greendohn
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The shed is nearly full,,enough room for maybe 6 more pick up truck loads!!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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zogger
Tree Freak
Some branches I got from the boss's yard using my new fiskars pole saw turned into zoggerwood scrounge today. Used the oregon batt saw..a little change of pace from running the ported 394
We need to see some progress pictures of mega tree!
Eagleknight
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Contractors came through clearing trees from line in my neighborhood. Haven't seen much wood. My neighbor then decided to cut down the rest of the tree after they trimmed it. I asked if he wanted me to cone and get it, but he said he already had a buddy coming that had an OWB. [emoji22] Bah I wanted an easy scrounge. His pile is a hundred feet from mine.
zogger
Tree Freak
Last ones I posted are it, oakzilla current status. After the first couple days bucking on it, absolute hottest time of the year, I decided to make it a long term project and do it mostly once it cooled off, which is starting now around here, I'll proly run another tank on it this weekend. Of course one tank with a 394 is like near two tons of wood...and a lot of cutters to resharpen, ha! I'm floating around this time of year, working several different projects and work, still mowing a lot. Did a new mailbox support yesterday, freehand chainsaw milled and carved out of cedar logs. It's rough, first time I tried doing something like that. Notice, no pic..more hahahahahaha Beyond rustic, looks to be working though. I can see where carvers like those little dimetip bar ends.
benp
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Oakzilla. That is awesome!!!
I would love to be able to help you with that!!
Dual modded 394's bellering and sucking down fuel like no one's business...... Ralphie may - "whaaaaaat?"
I got the dumped black ash bucked, split, and stacked this afternoon.
Went from this....
To this.....
To this....
In under two hours. Also got a lot put into the burn now pile from it.
I'm pooped.
Neighbor got home and unloaded a dump box with the mini hoe in it. Had to put a track back on. I finished up with the ash and he took care of the track.
When we were done, we had a whiskey.
Standing there looking into the box I saw some stumps with about 15" of tree on them. I asked what they were.
He said white and red oak.
Out came the saw and I was scrounging in the roll off box.
Pfffft.....that was 4 split pieces of oak I wound up with.
benp
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I had a tense moment with a big cat a couple years ago that was following my friend, his brother, and myself dragging a deer out.
That could of been a real bad deal. Deer was shot in the evening and it was drug out in the dark. We kept hearing something behind us and figured it was a coyote because a cat or wolf wouldn't be so sloppy snapping branches as they walk.
Crossed a small stream 100 yards from the truck and my friend shined the light into the grass on the other side of the stream behind us.
There was a pair of wide set bright yellow eyeballs looking right at us within jumping distance.
My buddy ran backwards with the rifle pointed behind us and that deer did not touch the ground until we got to the truck.
Not fun.
three tree stands here.i can only use 1 sat morning. i think your a little over an hour away. how close are you to rt 30?Well its official, I got next Thursday off so I will be hunting Thursday, Friday and maybe Saturday if the weather cooperates. Now I need to find a place to hunt this weekend. I figure two or three days out before I go a way for a week should help get the blood flowing again for hunting season.
I did the cold weather dance and brought in a load of pine last night for early season burning. Hauling wood into the house when it was 70 degrees just feels so so wrong. I am was sweating like a pig. Come on cooler weather. No polar vortex but some 32 deg lows and high 40's would be great for hunting.
nice pics Ben. no leaves on the tree's there looks like mid dec. here.Oakzilla. That is awesome!!!
I would love to be able to help you with that!!
Dual modded 394's bellering and sucking down fuel like no one's business...... Ralphie may - "whaaaaaat?"
I got the dumped black ash bucked, split, and stacked this afternoon.
Went from this....
To this.....
To this....
In under two hours. Also got a lot put into the burn now pile from it.
I'm pooped.
Neighbor got home and unloaded a dump box with the mini hoe in it. Had to put a track back on. I finished up with the ash and he took care of the track.
When we were done, we had a whiskey.
Standing there looking into the box I saw some stumps with about 15" of tree on them. I asked what they were.
He said white and red oak.
Out came the saw and I was scrounging in the roll off box.
Pfffft.....that was 4 split pieces of oak I wound up with.
