Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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during the summer months up at ranch i go on snake safri around 8 ish pm. with mr Brutus, shovel, raised in hand at the ready. once spotted, suddenly there are two pieces to the situation. one summer eve i encountered 4 within 20 mins! one right after another... i won all events!
wooden cars - nice work! enjoyed seeing!! ~I chainsawed a V in a log so I'd have a good place to put "short" cutoffs.
I rip out thick blanks out of them, to have around to make toys for my grandson, at 3-1/2 yrs. old, he is car/truck crazy, so he has a whole fleet of cars and trucks that I made for him, here's one of them,
He lives a long way from me, but he gets a new one every time I go see him.
SR
WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Um.......where does the bar oil go?
Where's the chain brake?
There is some wisdom in delivering things in a way that allows the person to chew on it for a bit before responding. Some people will initially respond in a way they regret later but can't bring themselves to back that train up and make necessary adjustments to their knee jerk response!
Not my preferred method either but it is the better option at times.
Managed to get the seat in today not completely happy with it . But it was made by PUI interiors and they made it right by sending me 3 yards to fix it . I’m going to have my upholstery guy redo the back and try to tighten the bottom needs new cording for the hog clips 
Other than getting to hood painted /installed and a new front bumper she’s done
Sawyer Rob
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What has been chewing on it?
With Michael Landon chain smokin', poppin' tops and swattin' girls on the hiney while on the set. Not quite the wholesome family entertainment our mothers thought we were viewing.
If you can find them Sierra tipped game kings shoot real close to the ttsx in my 338wm. They were a cheaper, but it was 2 or 3 years since I bought bullets for the 338...Looking forward to it being over. Did 3 returns already today and have another one coming in later this evening.
My 8 lb can of H-380 arrived yesterday!
If it is not raining this afternoon, I may try to get to the range to test some new loads. The only bullet to shoot sub 1" so far is the Barnes 210 TTSX (with both H380 and IMR4350). I tweaked both loads by 1/2 grain to see if they get better or worse.
The only powder to produce OK results (under 1.5") with the 225 grain bullets is IMR4350. I tweaked the load with a couple of them to try also. Would love to find a lower cost bullet that shoots OK to practice with. The TTSX bullets are over a dollar a pop, the Speer are less than 1/2 that. (I have Barnes, Hornady and Speer 225 grain bullets). I also have 2 - 200 grain bullets, but neither of them seem to shoot well.
Thank goodness my Daughter helped me out a lot this year, or I would not have any time to "play"! Luckily, she enjoys doing it, and makes some extra money that reduces the financial pressures of raising 3 kids with sports and dance expense.
If it's anything like the pioneer/partner concrete saw we used for cutting curbs at the township, you'll stretch the chain out of adjustment, or rip the drivers off before you wear down the diamond abrasive all the way. The saw I got the not pleasure of using was a big 90cc chop saw set up with a real heavy duty chain saw bar that mad a watery mess everywhere. Cut 4 curbs for Ada ramps at an Intersection. Tell you what it was quite a workout.
I'm pretty direct and have been told I come across pretty corse/gruff so I doubt this is the right advice, I'd just tell them like it is and if the don't like it, they can shimmy up a cactus and rotate. I'm not beyond eating some humble pie myself, amd would just prefer someone to tell me whatever issues they have with me. May be pissed in the moment, but I'll get over it, and if I see fit change accordingly.
Can't remember if I mentioned it, yesterday my boy stayed home with me. Was kinda a pain in the butt, but it turned out to be a pretty good day for us. Bummed around the house in the morning, took the tdi for some data logging, then made lunch. Went out and started ro cut more rounds at the wood pile. Ended up having to stop, cause he wouldn't stay out of the way. Changed over to splitting. Decided to let him run the splitter lever. Dang bugger almost took my hand off. Swatted him a bit harder then I wanted to, but he got the message. Don't touch that lever till I tell him to. Got 2 trailer loads split (about half a cord bit more perhaps. ) finished restocking what was left of last year's wood then started stacking this year's wood in the shed.
Back at work today, had evac training on my ride. That's about a joke, but can't say much else about it. Got home and piddled around for a bit, then went and picked the kids up. Just found out it's gonna be $200 for 3 days a week daycare for my daughter over summer break. That jacked me up pretty bad. That's about $78.00 more per week then her normal in school fee. Wasn't at all happy about that, amd nearly melted down on the director. A lot of teachers use this daycare for their own kids, so over summer they get pulled out. This (of course) affects the income of the daycare, so they decided this year they are bumping up their rates for 'summer camp" for the older kids. We're already just over $1200 a month for daycare. This will put us up over $1500 a month. Which is totally absurd. Talked about my wife quitting again, but we still need another income besides mine. Just gonna have to suck it up I guess.
Split a bunch more wood this afternoon into evening. I have tomorrow evening yet then I'm back on the late shift for the weekend. Always something....
Back at work today, had evac training on my ride. That's about a joke, but can't say much else about it. Got home and piddled around for a bit, then went and picked the kids up. Just found out it's gonna be $200 for 3 days a week daycare for my daughter over summer break. That jacked me up pretty bad. That's about $78.00 more per week then her normal in school fee. Wasn't at all happy about that, amd nearly melted down on the director. A lot of teachers use this daycare for their own kids, so over summer they get pulled out. This (of course) affects the income of the daycare, so they decided this year they are bumping up their rates for 'summer camp" for the older kids. We're already just over $1200 a month for daycare. This will put us up over $1500 a month. Which is totally absurd. Talked about my wife quitting again, but we still need another income besides mine. Just gonna have to suck it up I guess.
Split a bunch more wood this afternoon into evening. I have tomorrow evening yet then I'm back on the late shift for the weekend. Always something....
I still think I may be able to get the 225 gr Hornady SST to do that, but if I can't I'll give the Sierra's a try. Thanks for the advice. I'm a little surprised how finicky this gun seems to be with bullets and powders, but at least the bullet I wanted to use the most shoots well. My 220 Swift likes the Sierra 53 gr Hp match bullets.
Evening folks,
Been busy around here lately.
Some pics from the last few day...
Been busy around here lately.
Some pics from the last few day...
Termites. They love peppermint, much more so than some of the other species locally which is unfortunate because peppermint is my favourite too.
Cropped a video of the 034 doin it's thing. My phone won't load more than a few secs of video. That's probably all you fellas can stand of seeing this mug anyway!!!!
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Ten years ago I sold a 75 Red Goldwing for $3k with a white Vetter fairing with white side bags. It was in pretty nice shape and ran well. I also had a 76 in red that matched the 75.
