Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My 327 in the 1968 Fleetside has a bad cam lobe . Going to pull the motor to refresh it . Had good compression 160-5 psi before the cam went so hopefully just a polish on the crank new bearings and rings for the lower and of course a new cam . I have a set of rebuilt heads ready for installation . View attachment 1057062

i have some .003 brass shim stock. roll. and have shimmed both rod bearings and mains under the bearing to squeak back the .002 or so running clearance! some times just the cap, sometimes cap and other side, too. every job i ever did that way... they all went more than 25,000 miles more!... and what was before a bit noisy... started up and ran quiet sweet! not an ave DIY motorhead project... and time consuming. have to have the right tools... and have to do it exactly right!!! and but... after always a sweet smile as it runs and is like NIB quiet! ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My 99 suburban had a distributor

i have to admit, i do like the performance and driveability of coils on each plug!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Rebuilt at 99k truck has167k on it now. I put 15k on it using this oil made for flat tappet engines . Have no idea what they used before I bought it . This isn’t the corvette 327 but it does have the forged crankView attachment 1057072

Hot Rod Motor Oil! now i have seen everything!!!

prob need to put in a qt of it in my Moar Project, now that i got the old oil out...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Like the Wyoming plate.

i was wondering if it said Wyoming?

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I hope not! Otherwise I have to find another name! Maybe "Medium Bear"?

i like Middle Bear better!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

G'day Fellers,

I'm stihl behind but working my way up. Is anyone scrounging these days or are we stihl talking about KK's skid steer? I don't know, I'm only up to Jan 23rd.

My mate Mitch stopped in the other day, his farm is where I cut most of my wood. Had a bit of a chat. He has some bits and pieces down on the farm which he said I'm welcome to.

A couple of small peppermints. Peppermint is one of my favorite species of firewood. These ones can be cut and thrown straight in the fire. They're about 12 inches at the base so I don't have to split them, though they do split very easily.

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One of the best things about it is that there is virtually no ash in it. Last winter I burned straight peppermint for two months and eventually shovelled out one bucket load of ash.

There was also this...

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It's a candlebark, less heavy than peppermint and similar in density to red oak. Mitch turns his nose up at it but I don't mind it. You have to debark it though because the bark is about 200% ash.

If I can find my saws, I'll go out tomorrow and get after it. Prepare yourselves for pics...

we pix!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yep. Nice stuff too. Real straight for 30' feet or so and 16-20" dia.
Takes more round to make a ric than the 30" trees but I can do these all day. 30" rounds flat wear a fella out.

wore me out thinking about it, but looks like a walk in park for SM

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Odd fact.... Did you know he hated that song and refused to record it at first? I bet he felt different about it in the end!

it's a good un

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Went out cutting new dirtbike trails today with my Echo 2511t strapped to the front of my Beta 300. Unfortunately, it's time to throw a new chain on there, the narrow-kerf stuff takes a beating and the drivers are absolutely hammered on it...so I threw the chain 3 times before I said "screw it, I'm just riding!" Of course, my spare narrow-kerf chains were sitting in my saw box back at home.

I rarely throw chains on my climbing saws, usually only when I try to do trick(AKA dumb) stuff like zap a limb off and then swing the saw underneath as it falls, in order to "shoot" the limb away from from you. It looks cool until I throw a chain, then I just look like a moron.

my CS 271 has tossed off its chain a couple of times. once clearly.... OE

operator error!

 

[Seachaser]

i remember George saying the song was just too sad and no one would buy it. He also had problems with the spoken part of the second verse. Great song. Made him a bunch of money and resurrected his career.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Now just reflecting on a good day, in front of the stove.
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nice glow, nice ambiance!

me, too... i was doing the same earlier this evening... fireside with BL



the QB asked if i wanted her to go out and get more firewood? sure! so i put it on the hot coals remaining... 1st of 3 - all a few mins apart as fire took over and the warm soothing heat exited into the LR.

mark it: 2:25 am and BL is caught up on the FW and os thread...

 

[farmer steve]

My 99 suburban had a distributor

So did my Pinto..

 

[farmer steve]

Safety first guys. Don't forget your PPE.

 

[GrizG]

Okay arborists, what is this device and what is the purpose?

The comments are amusing….

 

[JimR]

I finally got my $50 268 running and cutting. It took a good 4 hours of deep cleaning to remove all the built up grime from the inside of this saw. The saw got a new brake assembly, new homemade dog, new cover on the oil pump, soldered the broken wire from the on/off switch at the coil. Yup, got it running and it wouldn't shut off. Freed up the bar sprocket. This saw has an 18" bar and running a 8 pin rim sprocket. It cuts like a demon. All the wood around it was cut yesterday afternoon plus are least 30 pieces behind the splitter. I'm going to try to buck up the rest of the pile today.

 

[chipper1]

Your on target for sure. Two or three men who know how to work and can "gel" with each other can get tons done.
I rent somewhat regularly around here and have the prices near memorized.
Just not worth it for this pile. I'll get what's fairly easy/ safe to get and call it good. I have 3 yrs worth of wood at the place already so this will likely be sold so I'm not desperate to get every possible piece.
I'd love to own a mini x. The first time I got one instead of a backhoe, I was blown away.

