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Firewood and Wood Heating / Re: For the guys selling bundl...
Last post by B.C.C. Lapp - Today at 09:04:41 PMThanks Lynn.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Thinking about the future....
Last post by mudfarmer - Today at 08:47:25 PMWe can't say what is best for you, but you can sure buy a big backhoe in good shape for less than a mini ex.
The big hoes don't do well at my place. A real good day was when it went on somebody else's trailer and went I don't care where.
A mini ex has been about perfect. 12k or 14k would have been better than 10k lb but shopped for a long time in the wrong market to get a good machine for a good price close by and can at least move easily.
Good luck in your decision and search, I think Jeff went through this so try to dig up that thread.
The big hoes don't do well at my place. A real good day was when it went on somebody else's trailer and went I don't care where.
A mini ex has been about perfect. 12k or 14k would have been better than 10k lb but shopped for a long time in the wrong market to get a good machine for a good price close by and can at least move easily.
Good luck in your decision and search, I think Jeff went through this so try to dig up that thread.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Did something dumb today.
Last post by RetiredTech - Today at 08:46:27 PM My family is always accusing me of being forgetful, but like I tell them, I don't remember ever forgetting anything. 
#4
General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Magicman - Today at 08:26:49 PMThat is very professionally done!! 
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Firewood and Wood Heating / Re: For the guys selling bundl...
Last post by Magicman - Today at 08:24:30 PMThat is very professional.
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Firewood and Wood Heating / Re: For the guys selling bundl...
Last post by B.C.C. Lapp - Today at 07:56:44 PMI made four of these boxes for four convenience stores all owned and run by the same very nice lady. I showed up asking to put some racks there at one of her stores and she said no but she would sell bagged firewood if I supplied boxes that could be locked at night. So I made em, had a local sign guy make some professional looking signage and here's we came up with. She steered me toward this end and I sure am glad I met her. I now have eight locations selling bagged wood and two with racks.
Its a big deal for me. Game changer.
Its a big deal for me. Game changer.
#7
General Woodworking / Re: Watcha Makin'?
Last post by Wlmedley - Today at 07:46:54 PMFinally got my well curb project finished.Just need to put metal on roof when customer gets it.Now to figure out how to get it on my trailer.Will be around 10' when on the trailer so I might wait to put metal on after it gets to its permanent location.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: DAM BEAR!
Last post by doc henderson - Today at 07:35:27 PMWe saw only one bear, and it was black. the moto is a fed bear is a dead bear. If you feed them and they start coming into camps, it will be destroyed. they recounted one attack and the staff member survived. the deaths there I heard about were drowning in a tent during a flood and a fall from a cliff.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: T&G Knifes
Last post by Ljohnsaw - Today at 06:45:50 PMSo a question for an expert, @YellowHammer !
I'll be planing 12-16' 2"x8"s. This planer comes with a whopping 17.5" infeed table 🫤. There is an optional 48" table that can be used for infeed or outfeed. Not cheap at $415 each. I have several portable roller tables but past comments say a flat table is preferred over rollers, at least on the infeed, IIRC. Yes? If these would be good for both in and out, I'll probably buy one and fab the other. It has some special linkages to keep it level and supported as you raise and lower the table. I have materials to make a copy.
I'll be planing 12-16' 2"x8"s. This planer comes with a whopping 17.5" infeed table 🫤. There is an optional 48" table that can be used for infeed or outfeed. Not cheap at $415 each. I have several portable roller tables but past comments say a flat table is preferred over rollers, at least on the infeed, IIRC. Yes? If these would be good for both in and out, I'll probably buy one and fab the other. It has some special linkages to keep it level and supported as you raise and lower the table. I have materials to make a copy.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: DAM BEAR!
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Today at 06:38:54 PMThe dumpster is the ultimate 'pininic basket' for bears, no doubt. We used to bring small groups of Scouts down the the dumpsters to watch the bears from a safe distance because they have never (hopefully) seen one in camp. We tried for years to figure out a way to discourage the bears until we finally came up with "the dumpster compound" It was a 6x6 posted enclosure surrounded by an electric wirer fence. That did it pretty well. But the bears still came sometimes to 'give it the old (bear) college try' to get in there. But before we did that...
