Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[LondonNeil]

Cycling hard gives me BAD cramps. Or it does in spells, with no difference I could ever ID in fitness or diet. @Cowboy254 will likely know this, cycle a lot (and neglect your stretches) and you'll get an IT band as tight as a piano wire ( tbf, it is very hard to stretch effectively) . Cycle a lot with a tight IT band and your inside thigh (abductors??) Work very hard to counter the it band. I'll tell you now a cramped abductor is very painful. Both legs cramping is really painful.... Both legs cramping abductor muscles and outer/upper thigh at the same time just leads to agony, screaming, writhing on the floor and crying. 3 am usually after a long Sunday ride.... For up to 30 mins.
Tonic water helps.

 

[dancan]

@dancan is (was) the prolific Canadian scrounger with the van. He's been like gold around here for quite a while - hard to find!

I'm still alive and kicking !!!
Life has given me a few curveballs but me and my family are healthy
Living situation has changed , work situation has changed and changed and changed but I still own all my saws and axes lol
You'd be amazed how much gear you can stuff in a Yukon

 

[dancan]

If you guys only knew how much spruce and pine that I ran through the chipper last summer and fall

 

[H-Ranch]

I'm still alive and kicking !!!
Life has given me a few curveballs but me and my family are healthy
Living situation has changed , work situation has changed and changed and changed but I still own all my saws and axes lol
You'd be amazed how much gear you can stuff in a Yukon

Good to hear from you - been missing the almost daily stories to the undisclosed location and returning with a van full of wood. Hope the health continues and that you get a chance to be burning wood again if you want to.

If you guys only knew how much spruce and pine that I ran through the chipper last summer and fall

Heck, I feel bad just seeing downed trees while driving around that won't be firewood so I can only imagine chipping it instead.

 

[LondonNeil]

Hey Dan! Good to know you are ok. We all miss your photos and stories lots. Hope you are getting settled and over any bumps. Hope you're back too.

 

[rarefish383]

I'm still alive and kicking !!!
Life has given me a few curveballs but me and my family are healthy
Living situation has changed , work situation has changed and changed and changed but I still own all my saws and axes lol
You'd be amazed how much gear you can stuff in a Yukon

If your address changed, I need the new one. My New Years Resolution is to get my Christmas cards out early this year, like in the next week or so.

 

[djg james]

Just got back from a fishing trip yesterday and had a lot of catching up to do. Camped at one of the lakes in the Shawnee National Forest system and I was a little surprised at what I saw. All of the Ash trees were cut down and left to lay. Now I know about Emerald Ash borer disease but I didn't see any bug holes except on one log. I just hope it's not the Federal policy to eradicate the EAB by cutting down every, even healthy, Ash tree. What a waste. And what about Ash tree stock once the EAB is gone? My firewood season will probably start in 2-3 weeks once the fishing slows down. I don't know what I'll find at the 2 log yards since some changes have been made. Seems like he's not using them as dump sites anymore. If not, I don't know where I'l cut.

 

[Cowboy254]

Morning fellas, I got out yesterday arvo and scrounged the last of this big blue gum. Had to cut this one and then chuck the bits back up onto the track.







Some of it was getting a bit trashy but that'll hardly matter since it will all be going up in one go.





I'll clean up the bark and junk and toss that on the bonfire as well, need some lighter stuff on top to help get it going early on.

 

[LondonNeil]

Is a chain slowly creeping backwards when a saw is at idle something to worry about?

Just ran a tank through the ms180, cutting up some zogger oak limbs. I noticed at one point the chain moving slightly at idle and was just about to reach for a screw driver to adjust the idle speed when I realised it was creeping backwards! Only slowly, but there it was. Is my ickle saw a sick ickle saw?

 

[tfp]

30 minute cramp duration? Until I started taking magnesium I got really bad cramps sometimes if I stretched my legs just before I got out of bed. For the 30 or 40 seconds they lasted in my calf, there was absolutely nothing else going on in the world around me but that incredible pain. I couldn’t imagine that lasting for minutes, not seconds. I take magnesium a couple of times a week and don’t get cramps unless I forget to take them for a while.

 

[svk]

Two bananas a day for the last few days helped me a lot!

 

[H-Ranch]

Wow, @dancan posting and @Cowboy254 scrounging all on the same page? Fellas, it's beginning to feel like the good ol' days! Why, back then if didn't check the thread for a couple days you would be 10 pages behind.

