Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[WoodAbuser]

In my part of the world you can get done for taking a pic on your phone while you're driving.

On another note it's much nicer having two pages a day rather than the ten we've been having.

Yup I was beginning to think I needed a speed reading course.

 

[farmer steve]

Yup I was beginning to think I needed a speed reading course.

 

[chipper1]

Learn sumthin new every day

When I learn something new I say "I'm still alive!".

In my part of the world you can get done for taking a pic on your phone while you're driving.

On another note it's much nicer having two pages a day rather than the ten we've been having.

Same here sort of, I was actually stopped though, but other pics I may have been the passenger .
Which one of you guys lives here, I see you got those scrounged pallets lol.

Yup I was beginning to think I needed a speed reading course.

I thought this was it .

 

[WoodAbuser]

When I learn something new I say "I'm still alive!".

Same here sort of, I was actually stopped though, but other pics I may have been the passenger .
Which one of you guys lives here, I see you got those scrounged pallets lol.
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I thought this was it .

Gonna need a really tall fork lift to get full pallets up there.

 

[chipper1]

Gonna need a really tall fork lift to get full pallets up there.

Right. I was wondering what the neighbors were thinking when they were bringing them in, dang kids!
Don't think I posted this one here, kinda funny. Make sure you keep your speed down .

 

[WoodAbuser]

Right. I was wondering what the neighbors were thinking when they were bringing them in, dang kids!
Don't think I posted this one here, kinda funny. Make sure you keep your speed down .
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I'm not sure 25 mph is fast enough to get thru that barrier.

 

[GeeVee]

so, what would this be used for that a regular concrete saw wouldn’t do?
making cookies out of petrified wood?

I had one when doing Marine Construction. When building concrete seawalls on the ocean or river, most times I had to connect to adjacent walls. The saw was a whole lot easier to use than a diamond chain rig. My crew threw away five or six chains in the first month before I noticed the bills for purchasing new ones. The chains can be re-grit if you send them out.

Concrete cutting is somewhat profitable, but tools are really expensive and require a ton of maintenance.

Many times the reason to pull this out over say a Demo saw is depth of cut desired/needed, and or access. 14" demo saw isn't getting all the way through the panel or pile cap.

 

[svk]

They are supposed to have both Copperheads and Timber Rattlers here, but I have never seen one. My brother used to see them at his home in Garrison.

Most common down here are garter snakes and water snakes and occasional black racers or black rat snakes and an occasional eastern milk snake.

Up at the property there are a lot of small ring neck snakes, but I don't see them down here.

True story - a new recruit at Camp Smith (near Peekskill) killed a black snake. An older guy asked him why? He replied that he hated snakes. The old guy informed him that they brought in both black snakes and king snakes because they eat the copperheads and rattlesnakes ... so don't kill them!

My Dad and his reserve unit encountered numerous rattlesnakes when they were sent to Texas in the summer. One guy got bit numerous times when he went out to take a leak and night and died ... another guy woke up to discover one in his sleeping bag with him but was able to separate from it w/o getting bit.

There’s a snake in upstate New York that looks almost identical to a garter and is non-poisonous but the coloring is a little different… Which one is that?

 

[svk]

Exactly, but I doubt he'd even be able to start it.

Saw this little 150 today when fueling the van, looked nice.
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Awesome picture.
So you guys went to Minnesota .
Watching Little House On The Prairie when they were living in MN there were always live oaks lol.

I did .

That's the one I'd want . That is the one I saw them using. I guess they would put a kill switch to the car ignition, by the time it stopped, it would all be over though.

I don’t believe we have any live oaks here… Did they shoot the film somewhere else? Or was it just a tree that looks similar? I never really got into that show.

 

[svk]

Hey guys, would appreciate your advice here.

I need to deliver some feedback to somebody that I know. They are a good person with a good heart, but their method of delivery is not very good. Basically need to tell them that you can’t browbeat people into voluntary work.

In the past when I’ve offered feedback to this individual, they usually try to turn it back to me about the things that I haven’t done properly. I really don’t have time for that at this point and they know they can approach me at any time if they do have feedback on the way I manage things. I should mention that I never received feedback unless I offer it to them first.

I’m normally a face-to-face or at least a phone call person but I’m thinking I’m going to send them an email so they can sit on it and it won’t put them on the offensive immediately because they are surprised if I bring it up in person. This person tends to get “excited” if confronted.

Does this make sense? I usually like to be approached individually, either by phone or in person but at the same point I don’t try to turn things around if somebody offers me feedback.

One more thing to add… This person is not a subordinate at work… This is someone that I serve with on other organizations

 

[chipper1]

I don’t believe we have any live oaks here… Did they shoot the film somewhere else? Or was it just a tree that looks similar? I never really got into that show.

Shot in Cali, so everytime I see one I say, "look, it's MN" lol. All my wife's family came in thru MN, so there's plenty of opportunities for me to say it.

Hey guys, would appreciate your advice here.

I need to deliver some feedback to somebody that I know. They are a good person with a good heart, but their method of delivery is not very good. Basically need to tell them that you can’t browbeat people into voluntary work.

In the past when I’ve offered feedback to this individual, they usually try to turn it back to me about the things that I haven’t done properly. I really don’t have time for that at this point and they know they can approach me at any time if they do have feedback on the way I manage things.

I’m normally a face-to-face or at least a phone call person but I’m thinking I’m going to send them an email so they can sit on it and it won’t put them on the offensive immediately because they are surprised if I bring it up in person.

