AC Mel??
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Topic: AC Mel??
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: AC Mel??
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2018 at 7:36am
| How are you all doing? Just worried the rain may be setting your region to slippage too? |
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2018 at 7:46pm
| Same here been a wondering how things are going for you folks. |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 11:10am
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Dave..Tom.. Thanks for thinking of us. We are fine here with the weather problem. Yes the people in Southern Ca. have taken a beating with the mud slide issue. We have no problems here with that kind of mudslide issue...even Sonoma Co. to the south of us..where they lost 5000 plus homes doesn't have that problem like that. We've had almost 10'' of rain this year..below normal and way behind last year. Rain starting tonight...off and on through the weekend..maybe 2-3''.will be perfect. Ok so an earlier post I showed the AC BBQ as a work bench...well we cleaned it of and started cooking on it finally.  Kinda funny how some of this simple stuff can work so well....one of the problems we had was no firewood was cut to use (it all burned up) Had to borrow some from brother Dave..who actually had to buy some..cause he didn't have time to cut it.  We did just this past weekend buy a new propane BBQ...which has always been heavily used buy my wife.  How would you know it was cooked on a tractor radiator grill? Anyway we're good..keep you posted |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 12:11pm
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Sweet, and tasty looking!! Thanks for the update. |
Posted By: jerbob
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 1:41pm
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So glad to hear you and family are safe and going better. When California is good its great,when its bad its real bad. With weather that is. The steaks look great, not sure of that green stuff, looks like it would take valuable space away from potato's and corn. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 3:32pm
| Glad to hear you are ok Mel. This weather sure has been a wild one all across the US. |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 4:54pm
Yum Yum!! Boy, they look great!! Let's eat!!  ------------- 39'RC, 43'WC, 48'B, 49'G, 50'WF, 65 Big 10, 67'B-110, 75'716H, 2-620's, & a Motorhead wife |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 1:26am
| Mel....brings yer truck (with sides on it) and i'll fills it with firewood! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 6:14am
| With PICTURES???? |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 3:45pm
| That would be something to see, pictures of Shameless loading firewood |
Posted By: Ian Beale
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2018 at 4:26pm
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He'd have to be wearing a hat to be believed |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 9:47pm
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Dave...What if I get back there with my truck to load and take pictures of shameless with his AC hat on...and it's dirty!!!...we don't know where shameless has been wearing his AC COLLECTION hat....could be pretty cruddy looking by now...bet yours are still clean. So that means if I drive back there...I'll have to take a fresh hat for the photo op. I'd given up on the Shameless hat pictures....but free firewood!!!...might be a ROADTRIP!!!... |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2018 at 11:49pm
| Heck just a picture of ol shameless???? Might could put it up somewhere. Glad to here you are OK! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2018 at 1:00am
| if ya Wants the firewood stacked on yer truck, you'll hafta do it, but you'll also hafta be faster than the backhoe loader bucket can dump it on the truck! and I will wear a new collector hat will doing it! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2018 at 1:04am
| I swore i'd never load another semi with firewood again. did that once and hauled it out to Boulder CO, parked in a strip mall parking lot and sold it off the back of the trailer, made BIG $$$$ and sold out the same day. but clincher was that I split all that wood by hand with a maul. I had a strong back...back then! that's prolly what happened, I dun wore it out! |
Posted By: michale34
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2018 at 10:11am
| When I worked in the logging woods I would get 5-6 dump truck loads of oak dumped in my field and in the fall cut and split firewood and sell through the winter. It helped pay the winter bills and brought in extra cash during the shut down season . The first year it was all done by hand with a mall.The next year I bought a pto horizontal splitter .Used it for 3-4 years and finaly bought a stand up splitter and used it 3-4 years . A guy in the area bought a firewood processor that cut /split and dumped in one operation and it was a one man operation using a loader with forks for loading the logs and changing out the bins with the firewood. So after he came around I called it quits. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 1:09pm
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I agree, handling the bulk of wood is the back killer. Here are some firewood processors I see on craigslist. Its been back a few months ago, so craigslist has deleted the ad, but an older gentleman had an older 1960's Simplicity lawn tractor rigged up to supply belt power to big round saw blade that cut logs into smaller pieces, then lawn tractor's hydraulic pump powered splitter & conveyor to transfer split wood to wagon. http://https://carbondale.craigslist.org/hvd/d/hwp-140b-skid-mounted/6446315664.html" rel="nofollow - http://https://carbondale.craigslist.org/hvd/d/hwp-140b-skid-mounted/6446315664.html http://https://maine.craigslist.org/grd/d/built-rite-firewood-processor/6469664188.html" rel="nofollow - http://https://maine.craigslist.org/grd/d/built-rite-firewood-processor/6469664188.html http://https://eauclaire.craigslist.org/grd/d/firewood-processor-processing/6385339231.html" rel="nofollow - http://https://eauclaire.craigslist.org/grd/d/firewood-processor-processing/6385339231.html http://https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/hvd/d/firewood-processor-rental/6468531270.html" rel="nofollow - http://https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/hvd/d/firewood-processor-rental/6468531270.html |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 2:15pm
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First one I ever saw was in 84 or 85. Beaver Wood Eater firewood processor. Had a Kubota 4 cylinder engine trailer mount. Could roll a log up onto the rack, push it forward to a 16" stop, saw on, saw came down, saw back up then stop up and drive it into splitter head. All manual levers, basically followed the flow path for the levers but three of seven were in odd places. Once log in rack V was 1234 on levers. Had a running conveyor, would drop the split chunks on it and up the belt to a waiting trailer or truck, never stacked. Grounds & Landscaping Service had it, last I knew it was derelict and sitting in a heap in their yard, not enough parts nor money to fix. |
Posted By: michale34
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 4:58pm
| The one this guy had he made it. He worked at a sawmill and it was set up with air switches and stops. He dropped the log on the roller chain log came to a stop and a eletric chainsaw cut and the block fell to the side then a through the wedge and onto the conveyor to the bins he had made or to the truck that was there. He used a lot of old sawmill parts and he had bolt on wedges depending on the size log he was splitting .He could bolt on up to six wedges .It was powered by a 10k army surplus generator. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 9:03pm
------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
AC Mel wrote:Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 3:12am
| i'll be watching him JC! |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 10:23am
If Mel brings that crane, or boom truck, whatever he calls it, he could have that snow machine picked up and loaded and gone before you know what happened! Darrel |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 3:23pm
| Ole Shameless will just be hobbling around on his swollen feet trying to stay out of the way. |