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sootedupCyndi » 29 Aug 2023, 2:59 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Aug 2023, 2:59 pm

  I have to find someone to look at my new 900 dollar generator that wont start...  this house in the last 25 years never had a non working generator! It does now.
crap made in china-- 
i don't feel safe with out one. We live in maine and could freeze to death!
By the way? What GOOD IS a emergency generator- made for emergencies? that wont start???? Isn't that ironic? especially brand new!!!

              Living in South Florida, Generators are just a part of life, as is a garage wall lined with Red plastic Gas cans... The real misery here after a Hurricane blows through are the massive power outages --- often numbering over 1 million households... And you can bet as we speak, there's already a loud chorus of them sputtering away up in the Northern part of our State..

Z09 » 29 Aug 2023, 7:01 pm » wrote: ↑

29 Aug 2023, 7:01 pm

Cold and snowy?

That's impossible..

A climate change expert said in 2000 we'd never see snow again...
What happened?

         It must be mentally exhausting for the Climate / Global Warming alarmists having to revise their vomit-launch & reset their Doomsday Clocks every 6 **** months.... 

DeezerShoove » 30 Aug 2023, 7:14 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:14 am

If you didn't overload that truck, it would be about a 1/2 face cord.
So, $60 per face cord is going back in time a bit.
I see it selling for double that these days. It jumped during the gas hike after covid settled down.

It was for a level bed. In the fall we would move 8-10 loads a week for probably 6 or 8 weeks and split the money after gas. I used the extra dough like a Christmas fund. There were 3 or 4 years there that I made an extra $800 to $1000 or so, tax free, right before the holidays. It was a nice bump. Like I said, that was decent money back then, especially when you were used to being broke.
 

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 5:30 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 5:30 am

Not surprising with the amount of acorns this year...acorn skiing is now open on my hill down to the lake...and I expect to see a lot of these as well...

Is he from Wisconsin?!   

I had one where I used to live (small city lot) who would sit on a fencepost in such a way he always seemed to show his little pink peepee sticking out. We named him "Weiner".
Relentless little guy. Had a bird feeder stuck to the glass on a bay window. He would hang from the screen on the side window and finish off the seed. So I moved the feeder about 4" farther from the screen just to torture him a little. He didn't suffer from missing meals though... the fat little bastard.  
 

We passed on the wood stove this time around and went natural gas.
If your wood stove has a glass door, this product will keep the glass looking like new with little effort.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/MEECO-S-RED- ... -jEALw_wcB

Kobia2 » 30 Aug 2023, 7:23 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:23 am

              Living in South Florida, Generators are just a part of life, as is a garage wall lined with Red plastic Gas cans... The real misery here after a Hurricane blows through are the massive power outages --- often numbering over 1 million households... And you can bet as we speak, there's already a loud chorus of them sputtering away up in the Northern part of our State..

Here too in maine. no heat- we die. 
Ours is hard wired to the house. But when the old one broke- right before a huge storm. We bought a new one that day.  There was no time to mess with the old one.
It was delivered. BUT it had a different plug on the power cord. So we sat here 4 days freezing- the roads were impassible. Had to get an electrician to convert it over. brand new- wont start.
 you know how like when something is new. They say run it some hours- break it in like.
Then change the oil. Never started again. Right weight oil and level is right.
There's a place that may send someone out. But their up to their ears in fixing riding mowers now.
i may call the help line and bug the pizz outta them. LOL
 

RedheadedStranger » 30 Aug 2023, 5:39 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 5:39 am

I always knew it was going to be a rough winter when the squirrels were beating each other bloody over the chestnuts that fell from the neighbor's tree every fall.

I used to sit out on the car port and have coffee in the morning and watch those little bastards fight over nuts. 

Nature gives signs of what it's going to do pretty often, but the trick is to know what's to look for.

it sure does...and then there's the telltale sign of how rough the winter was by how many babies emerge in the spring...oh wait, that's just humans...  

DeezerShoove » 30 Aug 2023, 7:39 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:39 am

Is he from Wisconsin?!   

I had one where I used to live (small city lot) who would sit on a fencepost in such a way he always seemed to show his little pink peepee sticking out. We named him "Weiner".
Relentless little guy. Had a bird feeder stuck to the glass on a bay window. He would hang from the screen on the side window and finish off the seed. So I moved the feeder about 4" farther from the screen just to torture him a little. He didn't suffer from missing meals though... the fat little bastard.

Funny...reminds me of my bird feeder battle Royale...walkout rambler, covered deck on main 'upper' level with bird feeder off of deck cover...squirrels in the food...had an old roof rake. Took 10' pole mounted to deck cover with feeder out 8' from deck...squirrels ran the pole and in the food...pole down, greased with Vaseline, pole out...squirrels slipping and sliding an in the food...GAME ON! pole down, drill hole in 30" square .25" frosted plastic, pole out with plastic in between deck and feeder...squirrels out to plastic, jump on, go into a kaleidoscope spin, some fall, some make it to the food, plastic breaks...GRRRR! last in the arsenal, cayenne pepper...birds aren't affected...the first squirrel that hits the cayenne friggin' goes flying off 2 stories to the ground and bolts...made my day...

eventually, I caved, took the pole down, permanently opened old feeder for corn along side a new 'squirrel proof' bird feeder mounted to a nearby tree...the wife? thinks I'm  :loco:  ...   I sometimes wonder...
 

