Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

Acadia National Park is nice, and I've never been to it, but I hear Mt Washington (NH) is also very nice.

If you are spending any time in NY, let me know, I'm more familiar with what is here.

 

[hardpan]

Acadia National Park is nice, and I've never been to it, but I hear Mt Washington (NH) is also very nice.

If you are spending any time in NY, let me know, I'm more familiar with what is here.

Right now we don't have hard plans on the route or specific destinations. Basically traveling along the Great Lakes, then Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, then maybe loop back along the east coast and whatever time remains, avoiding New York City and New Jersey if possible. Vague at this point. I may have more questions in the future. Thanks for the offer.

 

[svk]

Manchester Center in Vermont is a great little town.

 

[benp]

Mainewoods
We will be heading your direction on vacation in a couple weeks. I have never been to that part of the country. What would be considered "don't miss" attractions in your area for country type folks?

The inexpensive seafood that's incredible.

In '96 or '97 I had a series of 4 rodeos that I went to in a month in Maine.

We....ate....like....KINGS!!!! For pretty cheap considering what we were stuffing out faces with.

 

[zogger]

I am still here, lost my computer so am on a tablet. Never used one so it is a challenge to say the least ! My tower will not power on at all, so guess it was fried. Never had one lose power totally. Good thing I have better luck with the Husky,s or I would be cold this winter!

Fairly easy to trouble shoot old towers if you have some junkers around, you can at least narrow it down. Start with the simple, the power supply, get a used known good one and swap it, see if you can get to the bios.

 

[mainewoods]

Hardpan, if you like country then you can go just about anywhere up here and see plenty of wilderness,lakes and mountains, and an hour and a half later be on the coast watching lobstermen pulling traps in quaint little villages, and the smell of salt air. Not sure where to begin!!

 

[zogger]

Hardpan, if you like country then you can go just about anywhere up here and see plenty of wilderness,lakes and mountains, and an hour and a half later be on the coast watching lobstermen pulling traps in quaint little villages, and the smell of salt air. Not sure where to begin!!

That's pretty much it. Maine is just boonies, a few small to moderate cities, and just two mile outta town, back to boonies, and those first two miles are half boonies.

 

[Oldman47]

I am still here, lost my computer so am on a tablet. Never used one so it is a challenge to say the least ! My tower will not power on at all, so guess it was fried. Never had one lose power totally. Good thing I have better luck with the Husky,s or I would be cold this winter!

A total loss of power is most likely a fried power supply. I just got done installing one in my tower today, had been running on line on the portable the last week or so. Pull the cover from your case, read the label on the power supply and buy a new one the same size or larger. I went totally upscale for my new one and got away with spending less than $100 and an hour of physical work to recover my tower. I really don't care about the tower as such but I have about 10 years of digital pictures on it along with word processed files, tax records, CAD drawings, data bases, etc. that I don't want to ever lose. I have a 1.5 terrabyte external drive that is about to get all of that stuff put on it in case next time I can't recover the PC itself.

 

[hardpan]

Bar Harbor Whale watch company has my wife interested. Acadia National Park sounds great. Cadillac mountain maybe. Seafood is my favorite even if not fresh. You guys paint a heck of a picture, mountains, lakes, boats, lobstermen. I can easily imagine a cold brew on the coast in the evening with sea air. I'll take the boonies over a city any day. Thanks.

 

[MustangMike]

When you sweep across Upstate NY Letchworth State Park and Watkins Glen are definitely worth seeing, ditto Niagara Falls which is a little more commercial.

Upstate NY is nothing like NYC. We have the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. And if you are near New Paltz, Minnewaska State Park is also beautiful.

 

[Ambull01]

Went to my neighbor's wood lot to restock the firewood supply. I had planned on loading up on cherry and oak but he wanted a forked box elder removed so since he lets me take wood whenever I want, I gladly took it down for him.

My S2800 Husky axe hasn't arrived yet so we only had the leveraxes. They worked well on the cherry and smaller BE but I needed to noodle quite a few of the larger pieces. This wasn't a problem as I got more trigger time with the 2186 .

