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It was on topic.. I'm sure he shot that nice turkey in the woods, or at least close to the woods!

Google it, There's some you tube videos on it out there, chicken and turkey is done just the same. Unless of course you go the Biker Chick method with the chicken. ;-)

Basically cut the backbone out, split the breast plate so you can open the bird flat, cooks quicker and more even. I do turkeys and chickens both this way. And don't pay any attention to that sawyer guy!:LOL::ROFLMAO:

No, wont waste it for some tacky burgers!! I'll clean it proper, brine it overnight the night before then smoke it low and slow for most of the way, then raise the heat for a nice golden crispness!! YUM!!

Yep, I am definitely not a trophy hunter, just looking for fridge fodder..

But you dont need to shoot the biggest one, at least I dont. And cooking in a Kamado rights a bunch of evils as well.

Yeah, I guess I come and go a little, but I'm still here. And I'm ready to gobble a couple gobblers!

The wild ones taste better, IF, you know how to cook them!

We can hunt deer over a feeder but not turkeys.

????? Have you never had a thanksgiving dinner?? Mmmmmm... smoked spatchcocked turkey.. so GOOD!

Absolutely!! I run my feeders all year long, but I have to switch them off about a week before season as you cannot hunt turkeys over a feeder.

And spring is in full bloom here... YAY! And its almost turkey time..

And whats with all the adds here all of a sudden? :mad::mad:

I'll give a report.

So I ordered that powerband belt, We will see how it does, I'll let you know.

Yeah, for 62 bucks I'm going to give it a try and see how it does.

Good to know...

So I have a belt tension gauge but I cannot find the specs anywhere that tells me what it should be. Also I found a Gates 3/B43 powerband belt at ZORO for $62.10. I'm probably going to try one of those...

Yep, I've done a bit of stuff with Agri-supply, and they are always most helpful.

As I mentioned, I have the original owners manual and it is not in there.

Yes this one is spring loaded as well, and adjustable

Yes it has an idler, but the tension on it is adjustable.

Never seen "sets" offered for sale anywhere

Three

So I have a TM1900 Caroni flail, I've had it 6 or 7 years. Seems to go through a lot of belts! I've been using Gates B43 Hi-power ll belts and getting ready to install a new set..again. So my questions are, does everyone use this belt or do you use another, and what tension do you set it at? I...

I have a couple of those bins, seems like a pain to stack in there and then to retrieve the wood when needed.. I dont use mine.

THATS a big bag!! Its probably 4 feet high. I was more thinking getting one of my sprayers out and spraying it with a poly of some sort.

That wood is a big knot or something I found in the woods. It was kind of rotted so I've had it drying for quite a while. Trying to figure out what I want to do with it. It is mostly hollow on the inside so I'm thinking making some sort of floor lamp decoration kind of thing with it. Trying to...

Or some quick jacks.. hydraulic and a bit pricy, but nice.

So you could cut a 3" hole in that panel in the appropriate place then pop one of these plugs in there, check it without removing that panel then...

I have one of those guys, I've probably had it for close to 50 years!

My thoughts.. are you sure that is a crush washer on there, most are not anymore. Click type torque wrenches are nice, you dont have to look at a scale or digital readout to see where you are, wait for the little click and you are done. Not a big fan of HF torque wrenches, bought one once and it...

Well if their chain is dull it might be sawdust!

The punctuation police have arrived!

Fatwood is a pine that dies and remains standing, all the sap runs down into the stump. Its natural where I live , like someone said split it into pencil size pieces 6-8" long, starts with a match and will start almost anything. I have 5 gallon buckets of it already split and ready to go.

Aww, so sorry!

I didn't see you in any of the pics...

Agreed! he likes playing with the big stuff.

WOW, I have no trees even close to that big here!

But, but I have a pool for when it gets hot!! Oh, and they invented this thing called air conditioning a few years ago, dont have to cut down any trees to feed it either! ;)

All the extra work involved me thinks. Shoveling, plowing, chains, slipping, sliding, falling, stuff like that maybe... After being stuck in colorado for too many years if I never see snow again I'm ok with that. :D

And when I was younger I liked the snow, and used to go winter camping quite a bit, a new set of challenges to camping.

