Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

This place has a mellow vibe to it...so I try to be really polite and mellow on this forum, I'm a bit different on the dirtbike forum I'm on. People are less mellow there and they have a few members that are confident morons. I'm a much better offroad rider than I am a cutter...so I'm pretty blunt with the morons on that site. They'll just pass on really outdated or blatantly false information to new members looking for advice. I don't really get pissy with them, I'll just casually troll them...they eventually lose their cool and show themselves for who they are.

I try to be a chill guy...except on hunting/shooting sites when the creedmore groupies and pimps show up. There is one writer from Outdoor Life who hates me because I called him out for putting the CM at the top of every single list.

I like AS now. Wasn't always such a fun place back when management allowed the inmates to run the asylum.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I don't think anyone mentioned it, or if they did, I missed it(this thread moves fast)...but I just wanted to point out that this is Pearl Harbor Day. There's not many WW2 vets left, I think I read only 1.8%, so it's a good time to reflect on what their sacrifices meant. Not just the vets that saw active duty, but even the sacrifices the people at home had to endure.

thank you! i have a WWII Pearl Harbor story... i will keep it brief...

my Mom, her family had sailed over from S Diego on their 2-master... to HI (territory then) and she lived on the island when the - -'s attacked it. saw it first hand... she was about 16 at the time. there is more to it, but suffice it to say....

so thanks for the mention. i had not caught up to this date yet today.

 

[svk]

I don't think anyone mentioned it, or if they did, I missed it(this thread moves fast)...but I just wanted to point out that this is Pearl Harbor Day. There's not many WW2 vets left, I think I read only 1.8%, so it's a good time to reflect on what their sacrifices meant. Not just the vets that saw active duty, but even the sacrifices the people at home had to endure.

Hear hear. May we always be vigilant.

 

[Sierra_rider]

Disclaimer.....as a guy who attempts to use the correct sayings, here are my interpretations:

"Just my opinion" has the qualifier of "just" meaning the person making the statement admits there may be a margin of error in their statement.

"In my opinion" means they are pretty sure they are in the right track.

IMHO could be "in my humble opinion" or "in my honest opinion". These could be used to portray that the person is being humble or honest...or this could be loaded with a twinge of sarcasm if the writer knows he's arguing with someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.

The tough part is not everyone follows the same guidelines and it is tough to convey tone across the internet...as opposed to talking with your SO in real life..if they say "fine" or "whatever" you know you are screwed. LOL.

In short I just accept IMHO, IMO, and JMO that the writer is saying they are expressing their truthful opinion.

JMHO (you like that one?)

This is how I kinda see it. I like using it when communicating theories, ideas, or educated guesses that I can't reasonably call a fact. A lot of opinions are almost fact, but aren't necessarily relevant to each person's situation. Case in point would be just the difference in saws, cutting styles, etc between the west and east coast guys.

 

[svk]

This is how I kinda see it. I like using it when communicating theories, ideas, or educated guesses that I can't reasonably call a fact. A lot of opinions are almost fact, but aren't necessarily relevant to each person's situation. Case in point would be just the difference in saws, cutting styles, etc between the west and east coast guys.

Agreed. One thing I learned with age is there are many different ways to skin the proverbial cat.

 

[Sierra_rider]

thank you! i have a WWII Pearl Harbor story... i will keep it brief...

my Mom, her family had sailed over from S Diego on their 2-master... to HI (territory then) and she lived on the island when the - -'s attacked it. saw it first hand... she was abouot 16 at the time. there is more to it, but suffice it to say....

so thanks for the mention. i had not caught up to this date yet today.

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It's actually kind of sad...I had an epiphany that it was Rememberance day and went to check my calendar just to make sure that I wasn't going crazy and....there wasn't anything on the calendar. I could go on about what days are marked on the calendar, but I'll refrain.

 

[Sierra_rider]

How the hell did you get to be 70 years old?

Then I tried to recall back what year I met you and it was several year ago now.

I always think of you at 62-64.