The Leveraxes had sat for some time so needed a little swelling.
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Refreshments for the crew!
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K testing the saw.
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Recently evicted box elder bugs taking refuge.
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Good load.
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Only had 1/2 mile to drive so didn't worry about filling er up.
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My kids tested out the Leveraxe 2.
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Pretty noodles
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Making progress.
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Damn, what's up with the safety hat and shorts? lol. Also, splitting wood barefoot. That's hardcore.

Earlier this summer I pulled the pin and bought a backup van to replace mine , it was nice , 2 years newer , 70k km's less on the odo , 4 newish all seasons , 4 newish winters , all I had to do was swap over the trailer hitch and yank out the seats
Then , a regular comes in , sez he needs a van for his grandmother and can't find anything good out there ,,,, Bye bye new to me van .
So Monday I get a call from another of my customers , want's to know if I'm interested in their work van , cheap , new one came in to replace it , 2000ish sumthin E250 , I told him "You Bethca !!!!
Last week I also bought this as a backup to the van plan .

I'm not sure which would be the better wood scrounger , the E250 or the F250 LOL

Nice powerstroke! Is it the 6.0 engine? I've been helping my father in-law at the marina to learn about diesels. Just rebuilt an old pre-Duramax 6.5l turbo diesel. I think I'm ready for the Cummins 5.9/6.7 Dodge now. I'm getting tired of my caddy and the gutless van.

So I had planned to spend my birthday afternoon rippin up aspen with the 2186 and testing the new S2800 axe. But the power company still hadn't made it to my place yet. I thought they had been around as my friend saw them up the road. Hopefully this week they will make it.

Had parents in law and BIL family over to the hunting cabin for breakfast and then headed to our lake cabin for the rest of the day. Got some swimming in with the wife and kids before a big t storm came through. I think something in my neighbors yard was struck as there was one really close strike. Big Italian dinner with gnocchi,tortellini, and Italian sausage which my wife expertly cooked.

The family got me a flying lesson for my birthday so I'm looking forward to that very much.

So, S2800 vs Fiskars, which would you choose for a day of scrounging?

 

[mainewoods]

Thanks zogger and oldman47, that is exactly what I was looking for. Been inside plenty of chainsaws but never a computer. Looks like I might be able to do it myself ,I hope!

 

[dancan]

No scrounging this weekend , gotta get some time in on the sellin wood pile .
I did get some scrounging tools at a yardsale yesterday , 4 new ten foot 1/2" cable slings .
Reid , it's a 7.3 .

 

[Marine5068]

When you sweep across Upstate NY Letchworth State Park and Watkins Glen are definitely worth seeing, ditto Niagara Falls which is a little more commercial.

Upstate NY is nothing like NYC. We have the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. And if you are near New Paltz, Minnewaska State Park is also beautiful.

Upstate NY is a lifetime of beautiful scenery to take in. I'm in similar environment in Canadian Shield area of southern Ontario with Toronto about 2hrs from me and Lake Ontario about 1/2 hour south.
I feel lucky to live here every day. Just love it. The Jeep trails, thousands of lakes to fish and boat, tons of wildlife and quaint little towns to catch a meal or but some art or Maple syrup, etc. and so quiet that you'll think you're in heaven.

 

[Oldman47]

Thanks zogger and oldman47, that is exactly what I was looking for. Been inside plenty of chainsaws but never a computer. Looks like I might be able to do it myself ,I hope!

PCs are easy compared to a chainsaw. Unless you are dealing with a pretty old one you will have a "form factor" called ATX which means that any new ATX will fit but check the physical dimensions anyway before you buy. You do want the new power supply to fit the old hole. For ease of routing I paid up for a semi-modular and for a "80 plus gold" rating. The 80 + means it will run at high power efficiency thus run cooler. The semi modular means that you only have the cords you need inside your case when you are done. All the loose cords we all used to need to tuck up in some out of the way place will never get connected in the first place, they will be on the shelf with other spare parts. You will have 2 plugs that plug into the motherboard and other connectors that go other places like hard drives or the DVD drive. With a modular power supply you may get lucky and find all of your power needs take the same connector so you can really limit the wire mess by just using one style lead inside the box. I actually got very lucky that way. All of my needs outside the motherboard were the SATA style plug and were close enough to each other for me to use a single cable, although my PS came with 2 of that particular style.

