Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Deleted member 150358]

My sons GF is a graphic designer. Would think she'd be a tech nerd but... She uses a simple flip phone. Its a little funny when even my aunts in their 70's & 80's use smart phones. My guess is she gets overloaded with tech in her work life and likes to keep things simple.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

tomorrow's scrounge. if still there. one is more brush than other, but next door to main scrounge... and couple pcs of oak I like... block or so just down the street. city work.



oak for camp fires...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Those cattle give off cyanide and runs into river. High school chemistry teachers family are cattle farmers and Michigan epa wanted them to build a barrier, so run off could not make it to nearby lake or stop operation of farm, went to court and farmer won.

would never be an issue here in Texas! "no siree, bub!"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Holy Crap Chipper!

I have tried, but it has reached it's bursting point:

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

. Well I looked at the live rain radar on my phone in the afternoon and decided to cycle home early.
Now I’m on the World Wide Web conversing with people from all over the world. When I drive in the traffic my phone tells me which is the quickest route based on all the collective live data from virtually every motorist on the road. And knows exactly where I am on earth at any time. The phone can show me aerial images of anywhere in the world in high resolution. Ten years ago drones didn’t exist now you can buy a cheap drone that can automatically follow you skiing down a hill, missing any trees and transmit high resolution live footage to potentially billions of people around the wold all at once. Today virtually every child who’s born deaf (in the developed world) and would have been deaf for the rest of their life now receives a cochlear implant and will live a normal hearing life. There is now a commercial bionic eye implant on the market. Yeh I think you may have missed a few things

over at the University of Houston... you now can order lunch digitally... and a wheeled robot with AI will deliver it. maybe he missed a few things, but tain't nothing compared to what'z coming... for instance, hands off driving. a given. foregone conclusion...

the list is long. and all AI based.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

You don't like the pressure washing system .

it's better pressure down at the car wash... same results possible! ~ lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

LOL, one of those hey I resemble that remark sort of things .

Must not have been an amish church . I remember getting grandpas top of the line vcr, it had a 25' cord on that bad boy, had it hooked up to a sweet console TV .
Soon guys will be saying when we were young-ins they had gas engines on chainsaws and cars.

or "back when I was younger... we had to do all that ourselves. not now... nope, we got Robbie! '



"Robbie!... our new intelligent saw ~"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

When I was little my mom's dad still had a black and white TV at their home. It was off to the side in the living room. Grandpa sat in "his" Lazy boy style chair for most of the day but if grandma was watching something on TV and the Twins were playing, grandpa had a little black and white TV in the far corner of the living room. He would turn that smaller chair over in the corner around so he could watch the Twins.

As a small kid in the early 80's I could not fathom why someone would want to watch a black and white TV. In reality it was a blessing for someone who spend the first 60 years of their life without TV!

I don't remember the first color tv in neighborhood as a kid, but do remember tv antennas on the tv box, b&w.... turn to adj the snow... lol. I remember the JFK, beatles that night on Ed S etc... and I remember getting a Sony Trinitron 21" color... and really having something nice! had the sony tv cart to match, too!

and I can remember art linkletter b&w - kids say darndest thing, howdy doodie, and watched with my mom: Woooood YOU!.... like to be Queen For A Day! ?? early/mid 50's... heck, I can even remember when Houston had NO area codes in fone #'s....

cable? s that?... lol zip codes?? huh??

9-cent postage stamp... and 11-cent gasoline. for history books only!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Don't underestimate the changes of the last 40 years. It is getting to the point where you can't sh*t without a computer involved somehow. Philbert

and dang sure best not to bend over at same time.... over 900 million cameras out there currently... and more coming. many more!! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Technology is always tracking you. The thing that pisses me off, is that if you bring game camera pics to the sherriff in relation to a crime they will not do anything about.

the reason is: AI ! artificial intelligence. AI systems based on 2 things. rules and/or neural systems. latter is currently in lead. and it takes gobs, and gobs and gobs of data. its called - big data. data trains. pattern recognition generation. things and you. us. data on ur everything! AI runs on algorithums... and algorithums take enormously huge amounts of data. everything we do is data. neural AI reads and searches data for patterns... then institutes its own 'machine learning'.

its all coming! to a theater near you. China will be in the forefront of all of this.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Here’s a clip from a documentary on Dorothy Molter, a lady who lived alone in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for nearly 60 years. Sorry for the grainy footage as this is on VHS. Bonus to anyone who can identify the model of saw.

ice is important... was, still is! in cooler today w/o ice?... omg!

I remember early 50's our milk in town delivered in truck that used ice to keep all the dairy products cool. I used to ask the milkman for pce of ice and he would give me one to suck on.. fun stuff for a kid!

I am sure many of you know why the refrigerator is affectionately refered as: the ice box!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Think I’ll just run the oil furnace and drink beer, easier.

 

[LondonNeil]

Joe the rules sound bad, but you helped 2 friends, ran saws and cut some nice wood. That's got to be satisfying.

Why so much dead Oak though? Oak wilt or just a lot of oaks?

 

[al-k]

No spring house? Most of the old farms around here had spring houses and the water was cold all year round...

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yes there was a spring house but it was about 2000 feet away down over a hill. That was a other complaint, when they had to dig a trench from the spring house to the house. lol

 

[farmer steve]

My father occasionally takes his 1874 Winchester .44-40 out, gets a deer everytime...

They are talking opening up semi-autos in PA...it won't be safe to be in the woods.

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With all the development here in S.Central Pa I'm waiting for them to stop rifles and go to Slugs and buckshot. Just a matter of time I think.

 

[steved]

With all the development here in S.Central Pa I'm waiting for them to stop rifles and go to Slugs and buckshot. Just a matter of time I think.

Agree...around here (I'm about five minutes from Cabelas), we still have areas for rifle. I have never hunted down here as we have about 60 acres up in NW PA near Titusville that we hold dear...

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[MustangMike]

All of NY except the Catskills and Adirondacks went slug only … then most of it went back to rifle again (except my stupid County, you can't even shoot a 22 outside), they just found no evidence that the slugs were any safer.

A few years ago, NYS went an entire hunting season w/o one firearm related death (that is a very major accomplishment). Since the NRA provides all of the hunter safety courses, you would think they would be praised by the politicians. But no, they are villainized by the Governor and everyone else. Heck, instead of bashing them, the Gov should be begging the NRA to provide some driver safety training!!!!

 

[MustangMike]

Every house in the area used to have an antenna on the roof, pointed in the direction of the Empire State Building, they broadcast the 7 channels we received. My upstate cousins generally only got 3 channels. We got 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 + 13. A TV set only had 13 channels. TV wire (2 strand) had a black weather resistant coating, and there was a flat section between the wires keeping them about 1/2" apart.

You would hook up the wiring, then one person would be on the roof and another watching the TV, and if you were lucky someone in the middle to help communicate, and you would rotate the antenna till you were told it was pointed correctly, and you would tighten it down.

But TV was free, that is why they had commercials! Now, I pay more for cable services than I do for utilities, and most programs have twice as many commercials as they used to have.

 

[hamish]

I flat out refuse to every pay a satellite or cable company a single cent. My antennae gets me 6 channels and im more than content with that.

 

[svk]

We have Hulu and am considering dropping directtv