Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 40F @ 7:00AM. Partly cloudy. High 53F. Winds light and variable.

Our littlest friends are the hardest ones to lose, Bird. Maybe someday you'll find another as nice as Dee.

What next, Rip? You two have been through so much the last couple months, and you'll get through this, too.

Pretty chilly in the house this morning, and I'm sitting here listening to the wood stove ping and pop as it heats up. Something very satisfying about finding a coal or two in the ashes and fanning them into a cheery and warming blaze with just a few breaths of air. Not to mention the savings in newspaper and kindling!:laughing:

And speaking of kindling, my supply will last the rest of this season, but I'm going to have to find/make more for next fall. What I had was gathered up from splitting the ten cords put up several years ago, and with so much firewood still left, I have no plans to buck and split more in the foreseeable future. So I'm wondering how well one of the newish kindling makers work, like this one. I'll be using it on seasoned oak, and I already know it's more of a job with a small hatchet than I want to tackle. Anybody have an easy and safe way for turning out a lot of hardwood kindling?

 

[daugen]

I have told my stories of my locally infamous neighbor aka The Drunk Farmer, and what was melancholy to see now was a picture of his farm before the hurricane blew down his
greenhouses. His place looked hugely better. All of the old greenhouse plastic is now lying in a dump/pile on his property and he wanted to set fire to it to get rid of it. My fireman neighbor and I convinced him not to do that.
We'd all die of fumes. Plus the stuff is likely recyclable.
His place needs about thirty dumpsters.
Funny that someone who lives like a genuine pig has a driveway named on the map as Hog Ave.

I need to go down and clean up my woodshop on a wet day. At least it's not cold though temps are headed in the other direction.
Also have about two bucket loads of beer cans and trash to pick up out on the road.
Pretty hard to do that task and not feel there are pigs on the road too.

 

[jbrumberg]

RNG- I went with a Homelite 5 ton electric wood splitter and I kick myself for not having bought one earlier. It's slow with ~5 second cycle and not the best ergonomic design, but it makes kindling with a lot less body strain than splitting it down with a maul. It splits some pretty gnarly wood rock/black maple easily. It can take a 20" piece of wood.

There is/was a recent TBN thread comparing this unit to a DR unit.

 

[newbury]

I only see history with street view. Mine also 2008 and 2012. In the current view, i am sitting on my front porch waving to the Google car driving by.

Yeah, I bet Google is working on real time and future view but they are not there yet

Lou, you're right in my mind. I check the site regularly to make sure it hasn't taken a picture of me taking a whiz outside my barn. Or something embarrassing.
If they ever fly a drone over the center of my place and start taking pictures there, i will be seriously upset. Stay off my land.

With rumored satellite resolution they can do that now.

 

[ronjhall]

Time to get the tractor to get unstuck View attachment 536868

Don, there is tool for that. It's called a Bucking Wedge. It does have one fault. You have to use it before the chainsaw gets stuck.

 

[PJSprog]

Also have about two bucket loads of beer cans and trash to pick up out on the road.
Pretty hard to do that task and not feel there are pigs on the road too.

Man, I really hate that. I have to do that about once a month along our road, too. Wish I could find out if it's someone local or not. I'd pick it all up and dump it on their front lawn. Where we are, you almost have to be going there to be there, so I suspect it's either locals or visitors of locals. It's also possible that it's just teenagers passing through while out for a ride, as it does seem worse on weekends.

 

[jbrumberg]

I do not mind the $.05 deposit cans and bottles. It's the "other" stuff that requires no "direct" personal skin contact.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Don, there is tool for that. It's called a Bucking Wedge. It does have one fault. You have to use it before the chainsaw gets stuck.

So ...... that would be the anticipatory bucking wedge?

 

[wngsprd]

Don, there is tool for that. It's called a Bucking Wedge. It does have one fault. You have to use it before the chainsaw gets stuck.

I started using one of the orange plastic ones made by Stihl a few years ago when needed. It's light, and if the chain hits it, no chain damage. Being orange, easy to find.

 

[jerrybob]

41F right now.....rain all day......wind warning this afternoon......Tsunami warning cancelled........that was a good size quake off Alaska.