Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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They are called cook stoves, certainly would heat a smaller house too.Looks like an exhaust pipe for the exhaust.
Is it for cooking on top, heat, inside or outside use.
Wonder if I can get one. I'm also wanting one of the freedom seed tools they were handing out to everyone over there.
Volunteering is down globally especially after covid. The oldest club in our district is on the verge of dying as is one of the (formerly) most active rotary clubs in the area.That's awesome! The Lions clubs are dying around here. Not enough volunteers. Everyone's too busy with their own lives.
Our Lions club is at an all time high because we have the benefit of recruiting retired transplants who have moved out of the cities to their cabins up here. In a town of 590 people we have a Lions club of 69 members strong....granted 3/4 of the club members live in rural and lake areas outside of town.
Todays fun . I have to admit it takes me a lot longer to fill the trailer than it used too. 
Puttering around in the crick bottom this evening. Discovered some cedar poles that the previous owner left behind. Couple blow downs I'm taking out also.
Looks like a nice load of Chestnut Oak, I love milling that stuff! It is my favorite!
It is in the White Oak family.
He’s taking more down this weekend . If I can get my Kubota over there it would make my life that much easier. Most of the wood there is oak with a few black birch and some maple . But 90% is oak
All right gun freaks. Young guy a work with has been hounding me to sell him a 12ga. 870 rifled slug barrel I have. It's a blued Remington barrel with the cantilever scope mount and no front sight. I see what they go for online, but what's realistic?
I've got one on my gun but have been looking (unsuccessfully) for one for my daughter. (My barrel is a Hastings).
How much do you want, and what condition is it in?
Couple little pits in the blueing, but it ain't been used much. I have no clue what's reasonable to ask, I like guns, but I'm not one of those wheeler-dealer hoard/sell kinda guys.
These humanitarian efforts are amazing. My high school mechanical drawing teacher was involved with PET (Personal Energy Transportation) as a trustee in the organization. PET volunteers build hand cranked wheelchair/carts that are distributed to areas where people lost feet, legs, etc. to landmines. They also distribute them to those with leprosy, polio and other disabilities. They would pack the trikes using clothing and other things for padding... doing so let them get other relief items to the victims while avoiding problems with the governments.
I enjoyed those mechanical drawing classes... we often talked about guns, hunting, tractors and other equipment, and building construction. I did an independent study on surveying with him... made a topographic map of a 3 acre parcel. Forty plus years later he and his wife attended some of the Ruffed Grouse Society banquets I set up.... COVID stopped the banquets so I haven't seen him in quite a while.
I found some of their videos
Not sure if I'm all that freaky. I've seen them from 150-250 without-with the scope they came with for the longer version 23 or 24"?.
Does yours take the 3". My first 870 field grade was bought with an 18" slug barrel, which I sold to my dad so I could buy a skeet barrel, both were 2.75 iirc.
That fits me a bit better lol.
It takes 2 3/4" and 3". The barrel itself is right around 20" with another 3.5" of cantilever mount hanging off the back. It's a rifled barrel, not the smooth bore. It was my dad's, he lived in Saginaw County (shotgun zone) but I think he usually hunted with a model 700 chambered in .280 Rem.
Not sure what my old one was, dad's still got it. He also has the rest of it and the 26" skeet barrel, as I left it here with him back in 89 when I moved to FL. He has it set up with a nice scope and ready to hunt deer. My 700 makes a good bit more noise, not quite as stealthy like your dads
.I hear you about taking longer to fill a trailer. I use to fill a truck and my 8' trailer in one trip. Today, my butt was dragging after filling only my PU. It's funny too, firewood has gotten heavier.
Still some there of the first pile and then I'll get some out of this pile. Plus there's some Hackberry that I'll pick through. Talked with the arborist too and some White Oak was dropped off.
Bad news, we're having thunderstorms this afternoon/evening and the log yard will be way too wet for me to get into it. Plus, he'll be burning this week
. So, I'll probably won't be getting anymore this round.
WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Heading to the cabin in the morning. When I get back I will need to post some cast iron pix. The ratio of wood to cast iron is very skewed in the wood direction currently.
GeneralKayoss
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Nice smooth finish. What chain are you using?
