Today it's Sunday, so most are probably not out working in the woods, at their business ventures, or doing whatever it is we do to make a living.
I'm doing laundry, watching the TV, starting dinner, and bringing in some more firewood.
What are you doing today?
Not a DanG thing........... 8)
Playing on the internet, tinkering on addition, half watching "Arrow" with Zach, and putting off plowing the driveway so the wife and kids can get out for school and work tomorrow. I plugged in the Bobcat a couple hours ago so I suppose it's about time.
Just got back from plowing snow, now its food time, ave a rack of ribs in the smoker and sausages went that way yesterday, tonights super will be smoked sausage on the grill and hopefully some ribs.... at -27°C not going to be an easy cook... ::) Just might need bring that indoors if the temp does not go up ion the smopker , it should as I have it out of the breeze.
I am just now logging in. Sitting here at the computer and realizing that buying an OWB that was a little over sized for my heat load was actually a very wise decision. It seems so nice to have the first and second story's at 73*(1650 sq/ft combined) and an old Michigan un-insulated basement (600 sq/ft) at 60*. Throw a couple armloads in in the morning and the same at 6pm. Haven't used any fuel oil in nearly 6 years. Getting ready to watch one of the X-men video's with my son.
Much of nothing. ;D
I am doing nothing today. Just piddling . Went to Tractor supply earlier and took my bride to Cracker Barrel for lunch. That might get me some brownie points . Yea, right !!! LOL !!!
That sounds very comfortable, Marty. fire_smiley
Watching tv cant see the wood pile 100 yards away weather man says this will let up tonight hope so got 4 ft drifts gona be cold blowing snow with no cab on the tractor in the morning whiteflag_smiley whiteflag_smiley whiteflag_smiley whiteflag_smiley
Supposed to in the mid-40s here tomorrow. I'll be running a broom sweeper tractor part of tomorrow.
Working my 24 hr shift at the fire dept. Enjoying the 57 degree day and waiting for the 10 degree high temp tomorrow.
Sold a little short stock pine like this
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shoveled drive to stay on top of it
rehabbing a closet after having to cut a hole in the sheet rock
to access and replace a bathroom tub and drain.
a little research on the 2014 Chevy, Silverado.
Nice truck, seems the 2014 gas engines have all Aluminum blocks and heads
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typing this :D
DGDrls
Thawed out a frozen frost-proof waterline to the horses stock tank.That went real well.Went grocery shopping with my wife,bothered some people up in Canada about a debarker for my mill,watched the thermometer climb up to 10 above then give up and go back down.Time to get out of this DanG recliner and take a walk up to see how the Lt30 is doing.Ran like a top last week end.
I'm listening to Pandora. And reading. And missing my grandsons.
And they are on the prayer list at church, Den.
Plowed the drive, carried wood in then feed the birds twice today. Sure hope this weather breaks soon.
It will be so great when we can hug and kiss them again. When will that be? I would do anything to get them back. I know this going negative but, if I could get my hands on Majed, I'd beat him to a bloody pulp. He is a monster.
Hang on tight Den.
He still is the father of the boys and hope things can be much better for all of you in the future.
I can't imagine going through what you are enduring now, and you are not alone.
But then, I cannot imagine how these situations get started in the first place.
It started with college. Jess wasn't into the drugs and alcohol. She thought she wanted a Muslim. A terrible mistake.
I've become an extended house guest at Lou's in the U.P. because of the weather the last few days. This morning I took Catherine to mass, (my first mass ever) and this afternoon Lou and I have been working on deer antlers. Something we began last night. We hung a set of 5 that belonged to Lou's dad, a set that belongs to David Lou's boy that was shot from the same area I shot my deer this year. We also repaired a set of Lou's that had broken, and then rehung those as well as a couple of Reh antlers that he shot in Bavaria while in the service in the 50's. The oldest set of antlers we hung today were from 1928. :)
David's Deer
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Lou's Father's Antlers
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Lou's antlers
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Did a tiny bit of paperwork this morning, cleaned the flu as the furnace has not been working as good as it should, cleaned last nights snow off driveway, groomed ski trail for the wife, went grocery shopping with her, getting ready to cook moose steaks on the q.
Just listening to the wind blowing at 31mph with gusts at 39mph and the temp at 9 deg F. Temp is falling to a forecast low tonight of -13F and a high tomorrow of -8. And very dangerous wind chills tonight and tomorrow. I'm hoping the wind will take all our snow somewhere south of us.
That and my wife has on Alaska, The Final Frontier. It's the season final episode tonight. I just looked and it's warmer today in Alaska than here. :(
I saw the other day that it was warmer in Juneau than Atlanta, GA.
Is it really Sunday? Just another work day for me. Most winters I work 7 days a week
Sunday School, church, enchiladas for lunch, and more fire wood, 60's today, single digits for the next few days,
david
Right now we are building a vac kiln for installation in MO. I hope to sell one this week that could go to Southern CA. It sounds like either would be a relief from these Arctic temperatures. At least, there are only a couple/few inches of snow out there.
took the quad and hooked up to the arch and went to pull a log out of the bush and upset the arch and log , bent the hitch and got it all sorted out and figured if that's the way it's going then I refuse to play . Put the quad away and took the CBX out and went riding . 150 miles later and life is good again . 71 here today , I have been riding before in January but never in a shirt ! Red
That's a pretty cool day, Red.
Hauled the tractor today to where some land was being cleared about 10 miles away. Felled about 20 trees, bucked them into logs, hauled two loads home, went back and got the tractor. Mostly chinaberry with one cherry, one hackberry, one water oak, one very ugly persimmon, and a mulberry.
What is the dia. on the persimmon? Makes some interesting looking lumber.
Weather was nice to day 56 degs so I when to the sawmill to move lumber. Removed
500bf of lumber out of the kiln into the trailer. Then moved 400br of walnut and red oak
into the kiln. The walnut and oak had been air drying for a couple of years. Two weeks
ago I mill a red oak and today I move the lumber back by the kiln to dry be for going
into the kiln. It was 1:30 so I said enough for the day so when back home, took a shower
then a nap. Hope every one is doing ok with this weather, be safe and keep warm.
Sawwood
Delivered 3 face cords of firewood, skidded firewood logs, cut and split 5 more, got a nice fire going in the garage, sharpened some chains. Watched the boy build a little wooden plane kit (helped a little). Had some potato soup for dinner and hot fudge brownie and ice cream for desert. I'm half-heartedly watching the pro bowl.
What are you going to do with thee Mulberry? Around here they grow like weeds and look like weeds when they're cut.
I will post a pic tomorrow. It is coyote ugly. You won't believe it. About 10" in diameter. I don't know why I hauled it home except maybe for the challenge.
Den,
Saw it into boards. There is one good 8 foot section. I have a segmented bowl turner that likes to come and buy some.
Church, breakfast, visit to TSC, stock up the firewood and reeeelax :)
NWP, hope it's a quiet one. Retired last year after 34 yrs. on the job.
Danny,
That Mulberry must grow differently where you are. I would think that ours would be too feathery for a segmented bowl.
Mulberry can make a nice log here. I have one about 16" in diameter on my property.
Went to church this morning with my wife, youngest son, and one of our grandson's.
Then we all went down the mountain to take my 87 year old mother to lunch, something we do almost every Sunday. She's the only one of either of our parents we have left so we try to do something she enjoys every week, and we all wind up enjoying it. Got home about an hour ago, and now I'm killing time here. All in all, I'd say it was a pretty productive day.
Swapped out about 5 or 6 sprinkler heads with drip fittings and ran 100' of tube to about 20 bushes. Trying to conserve water since the lake is now down to 17%. All the ground cover will die back (as well as the weeds ;) ), so it won't be so bad. We only had about 5 days of rain since last rainy season (about April). There is talk of banning all outdoor watering by March if we don't get some serious rain this way. Then I can kiss all my plants goodbye :-\
Hope it rains for you.
Logged in three billable hours today on two small jobs. Could have gone to a third but it can wait till tomorrow. Cut a bit of wood, fought with my stove, bridging blocks and plugging grates, and did crosswords.
It's been cold and windy all week. Today's forecast was for upper 60s and sunshine. Client arrived at 10 and we milled a short walnut log and 3 eastern red cedars. He drove an hour each way to get them done. Had dinner, watched the Pro Bowl and Grammy's while working on emails and computer work. Tomorrow's forecast is for 10° and subzero wind chills.
Trying to stay warm! >:(
Yesterday, -32°C Fed animals in the barns, started 766 as it has the snowblower on it to clean yards hydraulics were so cold would not work for 3/4 hour, finally worked, rad was froze up and low on fluid, added anti-freeze and thawed out/covered up, cleaned yards. After lunch asked kids to start loader tractor as a person was coming right over to purchase some beef, 5 minutes was an hour later and the tractor would not crank over. Block heater cord was plugged in to the tractor but not the wall.. ::) Finally got that one running, took some hay out to feed cattle at the bush, got there and mister wolf ( well turned out to be a missus) was sitting there watching the cattle, well she ain't watching no cattle no more, couldn't get a bead on the one in the bushes but there's always tomorrow. Had the kids go get the carcase with the skidoo( could have brought it with the tractor but they always want a reason to ride skidoo) Fed the animals in the yards and barns again, took the wolf to dad's to skin out but it was already froze too hard.
Did nothing yesterday except feed the stove. I will be doing the same today. Doing nothing is a very time consuming task. It will take the rest of the winter to finish the task. ::)
Didn't see this thread til this AM.
Blew the snow out of my driveway, then to my chair.
Finished the rise and fall of the 3rd Reich on my Kindle, the book was darned near as long as wwII and started a new book about the training of Navy Seals.
Drove to Menard's to pick up some 3/8 pex for use as a drain ine on the BioPro. Cut firewood most of the day taking advantage of the relatively mild day. Prepared for the artic clipper that showed up today. Bitter cold and high winds. Linnea is happy I cut firewood yesterday :)
Today is all inside work putting the BioPro back together, rebuilding the MS460 (scored piston), feeding the boiler every 4-5 hours thanks to the cold temps and nasty wind chill. Might change the fuel filter in Linnea's Sprinter or I might take a nap. The nap is sounding pretty good...
Went fishing yesterday. This morning we knocked out last years taxes...when one doesn't have income there a lot easier. :o :o
I always have one or two winter projects to keep my busy. This year is a complete overhaul of a South Bend 9" metal lathe.
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Picture was a couple of weeks ago. It's all together now and I'm fabricating a new counter shaft drive along with a bench for it to sit on.
