I’d be doing some PI work on him
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I was on a 4WD forum a long time. It got bought out a few years ago, and ruined. They said it would stay the same, but there was one change after another. Finally there was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and membership started a new forum. There’s hardly any activity on the old forum now, most moved to the new one. The new one very much has the feel of the old one before the buyout, same people and topics.
I expanded my search area and have looked at more saws for sale in the last 24 hours than I have in a couple of months. I also posted in some firewood and chainsaw Facebook groups I'm in and my phone has been dinging nonstop with tips.
Thanks. I do hope you get your saws back and the thief gets punished!
That $500 462 looked a bit rough - ridden hard and put away wet - but it was a great deal. It will probably clean up OK.
Completely sucks Farmer Steve but keep your chin up. Would have been nice if they were old crapy saws and you were itching to new ones. If you don’t see them again will you buy the same?
The Amish started moving in right about the time I moved out of that country, early '80s. Interesting folks, colorful in a lot of ways. They were, and still are, buying up farm land that was going back to nature as a lot of dairymen found the business getting tough, and their land somewhat worn out. The Amish tend to make a go of it where the "English" might not. Amish sawmills are everywhere, and an Amish sawmill operator built my camp, nice work and very reasonable cost.
While I mostly like the Amish, they have a checkered reputation up there. I do know there's sexual abuse that their community covers up. They are known to harvest deer without regard for legality, canning it up as a commodity. (Don't like that.) Their approach to safety is non-existent. I've seen 10 or 12-yr-old kids driving a buggy down the road, and remember when a 10-yr-old boy who was driving a team pulling a manure spreader fell and was killed by the rig. Missing arms and fingers are common among the male population. When I hired a local mill operator to build me an outhouse several yrs back, I stopped by to check on its progress. The guy's son who was assembling my outhouse--12-yr-old he looked like--was already missing a finger or two. They don't like to mount a slow-moving-vehicle orange triangle on the rear of their buggies (they object to "ornamentation"), and every so often a buggy is hit by a vehicle that cannot see the jet black buggy at night until too late. People & horses die.
Different folks. But I like buying eggs, strawberries (June) and other garden produce from their stands. A friend and I laughed one time--Kenny was hunting for maple syrup, and we bought some from a young barefoot Amish wife at her stand. She had to total up and do some pretty easy math--maybe subtract $3.50 from a five dollar bill--and the look on her face as she struggled with the computation was something we enjoyed in the pickup later.
I've grown up around Amish. There are some decent people, but I have lots of issues with the things they do, and how they treat children, animals and interact with us English. I agree with most of what old cb has said, but could go on for quite some time about the horrors I've seen them do, shrug off and move on with life.
Got 22 tons of gravel delivered today dump got stuck in the mud had to dig out behind the wheels to lay some gravel for him to back up onto then laid down a gravel path . He got it out. I leveled the gravel to almost done and then the sky’s opened up . Picture is before I started
They left the collectible saws. Thank goodness. They would have been harder to replace. Yes if I don't get them back I will be buying the same. My dealer has both a 261 and 462 on the shelf as of today when I was in.
I got lucky today. Made two stops in town coming back from 'wooding', grocery store and hardware store. Hi noon with lots of people around but the bottom section of my 12' extension ladder somehow unloaded itself and took a stroll. Fortunately about $1800 worth of saws in the cab are still there.
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Man, over 4" of rain the past two days. We needed rain bad, but not all at once, lol.
That's OK, the pond is filling up (our water source), so that's good. Plus, the cool weather blew in with it, so chainsaw season is upon us! Got me some new EXL loops from Dan for the 254 and 461, so I'm ready.
Hope y'all are doing good, are healthy, and safe.
That's OK, the pond is filling up (our water source), so that's good. Plus, the cool weather blew in with it, so chainsaw season is upon us! Got me some new EXL loops from Dan for the 254 and 461, so I'm ready.
Hope y'all are doing good, are healthy, and safe.
One of the most beautiful sunsets I can remember since moving in 10 years ago.
A truckload of stone . . . stuck in the mud. Brought back a memory, painful at the time but funny ever since.
Late '80s, or maybe 1990, I was a commercial hay producer. Cut about 60--80 acres of alfalfa (and much else), 5 cuttings a year. Needed an application of lime on a 32 acre field. Don Graham was the local lime guy, he had a hopper truck, I want to say 18 ton capacity? with a spinning thing on the rear that distributed the ground white stone. I was on Don's list, eager to get my lime so I could work the ground, and I knew who all was ahead of me on the list.
Came in at noon one day for dinner and spied Don's truck bogged down at Ray's place a mile south of me. Then saw a huge wrecker sometime later pulling him out of the sandy wet ground. I called Don. "Hey, I've got good solid ground you can stay on top of." He said he'd come by (still had the load he couldn't spread at Ray's place). I met him at the gate to my quarter section down the road and climbed up into the cab. As we traveled across the place back to the 32 acres he said, "I don't know, CB, it looks a bit shaky." "Oh no, Don, it's the high side of the place, we'll be fine." And I believed it.
We pulled into the field, and it was like driving on top of Jello. The ground shook & rippled around us. We made one pass halfway across, spreading lime, before his truck just sank in the sand. He called the wrecker that had recently returned to town after pulling him out of Ray's place. We waited an hour. Wrecker came, hooked onto Don's truck, and the cable just pulled the wrecker backwards. Lots of shoveling. We had to unload lime (crushed stone) from the truck to lighten Don's truck. Did I mention that it was 102 degrees? (Oklahoma summer) Me and Don shoveling till he was played out. Don hopped down from the truck and groaned, "Oh, my back." I kept shoveling. The wrecker busted one of the cast pull hooks on the front of Don's truck, and straightened the other. And ruined the spinner on the rear and one mudflap when trying to draw the truck backwards.
Company's at the door, it's poker night. Gotta go.
We got the truck out. Don tried to absorb the wrecker bill. I felt bad about everything.
I couldn’t re what that was.
Rain definition, water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 0.02 inch
I’d still do some personal investigating. Most of the time (at least around here), LEO aren’t very interested in following up on small time crime.
I’ve heard of individuals running into suspected perp on the street somewhere and recommending that said items be returned. Often they reappear.
Another load from the far away land