 

[rarefish383]

Just got back from a fishing trip yesterday and had a lot of catching up to do. Camped at one of the lakes in the Shawnee National Forest system and I was a little surprised at what I saw. All of the Ash trees were cut down and left to lay. Now I know about Emerald Ash borer disease but I didn't see any bug holes except on one log. I just hope it's not the Federal policy to eradicate the EAB by cutting down every, even healthy, Ash tree. What a waste. And what about Ash tree stock once the EAB is gone? My firewood season will probably start in 2-3 weeks once the fishing slows down. I don't know what I'll find at the 2 log yards since some changes have been made. Seems like he's not using them as dump sites anymore. If not, I don't know where I'l cut.

In MD the Ash trees are all but gone. My friends farm had a 100% kill rate. I was at an auction telling another farmer I know, and he said his were all gone, Then a third farmer that over heard us said I could take all the Ash I wanted from his place, 100% kill also.

Is a chain slowly creeping backwards when a saw is at idle something to worry about?

Just ran a tank through the ms180, cutting up some zogger oak limbs. I noticed at one point the chain moving slightly at idle and was just about to reach for a screw driver to adjust the idle speed when I realised it was creeping backwards! Only slowly, but there it was. Is my ickle saw a sick ickle saw?

You might have to tickle, your sick, ickle saw, so it doesn't get fickle.

 

[LondonNeil]

yep cramp for half hour ish. It simply isn't possible to stretch out the abductors and outer thigh together, stretch one and the other is cramping. If it's not so bad i can walk it off a bit, otherwise all i can do is rub my legs. Oddly though I'd go years with no cramp, and then periods suffering quite badly.

 

[dancan]

If your address changed, I need the new one. My New Years Resolution is to get my Christmas cards out early this year, like in the next week or so.

I still have that one so mail away !
Just so y'all know , I started a new gig today , gone into the commercial construction world for one of my old shop customers , at cleanup time this afternoon the labor help was running a cordless Hilti circ saw cutting up scrap lumber into firewood

 

[rarefish383]

30 minute cramp duration? Until I started taking magnesium I got really bad cramps sometimes if I stretched my legs just before I got out of bed. For the 30 or 40 seconds they lasted in my calf, there was absolutely nothing else going on in the world around me but that incredible pain. I couldn’t imagine that lasting for minutes, not seconds. I take magnesium a couple of times a week and don’t get cramps unless I forget to take them for a while.

I was talking to one of my cousins climbers about cramps once. My cousin walked up at the end of the sentence and said, " cramps are the worse, I get them and can't breathe for 30 seconds". Jamie and I were looking for some old ax handles to beat him with. Ten minutes is a mild case, 20-30 is common.

 

[Haywire]

WD40 works good for cramps. Spray it onto the trouble area, don't drink it.

 

[Logger nate]

I forgot if I posted a pic of the rock I planted last week, went back a few pages and didn't see it, so here it is again. It seems to be thriving. I've been watering it for an hour every morning. It even started to produce fruit after a day of two.

I planted a rock today too

Pretty sure it got watered at the bottom but I didn’t go check.


Boss decided to take some logs home with him

 

[Cowboy254]

I planted a rock today too

Pretty sure it got watered at the bottom but I didn’t go check.


Boss decided to take some logs home with himView attachment 904202

Your boss wasn't going to turn those pretty logs into firewood was he? And this is coming from someone who turns everything into firewood.

 

[sean donato]

Morning gents, had plans to start tearing shingles after work today, but have a high wind advisory, don't really want to be up on the roof and get blown off lol. Pretty gusty out right now, and supposedly the wind is to get worse as the day progresses. Guy I work with said he has 3 oaks that are coming down, and I'm welcome to the wood. Gonna hook up with him before works is over and see if I can follow him home and check them out. Then go home, get the dump trailer and kids, and go get some top soil for the wife's flower beds. Get that unloaded and get it in position to fill full of shingles. Been so busy between work and outdoor stuff hardly gotten time to run a saw.
My wife decided she no longer likes where the wood shed is located, and thinks I should move it. (Que eye roll) if I'm being honest I did have plans of making it a good bit bigger and was planning on replacing to roof and poles on the one side of it. Guess it wouldn't be too much work to take the other side of the roof down and pull the poles out. Just gonna wait and see if I have time to take on a project like that this year. Her list of stuff she wants done this summer is long to say the least, and I have the one side of the shed darn near full.