It's amazing what you can do with one. I recommended my neighbor not get a backhoe on his little kubota bx, he got it anyway. Last summer he wanted to help me dig the trench of my electric going from the pole to the barn, I think it took like 7hrs, had I rented a small mini I could have easily done it in two hrs. It was painfully slow, and I could have had a mini here for $200 if I picked it up in town, his place is 7 minutes from the house, beat on equipment, but it gets the job done.

 

[Brufab]

It will probably be a while as I have lots of others I want to get down first, and much of it I want to process right away to keep the mess down. There's a back leaning cherry that's around 14-16", and another one that's over 24(iirc) that can be seen in the pictures above, I want to take the 14-16" one down, then the larger one. I plan on taking the ms200 rear handle out there tomorrow and dicing up what I pushed over today. Once that's cleaned up I'll see what else I want to remove. I still have a large read oak branch on the back property line I need to clean up. When that one went down it snapped of a 12-14" red oak, and a black locust fell on top of that mess. So as you can see I have a few little messes to clean up, and I'll probably make more before I even finish those, so there's plenty to do if you swing by .

Sounds great yea probably after I get the swing of this job or whatever I find myself doing here as I have a couple more interviews this week. One is like 15-20mins away as a multiple spindle operator from 8pm-6am m-t 17-22$hr kinda need ot to catch up on $. Another job down the street from where I'm working at now that's CNC operator. That plastics place I'm working at now it gets super hot and stagnant in summer 120+° and the parts your working on are 180° right out of the machine/oven but you can work 7days 12hrs. Wife is struggling with my schedule. My dad was over that cherry tree that's his new favorite wood. We only had about a face cord of it that I cut out of my food plot but that's my dad's new go to wood. Surprisingly the popple has dried out enough for him to keep mixing it in with the misc ash and maple. Says it makes a lot of cool colored flames. Burn time is short but on site BTU's are better than driving for them. I may go work for nelson tree service because a new hire still working there and says it's better than factory and the CDL B requirements are not a deal breaker if I don't get one right away. I think he won't be back at factory he was trying to get a shift where he could be at home during the day to see his kids more.

 

[Brufab]

I am not sure I should do this but I am going to PM you the name of a member that is in Indiana that I believe runs an excavator. He may be retired by now but he is a great guy I met up with at a GTG in Indiana years ago. I see you are south of Indy and I am not sure where he is. If you are real lucky he might be close.

That's great! Bob is a stand up guy and then some Hope it works out for everyone.

 

[Brufab]

G'day Fellers,

I'm stihl behind but working my way up. Is anyone scrounging these days or are we stihl talking about KK's skid steer? I don't know, I'm only up to Jan 23rd.

My mate Mitch stopped in the other day, his farm is where I cut most of my wood. Had a bit of a chat. He has some bits and pieces down on the farm which he said I'm welcome to.

A couple of small peppermints. Peppermint is one of my favorite species of firewood. These ones can be cut and thrown straight in the fire. They're about 12 inches at the base so I don't have to split them, though they do split very easily.

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One of the best things about it is that there is virtually no ash in it. Last winter I burned straight peppermint for two months and eventually shovelled out one bucket load of ash.

There was also this...

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It's a candlebark, less heavy than peppermint and similar in density to red oak. Mitch turns his nose up at it but I don't mind it. You have to debark it though because the bark is about 200% ash.

If I can find my saws, I'll go out tomorrow and get after it. Prepare yourselves for pics...

G'day Fellers,

I'm stihl behind but working my way up. Is anyone scrounging these days or are we stihl talking about KK's skid steer? I don't know, I'm only up to Jan 23rd.

My mate Mitch stopped in the other day, his farm is where I cut most of my wood. Had a bit of a chat. He has some bits and pieces down on the farm which he said I'm welcome to.

A couple of small peppermints. Peppermint is one of my favorite species of firewood. These ones can be cut and thrown straight in the fire. They're about 12 inches at the base so I don't have to split them, though they do split very easily.

View attachment 1057121

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One of the best things about it is that there is virtually no ash in it. Last winter I burned straight peppermint for two months and eventually shovelled out one bucket load of ash.

There was also this...

View attachment 1057123

View attachment 1057124

It's a candlebark, less heavy than peppermint and similar in density to red oak. Mitch turns his nose up at it but I don't mind it. You have to debark it though because the bark is about 200% ash.

If I can find my saws, I'll go out tomorrow and get after it. Prepare yourselves for pics...

Wow that's awesome, sounds like some real awesome wood! So does the peppermint give off any aromas?

 

[Squareground3691]

I finally got my $50 268 running and cutting. It took a good 4 hours of deep cleaning to remove all the built up grime from the inside of this saw. The saw got a new brake assembly, new homemade dog, new cover on the oil pump, soldered the broken wire from the on/off switch at the coil. Yup, got it running and it wouldn't shut off. Freed up the bar sprocket. This saw has an 18" bar and running a 8 pin rim sprocket. It cuts like a demon. All the wood around it was cut yesterday afternoon plus are least 30 pieces behind the splitter. I'm going to try to buck up the rest of the pile today.

There run very well , good cord wood saw