Snowed last night and this morning the wind picked up. I made two glue ups for tables this morning and went plowing this afternoon. I have two driveways that are prone to drifting... they where closed up, this is where the V-Plow excells. Put her down and push on the right peddle. ;D
I would not mind a small break in the weather, some might call that HEAT.... :-\
Plug tractor in got fire going shop took nap blew snow most of the day man was it cold no cab on tractor 13 below was the high to day
We have mondays off for the winter so we have been working around the house,still unpacking.
Today we took the pellet stove to be repaired and then I put a new starting fan on the woodgas truck. It worked well and started the engine on straight woodgas so I took it for a drive to celebrate.
First time since November.
Also have lamb shanks slow cooking on the woodstove since noon and it's smelling really good. :)
This is for "Any Day", not just yesterday in particular.
Got home from the trees at about 5:45 pm, with the temp at 61 degrees. The latest winter storm "Leon" is supposed to nail us here at The Beach with another round of snow, beginning Tuesday afternoon. With this in mind, I brought in as much firewood as possible. By 6:15, the thermometer had dropped to 41 degrees. :o
Quote from: Paul_H on January 27, 2014, 06:44:57 PM
Also have lamb shanks slow cooking on the woodstove since noon and it's smelling really good. :)
Had lamb shanks on mashed potatoes in Australia. I bet they are just as good in Canada.
Here is the coyote ugly persimmon log, David.
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You use the term "log" very loosely. ;D
Looks like a hockey stick ! :)
MM,
Well, there might be a "little log" in there somewhere. We are not all as lucky as Dodgy Loner who found the black walnut and cherry log "Fairy" :).
Red Good,
I bet that persimmon would make a stout hockey stick :D.
Looks like a question mark to me. What will it turn out as ??? ??? ???
:D
Probably not much :). However, a man has to try.
Poston would make a bench out of it. Probably for crooks. ;D
A crooked bench for crooks. Except, the crook is the guy who charges $300 for a little, thin, knotty, split, bacterial infected, end-checked, bark-fallen-off, bleached from the sun, riddled with powderpost beetles, water oak slab :D.
(BTW, I have plenty of them if anyone is interested.)
Almost looks to me like it's still squirming, trying to get away! ;D
That thing was sticking up on the trailer on the way home like a rude salute.
When a pic comes up like this one and has ''log'' tagged to it it(Tom) scares me , I am so glad to know that you sell lumber and not logs. ;D
I will sell this one cheap :D. If you buy it, I will ship it free, and even throw in a couple of bags of grits if you want it ;D.
Quote from: isawlogs on January 27, 2014, 10:44:19 PM
When a pic comes up like this one and has ''log'' tagged to it it(Tom) scares me , I am so glad to know that you sell lumber and not logs. ;D
I know that WDH makes lumber but this is the first time I have heard that he actually sells lumber. :) Didn't he just build another storage shed / drying shed? :)
Hey, I sold five boards, just yesterday :).
Do you restick the lumber after kiln drying? If so, do you let the customer pick through the pile? :)
The lumber goes in racks, separate by species, and sometimes by sawing method, i.e. flatsawn versus rift/quartersawn. They can pick thru the rack as long as they put back what they don't choose the way it was before.
And what about length are they all 8'. Say I have a1x8 then it's 8' 10' 12' on and on I have piles and piles :D
Mark this one down you all.
If I was buying that,oh the horrors,must I call that thing a log?? I would tell WDH to keep the log and just,more horrors,send the grits. ::) :D
If we cut a tree like that my Father would say,That is so crooked,it won't even make straight smoke.
With the wind blowing the way it is,looks like an inside day.
Quote from: WDH on January 27, 2014, 10:32:01 PM
A crooked bench for crooks. Except, the crook is the guy who charges $300 for a little, thin, knotty, split, bacterial infected, end-checked, bark-fallen-off, bleached from the sun, riddled with powderpost beetles, water oak slab :D.
You've been reading my Craig's List ads. :D :D :D
And just to set the record straight "know it all"......my slabs are not sun bleached. :D The rest of what you said.......its called character. ;D
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Quote from: isawlogs on January 27, 2014, 10:44:19 PM
When a pic comes up like this one and has ''log'' tagged to it it(Tom) scares me , I am so glad to know that you sell lumber and not logs. ;D
I know that WDH makes lumber but this is the first time I have heard that he actually sells lumber. :) Didn't he just build another storage shed / drying shed? :)
I repent, I should of said '' Try to sell lumber'' smiley_smug01
Peter,
All of my "hardwood lumber" is either 8, 9, or 10 foot in length. 10 feet is the max for the kiln.
I will not respond to the rest of those Lumber Selling Wannabes.
Quote from: WDH on January 28, 2014, 09:55:33 PM
Peter,
All of my "hardwood lumber" is either 8, 9, or 10 foot in length. 10 feet is the max for the kiln.
I will not respond to the rest of those Lumber Selling Wannabes.
Thanks, :)
Blow snow so I can get to the wood pile people are asking for wood now that the price of gas has gone up 5.98 a gallon yesterday 8)
The roads are slick ice and I am not going anywhere.
I will finish up my 2013 bookkeeping for the tax man.
We ended up getting 11" of the snow, so I'm not going anywhere today. I've been sitting around the house all day with my wife. She's able to "remote in" to her work on the computer upstairs in the office. She came down awhile ago for lunch and said,"Why don't you defrost the freezer?". Brilliant! smiley_love Perfect day for it outdoors (23 degrees), just put all the stuff in a plastic storage container and sit it on the back deck.
Have a fire going in the fireplace, dogs are taking a nap, and I may, too! ;)
Watching PatD bake a Coconut Cake.
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It is for our Daughter's 50th birthday so all I got to do was lick the bowl. food6 BTW, it is 4 layers and over 6" tall. :o
Tell Pat that looks delicious. food6
Happy Birthday to your daughter! :)
That Cake looks so good, Is it chocolate on the inside?
No, it's white.
goose63
Was in Minot about 6 years ago and my good wife bought 2 beer cozies that were printed with the slogan "Why not Minot"
Reading your posts remind me why not.
rather cold in winter and very expensive gas.
When Pat was making the cake she had to trim the crown from the layers to keep them from "earthquaking" in the center. I took the thin slices and made us a cake.
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I brewed a cup and the cake was mighty fine. food6 Eat your heart out FOE. :D
Nice, it does look good.
Yum
Went and picked up a used Grizzly GO454 20" planer. Ordered new Byrd H7769 cutter head for it. bg
I bet that you will really like it.
I am not real happy with my 16" Byrd cutter that I had custom made for my central Machine planer. It leaves small grooves along the board and small corragations across the boards. they are smallenough that some are not real noticeable , but a light sanding dulls the tops and they show up or a poly finish if not sanded.
I have a Byrd on my Jet 15". It cuts so smooth and quite. Thats why I bought one for my 20". bg
Quote from: Bill Gaiche on January 29, 2014, 09:11:42 PM
Went and picked up a used Grizzly GO454 20" planer. Ordered new Byrd H7769 cutter head for it. bg
Nice! :) :) :)
I was hoping that would be my outcome . I wonder if it would help to regear it to an even slower feed rate. I can't figure the slight grooves the length of the board because the cutters overlap . I guess I am the only one with the problem ,everyone praised them before I purchased mine ,and almost everyone gives me hell when I explain my outcome.I really got smoother finish with the triple blade head before if the blades were sharp
Don
Can only figure that something isn't right with the way the individual cutters are in place, or that a pressure roller, or chip breaker are out of adjustment.
What it reminds me of is a blade that has been jointed too much and the heel is hammering the wood, making it shiny. But that memory cell is from a long time ago so may not be accurate.
Can't offer more other than to look at the adjustment and condition of the cutters.
Slight raised area usually mean a chip in each cutter, but am sure you have checked for that already.
After inserting individual cutters, is there a honing, or jointing, procedure to true up all the individual cutters?
That was one of the selling points No honing No adjusting. just turn the carbides and screw them back down. Now these grooves are not deep but visable . and irritating.
I know what you mean about a knife not set proper or the heal hammering . This is more like all of them are hammering or dull. I have my under rollers set just below the table to keep the board flat on the surface ,no bouncing.
The groove that run parallel show up real bad around the hard areas surrounding knots the worse. the perpendicular groove are always on the board. I have a cheaper insert cutter in my jointer that has less knives in a straight cut pattern that does not leave the signature . I got that cutter from Woodworkers Supply . they did not have a 16" cutter head for my machine , so I splurged and bought the best one.
Defective cutter head?
I really can't help you with the bad finish. I have my bed rollers set at .003" above the table. Have everything else set at the factory setting. I have run post oak, red oak, bur oak, cedar, pine, and walnut through it and it does a very fine job. I believe I would check with the manufacture of it for some help. Do you have a part number for your cutter head? bg
I finished my 2013 Bookkeeping. smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
I finished some frames and tommorow get to drive to Pa to pick up a motorcycle . Hope the weather stays behind me !
Quote from: Magicman on January 30, 2014, 10:31:43 PM
I finished my 2013 Bookkeeping. smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
That's just not right Magicman ;)
My bookkeeping is done too. :D :D :D :D :D ;) + 23 and sun, going out to cut some w pine today 8) 8) 8)
Quote from: Magicman on January 30, 2014, 10:31:43 PM
I finished my 2013 Bookkeeping. smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
Outstanding, Lynn, now you can return to sawing. :)
Today is our oldest Daughter's 50th Birthday. Pat made a "3 day" Coconut Cake which we will take with us to the party this afternoon.
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It is 4 layers and over 6" high.
The cutter was special order. Because it was 16" and the pacific rim manufacturers had switched to only 15" by the time I needed to rebuild . I sent my 3blade cutter to Byrd so that he could match everything . My planer looks like a Powermatic 15" they had the Byrd shelex cutting head .There are other companies that have planers that look like that only most had straight knife cutterheads. Maybe I am just too picky when it comes to my planed wood. But I hate sanding.
Quote from: Magicman on January 31, 2014, 10:35:50 AM
Today is our oldest Daughter's 50th Birthday. Pat made a "3 day" Coconut Cake which we will take with us to the party this afternoon.
It is 4 layers and over 6" high.
OMG!!!! Put on a pot of coffee. That looks Sooooooo good Lynn!!! food6 food6 food6
I knew a guy once that shipped a piece of cake in a Tupperware and had it delivered next day.
He said the cake was still fresh and in one piece. Just saying. :D
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on January 31, 2014, 11:21:47 AM
I knew a guy once that shipped a piece of cake in a Tupperware and had it delivered next day.
He said the cake was still fresh and in one piece. Just saying. :D
WHAT? ???
Expand on that, please.
