Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Still a lot of clutter but it’s coming along! It was SUPER humid that’s why the floor is wet.

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thanks for sharing, svk. i missed the skidoo's first time i looked at it!! lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Looks too much like my garage......except for the big empty space.

maybe for parking! in the making....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It was a losing battle with my ex around… Nobody could touch “her” stuff but “her” stuff was mixed in with everybody else’s stuff. After she took what she wanted and moved out most of the garage was just a pile of random stuff about 2 feet tall. We made great progress and also have six snowmobile’s across the back wall that need to be stored in the enclosed trailer before that.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Thanks! Though I cannot lay claim to designing the crotch in that walnut tree.

you mean like this:

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

been working on my scrounged toolbox for my hammer project. bit gungie. picnick basket clean now... hammer seems to like it. more tools to add....

 

[Brufab]

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

have a nice day! cut, fell and cut some more!!!

just stopped by to see how many pages i was behind today!!!!



headed now off... and into the Great Beyond....

 

[farmer steve]

Nice and spacious! Wish I had built mine bigger. They are never big enough, regardless of size. They eventually fill up one way or another!

I tried to tell @chipper1 that when he was planning his pole barn. Dang kids.

 

[MustangMike]

My trip to NH yesterday went well, 195 miles each way and the truck got 23.7 MPG w/traffic jams and a stop at Cabela's! Still had more than 1/4 tank when I got home!

Got to see my youngest Grandson, and they loved the benches.

Cabela's said only one container of powder, and they did not have anything I wanted in 1 lb containers, so I got 8 lbs of H-335, my favorite 223 powder (good for over 2,000 rounds). I can also use it in the 30-30 or 308. In addition, picked up 1,500 rounds of 22 Hp.

You guys are posting way too much to keep up with!

 

[svk]

This and my parents' 4 car 2 story garage, with another 2 cars worth of storage on the ends, is why I refuse to have more space... Yes my woodworking shop is cramped at times for big projects but it holds a finite amount of stuff. That means I have to get rid of stuff instead of storing it in perpetuity. For example, I really need to get all the chainsaws and the pole saw out of there and into the equipment shed, the chainsaw pants are dry and can be taken down, the dog crate can go in the store room, all the clamps need to be put back in their place, etc., while I'm working on the natural edge walnut slab counter top. That slab had/has a lot of tension in it and I had to rip it lengthwise to stop the cupping. Then there was a new crack and twisting... it's flat now. I hope it stays that way! The scrap walnut will be firewood! The ends will be cut to fit in the wall opening so much of the left side of the ends in the image with the highly figured end will be removed. I plan to make a template this week so I can cut the top to fit. Note that sanding swarf and shadows are giving the surface some odd looking spots that aren't really there!

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I agree. I want a small heated shop (more efficient to stick build) but beyond that whatever doesn’t fit into this garage isn’t needed.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I Alaska pix!!!

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Well then here's a couple more for you.

This is the view I wake up to every morning.

Chiniak Bay, AK at low tide on an Spring overcast day. I just happened to catch the Raven in the second picture by coincidence and luck!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

My trip to NH yesterday went well, 195 miles each way and the truck got 23.7 MPG w/traffic jams and a stop at Cabela's! Still had more than 1/4 tank when I got home!

Got to see my youngest Grandson, and they loved the benches.

Cabela's said only one container of powder, and they did not have anything I wanted in 1 lb containers, so I got 8 lbs of H-335, my favorite 223 powder (good for over 2,000 rounds). I can also use it in the 30-30 or 308. In addition, picked up 1,500 rounds of 22 Hp.

You guys are posting way too much to keep up with!

Good on ya!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Thanks! Though I cannot lay claim to designing the crotch in that walnut tree.

Figured Id share a couple milling pic's. I don't mill nearly as much as I use to. When I was much younger. A high school flame of mine and I lived in a 16 x 24 cabin. That I built out of Spruce framing and western cedar siding. All milled with a 066 on a 32" Granberg. Wish I had pictures. Although the flame was extinguished long ago. the memories Stihl remain. Probably always will. It was some good times in my life.

These are some Sitka Spruce bural's I milled up this winter. The biggest bigger ones being 50", across and 4" thick! They are far from finished, as they are Stihl curing. When Asked what am I going to do with them? All I can say is. "Not sure yet, but when I look at one of the bigger flats.I see a poker table in the future for the man cave!"
I'm not sure what the red colored wood slab is in the center bottom of the pic. I think its some kind of Asian or South American exotic. I milled it from a root wad washed up on the beach, and man let me tell you what! It is some hard hard dense and heavy wood! Even now that its cured! Never seen another wood like it. Except South American Apoton!

This is my banya I built a four or five years ago. It is far from finished on the outside and in. But definitely operational. I milled the three sided logs for the stem wall's. The Spruce benches as well as the Alaskan Yellow Cedar lumber for the ceiling in the sweat room, and also the Western Red Cedar interior siding stacked in the dressing room.

Her side of the dressing room.


"His side!"

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[MustangMike]

Just got some bad news. My friend and local tree guy died yesterday. His bucket truck went over and he was killed on impact.

He was in his 50s, meticulous and careful. I'm in shock!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Sorry to hear that. Very sorry. I Hope your taking it ok considering the circumstances and being your friend and all. All I can say is that even the very best and most experienced people in certain perticular professions have tragic accidents. Im really sorry to hear about your friends.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Sorry for your loss. This is one of those times when there are no words to speak to make it any easier. Just know we are praying for you and his family.

 

[LondonNeil]

Sorry to hear that Mike

 

[LondonNeil]

Woodstack-alanche! . It happens some years and it just happened. Still, I was doing a bit of restacking to a higher height to make a bit of extra room so it hasn't caused much extra work.... But I'd prefer to restack to a schedule of my own choosing

85F here today, hottest day this year. Supposed to be 93f tomorrow. Hottest UK June day on record was 96f in 1976.... The fabled long hot summer of '76. We could be in for another scorcher

 

[farmer steve]

So sorry to hear that Mike. When the good lord calls. Prayers for the family and you my friend.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Woodstack-alanche! . It happens some years and it just happened. Still, I was doing a bit of restacking to a higher height to make a bit of extra room so it hasn't caused much extra work.... But I'd prefer to restack to a schedule of my own choosing

85F here today, hottest day this year. Supposed to be 93f tomorrow. Hottest UK June day on record was 96f in 1976.... The fabled long hot summer of '76. We could be in for another scorcher

I've almost pulled a stack over on me a couple times! I obviously didn't learn anything the first time, but I did the second time!