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Define your idea of lockdown......yes bars, restaurants, libraries etc......are all closed, martial law and curfews are nowhere near. Exercising common sense is.

Guess i have a positive attitude, years of being in a job where you many times you dont know if youll make it home day after day. Run the numbers, do the math, greater percentage of Stihl owners will get there saw started!
Here is an interesting video article on the trends



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Cowboy254
"Who knows what horrors lurk in there."
I had a log this summer that my wife put on the splitter and when it split out came a family of Voles. Not a good situation but she got over it after I took her out for lunch.

I made up a maple evaporator from a 55 gallon drum This week and boiled off sap yesterday. I was happy to get the half gallon I got. Red maples have low sugar vs the Sugar maples and the weather has not been good for collecting sap. The old evaporator was an old wood stove I got for free and fit one heating pan so the 2 6" pan set up in the barrel doubled the boil off.
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Busy day here
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This guy had to go but tight quarters so I called a friend
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Jerry and I were on the bull line and hauled the top down , it was gusty windy and changing directions gust , calm and gust .
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Top down !
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Cowboy254
"Who knows what horrors lurk in there."
I had a log this summer that my wife put on the splitter and when it split out came a family of Voles. Not a good situation but she got over it after I took her out for lunch.

I made up a maple evaporator from a 55 gallon drum This week and boiled off sap yesterday. I was happy to get the half gallon I got. Red maples have low sugar vs the Sugar maples and the weather has not been good for collecting sap. The old evaporator was an old wood stove I got for free and fit one heating pan so the 2 6" pan set up in the barrel doubled the boil off.
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Nice set up . I ended up with just shy of 4 gallons this year .
 
The rest of today’s adventures included scouting for dead fallen or standing (found a lot) found oak and ash. Found 14[emoji16] all good sized. All for future scrounging.


Today i Cut a few up that were already down and cut down one standing dead. Some ash some unknown hardwoods, most likely ash or oak.

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Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]
 
Well with nearly everything closed down, I think I’m going to cut sone wood tomorrow and maybe try to do some organizing in the garage.
Decided to social distance from the cabin. Its easy here this time of year to not get close to people. Unfortunately, the water is opening up, won't be long before the hoards descend
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Geesh, its near as bad as all your fears of black bears
Running low on ammo today, oh well.
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Stopped at the stash and grabbed a few hundred rounds for the .357 Noticed my go to supplier has a notice on the website that shipping is taking longer than usual. Must be a run on ammo as well as TP

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I think we are a short period of time away from lockdown. There are social distancing rules in effect and people can be fined for non-compliance. Our Aussie student is being sent home Monday. We were feeling bad that we hadn't had the opportunity to show her as much of our country as we had planned. This morning I kicked them out of bed at 5 and we road tripped to Niagara falls. Took food and drinks and even a portable potty so no stops. It was cold ay eff this morning so between that and the virus, we had the falls to ourselves other than 3 people we saw from a distance. My daughter is the tall one. Looking over at Murica. Hope everyone is staying safe!
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Nice picture. Been to the falls once myself, one of those places everybody should get the opportunity to see in person.
 

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