Just what it says. People ship cakes everyday. ;D
I think mm will have eaten the cake before he reads your post on shipping cake. Anyway that may be his excuse for not sending you any. Also I understand how your sawmill operator could function more efficient with some of that cake in his belly. bg
Another one of them "poor wife or poor nurse" jobs. Spent 3 hours defrosting a 20 cu ft upright freezer. Yeah, I know they make them frost free now, but remember I am a cheap hillbilly ;D
That's what I did two days ago. Took more than three hours here, though. :-\
Quote from: clww on January 31, 2014, 06:58:26 PM
That's what I did two days ago. Took more than three hours here, though. :-\
Clean out the contents, put everything in an ice chest, then use a hair drier, start on the top shelf. Melt water drips down to the next lower shelf and thaws it some. Garden hose hooked to the drain line.. Found some stuff I had forgotten about, like 5 gallons of frozen blueberries, and some venison steaks. Blueberries and ice cream for a nite time snack..
Those blueberries would never had been forgotten by my wife. She is a blueberry eater. bg
Quote from: pineywoods on January 31, 2014, 07:35:34 PM
Quote from: clww on January 31, 2014, 06:58:26 PM
That's what I did two days ago. Took more than three hours here, though. :-\
Clean out the contents, put everything in an ice chest, then use a hair drier, start on the top shelf. Melt water drips down to the next lower shelf and thaws it some. Garden hose hooked to the drain line.. Found some stuff I had forgotten about, like 5 gallons of frozen blueberries, and some venison steaks. Blueberries and ice cream for a nite time snack..
Don't try to speed things up by using an ice pick.
Don't ask how I know that. :D
Well the cake is history.
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Shown with our 50 year old Daughter and the "baker"
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The cake served us well and the leftover went into the fridg for later. food6
Magic that cake was almost as pretty as the gals showing it off ;), looks like everyone had a good time I just can't believe there was leftovers! Gonna try to put in some more hot wire today and get the heifers moved, see how that goes. Note to self, fencing is much easier when the ground isn't frozen solid ::) (in my defence I didn't know I was getting this field until after the ground was frozen solid).
Building a table that goes with 2 booths and 2 benches out of red oak for friends. Have the booths done. Table almost done. bg
Great looking cake and relatives, MM! :) :) :)
You're a lucky man MM. :)
Good looking cake 8) 8) and even better looking girls :) 8)
We processed 4 face cords of wood this morning and pushed them into the woodshed for us. That plus the four from yesterday will last until break up. I hope ::) :)
I fired up the Fabtek and let it warm up and went through all it's motions and checked it out. Tomorrow it gets it first workout since the injection pump issues.
I plowed more snow. Opened up the neighbors drive so the propane truck can get in this week. Hadn't been plowed in about 3 weeks and there was a lot of snow and then I cleaned our drive up. I put the dirt bucket on the Bobcat so I could peel off the snow build up down to the ice underneath and pushed all the banks back. I'm running out of room to put snow and will have to put the blower on a tractor if we get much more. I like to scrape the drive pretty close at this time of year because of the southern exposure. Beginning now the hill will thaw out with a few sunny days even if it's cold. Dark ice melts faster than snow but the sun has been rare the last three months in this country. We'll probably get some rain now and we'll have a bobsled run. That's happened before ;D The kids are planning on sledding on it tomorrow. We're getting a little light snow and it should be fun 8)
Great looking sunset here tonight.
Currently watching the Super Bowl pre game show on FOX, then the game afterwards.
Still picking Broncos-35
Seahawks-17
Terrible game, may as well have been called after the first quarter.
Now that football is all done, it's time for NASCAR (my favorite thing to watch on TV or in person)! move_it
Quote from: clww on January 31, 2014, 06:58:26 PM
That's what I did two days ago. Took more than three hours here, though. :-\
BTDT but last time I got smart and bought a heat gun. Not at all spendy and worth 10 times what I paid for defrosting jobs. Works at least twice as fast as a hair dryer.
Job for today: Haul brush to my neighbor's brush pile. I don't have enough dry stuff (except for my cured firewood and I don't waste that) to burn it here.
Cut up an loaded the remnants of one of two lilac bushes that a kind lady conveniently parked her car on top of in my driveway Wednesdy during a snow storm (skidded off the road and I suspect totaled the car). Didn't get a chance to thank her as I have been looking for an excuse to delete those miserable, in-the-way things. Why I ever planted them there is beyond me.
Hauled brush to neighbors and promptly stuck the truck - only a 2x and it is helpless on any slick stuff. Only two inches of snow but couldn't move forwart or back when I tried to get to the brush pile. Walked home, grabbed car and the set of tire chains, back down, laid out chains ahead of wheels and pulled out easily. - I'll mount the chains tomorrow as I will have at least two more loads of brush.
Harry K
Harry k
Logging, cutting trees, Black snakes (Yes, in February!), etc. all earlier today.
Currently, watching the first night of the Winter Olympics. :) :) :)
Turning wrenches. Again >:( I am getting really sick of working on old equipment. Need to find a way to upgrade before I go nuts.
Waiting for it to warm up outside. Should be out by noon time.
More snow moving. Got the farm plowed out yesterday, going to work on cleaning up the mill yard today. Used the cab tractor yesterday, with heated cab, Kubota today, no cab. :( Cab tractor is too big and clumsy to work around the mill. It must be time for a new battery in the Kubota, wouldn't start on it's own at -10, had to put the battery charger on it. Of course it didn't help that all the lights were on and I didn't realize it the first time I tried to start it. :D
Beginning to enjoy to week end with My daughter, son in law, and grandpups, breakfast starting, then some fire wood to split. Still cold, thought spring was coming :D david
Installed a block heater on the skidder. Fixed an oil cooler line on the Kubota that shot off in the sub-zero weather. Made sure everything outside was tarped or moved inside for the impending snow. Tried hill climbing with the skidder. Didn't work too well, but at least the brakes work. :D Fingers and toes frozen, retreating to my house for the remainder of the afternoon. :)
Finished installing new Byrd shelix cutter head on my new to me 20" Grizzly planer. Changed oil in my tractor engine. Picked up all the tools I had scattered everywhere. bg
burning more pine slabs, and finishing an order of pine siding, not a bad day. Glad I'm here and not in the southeast, my folks down there are fighting the winter we have had most of the season, as many up north have. only difference is the DOT, they are not prepared or equipped for it. Not to mention, Too many trees, too close to power lines, david
I had big plans of running the harvester today but at 3 AM our almost 5 year old woke us up with a nasty raspy cough. I stayed home with him today until Dee got home from work then I went out and helped my helper finish up with the forwarding and a load of firewood. Zander seems to be fine now so tomorrow maybe I can get some seat time.
The courts were closed today, (Lincoln's Birthday), so I slept in late and played hooky from the office and went out cutting firewood. Still clearing trees and cutting firewood on the "garden" property I posted about. Every time I think I am getting close to getting done, the guy decides he wants to take out more trees. Today I fell and bucked up a 24" diameter Pine and two 14" oaks and hauled it all home, (a little over a cord). As I was getting ready to leave, he comes down and points out a number of new trees he wants me to take out, and then mentions that once I am done "on this side", then I can start working on the other. Not that I mind, all good wood and not too far from my house. But what started as 7 or 8 trees, has now gotten up to over 20, and it looks like I am "maybe" half way to what he now says he wants cleared.
QuoteThe courts were closed today, (Lincoln's Birthday)
;)
A great way to celebrate Lincoln's Birthday. smiley_thumbsup
I spent today snow-blowing and shoveling as opposed to yesterday when I was shoveling and snow-blowing. Actually today I also used the loader tractor some after I burnt up the pto belt on the garden tractor blower, this wet heavy snow didn't blow well with the old single stage on the JD318.
I only spent a few hours blowing the snow to a better location. The wind blew it around the house and I had to shovel more than I usually do. I drove the tractor down the woods roads and around where I split wood just to pack it down a little.
Watching the TV: Qualifying Day for the Daytona 500.
My favorite season.....NASCAR! :) :) :)
Quote from: clww on February 16, 2014, 12:05:03 PM
Watching the TV: Qualifying Day for the Daytona 500.
My favorite season.....NASCAR! :) :) :)
Me 2 Chief.......a sure sign of spring.
After thirteen years, my favorite number returns to Daytona.
as every sunday, i build furniture/ the list is way to long :) most everything wood for my wifes store.
Quote from: red oaks lumber on February 16, 2014, 12:29:15 PM
as every sunday, i build furniture/ the list is way to long :) most everything wood for my wifes store.
Did not know she had a store. Sounds cool though......got any pics?
you know me. i really havent been taking pics but, i think i can get some.
Resting this afternoon. Yesterday's sawing sorta stretched things that have not been stretched in a while. ;D
I know that feeling MM. I'm still sore from shoveling last weeks foot of snow away from the mill, haven't felt compelled to shovel this weeks foot. :D
visited my aunt and uncle, took them out for her 84th birthday lunch, great memories shared, got back around 4, and unloaded some more logs, getting ready for some potato soup, warm fire and,, looks like home rebuild shows? a great day, david
Gone fishing .
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Works for me !!! :)
Need to see the catch! just for a lil motivation of course, david
Now that looks like it would be fun, Marcel. :)
We don't get much ice fishing here in VA.
Worked in the house before noon and then ran a two face cord load of wood and pulled some maintenance for tomorrow. This evening has been a lazy one ;D The machines are ready to go in the AM and we'll run another two cord load of firewood while the harvester and forwarder are warming up.
Bike show in OKC this weekend . Get out and meet some people and drum up some biz . Handed out 250 -300 cards and entered a bike in the show and took 1st place best in class and sold a stock bike we have had for a while ! Good weekend all told . Back at it tomorrow , supposed to be 60's for a week or so . Red
Congratulations, Red Good! 8) 8) 8)
Prescribed burned a 100 acre 27 year old SYP plantation. Then got sick with a stomach virus. It was not pretty.
Sorry for your belly issues there WDH, no one likes dealing with this, least you got the burn done? david
Quote from: WDH on February 17, 2014, 08:39:46 AM
Prescribed burned a 100 acre 27 year old SYP plantation. Then got sick with a stomach virus. It was not pretty.
Hope you're feeling better.
Perfect weather for the prescribed burn. It would help your stomach issues, Danny, to avoid grits for the next decade or so ;D
Ordered the new coolant pump for the JD4520 this morning - it should be in by 8am tomorrow so tomorrow will be spent indoors fixing the tractor.
Today I am rebuilding an older Gateway computer. Needed a replacement NVidia graphics card (used is all that is available) and the replacement card needed a new cooling fan. Put a new evercool fan on it and installed it. The computer appears to be working. Just need to install new drivers for the long range wireless card and it should be ready for the new office in the addition to the saw barn. I might get motivated to do some R&R on the Woodmaster 718 in preparation for milling the ceiling and wall paneling. Or I might just opt for a long nap.