I was up at camp helping run a JLTC weeklong course. Standard tent camping and cooking in campsite with nobody else in camp at all, except the range and our staff and crew. This was a week before we opened for the summer season. SO the protocol was that after dinner all would be cleaned up , bears bags hung and all trash collected in bags and put by my truck. (I had the only 4WD truck that could get up that goat trail to our 2 campsites, so we kept it up in the woods in case of emergency and for trash transport.) Each time they started the evening classes, I would throw the bags up on the hood and roof of my truck and roll down to the dumpsters and unload them. I pulled up the the dumpsters one evening and grabbed two bags off the hood and half turned and threw them 6' into the dumpster and before they landed I turned to grab two more, when I swung back, I saw one of the bags on the ground. I thought it was weird that I missed form such a short heave, but shrugged and threw the next two bags in and reached to pick up my 'miss' but before I could straighten back up with it, another back came flying out of the dumpster and landed on my feet. OKAAAAY. My pea brain put it all together, I put the bags back on the truck hood, got in and backed up a bit as I saw first one, then two bear heads pop up out of the dumpster, then another. I didn't have a lot of options. Carrying firearms in camp is bad form (forbidden) for any reason except for a very specific purpose with all kinds of papers and signatures. So I backed off a bit, got out and started hollering at them and making noise with stuff I found laying at the maintenance yard there. (scrub bucket and a wooden latrine brush) After a while they gave up and slowly moved on, I could finish my chore and head back up the hill. When I got back one of the others adults laughingly asked if I had gotten lost getting back to camp because I was gone a long time. "No, I got involved in a battle of wits with a superior force." "WHAT? Nobody is in camp but us?" "OK well a bear threw a garbage bag at me and we had it out." "Oh, OK, I get that."
That summer turned out to be the worst year we ever had for bears during the camping season and we had bears walking right through campsites occupied with noisy kids right in the middle of the day. That was unsafe and we had the DEC come in and review it. They gave us some rubber 12 ga. slugs and some instruction and we kept a shotgun in the campsite and had to use it twice during mid-day hours. After that, we figured out the electric fence and had a fall project weekend to build it up right. Worked like a charm.
I (try to) make it sound humorous, and it is, but the truth is, every few years we have some frightening story popping up about a bear grabbing an infant from a stroller, or a family attacked while hiking. And more frequently we have break in incidents of them coming right into a town and tearing doors off to get at a food odor. That same summer I mentioned above we had one destroy a door on a compact car to get at a (cold) cup of coffee on the console that had cream and sugar in it. (That vehicle owner (a staff member, our medic) came back to camp during bear season and filled his tag.
) These bears are nothing you should mess with unless you are appropriately equipped. When I was in NM (Philmont) it was even more of an issue. I nearly lost a friend out there in an attack, but I think that was a Brown. Doc, do you recall if they have Brown's at Philmont? I know one thing they sure grow big out there.
I was up at camp helping run a JLTC weeklong course. Standard tent camping and cooking in campsite with nobody else in camp at all, except the range and our staff and crew. This was a week before we opened for the summer season. SO the protocol was that after dinner all would be cleaned up , bears bags hung and all trash collected in bags and put by my truck. (I had the only 4WD truck that could get up that goat trail to our 2 campsites, so we kept it up in the woods in case of emergency and for trash transport.) Each time they started the evening classes, I would throw the bags up on the hood and roof of my truck and roll down to the dumpsters and unload them. I pulled up the the dumpsters one evening and grabbed two bags off the hood and half turned and threw them 6' into the dumpster and before they landed I turned to grab two more, when I swung back, I saw one of the bags on the ground. I thought it was weird that I missed form such a short heave, but shrugged and threw the next two bags in and reached to pick up my 'miss' but before I could straighten back up with it, another back came flying out of the dumpster and landed on my feet. OKAAAAY. My pea brain put it all together, I put the bags back on the truck hood, got in and backed up a bit as I saw first one, then two bear heads pop up out of the dumpster, then another. I didn't have a lot of options. Carrying firearms in camp is bad form (forbidden) for any reason except for a very specific purpose with all kinds of papers and signatures. So I backed off a bit, got out and started hollering at them and making noise with stuff I found laying at the maintenance yard there. (scrub bucket and a wooden latrine brush) After a while they gave up and slowly moved on, I could finish my chore and head back up the hill. When I got back one of the others adults laughingly asked if I had gotten lost getting back to camp because I was gone a long time. "No, I got involved in a battle of wits with a superior force." "WHAT? Nobody is in camp but us?" "OK well a bear threw a garbage bag at me and we had it out." "Oh, OK, I get that."
That summer turned out to be the worst year we ever had for bears during the camping season and we had bears walking right through campsites occupied with noisy kids right in the middle of the day. That was unsafe and we had the DEC come in and review it. They gave us some rubber 12 ga. slugs and some instruction and we kept a shotgun in the campsite and had to use it twice during mid-day hours. After that, we figured out the electric fence and had a fall project weekend to build it up right. Worked like a charm.
I (try to) make it sound humorous, and it is, but the truth is, every few years we have some frightening story popping up about a bear grabbing an infant from a stroller, or a family attacked while hiking. And more frequently we have break in incidents of them coming right into a town and tearing doors off to get at a food odor. That same summer I mentioned above we had one destroy a door on a compact car to get at a (cold) cup of coffee on the console that had cream and sugar in it. (That vehicle owner (a staff member, our medic) came back to camp during bear season and filled his tag.
) These bears are nothing you should mess with unless you are appropriately equipped. When I was in NM (Philmont) it was even more of an issue. I nearly lost a friend out there in an attack, but I think that was a Brown. Doc, do you recall if they have Brown's at Philmont? I know one thing they sure grow big out there.
