Delivered 1/2 cord of wood, split another full cord for delivery another day, and finished another wormy Hickory bench today.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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What's wrong with that?
Sure it would have been a great show, but it would have killed me to have to sit and watch
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That cut call for what I call a "trimming cut"...not that I have ever needed to do one.
The 'derecho' wind on Monday hit the barn on our ancestral home in northwestern Illinois. The barn had been used as a hiding place on the underground railway. The farm with the barn belongs to my cousins now. They had been fixing to try selling off the buidings; unsure of what to do now.
I was very sad when my Aunt's old barn came down a few decades ago. My cousin failed to maintain the roof. It was over 100 years old, and you could still see bark on some of the milled posts and beams (I remember seeing Beech bark in a rounded corner).
The barn was over 100 years old, and I had fond memories of playing in it as a kid, climbing up the permanent ladders, etc. We used to go up every year around July 4 and help with the haying, which was stored above where the cows were milked.
The barn was over 100 years old, and I had fond memories of playing in it as a kid, climbing up the permanent ladders, etc. We used to go up every year around July 4 and help with the haying, which was stored above where the cows were milked.
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Finished experimenting on the mushroom this morning (that somehow sounds drug related but it's not.)
Then I split and stacked 3 loads before it gets too hot.
Looks like an afternoon at the pool boys!
Then I split and stacked 3 loads before it gets too hot.
Looks like an afternoon at the pool boys!
I want one! How large is it? What wood did you use?
LOL - I told my buddy that asked for it that I was going to sell it on Craigslist since he's out of town for a couple weeks.
I just grabbed a round of black locust that had been destined for firewood. I figured that way it would last a good long time outdoors. By the time I got done trimming it, it ended up being about 15" tall. Wasn't too difficult - I might have 2.5 hours in it after burnishing it this morning.
Well I want one with a longer stem, like a real Morel. When you make mine, start with a long piece of firewood
.Seriously, what did you use to carve it with? I'm guessing an angle grinder, but what wheel? I might give it a try.
Thanks
Yeah, i tried to maximize the mushroom part and ended up a little short on stem. Like I said, experiment! LOLWell I want one with a longer stem, like a real Morel. When you make mine, start with a long piece of firewood
Seriously, what did you use to carve it with? I'm guessing an angle grinder, but what wheel? I might give it a try.
Thanks
I made the general shape with the saw. I also started about 1/3 of the holes with the tip of the bar. Finished all of the holes with a large oval carbide burr on the die grinder. Let it dry for several days. Then I torched the holes brown and lightened the ridges with a flapper disc on the angle grinder and a rasp. But don't tell anyone - it's all a trade secret...
The older I get, the smaller the loads get!Mushroom looks cool H. Not sure if a wheelbarrow full counts as a "load".
That'll make a lot of white pine kindling.
The Ash we cut down at my brother's property is down at the bottom of his property. There is a narrow, windy goat path through some woods to get to his lawn, and a lot of the rounds were too big to lift or split by hand, so my Flying Tiger did a bunch of noodling and then the X-27 took over to get them to the size we could lift and put in the ATV trailer.
It was slow going, but we got a cord and a half over to my Daughter's this afternoon, and half the tree is still down there!
It was slow going, but we got a cord and a half over to my Daughter's this afternoon, and half the tree is still down there!
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Puts my little trailer to shame.
I have some for you to practice on Brett
Maybe you can show me how to wear a hard hat
This was on my uncles place a few years ago, we were in a hurry when we left and forgot to throw my hard hat in.
That's a nice one
. Looks like it could be fun, or not so fun depending on how it goes.I like the picture with the boat.
Wow, those are big.
You guys were eating late lol.
LOL.That cut call for what I call a "trimming cut"...not that I have ever needed to do one.
If you look at it close it looks as though there was three leads, that at least gives some reason for how it looked, but not all of it
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Chipper, sometimes things just don't go right in the bush either. This ash was wrapped about 35' up high around another tree and I knew it was going to be an interesting drop. I made the mistake of using my new to me 362 for the first time. Had a little more power than I expected and when I gassed it to cut the last bit for the holding wood I cut too much. I was hoping it would spin where it was hooked into the other tree and drop into the clearing. Didn't work so I went and got the tractor and gave it a little push with the loader, the holding wood broke and it dropped off the stump. I quickly raised the loader so that it would clear the cab as it fell. It dropped slow and there was no damage to anything, I had 1/2" to spare. I built my cab tough enough. You can see where the branches were hooked together in the one picture.
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Here is the stump. It's easy to see what I did wrong. I was trying to save the maple and didn't realize that I had cut such an angle on the mouth. Then went I bore cut from the back side I cut through my holding wood then I straighten my cut and cut it completely. I still can't figure out why my saw didn't get stuck in the cut. I wonder if it could be that the trees were caught together so much that it was suspended so it didn't bind the saw?
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Yum.
We have lots of crayfish but you need to catch and throw back 20 to get one worth eating!