Hope you're feeling better, Danny.
Stained a booth and table this morning and put some sycamore in the kiln this afternoon for a dining table. bg
Guilted myself into not taking a nap and doing the R&R on the Woodmaster. Sized up about 700 bd ft of aspen. Today I swapped out the coolant pump on the JD4520 and put in a new fuel sending unit while I had the hood off. Should be back in business tomorrow.
I am still carpentering. Sawing Friday.
Put on a coat of poly this am and took a box of bands up to Will Baughs resharp place this afternoon. bg
I have been sawing 2x4's and 2x6's. There was 2 barns with roofs that fell in due to snow loads.
Nothing but Pine the rest of the week and next week it looks like.
Doin' my skirt work first off.Sunny and clear here today.Chainsaws are sharp and prepped,fire up the Kubota and off to the woods for more rock maple,beech and yellow birch for next years firewood.I do a little everyday and before you know it,starts to add up.
Working @ my normal glacial pace,no 100 cords a week for this old boy.
Good to be here!
Mick
Building a planer room.
Gonna let my body rest from yesterday and getting ready for tomorrow. :)
Filling some firewood orders this morning before the nasty weather moves in.
It's supposed to get very warm and rainy weather coming our way. Put that on top of all the snow on the roof tops and it could spell disaster. That said, I spent a good part of the morning pulling snow off the roof top of my garage/shop. I had to use a snow rake because I cannot climb due to a fear of heights. My house has a standing seam metal roof so the snow simply slides off of it.
I've had this week off from work as a vacation week. I can't wait to get back to work to get some rest. Roger
Finished blowing the driveway out,just about to go back out and split some wood.
Doing chores for a friend this week while he's on vacation and trying to get some of my own stuff done too. The weather turned again (which is normal when I'm doing his chores), wind blowing as usual and dropped about 20* :-\. He has forestry special tires on his payloader and I noticed this morning the front left is going to have a baby before he gets home, being in Cancun I have my doubts he's going to miss seeing the birth :D.
Went fishing yesterday. Got two small stripers in the first few minutes. Couple hours later tied into a big one. Straightened out the hooks at the boat. Musta been 60 pounds or better. ;D
I was going for a rematch today but I see big whitecaps on the lake.
Laying low today, sawing tomorrow. 8)
My brother is up from Long Island, NY with two of his boys. Our boys are having a blast with their cousins and my brother and I spent the day cutting and yarding firewood. Got maybe 2+ cord. The 2' of snow makes for slow going and the 42° was almost too hot. ;D The deer were patiently waiting for us to clear out for their red maple tips.
Shoveled snow off the roof that cover my equipment. 24x66 with 16" of heavy wet snow. Certainly got a work out. :)
Went fishing with my brother, roads had been cleared on the lake and they where slick as an ice rink, one need four wheel drive to aim the truck around. Fish not cooperative, we'll go back this coming week and this time I will bring camera and batteries ... together. ::)
Getting ready for the next dump of snow. We're supposed to get another foot or so in the next day or so. I just have to remind myself that all little boys that lie grow up to be weathermen. ;D
Driving north 2 hours, day 2 of hockey play downs. No hotel rooms so had to come home last night. Heading back in 20 min. Must win game at 10:30 to make the finals at 2:30. She scored 3 goals yesterday using a borrowed stick. Can't forget the sticks today. Gonna miss the gold medal game in men's hockey.
Cheers
Pep
We processed 6 face of wood yesterday, have about 3 more on the deck. I'd say we'll be around 10 at the end of today, but I need a nap since I worked 12hrs of ot last night.
Taking bees out of some ol' boxes & placing into new hive bodies,
Due to work I've got way behind with this,
Then leaving out for another week on the road :'( :'(.
I will try to prune some of the old wild apple trees and also make a path for the grandsons to walk up so they can slide down the hill.
Working on Planer Room.
I'd like to watch the Nascar race but I was told we are going to a B-day party for a great niece, maybe they will have the race on. At least there will be cake!
Staying in except for feeding . Sick chest and head cold . Hope to sleep it off . Red
We know what that is like. Take care of yourself.
Playing on the 'puter and contemplating whether to take another Tylenol before shoveling snow (Dang sciatica). It hasn't stopped since Friday night, unusual for us.
gspren,you just might get home in time to see the this years race. Rain or weather delay now,last years race is on.
I've been sick since Friday evening. Not a bad weekend to be sick, though. Lots of racing on the TV, and the wife is on a trip out of town.
http://youtu.be/OBzLaVvkFdE
We have 3 face cords on the trailer, and I think we have another 10 on the deck there. I broke another shackle on my truck too on the way out.... >:(
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Had a lazy day. Several naps in the recliner.
Quote from: redbeard on February 23, 2014, 10:14:28 PM
Had a lazy day. Several naps in the recliner.
You missed last years race too. :)
Got all 300 seed starts planted and under the grow lights today. Also got the Improved Meyer Lemon tree I bought for my wife for her birthday on Wednesday planted. Last year I had a real problem with seed germination, (had them in a window sill, but they got too hot and killed off most of the seeds), so I went out and bought some fluorescent lights and tried to build a homemade seed germinator. Hopefully this will improve my results.
23 types of tomatoes, 13 types of peppers, and various cantaloupes, water melons, egg plant, cauliflower, cabbage, okra, summer squash, cucumbers, beans. If all goes well, this will be the biggest and most prolific garden yet.
Just finished watching Jr. Win The Race!!!
YES! YES! YES!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Not just today but for the last week or two...
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15 (http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15)
Quote from: ljohnsaw on February 24, 2014, 01:14:23 AM
Not just today but for the last week or two...
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15 (http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15)
Wow, looks complicated and like a lot of work. So I get the idea that you are mating a hydroponic system to an aquaculture set up, but what are you hoping/planning on growing?
Quote from: thecfarm on February 23, 2014, 04:27:41 PM
gspren,you just might get home in time to see the this years race. Rain or weather delay now,last years race is on.
The day worked out well, went to the B-day party and had cake & ice cream then got home turned on TV and thought I was catching the last 6 laps until I saw Mark Martin and Montoya. Later got to watch the majority of this years race.
Quote from: SLawyer Dave on February 24, 2014, 01:45:02 AM
Quote from: ljohnsaw on February 24, 2014, 01:14:23 AM
Not just today but for the last week or two...
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15 (http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20296&start=15)
Wow, looks complicated and like a lot of work. So I get the idea that you are mating a hydroponic system to an aquaculture set up, but what are you hoping/planning on growing?
I took my son to Lowes to pick up some seeds - ended up with 17 packets. Tomatoes (3 types), eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower, bush beans, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, herbs, butternut squash etc. The plants grow very fast, no weeds, sounds like a win-win to me. Time will tell. I didn't like the need to buy "nutes" for plain hydroponics as well as having to change the water as the salts build up. Right now, I just plan to raise some goldfish until my system gets running well.
EDIT: Plus, I like to make things complicated :D Just call me Rube (Goldberg) ;)
Cut firewood in the morning and joint boards for the T&G ceiling for the wood shop in the afternoon. From the looks of the weather forecasts this is what I will be doing for the foreseeable future...
Home from church. Heading to Norfolk for Easter lunch with my mother-in-law later this afternoon.
Happy Easter everyone.
Christ is risen. :)
In a little bit, we'll be scurrying around the kitchen getting things ready for Easter dinner.
We have a favorite Aunt & Uncle coming for dinner again this year!
I'll can up a gallon of maple syrup for them to take home!
Pretty calm around here, most of the family was back last weekend and my wife is working nights all this weekend. Us guys cooked our annual breakfast for the church this morning, I always enjoy doing that we have a great time. Beautiful weather here today, I hope everyone has a great Easter!
Eating much too much....again. ;D
Quote from: Magicman on April 20, 2014, 07:34:02 PM
Eating much too much....again. ;D
Make ya feet swell up. ;D
Went to church with my parents today, had a big dinner after service. Ham, green beans, couple of casseroles, corn, rolls, deviled eggs. I also had three kinds of cake. Then went to my aunts and ate some more. Did a little work on my bathroom remodel and now it is time to be lazy.
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 20, 2014, 07:45:04 PMMake ya feet swell up. ;D
But I have them elevated in the recliner.
Quote from: Magicman on April 20, 2014, 07:52:29 PM
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 20, 2014, 07:45:04 PMMake ya feet swell up. ;D
But I have them elevated in the recliner.
Me 2 Brother....watching Shaw Shank Redemption. :)
We had dinner with Dee's parents at the local Indian establishment and then did nothing. The first day I've done nothing in sometime :) ;D I did rescue Zach's four wheeler. The shift lever's splines are worn and slipped stranding him at the farm. I went over and took it off cleaned it up and tightened it back on. Works for now but it'll need a new shifter arm. I guess I did do something :)
Today I got up at 4:30a, left for work at 5:00a, worked till 7:30p. got home at 8:00p.
And now I can't go to sleep :D
Tomorrow I'll do it all over again.
"I ALREADY MADE THE DONUTS"
does anybody remember that commerical?
Quote from: jargo432 on April 21, 2014, 12:01:20 AM
"I ALREADY MADE THE DONUTS"
does anybody remember that commerical?
Yes I do. :D
The wife's prisoner! and it looks like we will be replacing the dish washer, got rained out for opening day turkey hunt.
My argon regulator blew out and is in the shop, so it looks like I'll load the Zero Turn up and make a visit to our Daughter's place.
Had to rebuild the water pump on my main field tractor, put it back together on Saturday and managed to tear the gasket installing it >:(. had everything back together of course before realizing this, so yesterday tore it all back down in hopes someone would have the gasket in stock, of course not. So got some gasket paper this morning and will see if i can replicate it and get my tractor in the field.
Spending most of the day here waiting on job permits, so went to the repair shop and picked up the mower-$$$. Went to the tire shop to get new rubber I bought on-line installed on some wheels for my truck-$$$. Need to go to the auto parts store and pick up a few more things for the truck later this afternoon-more $$$. So it goes. :-\
Moved the sawmill out of the garage and put the cover on it, then moved the "Little Deere" into the garage where the mill was!
Now, getting ready to go with wifey to BINGO at the Knights of Columbus!
The grass is cut and the ZT parked. The regulator could not be fixed because no seals were available for it, so $69 later I have a new regulator and can now weld again. ;D
Sitting here watching the bandsaw cut steel. Decided to build a new reloading bench a few weeks ago. The wood top is done except for finish. Rainy day so I'm welding the base now.
Larry This is my reloading bench in a room 10'x16' for reloading and gun repair.