It's crazy how that works. A friend of mine, I met when he was what my dad's age is now...20 years later and he's almost 80, but I still think of him as being 60-62. It helps that he's still active, the guy even still rides dirtbikes, although he usually takes a shortcut to get back to the trucks nowadays...don't blame him really, I hope to be doing the same at his age.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Not with that attitude .
I wanted a raker grinder, everyone on here told me to get in line, well I have one and they’re still in line . Just gotta be ready when one comes up. Many guys will ship too. A very nice 451c just sold on another forum like 3 weeks ago for 750.
Is there anyone around there that has a square grinder.

I’ve never seen one locally. I’ve asked around the saw mill and saw shops and everyone just looks at me with the deer in the headlights stare.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I try to be a chill guy...except on hunting/shooting sites when the creedmore groupies and pimps show up. There is one writer from Outdoor Life who hates me because I called him out for putting the CM at the top of every single list.

I like AS now. Wasn't always such a fun place back when management allowed the inmates to run the asylum.

I hear ya.
I dislike the creedmore not because there's really anything wrong with it, but because of all the hype that people buy into. And then they defend it as if all other cartridges are now and forever obsolete, because the mighty 6.5 cm has arrived...

 

[svk]

I hear ya.
I dislike the creedmore not because there's really anything wrong with it, but because of all the hype that people buy into. And then they defend it as if all other cartridges are now and forever obsolete, because the mighty 6.5 cm has arrived...

Yes exactly!!!!!!

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

While the Stihl LW bars may or may not be the lightest, I would venture that the NON LW Tsumura are the heaviest. I’ve got a 36” Tsumura standard bar and that think feels like Ike it’s 8’ long with how heavy it is, and I’m 6’10” and like long bars.

 

[svk]

Some of the hunting writers are cool guys and others are real blowhards. I was surprised to see the one OL writer (and his brother) trolling and trashing the people who responded to his articles with criticism. Pretty trashy way to respond IMHO.

Not to rant too much but I laugh and the cartridges they recommend in their top ten lists. Especially the ones that are marginal at best for big game.

My great grandfather shot many moose with a .30 remington (rimless version of 30-30). It worked for him because he was a great hunter shooting at short range. I would never recommend that readers of an outdoor magazine take a 30-30 on a moose hunt especially since they are most likely paying big bucks for a hunt. And even less so if they were hunting in grizzly territory.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Some of the hunting writers are cool guys and others are real blowhards. I was surprised to see the one OL writer (and his brother) trolling and trashing the people who responded to his articles with criticism. Pretty trashy way to respond IMHO.

The gun writing industry is a strange place.

I did a gun related podcast for about 2 years, and have wrote a couple articles.

The one incident that really caught be by surprise is when I bought a Henry rifle and posted on my Facebook page that I thought it was junk, and how many issues I had with it (as a side note, the 4th one they have sent me is back at the factory again because none of them have worked)

Anyway. I didn’t write an article. I didn’t trash the brand really. Just posted with the first rifle that I was having issues with misfires and extraction.

You would not believe the number of emails, text, messages and calls I got saying that I was wrong and Henry is a great company and I shouldn’t trash talk them, and they are American made and blah blah blah.

Doesn’t matter if they are American made if they are garbage. Hipoint is American made too.

 

[MustangMike]

I have not done much motorized dirt bike riding even though I did briefly own a Yamaha 360 Enduro back in the day!

But I did ride with a group of crazy road bike riders (pedal bikes), and I've done 59 MPH on my bike (on the downhill) and slalomed down long windy downhills (after climbing up them) at 40-50 MPH only inches away from other riders. If you watch competitions like the Tour De France and don't understand the importance of drafting, you will if you ever ride with a group.

Let me tell you, you had better be on your game doing that! My road bike is Carbon (as are the wheels), the tires are inflated to 120 lbs and are only about an inch wide (actually 23mm is only .9 inch wide), there is no suspension, and it has pincher cork brake pads (discs on road bikes came out later, and they have cork instead of rubber because the rubber will make a carbon wheel so hot the tire will blow).

In addition to having riding skills, you must avoid any potholes, stones, branches, and animals (squirrels, wood chucks, cats, foxes, deer, and even a bear). And I did not even mention the cars (3 times I've had stuff thrown at me from moving cars).

