Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Logger nate]

Thanks. Doing nothing is easy to say but not easy to do, so I do wish you luck with it. To be honest, I see too many people who are, in so many different ways, on self-destruct missions. Not saying that's the case with your daughter or her not so significant other, but here I seem to be a magnet for 'em. It got to the point a wee while back I decided I had to cut a few people off because it eventually starts to take a toll on me and those around me I care about. I'm not talking family in need but dysfunctional friends. The most recent one is a mom of two young kids who left her class A junkie father of the kids to make a better life but hasn't been able to make it stick. She'll be back down that road shortly and I've had to cut her loose bc it was messing not just with me but family. She'll absolutely screw up, and all I'm prepared to do is step in to save the kids when (not if) the time comes they are seriously neglected. Until then, best outcome is I'm proven to be so very wrong.

Yeah it’s not easy. There’s a lot more to it, last year she called crying ask me to come get her because his sister was beating on her and he was just standing there not doing anything, he followed later and she didn’t want him around but he wouldn’t leave, had to call the cops. Always something with him, we’ve tried to give them their space and respect them (her) as much as we can but it’s a little much sometimes.
I understand what your saying, have to have priority’s and boundaries sometimes. Always much harder when kids are involved.

 

[SS396driver]

Had a meeting with my boss and the sales manager at the Sporting Clays range at 11am then Lunch. Got home around 2 and went out splitting and stacking. Then a fellow member pulls in to chat a bit.... said “there’s only one blue splitter like yours, that’s how I knew this was your place”. Super nice guy! Fun chatting...

Yes it was great meeting up with you.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Well made some progress on refilling the wood shedView attachment 791569Daughter informed us she can’t talk to use because we are “toxic” and “emotionally abusive” because of our comments about her husband not wanting to work. Originally she came to us complaining about it but somehow he convinced her we’re the bad guys now, so I had some extra motivation, figured better to split wood than do what I wanted . He had a good job driving log truck but quit cause it was too emotionally draining, or something like that. Now they want to move to Oregon cause there’s more free aid and they can smoke pot.
Sorry, usually try not to post anything negative.
How about another wood picture View attachment 791571

Yeah it’s not easy. There’s a lot more to it, last year she called crying ask me to come get her because his sister was beating on her and he was just standing there not doing anything, he followed later and she didn’t want him around but he wouldn’t leave, had to call the cops. Always something with him, we’ve tried to give them their space and respect them (her) as much as we can but it’s a little much sometimes.
I understand what your saying, have to have priority’s and boundaries sometimes. Always much harder when kids are involved.

sounds like you gotta take him to go cutting..... bad accidents happen ALL the time.

I worked with a guy that got shot by his pal while hunting. Pal said it was an accident, but my coworker thinks the guy figured out he was boinking his pals GF. Accidents happen ALL the time. (He got shot in the leg)

 

[SS396driver]

Today's fun

 

[chipper1]

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I like the scrounging ahead barrel in the road.
Looks like some nice wood, it sure can be hard when it gets seasoned.
Looks like you may have misses the spruce just ahead lol.

Just posted this video cutting some ash.

 

[Logger nate]

sounds like you gotta take him to go cutting..... bad accidents happen ALL the time.

I worked with a guy that got shot by his pal while hunting. Pal said it was an accident, but my coworker thinks the guy figured out he was boinking his pals GF. Accidents happen ALL the time. (He got shot in the leg)

Ever seen the movie Fools Rush In?

 

[Logger nate]

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Very nice! Winch and dump trailer, I’m jealous!

 

[KiwiBro]

Yeah it’s not easy. There’s a lot more to it, last year she called crying ask me to come get her because his sister was beating on her and he was just standing there not doing anything, he followed later and she didn’t want him around but he wouldn’t leave, had to call the cops. Always something with him, we’ve tried to give them their space and respect them (her) as much as we can but it’s a little much sometimes.
I understand what your saying, have to have priority’s and boundaries sometimes. Always much harder when kids are involved.

It so tricky. As long as she knows there's another way, another option, help, and there's strength in accepting such help, there's not much else can be done.
If only daughters could stay 12 years old so we can sort **** out and be thanked by society for doing so, rather than seen as interfering in a sovereign adult's life.

 

[Logger nate]

I like the scrounging ahead barrel in the road.
Looks like some nice wood, it sure can be hard when it gets seasoned.
Looks like you may have misses the spruce just ahead lol.
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Just posted this video cutting some ash.

That the same piece you were cutting with your 462? How’d they compare?

 

[MechanicMatt]

Y’all can ask Uncle Mustang, it took my sister nearly 16 years to realize she was with a loser. By then she had 3 kids with this moron. We all helped pick up the pieces and helped her get her life back on track. Thank God she is with a decent man second time around. Treats her three 10,000 times better than their bio dad. She ain’t perfect, far from it, but neither is he and they make it work. Good Luck Nate, maybe one day she’ll come around.

