket and a couple chains for the MS461. I sharpened the 3 chains for the MS461 I used yesterday and found that about half the teeth on two of the chains had been sharpened to or beyond the marks... all that remained were little triangles of teeth. The rim sprocket was worn too... I cleaned up the saw and installed the new rim sprocket and a new chain. I had that feeling you got when you put 4 new tires on your car when you were young.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Got some of the Maple split and stacked yesterday and today while the weather was nice. Also split a pickup load of short stuff for a friend who has a small stove.
Miller time...

 

[SS396driver]

Customer (my wife) stated clunking noise from rear of the Envoy . Took a look at it today as it finally was over freezing . The mount for the upper control arm was completely rotted away as was the area on the frame. Car has really only been used in winter for the last 4 years . Was my moms car she bought a new Jeep . Car was always garaged too . Has 112k miles . Shouldn’t happen on a car hardly used in winter but I repaired it .
Replaced the control arm just because I had it apart .

Welded up the nut on the repair plate

And welded in


Going to start looking for a replacement vehicle .

 

[mountainguyed67]

Tried out the Fiskars, so far I like it. Most of this split with one swing, some were one handed. I still have bigger logs I’ll get to before long.

 

[Sierra_rider]

Here a snowplow that size is Caltrans or County, I know some private plow places in the mountains have former trucks from both of those. Not sure how they got them, I can search for auctions from those two entities. I looked at the nearest Ritchie Brothers auction in the past, they didn’t have any.

Our landowner's assn. bought one about that size on a brand new International a couple years back. Lucky me got to drive it back, with the plow attached, through Sacramento rush hour traffic...because I guess I was the only one with a commercial license.

 

[Sierra_rider]

Ok, here's my only scrounge...picked up the Jet mill/drill for $250 today. No, it's not stolen...I've been looking at mills, this would've been an insane deal to pass up. Now I need to trim my wall shelving up, so I can move the black rollaway a little more to the right.

 

[JimR]

They are complete morons. Makes you wonder how much of the activity is some stupid intern with a power trip and how much of it is the computers just saying yes or no.

Sort of like those ****ing assholes who banned my YouTube account for “repeated violations” when I never once had a violation in years of use.

It is not the computers but the idiots that work there.

 

[JustJeff]

Used Municipal equipment here is sold at several different auctions including Richie Bros. Find our what your local Township does with their used equipment, sometimes it gets traded in to Dealers and you might be able to buy off them. FYI, Viking-Cives equipment is made not far from Just Jeff and I.
https://www.vikingcives.com/

I've done work for viking-cives.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Hey, you got James Bond’s old machine.

 

[bob kern]

A looming project…

Too funny

 

[Sierra_rider]

Hey, you got James Bond’s old machine.

I saw that too...I'm guessing some hijinks from the people that worked in the shop that it came from. Or maybe it was numbered for some other reason.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

If you didn't prefill the hpop gwt ready for an extended crank session. Had to do that with my old man's e350 about a year ago. Did the valve cover gaskets, glow plugs, new harness and new orings/D rings. At almost 400k I didn't want to have to mess with it again.

I prefilled that and primed the fuel lines. It fired right up and it running better then ever.