Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Kodiak Kid]

so yesterday the QB is talking on horn to neighbor lives across the street. another neighbor's kid comes down street in his dad's truck, turn corner and parks under tree. then on the stealth... walks over to my most recent scrounge pile and starts to cull some good wood and help hisself! not on curb, deep in my yard and N of circular drive edge. well, neighbor sees it, and gived him a rash about stealing what is not his! well... it was just a few pces. he won't miss it! and so he acts like caught with hand in cookie jar... and i was about to call his dad and express my thots on the subject. but i was convinced otherwise... i have already called him several times on his son's speeding thru the neighborhood...

i bet you don't have any neighbors that try to steal your firewood....

No, can't say I do.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I looked at a steel handled wheelbarrow when I picked up my last True Temper from Craigslist, but man it was heavy unloaded! I just couldn't see me using it so it did not get a new home that day.

H-R might like a Ranch Story from up at my place. The other day i was putzing about in one of my outbuildings fix'n to get desheeted, rebuilt and resheeted... etc with some add on mods... and i noticed over in the corner up against the wall... i put it there and it has been up against the wall longer than i care to admit... a single wheel wheelbarrow. and in real nice shape! sanz the wheel n tire. but the axle is there. and so whilst working in yard, i noticed the wind blew off a cover i had on some on the spot placed wheelbarrow wheels. and i wasn't using the never go flat one i scrounged of side on roadside. down the road. neighbors. trashed wb, but i went for the tire/wheel. well, the builder has a single wheel wb. True Value. gray. one wheel. and whilst i have this n that on wheels, when i saw the wb up against the wall... i thot.... hmm. in passing. but then i saw the no-flat tire n wheel. and thot... hmm, i bet it will fit. directly. not sure i need a single wb, but why not?

 

[Squareground3691]

Working good...it's got a lot of power, it even busts up oak crotches with little effort. I know my old man's Iron and Oak 27ton struggles a bit with those. I'm actually a bit surprised, as the ram is a pretty small unit...pump is big though, 2 stage 16gpm IIRC. Also motor is oversized as well(13hp,) so the rpms don't fluctuate at all.

Yea I have a Iron&Oak 30T works real good , good to hear it’s working well for you

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

No, can't say I do.

honesty of a man's persoanl integrity... prob more so a rural vs urban issue... especially down here! but to be honest, i would rather see the boy steal the entire 1/4+ cord... than what happened to one family other day down here. another wrong house event!!! man get's -faced drunk... and has an issue with barking dogs. but not where he went to visit... so he shoots up the house!!! but they don't have any dogs! 46 bullet holes thru the walls, doors windows and garage. arrived with an arsenal of weapons.... and entire family is inside the home. no one hit! the cops hauled in the perp. Felony Assault with Deadly Weapon(s) is the charge....

 

[Sierra_rider]

Looks like you live in some beautiful country Sierra!

Thanks. Other circumstances in the state do have me contemplating other states, but I love the local area I live in. I'm up in the mountains, but the weather is usually pretty moderate. I don't get the below 0 temps that a lot of the country gets, and summers rarely hit 100 here(although it does happen a few times in the summer.) The downside is, it doesn't take much snow to really mess things up when you have hilly roads.

Hey @H-Ranch you see them handles? That wheel barrow is built to last.

Yep, all steel construction, this thing is virtually unkillable. It was sitting in front of someone's house with a "free" sign on it, glad I didn't miss that deal. I had to put a new tube/tire on it, but it's a keeper. It is a heavy SOB, but you don't notice it unless you need to throw it into the back of the truck. Wheeling it around, doesn't feel any different than a plastic/wood wheel barrow.

 

[svk]

honesty of a man's persoanl integrity... prob more so a rural vs urban issue... especially down here! but to be honest, i would rather see the boy steal the entire 1/4+ cord... than what happened to one family other day down here. another wrong house event!!! man get's -faced drunk... and has an issue with barking dogs. but not where he went to visit... so he shoots up the house!!! but they don't have any dogs! 46 bullet holes thru the walls, doors windows and garage. arrived with an arsenal of weapons.... and entire family is inside the home. no one hit! the cops hauled in the perp. Felony Assault with Deadly Weapon(s) is the charge....