The bench is made of 2x4 glued & screwed then put on sawmill and sawed to 3"
thick.
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Went to the tire shop this AM and got a Bobcat tire fixed that I messed up on a rock Saturday augering holes for vines in a friends vineyard. I finished the job this afternoon. Total was about 650 holes. 550 for vines and the other 100 for a line fence. We got done and loaded up just as it started to rain, by the time we pulled out of Bob's driveway it was a downpour.
How many holes in the tire, as long as we're counting? ;D
Quote from: elk42 on April 21, 2014, 05:12:52 PM
Larry This is my reloading bench in a room 10'x16' for reloading and gun repair.
The bench is made of 2x4 glued & screwed then put on sawmill and sawed to 3"
thick.
My bench top is made in similar fashion out of oak. That's a slick idea putting the top back on the sawmill to level it out after glue up. I'll have to try that sometime.
I like your bench...plenty of light to see what your doing also. And a whole room for gun stuff...that's just luxury. :)
Drove 225 miles to look at a WM mill. Started bright and early only to get stalled 2 hours behind a traffic accident but oh!!!! what a day. Finally got to our destination and met a wonderful miller. He had a log waiting and he let me go to town on it giving me all kinds of pointers.
We talked business and it was decided I'd sleep on it overnight and let him know tomorrow if I'd give the Lt 40 a new home.
Oh happy day 8)
The new argon regulator did it's job, so I burned some wire. ;D
I'm trying to find a few timbers in the middle of all those pine logs I brought home this winter. You really have to search for them, they are hiding under a bunch of boring lumber with no knots or defects whatsoever. ::) :D That's a framing square on the other end. About an inch and a half on either side of the tongue. Anybody want to buy some boring lumber?
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Not exactly today but you get the idea:
This (558 free 25# blocks off CL):
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Plus this:
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Equals this:
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Which was down a narrow side yard. Now I just need to remove the old wood retaining wall and lay a gravel bed...
Quote from: clww on April 21, 2014, 06:47:22 PM
How many holes in the tire, as long as we're counting? ;D
Only one that was fixed with Slime last fall but was aggravated by the rock that I should have avoided. Operator error ;D A tube and 25 bux fixed it.
Alcranb,let us know!!
Quote from: Alcranb on April 21, 2014, 08:17:12 PM
Drove 225 miles to look at a WM mill. Started bright and early only to get stalled 2 hours behind a traffic accident but oh!!!! what a day. Finally got to our destination and met a wonderful miller. He had a log waiting and he let me go to town on it giving me all kinds of pointers.
We talked business and it was decided I'd sleep on it overnight and let him know tomorrow if I'd give the Lt 40 a new home.
Oh happy day 8)
Going with a 40 , good for you, If it's a good price don't wait someone will buy it.
Taking a short road trip in a minute to look at an '82 1 ton Chevy 4X4 dually with a 6.2 diesel, a mason dump box and Western power v-plow. Looks good in the pics ;D Supposed to be low mileage too.
I should finish welding my doors and frame for the utility building today.
WOW ljohnsaw!!! What beautiful work!!
Quote from: Roxie on April 22, 2014, 08:54:22 AM
WOW ljohnsaw!!! What beautiful work!!
Well, not quite - they are just stacked waiting for me to remove the old retaining wall (slightly forward of them) that is not visible in the picture) :-\ That is another "days" work - probably 3 or 4...
The truck was junk. The tranny slipped and someone had changed the fluid recently and put in hydraulic fluid instead of ATF. They'd spilled some on the air breather cover. Since the fluid was fairly clear you could see black particles in it. The engine smoked and didn't clear up after it warmed up. The plow that had been on it in the pics and was in the description was no longer included in the sale. The cab was really good and had been changed I'm sure. The box had been redone too but the mechanics of it weren't good.
QuoteDrove 225 miles to look at a WM mill. Started bright and early only to get stalled 2 hours behind a traffic accident but oh!!!! what a day. Finally got to our destination and met a wonderful miller. He had a log waiting and he let me go to town on it giving me all kinds of pointers.
We talked business and it was decided I'd sleep on it overnight and let him know tomorrow if I'd give the Lt 40 a new home.
Oh happy day
I wonder what Alcranb did today. Does he have Orange paint on his hands?? ??? I am not saying. ;D
smiley_big_grin3 smiley_big-grin2 smiley_biggrin01
I am not saying. :)
No orange paint yet but......yes I'm the proud owner of an Lt40. Planning on picking up my new toy err I mean tool, yes Dear, tool Saturday. A lot more machine than I originally wanted but much to much of a good deal to pass up.
Good deals are like an eclipse, they don't happen very often and sometimes the skies are cloudy so you miss them but they do in fact happen and when they do..... 8)
Congratulations my Friend. I will be anxious to see the pictures. smiley_thumbsup
Is that a HD40? :D
I'm cutting hemlock and pine today, Just like yesterday :D :D :D :D and will be tomorrow too. :D :D 8)
I finished mowing the back lawn for the first time. Yup, got the ZT stuck again. Those wide rear tires have so much flotation that they just sit on top of the ground and spin so thankfully, I have an old mower with the blade deck removed. A long rope and a tug got me to high ground.
I bought some paddle tires last year. Put some Slime in them when I mounted them. They weren't too expensive online and really helped with traction. Might be to aggressive on some lawns.
I'm shootin lacquer today...my favorite finish.
I'm doing something today I have not done since the 7th grade. Go on a field trip with a bunch of 7th graders! This will also be a first. First time in the twenty years Tammy has been driving school bus that I am going to be one of her passengers. I was asked if I would like to ride along to go to a Detroit Tigers game. I could get a ticket for $15 and the ride was free! :) Here I go. I hope I am still as smart as a 7th grader. :)
Have fun Jeff!! and no mooning on the bus!!
smiley_thumbsup I'm a bit jealous, but I think you were smart enough to make a wise choice. :)
Shop work today, got rained out from field work and planting corn. Going to nice to not be bouncing around in a tractor for 14 hours although we really need the rain we also need to get more corn in the ground.
Rained out today, but the first three days of this week, with the help of my son, managed to buck, split, and stack a years worth of ash firewood. If the splitter engine would have lasted another hour, thinking we'd have finished this pile.
Log pile on Mon. morning 9am.
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Ended up with a few left over..
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Line of years worth of split ash on pallets ready for 2015-16
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Quote from: beenthere on April 24, 2014, 01:28:33 PM
Rained out today, but the first three days of this week, with the help of my son, managed to buck, split, and stack a years worth of ash firewood. If the splitter engine would have lasted another hour, thinking we'd have finished this pile.
Wow. That sure is split thin. Looks like cut up slabs from a mill.
I cut some aromatic red cedar columns for my nephew's camp he is building:
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Mmmmm. The good red stuff!
Quote from: Jeff on April 24, 2014, 07:22:40 AM
I'm doing something today I have not done since the 7th grade. Go on a field trip with a bunch of 7th graders! This will also be a first. First time in the twenty years Tammy has been driving school bus that I am going to be one of her passengers. I was asked if I would like to ride along to go to a Detroit Tigers game. I could get a ticket for $15 and the ride was free! :) Here I go. I hope I am still as smart as a 7th grader. :)
And the tigers won, to make it even a better day. Good ending to the game in Detroit.
Hope the trip was enjoyable for you, and am sure the 7th graders will remember you too. ;D
Jeff, I sincerely hope that bus ride was more comfortable for you than the last one I was on. Went on a field trip with my daughters class a few years back, hour and a half one way, last time I was on a school bus that long I was in highschool, I couldn't hardly take it anymore by the time we got home. Never remembered them being that cramped but I guess that's what age has done to me :-\.
BT,
My sawmill craves that ash.
WDH
;)
I know it is sacrilege to be turning such nice ash into just real nice firewood, but it is what is in the cards.
The dreaded ash borer is bound to find my white ash trees, so I'm bound to get them before they do.
I had an idea to cut all the ash trees this spring. After felling about a dozen and having a good size deck of logs, I went through my woods to mark the remaining ash trees over 12" dbh... there are another two dozen standing yet. Guessing I won't get them all cut this year. But will take more as I find the time.
Lot's of clear ash firewood pieces in those stacks. Split most in 2" thick slabs much like making lumber. Pieces stack well for carrying around on a pallet.
I haven't figured out the value of the ash logs as sawlogs vs. the value as firewood, but with the price of heating fuel I'm thinking firewood is pretty close if not more value. I should have scaled the logs in that deck before turning them in to firewood. Maybe will keep that in mind for the next run.
Sooo...after I cut the red cedar (I showed a photo a few posts prior to this one) I was feeling pretty good! Time to get back to the pine I'd been cutting for my nephew's camp. I pulled up an old log I'd had in the yard for a good while to make some 12" wide boards for his porch ceiling. I started slabbing off the top and everything went great. Then I flipped it and the blade seemed to want to almost stop! I persevered, and the blade popped off the rollers. OK...put the blade back on and it came off again! So I thought the log was dried out. I put on a new blade...the same thing happened. I tried a third blade, and it cut great! I was zip-pa-de-do-da-ing along and then the sound.....METAL!! OH NO!! How could I be hitting the log dog? I know I left it down. I looked...it WAS down. Uh-oh...Yep...barbed wire. The culprit all along..Sooo, I went and got my my tractor, wrapped the chain around the cant, and dragged it to the woods, where it will go bye-bye over the next 10 years. I hope today brings a metal free day!
I can smell those cedar posts from here. :)
Planman,
The beetles will love you.
It raining out so I washed the back of the house and windows with a scrub brush on a 5' handle. Helps control the mildew too. Now I need a 12' handle for the 2nd floor.
I milled 200bf of White Oak yesterday and stacked it on one of our air drying stacks. The weather man said it was
going to rain Sunday so i wanted to cove the stack with a tarp but left it home. I though i would go out Saturday
and cover it but here it is Saturday and its raining. Will see if it goes by soon and then i can go out and cover it.
Boy this weather sure has been a mess this year and its keep me from doing any mill work.
Sawwood
Raining out, so I'm just lazing around, waiting to go watch my wife's bowling league's last day of bowling!
Pat and I will soon leave to attend a Crawfish Boil. food6 smiley_gossip food6
Selling lumber ;D
Put tubes in the front wheels of the mower, what a battle this was, heading to the mill before my wife finds more to do ;D Saturday sawing always is better than house work ;D
We are soooo stuffed. :)
Ran the harvester 6 hours today to get ahead of the forwarder so I can drop back and get ready to plant grapes Thursday. I'm going back out in bit to get the transit, 300' tape, measuring wheel and ground paint around so I can get the trellis posts laid out tomorrow. There's 414 posts to set and 1152 vines to plant this year.