So glad we moved out of the snow belt! No more chains!

The riders awareness of whats going on around him/her makes a huge difference! And the trained ability to avoid a problem is priceless!

Man, that sucks... lovely california I guess.

I cant even count the number of tires I went through with the Harley, put all but one set on myself. and ya, electric cruise control and all that stuff. Yes I too will keep my motorcycle endorsement but I did let my instructor classification expire, dont think I will do anymore teaching.

So it was stolen, or you were offered a price you couldn't refuse?

We have 8 cats and rarely have any of those problems.

I got the later AP2 with the 2.2L. I drove several of both AP1, and AP2 , the drive train and handling of the AP2 was much superior in my opinion. And yes, it was not cheap!

Already has the upgraded exhaust This car has dash controls for the radio and whoever put the radio in did not hook that up and I want it hooked up.

Now I need to go yank out the console and radio cover, I want to replace the radio.

I'm thinking I can bond with animals better that with humans! My family calls me Dr Doolittle.

Ha! My thinking was more like when its too hot out I can put the top up and turn on the air-conditioning! I originally really wanted a Triumph TR6, but alas no air conditioning , had to update my thinking.

And just a few days before my birthday!

And they do it all outside!

Lots of distracted drivers and mobile texters!! It was a 2007 Road Glide I bought new and put 94k + miles on it, maybe we dodged a bullet by selling it before something happened.

So I sold my Harley of many years and bought a new toy, at least its a convertible! Getting older and the Harley was not getting any lighter, and more and more idiots out on the road!! So now we have Big Red, and Little Red!

Ha, I now have 8 cats in the house! No litterbox though.

I preferred to move south of the snow belt so I dont care anymore.

Nice view!!

So then these cookies we really dont want to eat!:D

Nice video, thanks Gordon

No, unfortunately that's vinyl plank flooring. I got it because it claims to be waterproof and with my critters , 2 ponds and a pool right out the back door seemed like a good idea at the time... not really though. Wont happen again I promise. Scratches easy and doesn't hold up real well. Oh...

Legs from amazon, they have different sizes. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BZ54DMY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It was the crotch out of a big oak. And thanks.

I just stuck the discs in the skids of some other wood I was drying in the shade and undercover and it worked out very well. I've never used the Anchorseal so I cant comment on that. I think the thing is you want them to dry very slow! I made some tables..

So I did this a while back, cut a stump off square and screwed it to a piece of 3/4 plywood through the bottom then clamped the plywood to the rails of my saw and had at it. Go slow and easy it you want to keep it attached to the plywood, and dont cut so low as to hit those screws/lag bolts.

And it has many times!

Those wont fit in my sawmill!!

The bigger stuff I would have made lumber out of, but yes, good score!

Very well dont you think? Has a little problem dragging some of them through the flap though.

On the front porch you say..

And I did not think that..

Cool... a little fun!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!! Yeah, right? Good try though.

I have 5 chainsaws here, Might not be as big as what you are used to, but plenty big enough to do this tree.

Well come on out! :)

Well I don't know, Skeans1 gave me a "good post" maybe he will show up! :)

Well you guys figure it out and come on over and show me how to do it.. I'll buy all the beer you can drink!

Yeah, not with the location it is at, on the edge of a grown over road bed on the edge of a swamp.

Ahh, well there you go!! I set off a gallon jug once...Whoa!!

A hint??? I do more than that just playing around! A 1.75 liter plastic fireball bottle has a nice report!! :D I was thinking probably 2 of those in that split would work.

Again, no winch here.

Well if I had a winch, maybe... but I do not

Yes indeed my drone will hover by itself, using it never crossed my mind but does sound like a good idea! I would hate for some hunk of tree to take it out though but I will definitely look into doing that If I go the tannerite method. The bottom of this tree below the split is pretty rotted...

Yeah, but you do it for a living and know what you are doing... I do not so much. And as Harry Calahan says , a man has got to know his limitations! ;)

With out a doubt if I go that way, I for sure will take a video!

