Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

Yea , that’s a sloppy mess for sure

The first part of 8-10 was a little heavy, but the top few inches is fluff, at least til the rain starts. It's gonna be real nasty next weekend I was hoping to try the 562 out, we'll see, at least the temps will be nicer for cutting.

 

[WoodAbuser]

That's sweet. You should have someone video you walking beside it with your phone in your hand, acting like it's remote control .
I'll be moving about 12-14 here in a bit. Then it starts warming up and the rain starts Thursday and last all weekend, gonna be a mess!

Remote control from inside the house sitting by the wood stove. Now that would be the lap of luxury.

 

[501Maico]

Nice

I bought the blower a week before this piddly little snow and was excited to try it out. Sometime later we had a rare deep snow and I cleared 3/4 mile of driveway and access road.

 

[501Maico]

Much more civilized than the old JD 2020 with 4 auger high blower I used to run. I stiff necked it. HaHa

I almost bought a 2020 when I was looking for tractors.

 

[GrizG]

I'l;l luive with * before using all those key strokes

Being the only guy in my HS typing class was distracting in a very good way…. However I did learn to type which has served me well!

 

[farmer steve]

Remote control from inside the house sitting by the wood stove. Now that would be the lap of luxury.

Here ya go. Supply your own beer.!

https://remote-mower.com/product/remote-control-snow-blower/

 

[JimR]

Yea , it makes quick work and cab is nice in stormy weather, when we get real heavy snow break out the orange machine.

I bought my Truck in January of 2017 new without a plow. After 3 years of snow removal with my tractor I decided to put a plow on it. Now most of the plowing is done with the truck. Moving any big piles is done with the loader on my tractor. I scrape my driveway down to the pavement using a grader blade in the tractor. For some reason that does a much better job than the Fisher plow.

 

[JimR]

While us hunters spend time in the woods looking for deer. Sometime since yesterday morning three deer walked up our back lawn to nibble on our spreading yews on the right side of our house before walking up our other driveway to cross over the street to our woodlot. The tracks indicated a mom and a set of yearling twins. I wish I could have seen them. Yesterday morning we had 3 otters in the pond. They didn't stay long as there are no fish in the pond this year due to it being dredged out. It is a busy year for the animals. A week ago we had a Bobcat cross the dam and spillway at 2pm.

 

[GrizG]

While us hunters spend time in the woods looking for deer. Sometime since yesterday morning three deer walked up our back lawn to nibble on our spreading yews on the right side of our house before walking up our other driveway to cross over the street to our woodlot. The tracks indicated a mom and a set of yearling twins. I wish I could have seen them. Yesterday morning we had 3 otters in the pond. They didn't stay long as there are no fish in the pond this year due to it being dredged out. It is a busy year for the animals. A week ago we had a Bobcat cross the dam and spillway at 2pm.

When I’m in the woods deer hunting I look at all the hazard trees, all the trees that might yield interesting boards, and all the firewood opportunities. It’s a pleasant treat when critters happen by.…

 

[MustangMike]

I learned typing by accident, but very glad that I did.

11th grade English, the teacher encouraged me not to take the regents exam because "I was more likely to pass the non-regents". Well, I took the non-regents, it looked to me to be just the same as the regents, and I thought I did well on it. However, they LOST my exam, claimed I never took it, and gave me a 0 on it!

I was furious, but I had to go to Summer School to re-take English. I insisted on taking the Regents (because they would not lose that) and I passed.

But summer school was three periods, and the bus only went once in the morning and then after the third period, so I signed up for the typing class as a way to kill the time. It was likely one of the best things I ever did education wise.

 

[MustangMike]

I learned to use the adding machine keys w/o looking by working in my Dad's office. He was a Lawyer and Licensed Public Accountant, and I helped with the accounting and taxes.

At the time, he had state of the art Hermes electronic adding machines that would print positive #s in black and negative #s in red on the tape.

What screws me up (if I'm not looking) is these touch tone phones have the #s the exact opposite as a numeric keypad (on the computer) or an adding machine!

Why do they do that???

 

[MustangMike]

According to my trail cams (up at the Catskill property) it was -22° on Christmas Eve, -14° on Christmas Day, and -5° F last night.

I guess that helps to explain why my Ash trees up there are still alive when all the ones down here are dead!

That Emerald Ash bore must not like the cold!

It is rare to go below 0° F down here, and I think the worst I've seen is -12° F.

 

[GrizG]

I learned typing by accident, but very glad that I did.

11th grade English, the teacher encouraged me not to take the regents exam because "I was more likely to pass the non-regents". Well, I took the non-regents, it looked to me to be just the same as the regents, and I thought I did well on it. However, they LOST my exam, claimed I never took it, and gave me a 0 on it!

I was furious, but I had to go to Summer School to re-take English. I insisted on taking the Regents (because they would not lose that) and I passed.

But summer school was three periods, and the bus only went once in the morning and then after the third period, so I signed up for the typing class as a way to kill the time. It was likely one of the best things I ever did education wise.

I intentionally took typing... After playing with Fortran and APL in the IBM Explorer Post while in HS I figured I'd probably spend a lot of time behind a keyboard during my life. Looking back, it still astounds me how many high paid programmers, analysts, managers and executives I worked with that were 2 to 4 finger typists. For me typing is faster than printing or writing and I don't like things that slow down my thinking!

 

[svk]

According to my trail cams (up at the Catskill property) it was -22° on Christmas Eve, -14° on Christmas Day, and -5° F last night.

I guess that helps to explain why my Ash trees up there are still alive when all the ones down here are dead!

That Emerald Ash bore must not like the cold!

It is rare to go below 0° F down here, and I think the worst I've seen is -12° F.

I’ve read that it takes -35 to kill them but perhaps they die at temps warner than that.

 

[svk]

We had to take typing in ninth grade and you needed to get at least 56 words a minute in order to get a B. I begrudgingly learned how to type, and it turned out to be a very good decision because I can still type quite well.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

IF I really have a lot of snow to move, this is what I use,

It will move a lot more snow than we ever get around here, even without chains on it...

SR

 

[freeasaburt]

I learned to type on an old school mechanical typewriter, back when I was a kid. The kind that punches an inked tape onto the paper. The force you have to use and the actual distance you have to press each key sure make for some good practice .

My mother found a way older typewriter than the one I learned on, at a thrift store or something, that she has at her place, for decoration... I love it, especially the brand name! (although I don't know if it actually was the same company as the gun manufacturer.)

 

[SS396driver]

According to my trail cams (up at the Catskill property) it was -22° on Christmas Eve, -14° on Christmas Day, and -5° F last night.

I guess that helps to explain why my Ash trees up there are still alive when all the ones down here are dead!

That Emerald Ash bore must not like the cold!

It is rare to go below 0° F down here, and I think the worst I've seen is -12° F.

If I remember your camp isn’t all that far from my place

 

[SS396driver]

The chains come out when it’s deep or icy

 

[GrizG]

We had to take typing in ninth grade and you needed to get at least 56 words a minute in order to get a B. I begrudgingly learned how to type, and it turned out to be a very good decision because I can still type quite well.

When I was in school Typing and Home Economics were for the girls... shop classes and mechanical drawing was for the boys. There were a few strays like me who crossed the lines as we saw skills that would be useful to us. There was one girl in my mechanical drawing classes... she wanted to be an engineer as I recall. In Jr. High there was a group of wise guy trouble makers who decided to take Home Eco just to stir things up. It kind of back fired on them as they wore their flowery aprons in cooking classes and sewed dresses... Their photos were splashed around regularly so the joke was on them!