Does this make sense? I usually like to be approached individually, either by phone or in person but at the same point I don’t try to turn things around if somebody offers me feedback.

I like to write it down when people just won't listen, but there's no guarantee they'll get that either.
The wife and I have a rule, tell me/her twice, then write it down, once it's written down and nothing changes, then it's okay to "bring in help", same advice we give to other couples. I don't want anyone "helping" me, so when she's written things down in the past, they change quickly lol.
With regards to your individual, you're only responsible to let them know, not what they do with the info.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Hey guys, would appreciate your advice here.

I need to deliver some feedback to somebody that I know. They are a good person with a good heart, but their method of delivery is not very good. Basically need to tell them that you can’t browbeat people into voluntary work.

In the past when I’ve offered feedback to this individual, they usually try to turn it back to me about the things that I haven’t done properly. I really don’t have time for that at this point and they know they can approach me at any time if they do have feedback on the way I manage things. I should mention that I never received feedback unless I offer it to them first.

I’m normally a face-to-face or at least a phone call person but I’m thinking I’m going to send them an email so they can sit on it and it won’t put them on the offensive immediately because they are surprised if I bring it up in person. This person tends to get “excited” if confronted.

Does this make sense? I usually like to be approached individually, either by phone or in person but at the same point I don’t try to turn things around if somebody offers me feedback.

One more thing to add… This person is not a subordinate at work… This is someone that I serve with on other organizations

I don't envy you needing to talk with this person. I have never been able to find a way to communicate to somebody in my life that is the exact same way. I think the person in my life has a lot of issues from childhood that they have never dealt with. Best of luck.

 

[svk]

It’s taken me many years to learn that you’ll catch a lot more flies with honey than with vinegar. Some people just don’t care. But if they’re in a position where they need to care, then they had better put the vinegar away. Lol.

 

[MustangMike]

There’s a snake in upstate New York that looks almost identical to a garter and is non-poisonous but the coloring is a little different… Which one is that?

There are both garter snakes and ribbon snakes, and both have various color phases often making it difficult to tell them apart.

They are most often either dark grey or brown, with three white or yellow stripes.

 

[gggGary]

Seller claims it will cut wood!
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/145072958487848/

 

[chipper1]

I don't envy you needing to talk with this person. I have never been able to find a way to communicate to somebody in my life that is the exact same way. I think the person in my life has a lot of issues from childhood that they have never dealt with. Best of luck.

I agree, sometimes talking to yourself honestly is the hardest thing .

It’s taken me many years to learn that you’ll catch a lot more flies with honey than with vinegar. Some people just don’t care. But if they’re in a position where they need to care, then they had better put the vinegar away. Lol.

I learned that a long time ago, but oftentimes I couldn't care less, dont reallylike flies lol. My wife says I've gotten better, have gotten a letter yet .
Oh, BTW, you can catch a lot of those little flies with a vinegar trap, usually takes two rounds to get all of them and the last laid eggs, as long as you get them before they lay another batch of eggs .

 

[GeeVee]

It’s taken me many years to learn that you’ll catch a lot more flies with honey than with vinegar. Some people just don’t care. But if they’re in a position where they need to care, then they had better put the vinegar away. Lol.

Basically need to tell them that you can’t browbeat people into voluntary work.

You summed it up in the quote, and in the line i cut and pasted from your original. Simple and direct, and better just written down in one short sentence in an e-mail and send it without any further discourse within it.

The shorter and more concise you make the statement, the harder its going to hit. And this person needs hit.

I feel your pain. My NPO has just a few of us that do some pretty hard labor efforts, including using saws, my skid steer and my Ag Tractor and bushog and my trucks and trailers, only to be snubbed by people that wont help, but will offer, "You know what you should do?" or "You could have made this better by doing that over there" (not knowing over there is not our property to do anything with) Lots of them want to claim they helped, or actually say they built it, when in fact they simply scheduled something else they preferred doing instead of being there for the work days.

Its not fun being out of town, and have an acquaintence point out another person at the same event, and relay they told them they had built all these things you had spent the last ten years building, looking at me like which one of you is lying about it? I pull out my phone and show them a two minute video, after calling that other guy overn to look as well......

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

not a SA Ranch resident...

does poking a lil fun qualify as 'and other stuff'? i tried P/R... but seems it may have been moved!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

All the snake talk reminds me of the time my friend Kenny came up, first visit to my camp up in northern NY where we have no venomous snakes. Kenny grew up on an Alabama farm.

Just below my newly built camp was a large brushpile, small limbs & stuff that I had cleared from the knoll where the camp was to be built. I stepped into that brushpile, probably hunting a bit of kindling, and Kenny's eyes got big. He said, "Man, you'd never do that where I come from." Had to explain that "there's no rattlers here."

seen more than just a few copperheads slither out of a brush pile...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Only ever killed one snake. Stepped out of shed years ago. Almost stepped on a big snake. We were evidently both quite surprised. He coiled up with my leg in the middle and started rattling. I have never drawn my EDC knife as fast as i did that day. Stepped on his head with my other foot and cut off his head. Turned out his rattle was from shaking his or her tail in a pile of dry leaves. it was almost 5 foot without its head. In that split second and after it looked like a rattler.

i have a snake handlers grabber tool in the ranch house. never know if one mite get in. have had them show up on arm rocking chair on porch!!!