Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Thinking I will. Snows to deep to get at much else. I just loath all that brush! Stupid Maples! Why is it when people plant these yard trees they never consider them more than 15' tall?
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Or a skidding winch.
This was one of the last real good ones. If you go any deeper and the winch blade gets in it your in trouble. As it was I had to hook my pulley as high as I could.
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Was recently musing about that a few days ago when a customer rings me on my day off, panicking about a (what would be large but the scale keeps getting nudged out these days so I'll call it small-ish at about 60' tall) gum tree (damn-it they are salignas too - the salignas are stalking me) that broke its moorings in that morning's breeze and is hung in two other trees precariously above the new living quarters she decided to build under them just a year ago.
I mean, c'mon. As I'm learning myself, stoopid gets expensive. It's one of those jobs where I have to drop about 6 trees all about the 60' height, in order to get that one tree down without damaging the new digs, fingers crossed. It's currently well hung up so won't go any further in a hurry, which will give her some time to save for a job that's going to cost her more than she just spent on the new shack she is trying to save. Will get back to it if I ever make it out of the gum gully alive. Come to think of it, I wonder if we can get a crane in, pick the shack up and move it out of the way, drop that one hung tree, and put the shack back all for cheaper than dropping all the other trees. I mean, let's leave those remaining trees for another (windy) day ;-)
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I mean, c'mon. As I'm learning myself, stoopid gets expensive. It's one of those jobs where I have to drop about 6 trees all about the 60' height, in order to get that one tree down without damaging the new digs, fingers crossed. It's currently well hung up so won't go any further in a hurry, which will give her some time to save for a job that's going to cost her more than she just spent on the new shack she is trying to save. Will get back to it if I ever make it out of the gum gully alive. Come to think of it, I wonder if we can get a crane in, pick the shack up and move it out of the way, drop that one hung tree, and put the shack back all for cheaper than dropping all the other trees. I mean, let's leave those remaining trees for another (windy) day ;-)
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That's not even funny, the drivers inside door handle on my suburban just stopped working, and so did the passengers rear inside handleI had to crawl through my trunk yesterday to get the car doors open. I'm too old for that crap!
That's how we judged who had the best 4x4. It was whoever got stuck furthest from home.
. The good thing is the outside handle still works as do the windows, that and I have a parts truck here to grab any needed parts off of 
.I had a buddy who would have won that contest, unfortunately I won it with him many times, I should have know better
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Not nearly enough. Not making much money from snowflakes this year.It is winter in the northern hemisphere, so yes, lots of snowflakes.
My loads aren’t that big, have to be nice to the ole fordneed to fill that ford up for better traction. you probably need to go to the @Logger nate how to load firewood in a ford class.
Now my buddy Scott and my son on the other hand have been to the class...
Guess it’s still winter, had -20 couple days ago
stove was crankin out some good heat from the lodge pole pine. And speaking of snow flakes looks like we might get a few this weekend 
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A couple more rounds on that Ford and you could use the hitch ball for plowing a furrow.My loads aren’t that big, have to be nice to the ole ford
Guess it’s still winter, had -20 couple days agoView attachment 714062stove was crankin out some good heat from the lodge pole pine. And speaking of snow flakes looks like we might get a few this weekend
I was confused
because pinchot state park is only a few minutes from me. Had to Google it. Pinchot state FOREST is in Wilkes Barre.
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My recollect of PA rural roads is the same location could be "a few minutes" and "an hour" away at the same time!
You sir, are correct! Forrest not park. Beautiful scenery up this way.....
Well we've had some pretty intense weather.
Last week was the coldest week of the year and a spot 50 miles south of here hit -56 (true temp) which is 4 degrees away from the all time low for the state.
This week it snowed multiple inches every day and we accumulated about 18" from Sunday night to Thursday evening.
This morning it was -35 again.
Haven't had time to do much of anything lately. Did get to watch the deer and foxes alot when it got cold. The foxes love to eat corn and sunflower seeds. I had a freezer fail and fed them some fish and about 35 lbs of venison which the devoured with glee. Have 3 grey foxes and one big red fox that rules the roost.
Last week was the coldest week of the year and a spot 50 miles south of here hit -56 (true temp) which is 4 degrees away from the all time low for the state.
This week it snowed multiple inches every day and we accumulated about 18" from Sunday night to Thursday evening.
This morning it was -35 again.
Haven't had time to do much of anything lately. Did get to watch the deer and foxes alot when it got cold. The foxes love to eat corn and sunflower seeds. I had a freezer fail and fed them some fish and about 35 lbs of venison which the devoured with glee. Have 3 grey foxes and one big red fox that rules the roost.
That's cold! I'm grateful for the Gulfstream keeping us far warmer than we otherwise would be. UK just had its coldest weather this year, places in Scotland hit -13C and London had overnight lows of -2 or -3C. that is as cold enough for us, so the thought of -50sF...
Got colder hear today, and windy, but nothing like you got Steve. How are you feeling???
Feel good but the bullseye aka "rash" on my arm is still there, loud and clear. Tuesday will be 5 weeks on antibiotics.