One time up here there were a few native families who did not get along...they started a range war within the reservation. Over 700 bullets were fired between the three families over a 4 day period and amazingly none of the warring parties or any bystanders were injured.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

KK: I usually cook breakfast on the wood stove, but I had to get up early this morning to go trolling fir winter Kings. So I cooked on the gas range. It's a little faster.

actually, i am not too concerned about your snags... but am a bit curious about where you posted the tales, adventure and pix of your morning jaunt a couple days back out trolling.... 'fir winter Kings'

thinking i may need another AKA vaca soon...

https://www.boardwalklodge.com/trolling-alaska-king-salmon/

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[Sierra_rider]

Yea I have a Iron&Oak 30T works real good , good to hear it’s working well for you

I like his I&O 27T, I borrowed that splitter for years. He finally had to rebuild the ram on it(that's what spurred my decision to build this,) but it's working good now.

I've got a friend with a larger ram, I might trade him my 98 gallon transfer tank for it, assuming it's in good shape.

 

[svk]

Another time, some loggers and natives got into it at the native bar. Native guy was shooting at them out of the window with his 30-30...one the loggers snuck along the side of the building and grabbed the dude with the gun by his shirt and dragged him out through the window. When the boys walked in the door with pickaroons, everyone else lost their stomach to fight lol.

There was a lot of "Yellowstone ****" up here in the 70's.

 

[Squareground3691]

I like his I&O 27T, I borrowed that splitter for years. He finally had to rebuild the ram on it(that's what spurred my decision to build this,) but it's working good now.

I've got a friend with a larger ram, I might trade him my 98 gallon transfer tank for it, assuming it's in good shape.

Thoes I&O are built with real good quality components , no complaints here

 

[Squareground3691]

Another time, some loggers and natives got into it at the native bar. Native guy was shooting at them out of the window with his 30-30...one the loggers snuck along the side of the building and grabbed the dude with the gun by his shirt and dragged him out through the window. When the boys walked in the door with pickaroons, everyone else lost their stomach to fight lol.

There was a lot of "Yellowstone ****" up here in the 70's.

I know Glacier National Park , a good portion is on reservation land on eastern part they don’t take kindly to yea if ur not native, ranger told me be careful in the bars and stuff , but never had any problems.

 

[svk]

Another time, two brothers (siblings, not the other kind) with very bad reputations were causing a ruckus at the muni (for those not familiar, a muni is a town owned liquor store/bar)...the town constable was called and the two ended up overpowering him and stole his billy club. They were beating him to death with it outside the bar. He was able to crawl back and fire shots into the two; killing one and wounding the other. Now granted this was the 70's...they tried to try the constable for murder. My friend and his mom happened to be driving by when this happened and she testified on his behalf that the boys were indeed killing him.

The second brother who survived ended up being found shot to death on the side of a road many years later...a crime that went unsolved for many years until a fellow in jail (for an unrelated non violent offense) confessed to killing him.

 

[svk]

I know Glacier National Park , a good portion is on reservation land on eastern part they don’t take kindly to yea if ur not native, ranger told me be careful in the bars and stuff , but never had any problems.

Yup, those are good places to NOT be when the sun goes down. OR in a place that serves liquor.

I do not know if this is true but heard that natives process alcohol differently than Europeans and that is one of the reasons that they have so many issues...just passing on what I heard.

 

[Sierra_rider]

Nothing too crazy with our local reservation. They don't like non-natives there, they even have signs saying that, but there really isn't a reason to go out there anyway.

Nearby though, is a hotbed of cartel activity. It's been better in the last couple years, but there used to be pot grows all over that place. A couple times, they even got busted for having slave labor...no joke, they were smuggling people in from Mexico and forcing them to work growing pot. Now that it's legal, everyone who uses it, just grows it in their yard.

I've got a big greenhouse in my front yard and most people probably assume I'm growing too...in reality, I just store wood slabs and yard tools in there.

 

[Squareground3691]

Nothing too crazy with our local reservation. They don't like non-natives there, they even have signs saying that, but there really isn't a reason to go out there anyway.

Nearby though, is a hotbed of cartel activity. It's been better in the last couple years, but there used to be pot grows all over that place. A couple times, they even got busted for having slave labor...no joke, they were smuggling people in from Mexico and forcing them to work growing pot. Now that it's legal, everyone who uses it, just grows it in their yard.

I've got a big greenhouse in my front yard and most people probably assume I'm growing too...in reality, I just store wood slabs and yard tools in there.

Isn’t Humboldt Co a big hotbed too ?

 

[svk]

And this kids is why we change our oil!View attachment 1060379View attachment 1060378

I just can't get over that people will do this. I mean I feel bad if I drive an extra thousand on my oils let alone an extra 20-30k.

