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Went back in the woods and skid the main trunks of those trees I posted recently. Made two nice logs, the ash is a little punky at the base, but plenty of good wood left. It measured 19 of my soze 14 Muck boots, while the black cherry measured 19.5. The Cheery has a crack at the base, but I'm thinking I'll still be able to get a decent log out of it for lumber. The ash will be for firewood.

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Also, the full wrap came in from @Haywire, and I decided to try it on the Binford 254XS instead of the 262xp I bought it for. It fit perfect. I just need to get some more of the longer screws/bolts, as one of my bottom ones was stripped out a little towards the end, so the short screw wouldn't bite. Swapped in a longer one from the side and it tightened up perfect.

Now I just need a k095 24" bar for it.
 
Chains work great, but instead I just put Blizzak tires all around on the Truck ... In 4WD I think it will go most anywhere with them and still let me do 60+ on the highway!
Snow tires are good but pushing 20 inches of snow on compacted snow that's now turned into ice without chains you ain't moving . Specially going up hill20190119_103357.jpg
 
I'm about done with the cypress noodling project. I've worked through the better noodleable rounds. For kindling purposes, a round that was just longer than the 16in bar on the 241 would allow noodling in parallel lines one way then with again the round rolled a quarter turn while keeping the whole thing together. Then crosscut the kindling off. 7 or 8 tanks through the 241, about 1200 kindling bits and a 'cord' of noodles.

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I workiong on splitting around 8 cords of Black Locust rounds that are around 20 years old. Very dry and the splitter leaves lots of very thin splinters, most 16" long. I'm a bit slow to wake up but after over a cord through the splitter and throwing the splinters on the burn pile it dawned on my that they would make good kindling. I started saving them on my 2nd trailer load yesterday. Off two loads I have almost 1/2 white 5 gal. bucket full already.
 
I workiong on splitting around 8 cords of Black Locust rounds that are around 20 years old. Very dry and the splitter leaves lots of very thin splinters, most 16" long. I'm a bit slow to wake up but after over a cord through the splitter and throwing the splinters on the burn pile it dawned on my that they would make good kindling. I started saving them on my 2nd trailer load yesterday. Off two loads I have almost 1/2 white 5 gal. bucket full already.
I'll leave ash and oak slivers lay but never locust. I have several 5 gallon buckets of thick locust bark.
 
Snow tires are good but pushing 20 inches of snow on compacted snow that's now turned into ice without chains you ain't moving . Specially going up hillView attachment 886356

Maybe you need one of these.... Ha.

A couple days ago up the hill from here.
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Decided to break out the Vz.58 and ring some steel today. Sunny, 30° very spring like.

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Nice!!!

I've been cranking out .45s on the press, and sorting brass this weekend. No chooting yet, but soon I hope to ring some steel.

That's a beautiful rifle ya got there brother!
 
Well, I have been very busy this year with work, but it is the last day before my Tax Season starts, there is still a bit of snow on the ground, and the temps went above 20* today, so I took my younger Daughter and her 3 kids sleigh riding!

I brought both my Flexible Flyers and they brought some fancy plastic sleds, but by far the fastest sled was my battered, over 60 year old Flexible Flyer (standing next to my Daughter).

Don't know why it is so much faster than the other Flexible Flyer, but I think it is because all the paint is worn off of the rails (I don't put any wax on them). The sled just goes and goes, far further than the others.

I really try to make sure I get them out for this at least once a year!

Everyone had a great time, and I got both my Daughter and her Daughter (reluctantly) to go down on their belly head first! They really liked it after they got used to it!
 

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Got my girls out on the pond today. Had a blast. Then got home for some tortellini and meat sauce. Sadly then got called into work for three hours to jockey the parking lot around in preparation for plowing. Stay safe in the snow fells

BTW Mark, old Mustang Man knows chains do the trick. One year only one vehicle made it to deer camp..... his vehicle with Chains!! All other trucks parked at the bottom of the mountain
 

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Got my girls out on the pond today. Had a blast. Then got home for some tortellini and meat sauce. Sadly then got called into work for three hours to jockey the parking lot around in preparation for plowing. Stay safe in the snow fells

BTW Mark, old Mustang Man knows chains do the trick. One year only one vehicle made it to deer camp..... his vehicle with Chains!! All other trucks parked at the bottom of the mountain
Nice! I like me some pond hockey!
 
One year only one vehicle made it to deer camp..... his vehicle with Chains!! All other trucks parked at the bottom of the mountain

One 4WD trip I was the only one that could get out of the tracks, because everything was iced over. I was the only one with chains, one set on the front.
 
Maybe you should add something positive to the thread, since the last time you posted here was over 6yrs ago and you were talking about girls underwear(gunny is that you?).
Oh wait you're the guy we were talking about who won't bring a proverbial stick to the fire, now I see why you're so insulted, much of the conversation hits home.
Morning Chipper 1. I think you misunderstood my post- as did some others, no big deal but, Let me be clear- I didn't mind the political thread, and we all see its removal struck a nerve with some. I saw it as a valuable place- a forum for those who want to engage in political talk. At the time I made my post- there was two paces of complaints and taking shots at the owners about there wasn't a political forum, and nothing to view about your scrounging efforts. I enjoy seeing what you guys fo through to acquire your wood. I don't have to go far, myself, and have a skidder and a tractor, so my scrounging isn't- its more like getting it from 10-20 acres away and cleaning it up, improving my hunting lanes..... I watch Chainsaw forum alot, but don't mod them or collect them. I have ten that work just fine whenever I use them. I don't have an OWB, but I sit in that forum too- because I do burn firewood I CSS. (I like to smoke Pork, Beef and Fish). I do give away a couple of cord per year to my best friend who is an elder in his JW congregation, and he gets it to people who need it, even in our mild Florida winters- I'm sure its those people only heat. Naturally I look at the OTF- just for the WTF stickie, and the Craigslist saga. Not bringing a stick to the fire? Look- I'm not a taker, I'm a giver, but you guys don't want to hear from me about scrounging wood when it falls down around my acreage by itself. I can commiserate with you about snow, I've been neck deep in it in NY,, PA, Mass. VT and Colorado, and other parts of the world, but I live on the beach, and my acreage 25 minutes away is flat as a pancake, and its never snowed there. As much as I hate to play with my cell phone as a camera or anything other than a phone- (when I get done working at the end of the day, I turn off two laptops and four monitors, and want to get AWAY from these things) I will take a few photos, and post them with a new message in Show Me your woodpile, or the Woodtractor threads, so I might be considered worthy of some status or another- anything other than a taker, or lurker, or non- contributor, or oh my god- did someone call me Gunny? Aint picking no fights, just trying to relay, I don't feel like you should put me on the JV team, I can come in off the bench on the varsity- I do have some intelligence and skills in common with many of you.
 
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