 

[MustangMike]

My 462 and 044 are very close in performance.

I guess I did alright with my 2 daughters, especially considering I was a single parent for 4 years. I was pretty strict, but A couple of years back, at a party, my older Daughter comes up to me and says "I was talking to my sister, and neither of us can ever remember you hitting us". I got a little grin on my face and replied "I didn't have to, because you knew that I would"!

 

[MustangMike]

These are for Cowboy: Split wood at my friend's house in the AM and cut some more of my pile with the 462 in the PM!

 

[Logger nate]

Y’all can ask Uncle Mustang, it took my sister nearly 16 years to realize she was with a loser. By then she had 3 kids with this moron. We all helped pick up the pieces and helped her get her life back on track. Thank God she is with a decent man second time around. Treats her three 10,000 times better than their bio dad. She ain’t perfect, far from it, but neither is he and they make it work. Good Luck Nate, maybe one day she’ll come around.

Thank you! I think she will, she was totally different before she met him. Worked hard, always paid her bills on time, kind, put God first in her life, loved family, so the foundation is there.

 

[Logger nate]

My 462 and 044 are very close in performance.

I guess I did alright with my 2 daughters, especially considering I was a single parent for 4 years. I was pretty strict, but A couple of years back, at a party, my older Daughter comes up to me and says "I was talking to my sister, and neither of us can ever remember you hitting us". I got a little grin on my face and replied "I didn't have to, because you knew that I would"!

Sorry if you already mentioned it but is your 462 muffler modded or anything?

 

[MechanicMatt]

So........
I got an email invitation to go interview for the service manager position at the Chevrolet dealership in Danbury Conneticut. I think I’m going to thank them for considering but decline. I’ve always been a super loyal employee and the current dealership is the one that moved me from Mechanic to Management


But........ half of me says it’s only a 1:15 drive, let’s see what the offer is...... it might be substantially more than I make now

 

[cantoo]

I had to remove some poplars so that Hydro One would install new power lines. No one around to help so did it myself. Trees were leaning seriously toward the poles so had to push them over. Pole install was $4700 so didn't want to damage anything but needed it done right away so they would connect us up. Added the logs to the pile of logs from clearing the lot. Last crappy picture shows a coyote watching me.

 

[dancan]

Scrounged this on the way to town yesterday. It’s nice and dry too.

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Ayup , Ef3Fiddy or the SV6 , I'da stopped

 

[chucker]

Our ten day forecast continues to improve!!


For those not familiar with my area, we are lucky to get a 2 or 3 day “January thaw”. To have an extended thaw in late December and again in January is almost unheard of.
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I just hope the signs are not that of a hot dry early spring... sounds kinda nuts with the snow and all , but nothing is the norm anymore!

 

[chipper1]

I had to remove some poplars so that Hydro One would install new power lines. No one around to help so did it myself. Trees were leaning seriously toward the poles so had to push them over. Pole install was $4700 so didn't want to damage anything but needed it done right away so they would connect us up. Added the logs to the pile of logs from clearing the lot. Last crappy picture shows a coyote watching me.

So did you take the trees down, or just straighten them out, I don't see any cutting going on .
Neighbor had a bush dog on his camera the other day, must have been scouting, went behind our property(about 400' from the house) and then headed back through 45 mins later.
I'll make them howl if they come anywhere I can see them from the house .

 

[chipper1]

I just hope the signs are not that of a hot dry early spring... sounds kinda nuts with the snow and all , but nothing is the norm anymore!

I've never seen a summer as wet as the one we've had here this yr, the rivers have not been to a normal height since last winter and they are still out of their banks. The Lake Michigan shoreline has been having a lot of damage issues as well because the lake is crazy high. Not sure if I said it here, but when we were fishing earlier this yr in Lake Erie just north of Toledo Ohio we had to put boots on to walk out on the dock to the boat, the captain said the lake has never been this high since they started recording it.
Here's pictures I took on the 13th of the river about 1/4 mile from my house, you can see the mud line in the main portion of the river, it went up a lot more after this and it never went back down to even close to not being flooded, and it's been raining here and above freezing the low tonight is supposed to be 33 merican lol.
This is the grand river, one of the largest rivers around here. and it's been banks full or out of the banks almost all summer.

This is the dock when we went fishing on July 15th, you know when it's supposed to be so dry .
This is on Lake Erie.

Here's one of the beaches we like to go to on Lake Michigan, in Holland called Tunnel Park. This was taken in august.

Here's what is missing from the picture above, a little beach front, like 75-85'.

As you can see we have a lot of water, only one thing to come after getting that much water .