Today was a very, VERY good day 8) I started out at 3:30 this morning and made the 240 mile trip to pick up my new to me mill. Heck it only has 88 hours! I thought if waited until the weekend I'd avoid traffic but coming home was a real bear but I'm happy to say uneventful. I now officially have orange paint on my hands.
Let the fun begin ;D
Congrats on making a successful trip. smiley_thumbsup
Now we want pic :D :D 8) 8)
Well there,you got a mill. Happy?? ;D
It would take a lot to get me up at 3:30 on a Saturday morning but that would do it. Congratulations. I finally got a rain free day to work on our fifth wheel. Water got into the bed area, the floor and lower walls were completely rotted out. I scooped all the junk into a garbage bag, cut out the stringers and now have the new floor framed and installed. Next step is repair some corroded wiring, insulate the floor and lay down the particle board. I don't particularly like the stuff but it is half the price of plywood and will work in this application.
Sawing cookies to be used as table centerpieces for an upcoming wedding. I don't know where that idea came from but I've had several requests in the past few months. I warn them about checking but this one is going to AnchorSeal both sides and hope they last.
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Took about an hour to make 54 of them (some extras to allow for checking).
I'm just sitting here, doing my physical therapy three times per day, and reading with envy about others going about their normal work. I'm ten weeks out from quad repair surgery and have another eight weeks of trying to get my knee to bend again. Then probably another six weeks before I get full release from the doctor.
Good news is my winter ended early. Bad news is I'm going to lose about six months of work this year.
I've had my leg and knee first in a cast and then locked straight out in a brace. Makes it hard to even sit in a chair to get on the computer or to do taxes and paperwork. Even getting into a car is difficult with that leg locked straight out. But today I hobbled down to the shed and knocked some rust off the Woodmizer.
Otherwise, I'm just plain bored.
Quote from: thecfarm on April 26, 2014, 09:18:35 PM
Well there,you got a mill. Happy?? ;D
Happy doesn't even begin to describe it ;D
I keep pinching myself to make sure it's real :D raining now, probably just as well as we'll head off to church and breakfast but suppose to clear this afternoon so I'll head out back with the manual.
Yes Peter, I will take pictures
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Quote from: thecfarm on April 26, 2014, 09:18:35 PM
Well there,you got a mill. Happy?? ;D
Happy doesn't even begin to describe it ;D
I keep pinching myself to make sure it's real :D raining now, probably just as well as we'll head off to church and breakfast but suppose to clear this afternoon so I'll head out back with the manual.
Yes Peter, I will take pictures
smiley_thumbsup :D :D :D :D :D
I intend to be lazy for a while this afternoon. :)
I'm cooking a Chicken on the Pit Rotisserie and watching last nights race that we DVR'd.
We had rain all night now its all muddy here got the chains for the saws sharp now its time for a nap
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Getting my first log ready. 8)
Nice! Looks like it hasn't even had time to turn pink yet. :) That's an aggressive looking bucket you've got there.
Enough said. :)
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Quote from: Alcranb on April 27, 2014, 05:04:27 PMGetting my first log ready.
Looking good. smiley_thumbsup I'll bet that you load the next log one more notch toward the back. ;D
Nice Mill AL, 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
That mill looks brand new!!
POSTON,where's the fish??
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Orange meets orange
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First cant! There's a reason that forwarder is behind the mill :-X
8) 8) OMG!!! I'm really disappointed in you fellow sawyers :o I would think you would at least post a disclaimer or list of divorce attorneys before a guy got involved in this sawing gig :D
I haven't had this much fun since ......well never mind :) anyhow what a blast!!! There certainly is a learning curve but just seeing what is happening and what potential a mill holds is mind boggling to say the least! It's funny I finished cleaning the mill this evening and first thing I did was check tomorrow's weather. I have a meeting first thing in the morning but you can guess what I'll be doing tomorrow 8) (actually Diane walked over to see how things were going. I suspect she has some plans the lumber. The honey do list is bound to get longer ;) )
Quote from: thecfarm on April 27, 2014, 06:44:58 PM
That mill looks brand new!!
POSTON,where's the fish??
I picked a pond today with no fish.....just didn't feel like baiting a hook. :)
today was Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day so I took a couple of pinhole cameras out to a local park and photographed some trees ;)
Pinhole camera?? Going to share those pictures?
Quote from: thecfarm on April 27, 2014, 09:38:27 PM
Pinhole camera?? Going to share those pictures?
He may have a pic of your Pin Head. :D Just kidding......What is a Pin Hole Camera?
I had to Googled it. Nobody tells me about stuff that I know nothing about.
Poston, are those your legs or are you riding a chicken :D
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 27, 2014, 07:57:34 PM
I picked a pond today with no fish.....just didn't feel like baiting a hook. :)
David, that comment is close to my heart.
After any day of getting skunked, a close friend I fished a bunch with would always say on the way home, " at least we don't have any DanG fish to clean. :D :D
You made me remember that.
Quote from: hackberry jake on April 27, 2014, 11:02:34 PM
Poston, are those your legs or are you riding a chicken :D
Those are my running gears.
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Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on April 27, 2014, 07:57:34 PM
I picked a pond today with no fish.....just didn't feel like baiting a hook. :)
David, that comment is close to my heart.
After any day of getting skunked, a close friend I fished a bunch with would always say on the way home, " at least we don't have any DanG fish to clean. :D :D
You made me remember that.
Very good! :D
Well that bit, typed up a nice reply and whoosh, couldn't post.
So anyways, pinhole cameras are pretty fun to shoot with, can be very serendipitous if you come away with a good pinhole photograph as framing is very imprecise to say the least. There are a a number of companies that make pinhole cameras but most people just make their own. Coffee and paint cans are very popular as are cigar boxes and Altoid tins lol. All you need is some brass shim stock, a very fine needle and some black tape. To keep it cheap, you can use photographic paper as the negative.
I'll probably head back and take another look at these trees again in the near future.
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Great photo Woodenboater. Do you have your own dark room.
Laying around the house today with all this rain. Started yesterday afternoon at three pm. Don't think we'll be back to work until Friday. >:(
Currently watching , "Deadliest Catch". :) :) :)
Still carpentering. We put the metal siding on the doors today. I've gotta get a few more pictures.
Quote from: Magicman on April 29, 2014, 09:09:07 PM
Still carpentering.
Remove the "ing" and you have my last name. :D :D :D
But that might also imply that I was one, which I ain't. Either kind. :D
From what we have seen, you do mighty fine. ;)
Had a guy drop off a few blades for sharpening, when we were out the other night, so I guess that's what I'll do today.
It's about all anyone can do around here today is "inside" work, the rain has to quit someday!
Thankfully it is cool today. I'll be in our Daughter's attic installing two exhaust fans and a Wilson Cell Booster. (Well today and probably tomorrow too.) I hate attics. :-\
I am going to the mountains and camp out.
Today and yesterday and into the near future building inline 4 Japanese motorcycle engines . Maybe get back to a frame or 2 next week .
Finished with the trellis post installation today. Tomorrow we start planting 1,152 grape vines.
That was a bunch of posts. A bunch of vines, too. 8)
Launched the boat today. Getting ready for salmon fishing on Lake Michigan
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I got one bathroom vent fan installed today and the Wilson Cell Booster. One more fan to install tomorrow in the other bathroom.
Magicman. My wife can't get a real good signal on her cell phone
And I have been looking at a Wilson cell booster
What model Wilson booster did you install and what was the result?
Forgive the one long sentence keyboards not working> Had all sorts of grand intentions for today was gonna get dual rims mounted on the tractor take tires off remove rims remove inner tires replace with tires off dual rims then mount my duals on tractor and return empty rims to the guy i bought the other tires from> Wife calls at twelve thirty horse vet is on her way out (completly forgot) for four h horses real pain because all the neighbors cows are in front of the horse pen right now so go help them get the horses out> While we"re doing this our mastiff walks by with a very infected ear so get done with horses and it"s off to town with miley the dog> Get her dropped off at the vet and get back home by four thinking i can finally stop for dinner and my trusty farrier follows me in the yard> Get all the horses back out >:( get that done check cows again and now I get to start changing rear tractor tires :D
Quote from: stanwelch on May 01, 2014, 07:51:39 PM
Magicman. My wife can't get a real good signal on her cell phone And I have been looking at a Wilson cell booster. What model Wilson booster did you install and what was the result?
This is the Wilson Cell Booster kit that I bought: LINK (http://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/db-pro-amplifier-kit-w-omni-65db-3g-building-75ohm-841262/) It is the dual channel unit and with the Omni antenna. They make other antenna options to suit the user's needs. I have the same unit at the Cabin and a very similar unit in my truck.
Shop around and you can beat that price by $30-40, and with free shipping.
They will easily take you from no signal to 2-3 bars. I am absolutely sold on them.
Quote from: Magicman on May 01, 2014, 08:34:10 PM
Quote from: stanwelch on May 01, 2014, 07:51:39 PM
Magicman. My wife can't get a real good signal on her cell phone And I have been looking at a Wilson cell booster. What model Wilson booster did you install and what was the result?
This is the Wilson Cell Booster kit that I bought: LINK (http://www.wilsonamplifiers.com/db-pro-amplifier-kit-w-omni-65db-3g-building-75ohm-841262/) It is the dual channel unit and with the Omni antenna. They make other antenna options to suit the user's needs. I have the same unit at the Cabin and a very similar unit in my truck.
Shop around and you can beat that price by $30-40, and with free shipping.
They will easily take you from no signal to 2-3 bars. I am absolutely sold on them.
I remember when you talked about putting one in the cabin. I wondered how well they work.
Now we know ;). Thanks for the feedback... Been wanting to get one if they're worthwhile for our cabin.
It is pricy, but since we have become so dependent on having cell service, it's good to have something that works and is dependable. If the cell tower is up, you have service.
The dual channel amplifier picks up both Verizon and ATT signals, so whichever service that you have or even change over to, the booster still works. I also favor the Omni antenna rather than the directional Yagi because of the same reason. Different cell services towers are in different places, so I want to be able to capture the signals from all directions.
The booster in my truck has paid off many times. Saw jobs are not along the interstate, they are in the woods with minimum or no signal. Flip the booster on and bingo, I have bars.
urrrr >:( >:( have to walk my camps property lines this is not going to be a good out come
One more fan to install tomorrow in the other bathroom, and I have not recovered from yesterday. Ceiling joist are not kind to 70 year old knees. :-\
QuoteCeiling joist are not kind to 70 year old knees.
Temporary plywood floor on the joists covered with some old thick carpeting and gel knee pads helps a bit, if possible to do. ;)
coxy
What's up?
