Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Fire up that 125 Mac and saw ber down! The only good tree is a stump!!!
Ah, Cottonwood. The only species I can name that I don't want.....but lacking anything else for next year I have a scrounge of 1/2 dozen big onea at an abandoned farmstead I will work on next year. My scrounging has come down to the point I can't even find a Willow stand to work on any more withing about 30 miles of the house. I still have the willow bush cleanup that I am about 1/3 done with. After that and the cottonwood it looks likde some nice saws will become shelf ornaments.
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
Bummer. We have cottonwood here on the island as well. Black Cottonwood to be specific. It's not worth a darn fir firewood. Is the cottonwood in your region any good fir firewood?
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
So here's the thing I grew up in remote Alaska in a very small tight nitch community where you're neighbors are treated as well as and as if family. Then there's the felling industry. I cut timber on cut'n crews out of remote camps all over Southcentral and Southeast Alaska fir many moon! Then there's the Bering Sea. Hauling crab gear on the deck of 100 foot boats, small crews, 20 plus seasons. Then there's the Navy! Bigger than crab boats, but small fir a Ship. The destroyers I was on had a crew compliment of 350. Although we had several clicks amongst ourselves everyone knew each other's name.that's how i read it, too!
i guess just more of his clowning around!...
wepro-level!!!
I guess what Im saying is. All my life. I've been in different brother hoods one way or another! Thats why I clown around so much. I often make the mistake on this forum of talking to someone as if they were a brother and talk to them as such. I know no other way!
I apologize guys if I come across mean or stearn never has that been or will ever be my intentions.If any of you ever truly got to know me? You would find that I am very kind, have very few enemies. If any? I am a very giving person, and take care of my own! Weather it be thy neighbor, fellow Cutter, or fellow shipmate, and I love to joke and clown around! That's me!
Take it or leave it, because to be a character. 
First one must have character!
Sommmme people say a man is made out of mud.A poor mans made out of muscle and blood!
Muscle and blood and skin and.......
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
As I mentioned in the War Wagon Chronicles. I picked up a plow from a neighbor that had no use fir it. Being as it is raining and blowing outside. Todays project is to fab a mounting bracket fir the plow, make sure it fits and functions. Dismount the plow and bracket then prep and clean fir primer and paint. Then wire the new winch. 
Right now I just have the plow mock mounted fir mounting bracket measurements.
This is one of my two Honda 420 4x4 Ranchers and has a 2" lift kit. I don't use the machine that often.
Right now I just have the plow mock mounted fir mounting bracket measurements.
This is one of my two Honda 420 4x4 Ranchers and has a 2" lift kit. I don't use the machine that often.
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
The jewelry box B Lumberjack. The jewelry box! 
Getting kinda cool down here....was 8° last time I checked.
Tested the ice on foot 3-4" on my lake but I seen some guys down the rd on another lake and there out fishing lol there out there on that lake before any other. BIG BAD RED is ready, just put KOLD KUTTERS in the wooly bugger tires.As I mentioned in the War Wagon Chronicles. I picked up a plow from a neighbor that had no use fir it. Being as it is raining and blowing outside. Todays project is to fab a mounting bracket fir the plow, make sure it fits and functions. Dismount the plow and bracket then prep and clean fir primer and paint. Then wire the new winch.
Right now I just have the plow mock mounted fir mounting bracket measurements.
This is one of my two Honda 420 4x4 Ranchers and has a 2" lift kit. I don't use the machine that often.View attachment 1042966
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
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-22 here today so I decided it was a good time to test the 346xp again.
Threw it in the back of the truck while it warmed up outside after doing an oil change on it and changing the water pump. Drove across the highway to the wood lot, got a few logs pulled down, grabbed the saw and went to work. Took about 10 pulls to get it to fire (remember it’s -22 and I don’t use the primer bulb), let it warm up and then got to cutting. It took some tinkering, but I finally got the carb adjusted to smooth out in the cut and still have good throttle response (it was a little sluggish off the grab)
Anyway. No issues with it wanting to bog and die, so maybe it was the carb adjustments or the muffler screen, or maybe sucking too much cold air through the broken top cover. I’ll cut with it a few more times over the next couple weeks and see what happens.
