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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Had 11 yards of mulch dumped at my MIL's house yesterday. Just my wife and I got it all spread in just about 5 hours flat. They dumped it at 2 in the afternoon, and I finished cleaning my walk behind and had it loaded, a little after 7 in the evening. When I bought it the deck cover was off to put a new mower belt on. I never got around to sticking it back on, and it's easier to grease open. I got to thinking that if I put the plastic dump wagon bed on it, it would make a great power barrow. So, I cut two pieces of old bed frame angle, and bolted them to the tabs for the deck cover. Took the DeWalt reciprocating saw and cut the wheels off. Then drilled four holes in the angle to mount the frame and pivot to the dump barrow on it. Worked great. Only problem, almost at the end of the day, enough mulch had spilled out and landed on the exhaust pipe, and caught on fire. Glad i was loading and had the hose 5' away. Anyway, I might try and find a smaller walk behind with no mower deck, and build a heavier dump barrow with an electric dump, like on my dump trailer, but smaller of course. Here's a pic with a load on it. Next is trying it out with wood.
Pretty slick!
PSUplowboy
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It’s been a while since I posted anything. That car wreck I was in (February 2017) really knocked my firewood cutting back. I cut this load of locust today-first load hauled home with my new-to-me tractor. It felt good to be out, hopefully I’ll haul a few more of these home soon.
Good chance it'll hang less you work in the open. Still beats doing withoutI'll give that exhaust stack three weeks max. What does everyone else predict?
PSUplowboy
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Till I put a chrome one on? HahaI'll give that exhaust stack three weeks max. What does everyone else predict?
PSUplowboy
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It’s lower than the rops but slips right off if the need arises. It looks like it’s been bent, heated and pushed back before lol
Good chance it'll hang less you work in the open. Still beats doing without
Like the Deere. Ron
I see your 362 didn’t get the memo that 60cc saws are too small for a tree that big. Love my 60cc saws. Ron
Nice Green toys you got there. And here I was thrilled when I got an ATV (to use instead of the lawn tractor)!
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I finally sold my motorcycle so I'm looking at picking up an atv here soon, found a used one I like so I don't feel so bad when I scratch it or roll it down the ravine. Now I'll be able to use that to get to more dead wood and clean things up. I've got an International 856 out here but it doesn't work so well getting wood out of the woods, does however lift 20' sections of trunk of the ground rather well with forks on the rear.
The small block Ford Motors were often "overlooked". They were lighter than the small block Chevy, and had small port heads that provided plenty of torque. In the days before drag radials, low weight was very important. The 289 was very successful in the AC Cobras, kicked the Vette's butt at the track.
My friend, who had a 69 Z-28 Camaro, was furious that my 67 289 Mustang (my first Mustang) would beat him to 60. After that, he pulled right past me, but if I had a 289 Hi Per, it may have been a different story! I had a 600 Holley and Thrush dual exhaust on the Mustang, and it was a torquey SOB (for a small block). With that exhaust, it was loud, and I used to "drift" through turns, before you ever heard of that term.
I remember sliding around a car in a turn, going like a bat outa H*** and then stopping in a store to do some shopping. A few minutes later a lady comes in, starts telling the store owner how this loud car came flying by her, her son said it was a Mustang … we all had to cover our faces and turn away! God I was a crazy SOB. Years later I thought about it, and it scared me.
PSUplowboy
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Thanks! We put in 576 square bales (mulch hay sold for logging roads and landings) last week-toys gotta pay for themselves.
Welcome back, good looking tractor!
PSUplowboy
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4 houses from me. Thats a THIRD of a giant silver. I dont think it was weather related. I pulled in the driveway and could see that there were years of rot where that section attached to the trunk. Like stupid silvers do, it split at the ground and grew into 3 different leaning main sections. I'm guessing its about 30". I only saw a 6" thick ring around half the circumference of the base. I dont think I am touching that one. I have plenty of wood. But I wanted to pull in and see what happened. Ya know, cuz scroungers curiousity.
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I dont see a need for any bigger in these parts.
This is an old pic, but I like it. Big old Silver. It had already lost one big lead. The homeowner was an old friend, He called because the weather was calling for a hurricane in the Carolina's to be in MD in a couple days. A crack in the lead over the house was opening and closing with a gentile wind blowing. I was afraid to put my weight in the top to limb it out. So, I got a 50 ton crane. he had the whole tree on the ground in 4 hours.4 houses from me. Thats a THIRD of a giant silver. I dont think it was weather related. I pulled in the driveway and could see that there were years of rot where that section attached to the trunk. Like stupid silvers do, it split at the ground and grew into 3 different leaning main sections. I'm guessing its about 30". I only saw a 6" thick ring around half the circumference of the base. I dont think I am touching that one. I have plenty of wood. But I wanted to pull in and see what happened. Ya know, cuz scroungers curiousity.
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Thats all one tree?!
