Love that part of Ontario. Have cousins right on 17 close to muskrat lake. Some of my family are fiddlers and play at Pembroke every year.
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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I like the one you found with some cutters going in reverse
His winter is starting now
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
I don't see any of you guys using a loadhandler in your truck beds. Pickeroons instead? I thought the loadhandler was a gimmick but one came up new for sale (unwanted present) for $20. To my surprise, they work very well.
Here's a real-world first-time-user torture test. Obviously if loading it up as much as some of yous fellas would it'll not work too well but just a level load of wood rounds, stacked flat, not on their sides (that guy in the video will learn...eventually), then back up to the splitter and just wind them off the truck as you split. It actually works well. Was doing just this yesterday on a quick SOS firewood job for an old customer and reminded myself how neat and low cost a solution it is.
Here's a real-world first-time-user torture test. Obviously if loading it up as much as some of yous fellas would it'll not work too well but just a level load of wood rounds, stacked flat, not on their sides (that guy in the video will learn...eventually), then back up to the splitter and just wind them off the truck as you split. It actually works well. Was doing just this yesterday on a quick SOS firewood job for an old customer and reminded myself how neat and low cost a solution it is.
Well , since the wife really didn't like the way I was looking at the coffee table earlier today I figured it would be best not to come home empty handed .
Jerry and I practiced social distancing
And we found a honey hole of spruce
Stay safe my friends !
Jerry and I practiced social distancing
And we found a honey hole of spruce
Stay safe my friends !
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
May I suggest some cammo tarp to hide the stacks from govt drones lest you find the wood compulsorily acquired. Only the paranoid survive...
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
That might be an oxymoronAnd we found a honey hole of spruce
Spent about 4.5 hours in the garage and got a lot done. Cleaned off my saw bench top and my main work bench. Also “spayed” the two bumper tie strap chains I had so now they are just semi chisel chains. Sharpened another chain and did some test cuts. Finally I finished pulling apart my cousin’s MS290 (did I mention I hate those saws) and cleaned up the case so I can start putting it back together.
that's where it should be in your description of opp...
Finally gave in and cut several red maples in front of the cabin. Still 2 I didn’t get the chance to process. Nice little pile will get be out again soon to split!
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That mean I should I have said, "Sprucehole score ! Way better than honey ." or "Honey , not nearly as good as a Sprucehole score !" ?
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
What are those weird trees in the background? They don't belong there surely?I've been doing that for years
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Sure, they all said I had a problem, but who's laughing now? Oh yeah, they stihl are.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Might have to install a fireplace and ditch the heat pump.
Lots of comments on 'masks', N95', and 'respirators' being tossed around lately, like these are interchangeable terms and items. This is a good source of information on the differences in design and applications, between some of them, if folks are interested:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/respsource3healthcare.html#e
Mask
Respirator
Some 'surgical masks' protect the patient, from the health care provider breathing or sneezing on them. Respirators protect the health care provider, reducing their risk of inhaling the virus, but they must be fit properly. I was trained that if a respirator fits comfortably, it is probably not being worn correctly. The photos of people wearing either one over their mouth, but not their nose, or with one strap hanging, make me want to pull my remaining hair out.
Philbert
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/respsource3healthcare.html#e
Mask
Respirator
Some 'surgical masks' protect the patient, from the health care provider breathing or sneezing on them. Respirators protect the health care provider, reducing their risk of inhaling the virus, but they must be fit properly. I was trained that if a respirator fits comfortably, it is probably not being worn correctly. The photos of people wearing either one over their mouth, but not their nose, or with one strap hanging, make me want to pull my remaining hair out.
Philbert
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
yeah, great timing - our horsepiddles barely cope with a normal flu season and now they'll have Chinese flu to cope with also. We recently had a case of such an infected person in a hospital but the staff worked out there were 50 of them that may have had potential exposure to him before he was diagnosed and those staff then had to isolate for two weeks. That's just one case, that took out 50 staff for two weeks. Nuts.
Yesterday, two (of ten) tourists on a helicopter flight to our fox glacier happened to mention they had recently arrived in NZ from Hong Kong. The pilot landed them at the nearest police station instead, to be deported for failing to self-isolate for two weeks. That pilot will likely spend at least the next two weeks in quarantine, the 'copter was disinfected, and the other 8 tourists are potentially infected or at least have had their holidays compromised too. I'll be buying that pilot a beer if I ever run into him.
And it's now official, the country closes all non-essential businesses and is on lockdown in 48 hrs time. **** just got real here.
muad
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Your 372 and 346, I wants them. LOL
Finished driving in t-posts to fence in our one hay field to make it a pasture for the year, or so. Got two hot wires strung, then we ran out of wire. Then, the wife finally ran her 180C and used it to trim up some pins where we have been feeding the cows.
I brought the 241 out, but never fired it up.
muad
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Today’s scrounging.
A nice big ash that has been vertically seasoning. Ready to go right in the stove. Got to throw in a pic of my truck too[emoji847]
Just about got the trails cleared wide enough for me to make it all the way to the West side of my property driving along the south property line with my truck.
Good thing I didn’t actually go for it today. After walking through the trails back-and-forth with the wagon we started to notice that there was a bit of swampiness still left after you broke the first few inches of soil.[emoji15]
Would have been stuck guarantee.
Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]
Nice score!! I’ve been hitting my house with mostly dead, standing or recently fallen Ash, for 10+ years now. It’s quite sad really, because Ash is such a good wood and it’s all gone. I do have some live ash trees on my property, but they only get so big (4-6”) and the bore gets them. I really hope at some point we can re-propagate them in our area.
Meanwhile in NZ there are 0.000014% of the population infected by Covoid-19, most will survive............but hey who can believe the NZ Government.
Instead lets rely of the misinformation of the media of all forms.
Arse clown doctor of our nations capital has said there are 4000 cases in Ottawa, then foot in mouth potentially 4000 cases, always works to stir up the masses.
1300ish cases Canada wide and 19 deaths as of 0900 this morning, with a population base of 37,500,000........hmmmm, yet the media and social media are reporting tens of thousands infected here. Likewise who can believe the CDN Government.
Tomorrows another day, be kind, got cut some wood for a neighbour, hell just go outside and play.
Instead lets rely of the misinformation of the media of all forms.
Arse clown doctor of our nations capital has said there are 4000 cases in Ottawa, then foot in mouth potentially 4000 cases, always works to stir up the masses.
1300ish cases Canada wide and 19 deaths as of 0900 this morning, with a population base of 37,500,000........hmmmm, yet the media and social media are reporting tens of thousands infected here. Likewise who can believe the CDN Government.
Tomorrows another day, be kind, got cut some wood for a neighbour, hell just go outside and play.
Lots of mountain ash and maple donated by the city . My youngest son drives mobile plows , graders and backhoe for the city . I recieve a few cord every yr from their cleanup crews city wide. Certainly helps keep the wood sheds full between my own cutting bees !