Threw it in the back of the truck while it warmed up outside after doing an oil change on it and changing the water pump. Drove across the highway to the wood lot, got a few logs pulled down, grabbed the saw and went to work. Took about 10 pulls to get it to fire (remember it’s -22 and I don’t use the primer bulb), let it warm up and then got to cutting. It took some tinkering, but I finally got the carb adjusted to smooth out in the cut and still have good throttle response (it was a little sluggish off the grab)
Anyway. No issues with it wanting to bog and die, so maybe it was the carb adjustments or the muffler screen, or maybe sucking too much cold air through the broken top cover. I’ll cut with it a few more times over the next couple weeks and see what happens.
Yard. Stick.
‘Ground Blizzard’ expected tomorrow!
Philbert
‘Ground Blizzard’ expected tomorrow!
Philbert
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
So here's the thing I grew up in remote Alaska in a very small tight nitch community where you're neighbors are treated as well as and as if family. Then there's the felling industry. I cut timber on cut'n crews out of remote camps all over Southcentral and Southeast Alaska fir many moon! Then there's the Bering Sea. Hauling crab gear on the deck of 100 foot boats, small crews, 20 plus seasons. Then there's the Navy! Bigger than crab boats, but small fir a Ship. The destroyers I was on had a crew compliment of 350. Although we had several clicks amongst ourselves everyone knew each other's name.
I guess what Im saying is. All my life. I've been in different brother hoods one way or another! Thats why I clown around so much. I often make the mistake on this forum of talking to someone as if they were a brother and talk to them as such. I know no other way!
If any of you ever truly got to know me? You would find that I am very kind, have very few enemies. If any? I am a very giving person, and take care of my own! Weather it be thy neighbor, fellow Cutter, or fellow shipmate, and I love to joke and clown around! That's me!
A poor mans made out of muscle and blood!
Muscle and blood and skin and.......
It's kinda the same with my crew. I kinda have to be the "adult" of the group nowadays, but those guys clown on each other HARD...almost nothing is off limits. Outsiders come in and are often a bit uneasy with the amount of crap the guys talk to each other. I've got to remind them to break the new guys in easy, most of them don't just come in with the thickest skin.
Besides most of them being pretty close, another positive side effect is how resilient they can be to my critiques. I've had some people that are so soft, they'd shut down the minute you put some pressure on them. These guys are asses and elbows when it's time to go to work in an intense situation. They've got trust in me to not make bad calls and I got trust in them to handle the task at hand...it's an awesome combination for this job.
Gots me one from a scrap yard I plan to mod on to my drug out of the weeds John Deere garden tractor. I have nothing in that thing but repairs but I sure use it a lot. Hope to get a small 4x4 loader tractor at some point but those start around 8 grand in these parts. Could go get one tomorrow but I hope to buy it with side hustle $$.As I mentioned in the War Wagon Chronicles. I picked up a plow from a neighbor that had no use fir it. Being as it is raining and blowing outside. Todays project is to fab a mounting bracket fir the plow, make sure it fits and functions. Dismount the plow and bracket then prep and clean fir primer and paint. Then wire the new winch.
Right now I just have the plow mock mounted fir mounting bracket measurements.
This is one of my two Honda 420 4x4 Ranchers and has a 2" lift kit. I don't use the machine that often.View attachment 1042966
The John Deere does well for now. The little thing seems near invincible.
Tomorrow 50 in Mass.
He is like the Heinz57 variety of ketchup. You never know what bs is going to come out of his mouth.
Monday night after 9pm I ordered a hydraulic toplink kit from Amazon for my tractor. It was coming from a company in the Netherlands. It shipped out standard free shipping on Tuesday at 4:30pm in France. Landed in N.J, flew to Boston, trucked to 2 towns from me by 4:17pm yesterday and delivered today. FedEx does deliver.
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There’s firewood under there, somewhere. I would really have to scrounge for it! So I carried in a few boxes of dry stuff from the garage.
Philbert
Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
Is the plow mounted? Would it be easy to take a picture if the mounting bracket?
Not messed with it yet. Just drug the blade home from the scrap yard. Will have to fab a mount etc. Just couldn't pass up a John Deere blade for 15 bucks!