I got a call this afternoon "Bring your trailer" LOL
Came home with that and a box load in the truck , got plenty that's longer than 3' , I'll put that stuff aside for building stuff , got 3 garbage buckets of end cuts 4" and less , that'll be burnt up first
I also scrounged up a real good shape 14" cast iron frying pan for 1$ from the scrap metal guys , it'll be a great camp pan , just got to get me a camp LOL
Came home with that and a box load in the truck , got plenty that's longer than 3' , I'll put that stuff aside for building stuff , got 3 garbage buckets of end cuts 4" and less , that'll be burnt up first
I also scrounged up a real good shape 14" cast iron frying pan for 1$ from the scrap metal guys , it'll be a great camp pan , just got to get me a camp LOL
benp
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benp
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I forgot. Even started the mending process on the 7900 tonight.
I've never seen any big kitties but my shack neighbor has seen tracks several times.
i"ll be mowin and blowin leaves from the big, no, giant silver maple in the yard for the next 2-3 weeks. i'd cut it down but it keeps the house cool all summer. we did take a "limb" off that was hanging over the house and it made over a 1/2 cord.
benp
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Oh they are around here quite a bit.
Two years ago snowshoeing behind the house, the neighbor and I followed a set of LARGE tracks with an 8 foot bound between them following some running deer tracks.
Two years ago snowshoeing behind the house, the neighbor and I followed a set of LARGE tracks with an 8 foot bound between them following some running deer tracks.
zogger
Tree Freak
I've only seen one cougar, lonnggg time ago, out west. Saw it jump clean across route 66, then it ran up a mountain. Nice kitty. I like big critters..Paleoman! Megafauna! Funniest most unexpected one was camping in Florida, private campground, some kid comes by in the evening, "hey man, wanna see something real cool"? OK, what
"come look"! All right he leads me through a path in the swamp grass, go around a little turn, I look, bigazz elephant standing there! hahahahahahah! Met the lady who owned him and a buncha other critters, circus animal trainer. She was *good* with animals.
"come look"! All right he leads me through a path in the swamp grass, go around a little turn, I look, bigazz elephant standing there! hahahahahahah! Met the lady who owned him and a buncha other critters, circus animal trainer. She was *good* with animals.
Usually the Bears are the first at our gut piles, but the coyotes come also. Many years ago, I hunted till dark, then unloaded my 348 and started walking out on this Hemlock lined logging road. It was dark, and I don't know if it saw me or not, but I have NEVER had a coyote howl this close to me before, I mean very close, I mean shivers running right up your spine. I put the shells back in that gun so fast your head would spin. It was so loud, it almost hurt my ears, and it scared the crap out of me. Never saw it, but it was close, and a long, loud howl! Tell you what, I will never forget it.
I was about 3/4 mile back in the woods a few years back walking home after dark. I had something up on the ridge to my right *shuffle* through the leaves. Pretty sure it was a wolf or wolves but it was big game for sure and it certainly wasn't a deer. I made tracks pretty quickly.
As a kid and early teen I had bears steam roll though the brush in front of me. Totally different than any other animal as it sounds like a bowling ball going through the woods.
As a kid and early teen I had bears steam roll though the brush in front of me. Totally different than any other animal as it sounds like a bowling ball going through the woods.
TMFARM 2009
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USMC615
Wood's Tougher Than Woodpecker Lips...
Many yrs ago when stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC, we ran dogs deer hunting (most eastern shore counties there allow it...even in Ga still). Friend of ours had about 100 head of dogs between beagles and Walkers. We'd load 'em in our trucks/dog boxes, head to the Croatan National Forest (forest land covers three counties, huge National Forest) literally a half mile away from where he lived, and cut'em loose. Was on the backside of a huge waterfowl impoundment by myself when the dogs tuned up big time in a big block of pines and hardwoods, about a hundred yards from me, getting ready to push deer across the road...at least I thought. Everything went quiet, eerily quiet...I turned around and standing on the road about 30 yards behind me was about a 400lb black bear sow, and three cubs, looking dead at me. I put the crosshairs of my 700 BDL 30-06 dead between her eyes and slowly started backing up. Then the dogs started tuning up again and the sow and cubs crossed the other side of the road and headed across a big dry area of the waterfowl impoundment. I called the fellas on my handheld VHF radio and told'em I was heading back to the truck, which was about a half mile away. I was ready for a cold beer. I'll tell ya this much...you couldn't have pushed a straight pin up my rearend when I turned around and stared that sow down with those cubs.
