OK guys, thanks!!!! My Mom had Beep Beep on a 45 when I was a teenager, and I played it for all my friends all the time! Great Memories!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Correction, I guess I was pre-teen, it was released in 58. But it was timeless, it did not get old! Wish I knew what happened to it! I think I still have my original of Build Me Up Buttercup someplace.
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We are just a few executive orders away.
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Had a stack of the 45's, don't know where they went. Our next door neighbor girl had a habit of fixating on one song at a time. She would put the 45 on the record player, leave the arm that was on top swung off to the side so it would play the same record over and over and over for hours, crank up the volume to the max, and open her bedroom window. Just about drove the whole freaking neighborhood nuts. I heard this song at least 1000 times. I liked build me up buttercup a lot more than the Jolly Green Giant. LOL
Bird making his escape after spending the day in my wood stove. Bubububird bird, bird is the word.....
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They just don't make music like the songs of the 50's and 60's
Well, I got to say I've been very busy the last two days, and will be tomorrow also.
Yesterday morning I took down a cinder block enclosure around an old well that my wife wanted down. Granite sometimes gives my 16 lb hammer trouble, but those cinder blocks were no match of it. I just climbed up on top of it and took down one course at a time. My lats really let me know that I have not swung that hammer for a while! Just to stretch everything out, I went for a bike ride in the afternoon.
I figure from the Beer Cans it was built in the early to mid 60s. Ballantine and Knickerbocker, one opened with a can opener and the others with the early pop tops.
Today, I split the cord of wood I brought to my Daughter not long ago. Now why is it with this nice splitter that it just does not seem a whole lot easier than it used to when I did it by hand??? Well, at least I don't have tennis elbow from doing it!
Yesterday morning I took down a cinder block enclosure around an old well that my wife wanted down. Granite sometimes gives my 16 lb hammer trouble, but those cinder blocks were no match of it. I just climbed up on top of it and took down one course at a time. My lats really let me know that I have not swung that hammer for a while! Just to stretch everything out, I went for a bike ride in the afternoon.
I figure from the Beer Cans it was built in the early to mid 60s. Ballantine and Knickerbocker, one opened with a can opener and the others with the early pop tops.
Today, I split the cord of wood I brought to my Daughter not long ago. Now why is it with this nice splitter that it just does not seem a whole lot easier than it used to when I did it by hand??? Well, at least I don't have tennis elbow from doing it!
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There was a request for pics of my Garden. 15 Broccoli Plants, 12 Tomato Plants, Mounds with 3 different kinds of squash planted, a few beans that started to grow on their own (I pulled them out before I rotor tilled it and re planted them), and one bean pole seeded. I will seed three more on a staggered basis.
I'm also raising a few Robbins under the deck!
Sorry guys, tried to show more pics of the garden but keep getting error messages that the files are too large! Guess i will have to do a smaller garden next year (Ha Ha).
I'm also raising a few Robbins under the deck!
Sorry guys, tried to show more pics of the garden but keep getting error messages that the files are too large! Guess i will have to do a smaller garden next year (Ha Ha).
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Good thing I got that bird nest pic when I did, it is empty today!
Anyway, did some more splitting today. Tomorrow I plan to take a break. They are having a 22 shoot at the club (steel targets). Gonna have some fun.
Don't know if it is my new cell phone or what, but can only post one of the two pics I took today. Message says file it too large! I knew we split a lot of wood!
Anyway, did some more splitting today. Tomorrow I plan to take a break. They are having a 22 shoot at the club (steel targets). Gonna have some fun.
Don't know if it is my new cell phone or what, but can only post one of the two pics I took today. Message says file it too large! I knew we split a lot of wood!
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39* and rain today, had to fire the stove back up.
Found some old pics of scrounginig firewood on my Dads place about 30 years ago with my brother and Dad, cutting with my Dads sthil 051, one of the first saws I ran.
Nice load there mike. We have some american redstarts at our place now, 4 to be exact.
I need to do some reading about them as I'm not familiar with them. They wont be leaving anytime soon as they have a brand new nest they have been working on.
I was thinking about you today when I saw an early 2000's blue mustang and would have taken a picture but I see them often.
I took a picture of this instead
.Rooby Roo LOL.
Ok, maybe you all wanted to see some scrounged wood pictures.
This load came from my buddies that I dropped the ash trees at last week, it's the second full load of 2.5 total.
I loaded this one up with the help of my kids and wife, what a great family activity. Because it was dead standing it was relatively light and easy for my wife and daughters to work with at the trailer while my son and I loaded the bucket and ran the loads to them.