Well... despite my screen name I no longer own a 4570 ;-( , had my shoulders redone and a 45/70 carbine kick was a little much. Had a contender pistol in 45/70 but then bought a 500 S$W revolver and it will do anything the 4570 will, so off it went also. Pretty big tree to go after it that way...

So I found this guy the other day, not sure what to do with it. The top is hung up in a neighboring tree and I cant cut that one down without this one coming down on top of me! Its way back in the woods and I may just let nature take its course, I also thought about packing the split with a...

You must get a lot more wind than I do I hardly ever get any blowdowns.

Yeah, I've been hiding or something... I'm still around though!

Seems like a lot, but I dont know how tall your chimney is either, might switch to cleaning every couple years. That's how I do mine, and I may get a inch in the bottom of a bucket max, but my chimney isn't to tall either.

What they call tulip wood here is yellow poplar.

As they are or at least used to be, marked SPF at the lumber yard, Spruce , Pine, and Fir. I think now its referred to as "white wood" .

Yeah, fruitcakesa started talking pines (didn't think his looked like pines either) and then you continued so I was wondering... I am about 2 1/2 hours from the coast and "normally" by the time these storms get this far inland its usually just a windy rain event. At least in the 8 or so years I...

So are those pines???? Dont look anything like the pines I have.

Some pretty cool machines thats for sure! Now I've never dropped a tree with a bottle jack although I've seen quite a few videos on it... But I almost always use wedges when I drop one.

The question is how many fingers would you have at the end of that day?

That thing is cool, never saw such a thing.

Thats pretty interesting.. Bring some of that with when you bring those oak logs down would ya please?

Love the picture of the kids on their bikes!

Yeah, I'm going to go with the Anaconda tree.. the tree it really is is too far gone to tell, so Anaconda works.. thanks for the name!

Yes, I have to figure out something to do with it.. maybe a table base or something I don't really know yet. Needs to dry out for a while in my garage first.

Lookie what I found.. toppled out in the woods... unfortunately it may be to far gone to be of use..

I have this one, its 4' wide and a bit lighter than my 6' bucket.. I its a no name job I got at an equipment place, works great.

A little scary to me putting logs on the sawmill with the tractor, seems things could go sideways in a hurry, I load mine on a log deck and just roll them onto the saw.

Those Aluma trailers are nice trailers, had one for my motorcycle for a long time.

So its still 90s and 80s here, I need to take down a few trees for my stock but it will still be a bit before I start.

You did NOT hear that from me!!

I have a Dewalt battery one, works pretty well but its a smaller one, 12" bar. Its on my tractor all the time. Problem is is just a gravity oil feed if you dont empty it after use it all leaks out. I have an echo 501P that works great for me.. good size and lots of power!

Taken from my driveway a few years back..

Here come The Judge!!

Yeah, I kind of like orange myself.

Very nice area, when we lived in Oklahoma we would ride our motorcycles over in your neck of the woods.

Fantastic!! Thanks.

Looks nice... and MAN is that tractor shiny!! :D

Yes, SYP is BIG business here.. Lots of piles of logs around that wouldn't fill a truck at the end of the day. Had one here after a small clear cut I had done a few years ago, finally had a guy come in with a dozer this spring and bury what was left and a couple burn piles.

Sounds like a pretty big tree to brushhog (5"). Way back in my early tractoring days one of the old timers told me if you can drive over it you can brushhog it.

I wish I had some useable cedars here.. all the ones here are maybe 2-5 inch dia is all

Aint he got a purty mouth?o_O

Glad I escaped from there (Illinois) when my kids were still small!

Yeah, but that big truck was loading up all our stuff for a trip to the promised land! Prettiest site in all of uglyrado!

That is a manure spreader yes?

And I escaped uglyrado in 2014... I'll never reside in a blue state again!! Or one with snow!

Just razzin ya!! And here is my favorite pictures of that nasty place!! :cool:

Far out!! You have tractors growing on trees where you are! :D Oh, and WELCOME!

Agreed, some codes are very good to have, My house (I'm guessing) was built without the codes back in the early 50s, and fixing some of this stuff is a pain!! And they used in-consistent rough sawn lumber for the outbuildings so to get a straight wall I have to fir things out or something more...

