Latest I’ve ever sold wood over here. 5 wheelbarrow loads this size to a customer 1/4 mile away....only pic I had.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Delivering wood in a wheel barrow takes a lot of dedication.
Jasent
ELR junkie
Especially 1/4 mile
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Went way upstate with my brother in law to pick up his half a cow (butchered) while we were up there we swung by his brothers farm to grab a little sled for my niece to play around on. Old girl runs pretty good, I gave it a rip up at the farm
Should say delivered 5 wheelbarrow loads in a vehicle 1/4 mile down the road.....all scrounged wood.
I'm just glad MM's half cow was butchered!
Love it. Is that a 71? My first sled was a 72’ 292 Panther.
Got a slow start to my day. Came home after basketball and had a headache so I rested for a couple hours and headed outside around two. Worked on projects till dark then more inside projects for a couple more hours.
My plow truck appears to have a couple of bad ball joints plus a bad wheel bearing so I’m on limited use till it can get into the shop. Obviously the ball joints aren’t an immediate need but since they need to pull things apart to do the wheel bearing they may as well fix that too.
Tomorrow I need to rewire the lights on my new to me snowmobile trailer and continue to work on outdoor projects.
It was a beautiful sunny day outside and we have an overnight low in the teens. So much better than last week.
My plow truck appears to have a couple of bad ball joints plus a bad wheel bearing so I’m on limited use till it can get into the shop. Obviously the ball joints aren’t an immediate need but since they need to pull things apart to do the wheel bearing they may as well fix that too.
Tomorrow I need to rewire the lights on my new to me snowmobile trailer and continue to work on outdoor projects.
It was a beautiful sunny day outside and we have an overnight low in the teens. So much better than last week.
IIRC, that is about 9/63rds of a cube (or 65/7ths of an arm load), taken 1965/24ths of a stagger on a Saturday night. Nicely done!
Enough to fill her firewood rack...$60 cash. Not a bad deal.
Guys, I do believe I have RAD. Lol.
This doesn’t include the several reels on ice rods, my Muskie reel, nor my vintage spincast or levelwind reels.
This doesn’t include the several reels on ice rods, my Muskie reel, nor my vintage spincast or levelwind reels.
She’s hoping there will be some loose line that she can bat at.
My old cats would try to eat the line if they could catch it when we’d play with them.
Well, when spring was here in January I thought maybe I would be able to lift the wife's Jeep before it got new tires. Didn't want to buy the stock size and look ridiculous after it was lifted for the next couple of years. But now that winter is back, clearly something needed to be done. We have been judicious in our use of it only on plowed roads, even then driving cautiously.
So off to Craigslist I went on Friday night and scrounged up a decent set of winter snow tires mounted on Jeep wheels for a fair price. I'm sure some of you are shocked that Craigslist is still around since fb marketplace is dominating (at least that's what I hear), but there are still deals to be found. I think nearing the end of the season probably helped. OK, I admit that being 1" larger than stock was also a motivating factor.
The 2013 Grand Cherokee wheels fit the 2008 Commander just fine with the exception of a very square shaped wheel weight that just scraped the knuckle. After a few minutes of clean up, everything is good. Seems to go through the snowbanks now without even spinning a tire.
So here is my @MustangMike tires for the next several weeks. @Cowboy254 the Jeep needed new tyres (unfortunately sometimes that actually means new tyres.) Do you think I can pull it off as a belated Valentine's Day gift?
So off to Craigslist I went on Friday night and scrounged up a decent set of winter snow tires mounted on Jeep wheels for a fair price. I'm sure some of you are shocked that Craigslist is still around since fb marketplace is dominating (at least that's what I hear), but there are still deals to be found. I think nearing the end of the season probably helped. OK, I admit that being 1" larger than stock was also a motivating factor.
The 2013 Grand Cherokee wheels fit the 2008 Commander just fine with the exception of a very square shaped wheel weight that just scraped the knuckle. After a few minutes of clean up, everything is good. Seems to go through the snowbanks now without even spinning a tire.
So here is my @MustangMike tires for the next several weeks. @Cowboy254 the Jeep needed new tyres (unfortunately sometimes that actually means new tyres.) Do you think I can pull it off as a belated Valentine's Day gift?
And they all work? More reels than a person can use. I've got a bunch, but once the bail springs go, they're kaput. Hard to find replacement parts on reels that are several years old because manufacturers change models every year. I have an older Mitchell that I'd like to find springs for.
PS. I confess, I have LAD (Lure Acquisition Disease).
I looked over his Mitchell collection too. One of them is a Garcia/Mitchell, those were the good ones.
Looks nice. You definitely got your miles out of the old ones.
I try to acquire multiple wheel combinations so I’ve always got a good set for winter for each vehicle.
One Mitchell and one Shakespeare have bad bail springs. I usually save up till I have a couple of broken ones then bring them or mail them to a reel repair shop. The last place in Minneapolis didn’t do a great job for me so I’m trying a place in Wisconsin this time.
Five of these (the two old levelwind, the Heddon, and two Mitchells belonged to my dad and grandpa plus one Mitchell from my great uncle). I’ve put the levelwind reels through their paces but use the others sparingly.
I do have a lot but at the same point with seven people in the family we do use a number of them frequently (my wife has 3 pink reels of her own for various applications).
I used to but need to start acquiring lures again. They are so damn expensive now too, even jigs! I tie my own spinners so will be doing that before walleye opener starts as I have plenty of components.
Rarely, if ever, you have heard me say that a tire owes me anything at the end of its life. When we first got married, my wife gave me grief over the number of wheels/tires I keep around. I once purchased 11 tires from a place in Texas. The manufacturer had stopped making them and they had the last in stock in the country. I know because I called the manufacturer and they checked all their distributors! It was my all time favorite tire and I would buy more today if I could. Flashback: I'm sounding like Spidey now.
I have a hard time saying no to tires. I’ll save a good tire even if it doesn’t fit something I have at the moment.