 

[svk]

Damn, what's up with the safety hat and shorts? lol. Also, splitting wood barefoot. That's hardcore.

I was partially noodling and then splitting each piece as I went so I just kept the helmet on. It was hot that day.

So, S2800 vs Fiskars, which would you choose for a day of scrounging?

Read my review in this thread. http://www.arboristsite.com/communi...s2800-splitting-axe-first-impressions.285469/

 

[CrufflerJJ]

A total loss of power is most likely a fried power supply. I just got done installing one in my tower today, had been running on line on the portable the last week or so. Pull the cover from your case, read the label on the power supply and buy a new one the same size or larger. I went totally upscale for my new one and got away with spending less than $100 and an hour of physical work to recover my tower. I really don't care about the tower as such but I have about 10 years of digital pictures on it along with word processed files, tax records, CAD drawings, data bases, etc. that I don't want to ever lose. I have a 1.5 terrabyte external drive that is about to get all of that stuff put on it in case next time I can't recover the PC itself.

I HIGHLY recommend multiple backups for critical info. External drives are cheap. Being the paranoid sort of person that I am, I have a spare drive installed in the tower (for imaging the primary drive, then the spare drive is unplugged in case a virus hits), along with 3 or so external drives stored in at least 2 separate locations. I had a drive nuked by a virus back in the late 90's or early 2000's, and have seen how easily it can happen. Even if you don't get nuked by a virus, hard drives are mechanical devices and they fail at the worst possible time.

 

[MustangMike]

Thanks for the link, and let me know when/if they come out with it in a longer handle. Perhaps the heavier head dictates a shorter handle?

 

[svk]

Thanks for the link, and let me know when/if they come out with it in a longer handle. Perhaps the heavier head dictates a shorter handle?

Yeah I'd say this is an improved version of the original Fiskars Super Split (which had a shorter handle and heavier head than the X27).

 

[Ambull01]

No scrounging this weekend , gotta get some time in on the sellin wood pile .
I did get some scrounging tools at a yardsale yesterday , 4 new ten foot 1/2" cable slings .
Reid , it's a 7.3 .

Nice! The tried and true powerplant. You're going to need a bigger yard to store all your scrounged firewood with that truck.

PCs are easy compared to a chainsaw. Unless you are dealing with a pretty old one you will have a "form factor" called ATX which means that any new ATX will fit but check the physical dimensions anyway before you buy. You do want the new power supply to fit the old hole. For ease of routing I paid up for a semi-modular and for a "80 plus gold" rating. The 80 + means it will run at high power efficiency thus run cooler. The semi modular means that you only have the cords you need inside your case when you are done. All the loose cords we all used to need to tuck up in some out of the way place will never get connected in the first place, they will be on the shelf with other spare parts. You will have 2 plugs that plug into the motherboard and other connectors that go other places like hard drives or the DVD drive. With a modular power supply you may get lucky and find all of your power needs take the same connector so you can really limit the wire mess by just using one style lead inside the box. I actually got very lucky that way. All of my needs outside the motherboard were the SATA style plug and were close enough to each other for me to use a single cable, although my PS came with 2 of that particular style.

You seem to be knowledgeable about so many things. I'm jealous lol. I started my self-study goal to eventually achieve my A+, Security+, Network+, CCNA, and whatever else I decide. I'm changing my Guard MOS to 25N (network/routing related stuff) so I want to prepare myself for the school.

I was partially noodling and then splitting each piece as I went so I just kept the helmet on. It was hot that day.


Read my review in this thread. http://www.arboristsite.com/communi...s2800-splitting-axe-first-impressions.285469/

I haven't scrounged in a while. I've been busy with my job, looking for a new job, my IT self-study, etc. The power company cut down trees all over my neighborhood to be proactive. Time to run the Makita.

Sorry, should have searched for your review. I come straight to this thread, read the new posts, and leave the site.