Quote from: beenthere on May 02, 2014, 10:23:01 AM
QuoteCeiling joist are not kind to 70 year old knees.
Temporary plywood floor on the joists covered with some old thick carpeting and gel knee pads helps a bit, if possible to do. ;)
Not possible, but the deed is done. This one was out under a hip roof so the work was agonizing cramped. Half up, half crouched, and very hurtful. Thankfully, I carried everything so it only took one trip to mark & cut the hole, mount the unit, & wire it up.
After a shower and lunch, I took an Aleve and have the afternoon off. whiteflag_smiley wheeliechair
We went for a ride. Up North,Jackman. More than 100 miles one way. We stopped at some of the Historical Sites and the Scenic ones. There is still ice on a few small ponds. One pond,on the edge was shaded by a hill and I think you could of walked on it,it was still nice and white. But I would not have tried it. We went up many years ago, just wanted to see what was going one. Saw lots of loaded log trucks,3-4 wm mills and a bunch of skidders. We went one way and came back another.
Quote from: beenthere on May 02, 2014, 10:23:01 AM
QuoteCeiling joist are not kind to 70 year old knees.
Temporary plywood floor on the joists covered with some old thick carpeting and gel knee pads helps a bit, if possible to do. ;)
coxy
What's up?
cant understand why some people cant read property survey maps >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( you know what happened next >:( >:( >:( >:(
Heading for Ann Arbor va to my 3 mo. after surgery checkup.Hope no more of that c stuff and i start can start working around the house.
More carpentering.
Preparing a load of black walnut for the kiln. Making Julio a low country boil serving tray.
Recovering. We had a stomach bug rage though the house the last few days. It hasn't been pretty. Haven't been sick like this in years. Having a can of chicken soup now and if it stays in I've got firewood to do for us, some old hay to load, a forwarder that needs attention and a grape grower's meeting at 5:30.
Moved my daughter back home for a few months, her lease at the appartment came up and she was not quite ready for the next one and did not want another year there, anyways, that took care of a long weekend .
Now she has a need or a new bed ::) Guess whom got the job without submiting any kind of bid. ;)
Spent the day getting some white ash bed ready.
Think I'd prefer to sleep on a mattress... ::)
;D
I'll keep that in mind as I piut this thing together. :)
Change the names of the dad's, the daughters are all the same :D I moved our daughter back home two weekends ago and it sounds like under very similar circumstances but the bed came with her :)
Today it was putting the final grade on a renovated cranberry bog.
Gotta get an early start in the AM. I cancelled a wood delivery for Monday and rescheduled it for today but in my hazy recovery mode today I was thinking it was Monday so I need to get a five face cord load done and delivered in the AM and still have time to make it to Petoskey where I'm a wine judge at a competition/event at NCMC smiley_alcoholic_01 Judging starts at noon and ends at four with awards issued beginning at 4:30 and the party starts at 5 with wine tasting, food and music until 8PM. Should be a good time 8) 8) I've never been a wine judge ;D
Wife's son lives in DC and sells wine. I'll call him up and get some pointers for ya. :D
threw a junk pine log on the mill and cut about a hundred 8 ft bean sticks. Not for me, I give bean and tomato sticks to neighbors and friends and they bring me fresh stuff from their gardens.
I've been told all I need to know is whether I like what I'm tasting or don't like what I'm tasting. Easy enough :-\ ;D Supposed to be all the cheese and crackers we can eat :D ;D One judge is the sommelier at an upscale Petoskey restaurant, another is a wine editor for a Michigan based magazine, another owns a medical furniture manufacturing business, and one is a professor of enology at MSU. I'm in the forest products industry and a grape grower 8) 8) There's an interesting cross section :) :)
More needed rain, oil change on the mill, and a much needed blade sharpening evening.
Chasing these
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Quote from: Corley5 on May 13, 2014, 09:52:40 PM
There's an interesting cross section :) :)
I wonder what you would look like on the end grain :D.
More carpentering.
Clean up the pick up and get ready to go down and help Austin on his house build in the morning. bg
Special day. Received several happy birthday wishes from forestry friends, then spent a while installing hi-rise toilets in the ladies rest room at church. Same ladies who more than once kept me fed when the wife was bed ridden. They had a problem, I responded. I owe them big time. Wife made me a pecan pie for lunch, I ate half of it at one sitting...Did get in an after-lunch nap. ::)
Went to the Hampton National Cemetery today with my MIL and wife. My FIL and wife's brother are both buried there. We go there each year on Memorial Day.
I'm going to take a 15 minute chopper ride, a three hour car ride, stay in the hotel a couple hours, go take a physical, come back to the hotel for a few more hours,go to the airport, fly for 21 hours, take another 3 hour car ride and then I'll be home. Heck of a commute back and forth to work. Good thing I only do it once a month.
Process and deliver 10 face cords of firewood, get insurance on new old truck, already called seller for the VIN, get $$$ for new old truck, pick up new old truck 8) 8)
Building some cavaletti horse jumps that my wife wants for her horses then spending the afternoon helping a friend shovel cow manure out of his barn (and maybe having a sip of rum during break time!)
Kicking back and doing nothing. Bought a new (refurb) 7¼" Ridgid saw yesterday. :) I'll probably go back to a tool store today. ;D
Quote from: Magicman on May 27, 2014, 10:12:25 AM
Kicking back and doing nothing. Bought a new (refurb) 7¼" Ridgid saw yesterday. :) I'll probably go back to a tool store today. ;D
Oh boy,pidgen forge tool stores, bettern any candy store..enjoy..Be careful not to overload the truck, it's a long way home..
Don't forget your wallet.
;D
Gonna be an un-pleasant day. Going to see a surgeon to get a big mole taken off an eyelid. It's growing like crazy, so it's gotta go.
Ouch. I don't envy you that one any.
QuoteI'm going to take a 15 minute chopper ride, a three hour car ride, stay in the hotel a couple hours, go take a physical, come back to the hotel for a few more hours,go to the airport, fly for 21 hours, take another 3 hour car ride and then I'll be home. Heck of a commute back and forth to work. Good thing I only do it once a month.
And I don't envy you any on that one either. ;)
At least I'm going home and not to work. 8)
In the morning I'm taking the Bobcat and auger to NCMC, the local community college, to auger holes for trellis posts and grape vines for their new vineyard which is part of the larger viticulture/ enology program their developing 8) 8) 8) 8)
What kind of posts are you using? Larch is all the rage for hop and fence posts around here.
They're using a mix to see what lasts/works best. There will be some natural white cedar, pressure treated pine and I think a vinyl product.
Watching a pool rise :-\
Quote from: pineywoods on May 27, 2014, 11:44:34 AM
Gonna be an un-pleasant day. Going to see a surgeon to get a big mole taken off an eyelid. It's growing like crazy, so it's gotta go.
How's that eyelid doing? Been thinking about your visit several times today. Hope all is going well.
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Quote from: pineywoods on May 27, 2014, 11:44:34 AM
Gonna be an un-pleasant day. Going to see a surgeon to get a big mole taken off an eyelid. It's growing like crazy, so it's gotta go.
How's that eyelid doing? Been thinking about your visit several times today. Hope all is going well.
Took about 30 seconds to shave it off, now I got a nice shinner black eye
Won't hear from the lab report for another day or 2.
Standing up on the mill bunks today, working on an overhead light. Foot slipped off the bunk and I wound up in the sawdust under the mill.
got a goose-egg on top of my head and a skinned arm. DrB advised against anyone over 50 climbing ladders, guess standing on mill bunks is OK ::)
Better take care of yourself piney, Without you, who is gunna show these new up and coming millers how to modify a single tooth setter into a double or build hydraulic log turners?
I'm sitting on the beach watching my kids play. We just finished eating supper; King Crab legs, Shrimp and G-R-I-T-S,and Cheese G-R-I-T-S. I am very happy Southerner right now!
Servicing the sawmill. Today it got power feed sprockets, bearings, and chain. Tomorrow I will do the side support and blade guide alignment. Road trip Friday & Saturday. Sinker Cypress beginning Tuesday.
Getting ready for my 14'x 70' mill shed addition on one end and a 24'x24' on the other end. 8)
Peter,send WM here in Maine a new picture. :) We want to see it too. Business must be good. Using hemlock?
Going to have a visit with Hackberry Jake. bg
Quote from: thecfarm on June 05, 2014, 07:42:08 AM
Peter,send WM here in Maine a new picture. :) We want to see it too. Business must be good. Using hemlock?
Business could be better, But I have to get the lumber out of the weather. And yes, I'm using a lot of hemlock.
Just got done visiting with Bill Gaiche. ;D
Quote from: hackberry jake on June 05, 2014, 12:59:00 PM
Just got done visiting with Bill Gaiche. ;D
Without a picture, it did not happen. ;D
I forgot all about the picture. He said he met you as well Magicman. I wont repeat what he said about you :-X
:)
No picture & vicious gossip !!! Two strikes. You are on thin ice because you know full well the three strike rule. :D
I had my camera with me but actually forgot to take a photo. Although Jake and I already know what we look like without a photo you will just have to guess at what it would have looked like. Was great to meet a young man with so much talent. He does have a nice setup of a lot of toys to make a lot of wood projects. Met his 77 year old grandpa also. Very nice gentleman he is. I do have a piece of Jake's handy work which was made on his home made CNC router. Will add some black to the letters and some finish then I will hang this out under our gazebo. That I do have a photo of. Thanks for the gift Jake and thanks for the tour of your place. bg
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Great sign! 8)
The highlight of my day was just sending Poston a PM wishing him a Happy Birthday.
Update on sign. Done a little sanding and added some poly to make the sign complete. Hanging from the pergola now. Thanks Jake for the sign. bg
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Bill,
That is the perfect spot to sit and have a tall glass of lemonade and avoid trouble! Andy
Your right Andy and its working. bg
Looks very nice Bill.....and the sign looks good too. ;D
Skidded out 5 big red oak logs for a start on next winters firewood. Two of them were a real booger to get out of a monsterous sawbriar patch. Sounds crazy, cutting firewood, sweating like crazy, gatoraid by the gallon..
Sawing Sinker Cypress. 8)
Guess I'll go out and sharpen some blades, looks like it's going to be a drizzly day anyway!
Makin' a bed for my daughter.
Home from work earlier today. 3/4" of rain in a two hour span makes for too much mud. 40% chance of it again tomorrow.
Freezing strawberry's that we've been given! I'll decide what to do with them later on.
Strawberries? Maybe in a week or two.
Freezing rhubarb then preparing a piece of ground to plant strawberries. When that is done I'll do some work on the ATV trailer I'm building for a friend.
Cleaning up debris from yesterday's storm.