My friend's car is 3 years old ...no oil change for 30k miles then they finally changed it....it threw a rod through the side of the engine shortly thereafter. I asked them what they are going to do and they said let it get repo'd...shrug.

Ironic because they had buyers remorse and I almost took over the lease payments for them shortly after they got it....but my ex wouldn't have gone for it because they do not like each other.

 

[svk]

Nothing too crazy with our local reservation. They don't like non-natives there, they even have signs saying that, but there really isn't a reason to go out there anyway.

Nearby though, is a hotbed of cartel activity. It's been better in the last couple years, but there used to be pot grows all over that place. A couple times, they even got busted for having slave labor...no joke, they were smuggling people in from Mexico and forcing them to work growing pot. Now that it's legal, everyone who uses it, just grows it in their yard.

I've got a big greenhouse in my front yard and most people probably assume I'm growing too...in reality, I just store wood slabs and yard tools in there.

The res about 3 hours west of here is the hotbed for trafficking and drugs....BAD things happen there.

 

[sean donato]

Not so much anymore as it's not free, but I used to send out oil samples pretty often. You can go a lot longer then conventional wisdom says. We took Dino oil to 8k miles in my buddy's 92 cummins and I could have made it to 10k with synthetic Rotella in my 90. Wife's focus got changed every 6k miles with nothing but premium super tech oil in it. Found swapping the filter every 3k miles or so was all that was needed. Heck that escape ticks down 5k miles till it says it needs an oil change and the oil that comes out darn near looks as nice as the new stuff I'm putting in. Now having said all that, other then my diesel and big block our normal drivers get the oil changed once a year regardless of miles. Well other then the Honda. It drinks oil, so it gets topped up every month and a new filter spun on every year. But it's been under the 5k miles every year for the past few years. When i had the lid off to adjust the valves last year it still looked nice and clean was pretty happy with it for pushing 285k miles on it.

 

[old CB]

This is a 2.5 that's in a 14 Impala. They've been really good engines overall. No engine can handle mistreatment like this. I just don't understand why someone can treat something they spent so much money on so poorly. Blows my mind. I treat my MS180 better than that!

Reminds me of my farming/cattle days (1979--95) in partnership with my late father-in-law. Machinery maintenance was not his thing. Of our four tractors, the little Massey Ferg. model 30 (I think, looked like a clone of a Ford 8n) was what we used the least. Just occasional round bale moving, brush-hogging, hay raking, etc.

Always busy, I kept meaning to change the oil in that tractor. Finally, after 4-5 yrs, I found time for it. What drained out of that oil pan looked like black tar. My father-in-law came by while I was changing the oil--"Aw hell, CB, you're just wasting oil. We hardly run that thing." There's no telling how many years it had run on that oil before I came along. Five qts. of oil capacity, back when oil was 75 cents a quart, but in his mind I was wasting oil. It got to where I would schedule oil changes when he was gone to avoid hearing him *****. Two grain trucks, 2--3 pickups, four tractors, two combines--man I wasted a lot of oil.

 

[svk]

Not so much anymore as it's not free, but I used to send out oil samples pretty often. You can go a lot longer then conventional wisdom says. We took Dino oil to 8k miles in my buddy's 92 cummins and I could have made it to 10k with synthetic Rotella in my 90. Wife's focus got changed every 6k miles with nothing but premium super tech oil in it. Found swapping the filter every 3k miles or so was all that was needed. Heck that escape ticks down 5k miles till it says it needs an oil change and the oil that comes out darn near looks as nice as the new stuff I'm putting in. Now having said all that, other then my diesel and big block our normal drivers get the oil changed once a year regardless of miles. Well other then the Honda. It drinks oil, so it gets topped up every month and a new filter spun on every year. But it's been under the 5k miles every year for the past few years. When u had the kid off to adjust the valves last year it still looked nice and clean was pretty happy with it for pushing 285k miles on it.

I change my Chevys when the oil life monitor hits zero...usually about 6K miles. I have done the "15k" synthetics a couple times and changed after the chevy monitor was reset once then went to zero the second time..I will tell you that the oil was pretty dark with 12-13K.

Change the plow truck twice a year and the 90's fords every 3-5K depending on how the oil looks.

I tried the Ams(cough snake cough)oil on one suburban once....it never burned a drop of oil before that and after the Ams it burned a quart a thousand...what are the odds that it started burning oil randomly after using their oil once with an engine with 65k miles. Never again.