After we were done with that I dropped the 4 other trees that were hanging over his neighbors shed using the winch on my tractor to make light work of it, but it still took a little rigging and planning to get the job done, but I stacked all 4 right on top of each other.
We had to toss the whole load onto the ground today as I got a call from a tree guy who had another load of wood for me
. Green red oak on top, dead standing ash and white oak on the bottom. So a little for my new green bucked wood pile and a little for my seasoned wood pile.
This load came from my buddies that I dropped the ash trees at last week, it's the second full load of 2.5 total.
I loaded this one up with the help of my kids and wife, what a great family activity. Because it was dead standing it was relatively light and easy for my wife and daughters to work with at the trailer while my son and I loaded the bucket and ran the loads to them.
After we were done with that I dropped the 4 other trees that were hanging over his neighbors shed using the winch on my tractor to make light work of it, but it still took a little rigging and planning to get the job done, but I stacked all 4 right on top of each other
. We had to toss the whole load onto the ground today as I got a call from a tree guy who had another load of wood for me
. Green red oak on top, dead standing ash and white oak on the bottom. So a little for my new green bucked wood pile and a little for my seasoned wood pile.
They just don't make music like the songs of the 50's and 60's
no they don't... do they!
hardpan
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Ok, maybe you all wanted to see some scrounged wood pictures.
This load came from my buddies that I dropped the ash trees at last week, it's the second full load of 2.5 total.
I loaded this one up with the help of my kids and wife, what a great family activity. Because it was dead standing it was relatively light and easy for my wife and daughters to work with at the trailer while my son and I loaded the bucket and ran the loads to them.
After we were done with that I dropped the 4 other trees that were hanging over his neighbors shed using the winch on my tractor to make light work of it, but it still took a little rigging and planning to get the job done, but I stacked all 4 right on top of each other
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We had to toss the whole load onto the ground today as I got a call from a tree guy who had another load of wood for me
Great pictures as always. I repeatedly see that huge pile of splits. Does the wood in the center of the pile dry at all, or maybe your burner does just fine with green/wet wood?
Happy Birthday Clint!!! Hope you have a good one.
Nice load there mike. We have some american redstarts at our place now, 4 to be exact.
I need to do some reading about them as I'm not familiar with them. They wont be leaving anytime soon as they have a brand new nest they have been working on.View attachment 504175View attachment 504176
I was thinking about you today when I saw an early 2000's blue mustang and would have taken a picture but I see them often.
I took a picture of this instead
Rooby Roo LOL.View attachment 504177
You do see the snake head in the right hand side of that fist pic, and the little piece of egg shell in the bottom of the nest???
Thanks hardpan.
I'm not totally sure as this is the first time I've done it. I do see many people who sell larger volumes of wood who just pile it up way higher than mine with a conveyor, maybe the wood they have piled like that is for yrs from now, I just don't know personally. Input from others is welcome as I have only burned wood for 6yrs, but it is the only thing I heat with as I have never started my furnace(no, not once in 6 heating seasons). I do have a pellet stove I use when the temps get real low outside or when the inside temps get low when we leave for vacation to get the temp back up quicker.
I try to only throw dead standing or locust, cherry, walnut on there as they dry pretty fast, but if I get a green round and don't feel like setting it aside I throw it on the top. I would think that all the dead standing wood in the pile would help wick the moisture from the pieces that need to dry more. I do have a plan in place for covering the pile with a tarp set up so that it can bee pulled back on clear days and covered on rainy days as I feel ground moisture could really play havoc on the seasoning process. I also have piles of logs at my place that are green(these can be cut as needed for boiler wood sales), and I have a new pile of bucked green wood for next season as well. My plan is that all of that wood in the big pile and rounds is for sale and I will use any shorts/odd cuts in the pile or that will be stuff I can donate to those who have needs and friends.
I have a Pacific Energy indoor wood stove and it hates moist wood as it will put out the secondaries in a newer style stove which cuts your efficiency drastically. I have two yrs of piled wood all split, but not stacked(except walls to contain it) for myself that is very dry as it is 2yrs old. I burn a lot of dead standing black locust from my our property (2.6 acres) for my personal wood. In that last load there is a bunch of white oak that was dead standing that will also be set aside for my personal stash
. I also have 8 cords of red oak rounds that were cut 2.5yrs ago just waiting to be split. I built my wood shed that will hold 8 cord easy(with lots of space still for my tractor/quad) and will start to load that once I get my pallets down and walls on it. I only use about 3.5-4 cord a yr and keep it 72 inside as much as possible.Short question long answer, that's how I roll, LOL.
Have a great weekend.