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Ole Blue loves that landscape rake. ;)
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Cleaning up debris from yesterday's storm.
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Ole Blue loves that landscape rake. ;)
I supposed you can, But I never seen someone [ push a rake backwards] :D :D
You can only pull so much stuff to the same pile before it gets too high for the tractor to climb over. That is when you reverse the rake and push it all together. Works very well.
To sum up the last 24 hours. Mouse killer.
I did see a young Bull Moose a half mile from our place. I wish they ate mice.
Going fishing with my son
Going to take my dad out to dinner. Oh and the never ending yardwork
Quote from: Magicman on June 14, 2014, 11:00:50 PM
You can only pull so much stuff to the same pile before it gets too high for the tractor to climb over. That is when you reverse the rake and push it all together. Works very well.
Without a loader I guess that's all you can do. :D :D
Yup, some do and some of us don't. ;D
For a change, hopefully my "today" will be spent relaxing with the family. :)
Got the Boston butt on the grill at 5 this morning, heading to the in-laws for lunch,
Wife is working today so its laundry dishes and a nap for me
I slept until 10:30, and am still sitting around in my skivvies at 2:30. Lindy fells bad, so I need to go figure out what we'll have for dinner. I think I'll do some fried rice.
Went to church services. Sermon..Dads are the cleaner for the windshields through which their kids view life. Then every dad present was given a gallon jug of windshield cleaner as a reminder..Naw, I'm not gonna use it in the woodmizer. Just loaf the rest of the day, kids all live away, but I'll probably talk to them all before the day's over...
Thankfully I am no longer nursing generators. The last one came off about 2:00 this afternoon.
Back to sawing Sinker Cypress tomorrow. :)
Hung out with kids and wife. Watched some movies, played on the internet and scouted the vineyard for rose chafers this evening. Found two that means there will be a total infestation in a couple days. I'll be spraying Sevin in the AM to put a stop to them.
Did a bit of puttering today. Pancake breakfast at a friends firehouse over in NYS. Puttering around the mill checking measurements. Sawed out a 6"X6" and decided that was enough of that for today. :D Put in a marathon logging and milling week that ended yesterday with the delivery of a timber order. Someone commented that one of the timbers felt pretty wet still. I said, yeah, it was still alive 20 hours ago. :D Sawing and logging in the rain wasn't my idea of a great time, but everything got done.
Today, I traded a chainsaw for a trailer. One of the contractors on a job we're working upgraded his trailer with a newer version, so he had one too many trailers. I acquired a two-axle, open trailer 16' X 6' that has a 4 ton capacity with a fairly new wooden floor. He got an excellent running MS460. :)
Family cook-out today!
Quote from: clww on June 15, 2014, 08:38:14 PM
Today, I traded a chainsaw for a trailer. One of the contractors on a job we're working upgraded his trailer with a newer version, so he had one too many trailers. I acquired a two-axle, open trailer 16' X 6' that has a 4 ton capacity with a fairly new wooden floor. He got an excellent running MS460. :)
Score!
I attempted to do some welding today. I had tapped into one of three aluminum circuits coming from my fuse panel - two 50s and one 40 - to run my welder. I was hoping for a 50 but 40 will do. However, it turned out to be a copper 30 amp that popped when I welded too much. What the heck, who would switch from copper at the panel to aluminum romex??? >:( So, the 40 amp was labeled "dryer". I made a pigtail (since my dryer is gas) and ran my welder from that. Guess what, a different 30 amp popped. >:( morons labeled the panel... So I spent the day pulling a new 50 amp circuit and bought a breaker just for it. Now I KNOW this one is a 50 :D Back to welding tomorrow - and maybe re-labeling my panel :-\.
Seems (to me) that you would have suspected which breaker was going to which circuit when you had the respective CB off to tap into it.
I'm thinking I missed something.
Quote from: beenthere on June 16, 2014, 03:03:19 AM
Seems (to me) that you would have suspected which breaker was going to which circuit when you had the respective CB off to tap into it.
I'm thinking I missed something.
Well, the actual chain of events. Some months earlier, I had flipped off the A/C units (30 amp breakers) and forgot about them. I had identified an aluminum romex in the garage attic that would work for my needs (so I thought). Because I was working alone, I flipped off the three breakers that had aluminum wire (stove top range, oven and dryer (as it was marked)) and wholly expected it to be the 40 amp dryer breaker. Went back up in the attic and tested the romex with a sharp prob and meter to make sure it was dead before cutting. Wired up my welder (using the aluminum grease stuff and screw lugs, not wire nuts), flipped on the three breakers and, drum roll, nothing!??? What the?? Flipped on the 30 amp breakers and I had power. I was not happy and really could not understand where the wire changed from copper to aluminum. I used the 30 amp for a while but was a real pain to use for welding as it kept popping.
Got my 50 amp working today and could weld non-stop! 8) Finished up my bucket for my Skytrak and need to take it up to test it out later this week. Got it halfway up on the trailer.
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I took a 4x8 piece of 3/16 diamond plate, cut it down to 6' and rolled it. Cut up the remaining piece for the ends. Found a scrapper blade on CraigsList and welded that on the edge. Trimmed off about 6" on each end and welded them to the side.
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Got some 1/8" C-channel that was being tossed out and stuck that on the back to hopefully make it good and stiff. Had a piece of 1-¼" plate that I torched up into brackets to hang on my Skytrak fork rails. They are 50 pounds a piece. I figure the whole thing weighs about 500 pounds. I used 7018 rod throughout - kind of a pain to weld with but pretty clean welds that are a bit stronger. I'll probably shear the metal before I pop the 10+ pounds of welding rod I used up.
That looks STOUT! smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
Quote from: clww on June 16, 2014, 08:01:07 PM
That looks STOUT! smiley_thumbsup smiley_thumbsup
I'm hoping! I bought a skid-steer bucket off eBay that is 42" wide. Did lots of digging with it, though not very efficient on my Skytrak. Had to re-shape, re-weld, reinforce, three or four times and it just isn't the same :D This new one will be full width and should work better. I designed this to be mostly rolled back when mounted as the forklift doesn't go back very far (20° maybe) and tends to dump the dirt :-[ I can roll the unit forward almost 90° so I think this will be just fine. Rolling that diamond plate was a huge challenge!
We were clearing today near a property line. Nothing uncommon, but the neat part was I got to watch a female box turtle dig a hole and lay her eggs. :) Went to set the saw down and there she was, a few feet away. It took her nearly two hours to complete her mission. Really cool to watch, and makes me feel like a little kid again.
That would have to be a neat thing to see.
Sawed today and will be sawing again tomorrow.
I have a line that needs some attention. The other guy had it surveyed. The old line was right. Or maybe they just followed it. ;D
I took pictures a few years back of MaMa laying eggs.
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I noticed a snapper the other day laying eggs.
Burned a couple of stumps by the cabin using downed trees for fuel. It's a slow process cutting tops and brush then hauling to the fire. Using Quaking Aspen, Balsam Fir and Spruce. They go whoosh on a hot fire. It was hot on top of that weather wise. My ears and forearms are on fire.
Somehow, I'm in between sawjobs right now, so I figured I'd go and look at a new one, the guy said he has 9 logs from trees that were taken down in a neighbors yard!
I did tell him about the contract and explained the quickest way to find metal in a log!
He said he wants them sawed and will pay any damages.
Best thing is it's only 5 miles from home.
Going to get back on a small siding order, had a nice day yesterday, brought pizza up for my uncle Jess, 90 years old! He's is a Navy vet, not sure they make them like they use to, these ole timers are some tuff nuts!
Got myself way too hot working the previous two days (94 Tuesday and 97 Wednesday), so I'm taking today OFF. ;D It was still 84 at 11:00 last night when we headed off to sleep.
Big storm last night a farmer was given a lot in town with big cotton wood trees now 3 are down and he don't have a chain saw and he knows I have two big saws.
and he has a big grove of ash may be there is a deal in the makeing
same thing I have done for a few months now 8) making log porch swings. i have 2 done of my order for 6 done for this weekend. I best get busy!
Today my goal is to rid my property of some obvious widow makers in the area around where I intend to eventually build the cabin. There are several I have noticed that makes me nervous having other people walk around the site.
I am off today and have a date with my bride. smiley_love
I've got everything packed and ready to pull out in the morning!!!!! Today is going to drag.
I cut, split and delivered a load of wood from downed trees for my brother's garage stove. Just saw Moose #4 cross the road on my way back.
Finished splitting next winters supply of red oak firewood, thanks to help from neighbor and his hired hand. We had two 25 ton splitters running non-stop from 7 am till noon. It's piled out in the open sun and breeze, should be plenty dry by fall, then it gets stacked in the barn. All this from 2 trees and one punky log from my sawmill log pile.
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Nice looking pile of wood. :)
I will only show a picture if anyone wants to see. But the wife,(said she did not hit it that hard) broke the bracing on the steering front end of the mower, so I have it tore apart. It started with the 5 cent fix on the steering arm, and now I have it all apart. Hot and humid as you would expect. Just got to love it! I still believe that many times the high carbon sheet metal is not the answer for high vibration applications, it seems to be prone to breaking, regardless if you hit a large rock.
Quote from: drobertson on July 12, 2014, 08:20:49 PM
it seems to be prone to breaking, regardless if you hit a large rock.
You got rocks too? I hit a couple every single round. Last Monday one of the three blades stop cutting so I dropped the deck. Simple problem, the pulley on that shaft had stripped cogs. But than I noticed that spindle had some end play so I pressed the shaft out and discovered a bad seat. So than I checked the next spindle and the mount for it was cracked. Oh well, might as well order three new spindles. Than I happened to notice big chucks missing out of the belt. Since I can't do grass until parts get here, might as well sharpen the blades. Surprised they would even cut. Than I noticed one of the height wheels with a really bad wobble.
Good thing for the internet and Jacks Small Engines. I beamed $200 off to Jack last Tuesday and he promised to have new parts on my doorstep Monday evening. And the grass don't care a lick.
They just dont seem to make lawn mowers that will mow sandstone do they larry? Maybe a couple of those delta HD shaper spindles would fix your problem.
Larry, not sure which one she hit, but am thinking it's the big one that fell of the disk. Either way, it did the damage. All said, a good overhaul never hurts anything, just another opportunity to learn a lil more.
Best thing may be to invest in some goats. ;)
This....
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That looks a whole lot like work. At least you have a nice spot for it.
Yes it is Lee, shade all day only a small window of sun and that is when we break for lunch. :)
here is the mower, with a view of the broken front arm. Looks like some minor body work in the morning.
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left side
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right side
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This is probably the best part on the machine, hope this works the yard is growing pretty fast,
Like Larry said in another thread, the grass won't care.