Yep, nice little car Rambo!

Not everyone is stuck in new York...

Its a bit warmer here than NC and it does get pretty warm AND humid here in the summer so I tend to do some easier/cooler stuff like whatever I can find indoors, and mowing which isnt all that bad, and maybe working on the shady side of a building or something. Its not real bad here this year...

Looking good, to hot here right now to run my mill.. it'll have to wait till the fall

Yeowza thats a big stump.. I'm trying to understand your process, so you dig around them , pull them down... and then cut them up?? And speaking of digging, I'm digging that car in the background!! '66/ '67 Chevelle?

He goes by "Job38four" on you tube if you want to find him

A good stir is good once in a while!!

The echo is working great, but like that Stihl, it doesn't get a whole lot of use. But the weight difference makes it easier for me to use. How is that Stihl working out for you.. great I hope..

Big bus I'm thinking!

Bad saw probably!😐🤪

Yeah, I'm thinking instigator was correct! :D

I did not bring it up, Gordon did about 14-15 posts above.

Yeah, and it doesn't like me much!!

And the poison oak, its in abundance here.. no shorts in the woods.

Well trust me we get the humidity as well... I do not do a lot of cutting in the summer here... on a rare occasion if needed! And dont even talk about that nasty place!! 😬

Heck, I only wear mine because they are orange!! :LOL:

Sorry about your back, hope you are doing ok! I hate them as well but also wear them..takes to long to heal these days!

Oh I understand, and I only use real maple syrup on my pancakes!

YIKES!!

Oh, 86 degrees... nice and cool!! :D :) ;)

When I bought this place (100 acres) other than a 10 acre hay field on the road it was all woods. I had some loggers come in and clear cut a couple small fields out in the middle, a place to hunt, plant food plots etc. A bonus to that was that they put a road all the way around the place to get...

99% of the trees I drop are on a field edge, I steer them into the field and then normally buck them to whatever length I want then pick the logs up with the grapple and load them on a trailer to move them to my sawmill. ;)

Dont we always find ourselves wanting just a bit more?? Well except for pain I guess. ;)

Greg, thank you very much! That means a lot to me. I enjoy doing this kind of thing! I can even show you the three tree stumps from where I cut it! 1 sweetgum and 2 oaks.. Scott

So essentially you have a way out if you ever need it...;)

Thats nice... what does cheese have to do with all of this? And when are you coming to visit your brother?

My mom liked it so I grew up with it... Well.... as much as I grew up! :LOL:

I prefer Miracle Whip!

Yeah, but it doesn't make a good wood preservative! :ROFLMAO:

No! :D

Thanks Gordon. And it is pretty neat turning trees on the property into "stuff" ! No glue on the stretcher, just the pegs on the end. With the slightly offset hole for the pegs I was a little amazed how tight it all got! We will see how it holds up outside in the elements. Scott

Thanks... such a pain sometimes, but the end result is normally worth it. My first try at a pegged stretcher.. interesting work.

Oooo.. Mr Hunt, so fancy! :) Same thing I always use and have for many many years... Helmsman's Spar Varnish. And I needed something with some weight to it.. that oak half round did the trick.

Thanks man.

Well I finally finished my latest project, A table for around the pool to replace one that a storm destroyed a while back. The top and stretcher is out of sweetgum, the legs are oak along with the half round used to anchor the umbrella underneath. Oh, and the pins to hold the stretcher. The wife...

Nice, I had a 3010 when I was in colorado , went a little bigger with my present L3540.. lots of times I wish it were bigger, but for what I do I cant justify the expense.

Thanks, that was just an unforeseen bonus.. And that was one of the reasons for taking the picture!

Well if we are doing tractors and mower pictures (Rob started it) here you go, to hot to do a whole lot else yesterday so I did some mowing... Needed done anyway.

Working on another table top, this time in Sweetgum.. looking pretty good so far I think. Yes, live edge.

I always like looking at your stuff Skeans

So probably 90 percent of what I cut, I cut the live edge off. But, for some stuff like these slabs I leave the edge on cause it "looks cool" maybe?? If you look at those pics I posted above you can see how that live edge looks. Also sometimes, like for siding, I cut the live edge off one side...

