Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Sawyer Rob]

finally! some round bales. lol

Yeaa, it's all baled and picked up, I didn't even bother to take any picts...

SR

 

[morewood]

UK all time temperature record smashed before noon today. Temps are expected to peak been 3 and 4 pm. I think there will be a few less climate change deniers here by tonight.

I agree, but would like to know how much is actually caused by human activity and how much through the earths natural cycling. I remember reading about the major flooding.

About scrounging, got a call about a huge downed oak ....just 1.5 miles down the road. Friend called and asked if I wanted it.

 

[djg james]

Yea that’s not good , lm going to Glacier NP beginning of September good amount of grizzlies up there, keep my eyes open

Don't let the bears keep you from enjoying the park. I've been there many times and I wish I could get back there some day. Ran into only one small grizzly on a trail. You going into the back country? If not, many good day hikes there.

 

[Philbert]

Now it's something like 23C. Before noon today we hit 39.1C and I reckon by tonight somewhere is going to top 41C. It is FIRKIN' HOT!

Good thing you guy use ° Celsius; that would be over 100° Fahrenheit !

Philbert

 

[Squareground3691]

Don't let the bears keep you from enjoying the park. I've been there many times and I wish I could get back there some day. Ran into only one small grizzly on a trail. You going into the back country? If not, many good day hikes there.

No problem, like in the previous was on Kodiak Island saw a bunch of Brown bears and have many bears in my home area.

 

[Lionsfan]

finally! some round bales. lol

I heard the federal government was going to outlaw round bales.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Have to listen to the generator to run it. Off grid cabin. Haul water from a spring.

Run pipe an install a tank system. had that at family ranch outside of Coverdale ( since sold). Found the hillside spring source, fed pipe into it then a series of gravity settling tanks. Line to cabin from there.

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Spanish.

The one trail in the entire system up there I never made it to .

 

[mountainguyed67]

May need to reconsider.


Hot and humid SUCKS!

^This.

I checked a while ago and it was 104° and 13% humidity.

 

[mountainguyed67]

u got some good pix for the stump thread...

Stump thread???

 

[mountainguyed67]

The UK heatwave continues. London has had a few cooler days with highs of 26-27C and lows overnight of a more comfortable 15C but Sunday we heat up again. Monday and Tuesday are predicting new all time record highs for the UK. They think we could hit 40C! That's 104 f. Current record is 37.8C. we really don't do hot. Or any extreme weather, so this is infrastructure damaging, road surface melting, railway line buckling hot. It is at least wood pile drying I guess but heck, it's too hot! Supposed to drop back to mid 20s Celsius from Wednesday. That is what we are used to calling hot thank you!

What humidity %?

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I hunted and shot Sitka blk. tails on Afognak, hunted and trapped on Kodiak too...

I always did my fishing a bit further north of there...

SR

Very nice! I hope your time up here was a good time!Trophy blacktail hunting is a passion of mine that ranks right up there with trolling for saltwater Kings. I have a pretty nice collection of trophy bucks that Ive taken over the years, but I do it for the meat also. Although most mature wall hangers are from the main Island of Kodiak,. Here are a couple in my collection off Afognak. Hopefully I'll have at least one more Afognak big buck on the wall this fall!Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

you are right there Sg - or fresh steelhead out of the Green River there in Seattle... i have had both! rewrites the word: delicious!!

that big salmon pix of KK's is awesome... what a grand time!

did he say how much it weighed? or thereabouts?

The bigger one was around 30lbs.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Back in the 70's I bought king crab right off the boats in Homer, 50 cents a pound. Personally, I'm not fond on Dungeness, and also to be honest, I got burnt out on salmon long ago.

Here's the last two I caught,

It's like moose, I've shot so many that I got to the point I wouldn't even shoot them, caribou is just soooo much better eatin!

SR

Nice kings! Looks like they were caught in fresh water. To bad your burnt out on salmon. I was raised on it and have been eating it all my life! Stihl not and never will be burnt out on it! Do you remember the names of the boats you bought your crab off of?

 

[mountainguyed67]

too many to read.... in one fell swoop. for me, at least....

Agreed, I often skip posts that went crazy with multi quote.

 

[LondonNeil]

What humidity %?

About 35%. It's cooler today, forecast is 26C, but humidity 65%

 

[olm911]

Was offered seasoned Japanese cherry so i cut it up and piled the wood with the other exotics in the pile. It will come in handy for camping mid winter when i figure out how to put a hot tent stove in the back of truck that has a camper top.

What type of camp stove? You may be able to fabricate a carrier that will fit your receiver hitch.

 

[ValleyForge]

About 35%. It's cooler today, forecast is 26C, but humidity 65%

I saw this and thought of you…lol

 

[WoodAbuser]

Run pipe an install a tank system. had that at family ranch outside of Coverdale ( since sold). Found the hillside spring source, fed pipe into it then a series of gravity settling tanks. Line to cabin from there.

The spring flows out of a small cave in a rock wall close to the lowest spot on the property. It's a long ways and all uphill to the cabin.

 

[Squareground3691]

I saw this and thought of you…lol

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Yup Mother Nature giveth and she will take it back , evolution of mankind