I've witnessed a few crashes, but luckily the injuries were never as bad as they could have been (road rash instead of broken bones). The scariest was when a guy braked hard on a steep downhill curve and his wheel folded and he went across the road just barely being missed by a car coming from the opposite direction. Luckily, the car driver braked hard and fast, but I always replay that one in my mind any time I'm thinking of taking too much risk.

Another time a deer ran out from behind a solid fence and our lead rider hit is so hard that the bike cartwheeled over the front wheel. He tucked, but had the wind knocked out of him when he landed, and he stayed on the pavement for about 10 minutes. An ambulance crew arrived, checked him out, applied a few bandages and he rode home!

I've gone down several times when mountain biking, but never when road biking. Age and injuries have taken their toll, so almost all my rides now are solo, but I do miss the good old days. We used to ride 4 days a week, 25-35 miles on weekdays and 50-75 miles on Sunday. Often the group was 6-8 riders, but on a few occasions, we had 18 riders (which was really too many).

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Lets try posting that video again.
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[The Shooters Apprentice]

I used to ride dirtbike quite a bit as a teenager, but we were poor kids so never had anything fast or powerful, my bike was a air cooled Suzuki 250 4 stroke.

I sold it when we moved to Texas, and then once we got to Idaho I went and got a Liquid cooled Yamaha 250 2 stroke.

I hadn't rode in a few years at that point, and that bike scared the hell out of me, and after a wreck where I took it over backwards on a steep hill and cracked my helmet front to back, I sold it and haven't touched one since.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The one incident that really caught be by surprise is when I bought a Henry rifle and posted on my Facebook page that I thought it was junk, and how many issues I had with it (as a side note, the 4th one they have sent me is back at the factory again because none of them have worked)

That sounds like a Marlin 39, in fact they have their own whole website to help you get them going! lol

Many years ago, I bought an early Henry lever 22, you know, the one with "plastic" sights. I put it on my ATV and it's still there and STILL doesn't jam with no matter what ammo I put in it, in any order, from CB caps to Stingers!

To this day it's NEVER been cleaned even one time and wiped off less than once a year. It's been left on the trap line overnight a couple times and even lost off the ATV a couple times, getting run over twice by the ATV in the mud/brush.

Yes, it's my "I don't care about it" gun and after all that, it STILL has never failed to fire or jam in any way.

You can move the lever slow or fast, it doesn't matter and I can still knock a crow out of a tree at 100 yards with those plastic sights!

I've long lost account of how many thousands of rounds have been shot through it, with me and anyone else that wants to shoot it, grabbing it and firing away.

I bought a couple more Henry levers since, all are the same way, load anything you want and shoot away, but the first one is always available on my ATV and it gets all the abuse.

Everyone brags on the 39's, but first you have to get them to actually work, and then hire someone to carry that heavy thing around for you... lol

SR

 

[mountainguyed67]

Dang........how did you guess my method?

I‘m insightful like that.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

That sounds like a Marlin 39, in fact they have their own whole website to help you get them going! lol

Many years ago, I bought an early Henry lever 22, you know, the one with "plastic" sights. I put it on my ATV and it's still there and STILL doesn't jam with no matter what ammo I put in it, in any order, from CB caps to Stingers!

To this day it's NEVER been cleaned even one time and wiped off less than once a year. It's been left on the trap line overnight a couple times and even lost off the ATV a couple times, getting run over twice by the ATV in the mud/brush.

Yes, it's my "I don't care about it" gun and after all that, it STILL has never failed to fire of jam in any way.

You can move the lever slow or fast, it doesn't matter and I can still knock a crow out of a tree at 100 yards with those plastic sights!

I've long lost account of how many thousands of rounds have been shot through it, with me and anyone else that wants to shoot it, grabbing it and firing away.

I bought a couple more Henry levers since, all are the same way, load anything you want and shoot away, but the first one is always available on my ATV and it gets all the abuse.

Everyone brags on the 39's, but first you have to get them to actually work, and then hire someone to carry that heavy thing around for you... lol

SR

Henry redesigned the firing pin recently. I’ve had 4 in a row now that all misfired 2-3 rounds per tube no matter what ammo I used.

I’ve got a Browning BL22 (in my profile pic) that I am quite fond of

 

[farmer steve]

Talking about old guys. This is dad at 89 cuttin on a white oak that blew over.
MS 180 is his usual saw.