Thanks

True, but if I had rolled it I would have lost the live edge on one side.. and on these big slabs that's a bonus! And yes it would have been hard to roll it, although I do have a hook I can hang from the forks on my tractor if I have too, just not with slabs.

BWAAAHAHAHA!!

Boy aint that the truth!!

Oh yeah, I'm sure I can find something to do with them.. in a year or two when they dry out enough.

Ok, deal!! I'll just keep em!

Not sure I've heard of him, but I watch antiques roadshow all the time and have seen quite a bit of cool furniture for sure. I've made a few things , a bit more rustic but its a style I prefer. A couple benches I made for my daughter for around her pool.. And here is a bar out in my cabana and...

Ok, you remember the oak tree I took down a while ago? well I finally got the trunk up on the sawmill to steal a couple slabs out of it before I turn it into firewood! It took all of me and my sawmill to get a couple slabs (4) out of it! They were in that 19-22" wide area and 2 1/2" thick...

Dang!!!

This pond I have isn't good enough for you? ;) And WELCOME to the forum!

You are most welcome. I have it mounted there "permanently" kinda, just bolted down. I think its limit was 1100 pounds but you are only picking up half a log so I've not had a log it wont lift yet. I tried a floor jack for a while to and what a pain!

So I have my log deck clear right now so I'll go back to working on that big (to me) oak tree I took down a couple weeks ago. Finished bucking up and moving most of it to my splitter area and just have the trunk left. So I drug it up (I do not have a winch) in front of the log deck and cut it...

Ok, back to the sawmill, a little fresher wood, a tree I cut down in my backyard to give me a better view across the pond. I needed some longer dimensional lumber to replace a dwindling supply. I got 3-12'6" logs out of this tree and it time to cut them up, 2x4s and2x8s today. Cut the smaller...

Whoohoo!! Yeah, I run in to trouble at every turn, the guy that built this house really didn't know what he was doing and seems he used whatever lumber he had laying around at the time, lots of it rough sawn... And dont even get me started on his electricians ability!

So I've been a bit busy lately finally re-doing the last room in my house the hall bath, was going to give it a face lift and ended up taking it down to the studs.. took longer than I had planned! Anyhow, finally got a chance to get out on the sawmill, I had taken out a dead pine that was along...

It’s all in good fun!! Makes this all more personal, which is a good thing!

Loaderman keeps bringing it up...

About as much as I miss a bad set of hemorrhoids I once had!

I did just the opposite few years ago, moved out of the snow belt and into southern heat... I wouldnt go back to the snow belt to save my soul!!! But thats me. Welcome to the thread.

I've not tried plastic ones, but I just make or scrounge pallets as needed.

I collected the wood I cut off yesterday and moved it to my splitting station, As I split it I stack it in the loader, then over to my drying racks. It will stay there till I need it in the fall. I have a rack on my front porch where I move it a bucket at a time as needed... works for me. I'm...

Nice looking piles... now you move it all to the wood shed? Do you do that right away to get it up off the ground?

Well it might be bag it to you, but its sack it to me!

And I am going to take a couple 10' slabs out of that trunk before processing it into firewood. If it gets ugly cold I can always split it up later.

I only go through maybe 2 cords of wood a year is all, not even that much some years. And that includes all those little fall/spring fires to take the edge off in the mornings. And that's a good thing 'cause I dont have a lot of hardwoods I can get to, mostly pines here. Forestry is one of the...

Had some time to work on my oak tree again. Slowly dismantling it then I take it to the splitter to split and stack. Surgery... and filling my racks

We don’t have trees that big thank goodness

I have done that ,plunge cut whatever but I’ve always cut that tag off I didn’t know what it is called

What do you mean by "pop the tag" ? I have never been a logger.

Yes, I too prune my fruit trees and berries (black and blue) Had a couple wildly overgrown pears when I bought this place and buchered them accordingly, they are doing great now with more pears than we can eat or even can!

And ugly as siht!

Get a couple jars of the hottest peppers you can find, put the liquid in a spray bottle and spray it around where they are chewing/scratching.. worked on porcupines.