What did you do today?

[ebinmaine 67,497]

5 hours ago, lynnmor said:

some nice large cherry trees last year and I couldn’t sell the logs or even give away some nice chunks to local wood turners.  I thought that the wood had a higher and better use than firewood.  I do burn about seven cords per year

 

Not sure what our local firewood producers use other than a blanket statement of "hardwood". 

My own forest is about 70% beech and it grows and falls faster than we'll ever keep up with. 

With the pulp and paper mills going there's no wasted wood if a forest area is harvested but to give a few trees away is the same challenge here. Not much "value" in a truck moving less than 1/2 a load or more. 

[Stormin 9,981]

  Mowed everything that needed mowing, or not as the case may be, didn't need mowing. Forecast is for rain tomorrow and right through till Tuesday at least. Heavy with thunder and lightening at times. Mind it's needed. The ground is bone dry. Only things that are growing are weeds, thistles and nettles.

[ebinmaine 67,497]

4 minutes ago, Stormin said:

Mind it's needed

Wish I could ship some of ours over to you. Maine and New Hampshire have had one of the rainiest single months July in over 150 years of written history. 

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

Today I built this piglet drinker as a prototype, need 14 more now...

 

There are five more slightly modified versions half completed in the workshop, hopefully will get them done by the weekend 🙂

 

Now it's time for a beer - oh, and upload some more Grizzly Bar action, as we have been digging up the back yard this evening!

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

7 minutes ago, Stormin said:

  Mowed everything that needed mowing, or not as the case may be, didn't need mowing. Forecast is for rain tomorrow and right through till Tuesday at least. Heavy with thunder and lightening at times. Mind it's needed. The ground is bone dry. Only things that are growing are weeds, thistles and nettles.

Those nettles and weeds! The bane of my life!!

[AMC RULES 37,130]

More of the same ol'...

 

 

[AMC RULES 37,130]

One down...

one up.

 

 

 

[Gregor 4,846]

Changed the oil, filters, and serviced both trucks today, it's a job I enjoy doing. I don't have to look on you tube to find out how. I'm afraid rust may be overtaking the rocker panels on my '88 Chevy 1 ton.  It was bound to happen sooner or later. I have had the truck 9 years. I am the second owner.

Also cleaned out the freezer. I left 2 bottles of beer in there, and they froze and broke. I don't mind cleaning the freezer, but I lost 2 bottles of beer !

Edited August 4, 2021 by Gregor

[ebinmaine 67,497]

9 minutes ago, Gregor said:

rust may be overtaking the rocker panels

Best to get after that ASAP if you want to keep the truck. 

There's ALWAYS more rust inside a rocker than outside. 

 

Lots of patch panels available online for those.  That vintage is becoming very popular to restore. 

 

My sincerest condolences on the beer loss.  

[lynnmor 7,306]

Reduced to firewood, all that remains is to haul and stack in its final resting place.

 

[Gregor 4,846]

3 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

Reduced to firewood, all that remains is to haul and stack in its final resting place.

Sounds like a good job for grand kids.

[ebinmaine 67,497]

2 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Sounds like a good job for grand kids.

Or a BBT. She likes stacking firewood. 

 

((????))

 

[Gregor 4,846]

I give up. What's a BBT?

[lynnmor 7,306]

1 minute ago, Gregor said:

Sounds like a good job for grand kids.

 

This was at home, but in the spring I paid for the right to cut some nice tree tops in a logged lot so that we all could benefit from the fire wood.  Guess how many kids and grand kids did any cutting.

[lynnmor 7,306]

3 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Or a BBT. She likes stacking firewood. 

 

((????))

 

How high is the rent?

[ebinmaine 67,497]

13 minutes ago, Gregor said:

I give up. What's a BBT?

Black Belt Trina

[ebinmaine 67,497]

11 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

How high is the rent?

You stack firewood you stay here rent free. 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,557]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Black Belt Trina

AKA Big Bad Trina when @ebinmaine is going slow with the trailer and gets behind on the wood hauling’ duties…

[Gregor 4,846]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

Black Belt Trina

[ebinmaine 67,497]

6 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

AKA Big Bad Trina when @ebinmaine is going slow with the trailer and gets behind on the wood hauling’ duties…

Oh yeah. She's a bad one alright. 

 

 

6 hours ago, Gregor said:

No need to hide from her G. 

Literally the most calm cool collected person I've ever met. Even including her own sensei's. 

 

[tom2p 2,394]

12 hours ago, lynnmor said:

 

This was at home, but in the spring I paid for the right to cut some nice tree tops in a logged lot so that we all could benefit from the fire wood.  Guess how many kids and grand kids did any cutting.

 

[tom2p 2,394]

12 hours ago, lynnmor said:

Reduced to firewood, all that remains is to haul and stack in its final resting place.

 

that's a lot of work

 

just cutting a large tree (with a chainsaw) is a lot of work

splitting I avoid as much as possible 

 

[tom2p 2,394]

On 8/4/2021 at 4:35 PM, Gregor said:

Changed the oil, filters, and serviced both trucks today, it's a job I enjoy doing. I don't have to look on you tube to find out how. I'm afraid rust may be overtaking the rocker panels on my '88 Chevy 1 ton.  It was bound to happen sooner or later. I have had the truck 9 years. I am the second owner.

Also cleaned out the freezer. I left 2 bottles of beer in there, and they froze and broke. I don't mind cleaning the freezer, but I lost 2 bottles of beer !

I thought you were 'recovering' ... taking it easy ?

 

[tom2p 2,394]

On 8/4/2021 at 4:00 PM, AMC RULES said:

More of the same ol'...

 

 

 

some site work near our house 

 

one of the last remaining open tracts to be developed ... this one relatively small compared to the other areas that were recently developed 

 

 

[ebinmaine 67,497]

3 minutes ago, tom2p said:

that's a lot of work

 

just cutting a large tree (with a chainsaw) is a lot of work

splitting I avoid as much as possible 

 

Agreed. 

 

The work of the splitting is why we bought the home built heavy duty splitter that we did. 

We've borrowed today's readily available box store type splitters in the past and they don't even come close to holding a candle to the capacity that we have now.