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 9:38 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 9:38 am

Funny...reminds me of my bird feeder battle Royale...walkout rambler, covered deck on main 'upper' level with bird feeder off of deck cover...squirrels in the food...had an old roof rake. Took 10' pole mounted to deck cover with feeder out 8' from deck...squirrels ran the pole and in the food...pole down, greased with Vaseline, pole out...squirrels slipping and sliding an in the food...GAME ON! pole down, drill hole in 30" square .25" frosted plastic, pole out with plastic in between deck and feeder...squirrels out to plastic, jump on, go into a kaleidoscope spin, some fall, some make it to the food, plastic breaks...GRRRR! last in the arsenal, cayenne pepper...birds aren't affected...the first squirrel that hits the cayenne friggin' goes flying off 2 stories to the ground and bolts...made my day...

eventually, I caved, took the pole down, permanently opened old feeder for corn along side a new 'squirrel proof' bird feeder mounted to a nearby tree...the wife? thinks I'm    ...   I sometimes wonder...

             I remember as a kid up in Connecticut, my Dad went to war with the Raccoons..... They made it a habit of getting into Mom's Bird Feeders, stealing the food and damaging them..... Dad's plan was to string a cord between 2 trees, and hang the Bird Feeders in the middle....  The look on his face was priceless the nest morning when he saw 3 Raccoons walking across it like the Flying Wallendas Highwire Act and raiding the Feeders again..

              They were also good at getting into the Garbage can --- even when he secured the Tops with Bungee-cords... They have dexterous little hands like a human and could easily remove them... On one occasion Dad fired up the BBQ  and had a platter of Hot Dogs & Chicken on a platter next to it waiting to go on the Grill --- by the time he got back outside after grabbing another Beer, the fuzzy bastards were off & running with every piece

sootedupCyndi » 30 Aug 2023, 7:21 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:21 am

Its going for $350 a cord here now. Cut split and dry.
green a tad less. expensive!

HOLY CRAP!!!
 
when we burned wood, I would religiously go thru 6 cords a yr...at $350, it makes fuel oil sound like a bargain...  
 

Kobia2 » 30 Aug 2023, 7:23 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:23 am

              Living in South Florida, Generators are just a part of life, as is a garage wall lined with Red plastic Gas cans... The real misery here after a Hurricane blows through are the massive power outages --- often numbering over 1 million households... And you can bet as we speak, there's already a loud chorus of them sputtering away up in the Northern part of our State..

my wife's stepbrother in Houston after a hurricane was out of power for 2 weeks...he had a generator running, woke up one morning to no power...he could hear the motor going, so went to check it out figuring the cord came loose or something ...someone stole his generator and replaced it with a running lawnmower....   "bastards"...

Kobia2 » 30 Aug 2023, 7:28 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:28 am

         It must be mentally exhausting for the Climate / Global Warming alarmists having to revise their vomit-launch & reset their Doomsday Clocks every 6 **** months.... 

it's a full time job...
 
 

sootedupCyndi » 30 Aug 2023, 8:45 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 8:45 am

Here too in maine. no heat- we die. 
Ours is hard wired to the house. But when the old one broke- right before a huge storm. We bought a new one that day.  There was no time to mess with the old one.
It was delivered. BUT it had a different plug on the power cord. So we sat here 4 days freezing- the roads were impassible. Had to get an electrician to convert it over. brand new- wont start.
 you know how like when something is new. They say run it some hours- break it in like.
Then change the oil. Never started again. Right weight oil and level is right.
There's a place that may send someone out. But their up to their ears in fixing riding mowers now.
i may call the help line and bug the pizz outta them. LOL

I assume it has a low oil shutoff sensor...I would check that being it hasn't started since you changed the Öl...
 

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 11:54 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 11:54 am

I assume it has a low oil shutoff sensor...I would check that being it hasn't started since you changed the Öl...

ok- I will run that by Bob! thanks.
why would the thing be outta oil- its brand new? I was thinking maybe the gas was a few months old.??? weird. who knows these days?

I just bought two new headlights for my car. They were old and all clouded over. Rather then sand them off all day. I thought new -would be better... HOOT- one broke- all chink crap- same headlights all over.
someone said the sensors are said to go.
 

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 5:24 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 5:24 am

shhh....

Nothing compared to what you get in MN but when you average 7.2 inches of precip in a year and you receive 17.. it is big news. And if this upcoming winter is going to be another dose of that.. sign me up. I laugh to the point of hurting myself when people complain about driving in the snow here. yeah... you have to slow down but 4 to 6 inches of mostly wet snow is not that terrible. 

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 9:38 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 9:38 am

Funny...reminds me of my bird feeder battle Royale...walkout rambler, covered deck on main 'upper' level with bird feeder off of deck cover...squirrels in the food...had an old roof rake. Took 10' pole mounted to deck cover with feeder out 8' from deck...squirrels ran the pole and in the food...pole down, greased with Vaseline, pole out...squirrels slipping and sliding an in the food...GAME ON! pole down, drill hole in 30" square .25" frosted plastic, pole out with plastic in between deck and feeder...squirrels out to plastic, jump on, go into a kaleidoscope spin, some fall, some make it to the food, plastic breaks...GRRRR! last in the arsenal, cayenne pepper...birds aren't affected...the first squirrel that hits the cayenne friggin' goes flying off 2 stories to the ground and bolts...made my day...

eventually, I caved, took the pole down, permanently opened old feeder for corn along side a new 'squirrel proof' bird feeder mounted to a nearby tree...the wife? thinks I'm    ...   I sometimes wonder...

I have a metal stand with sheperd's hooks to hang stuff (flowers, feeders, etc)
In winter I put out a suet block. Squirrels love those too.

After watching the fat bastards run off with half the block a few times, I started the war too.

How I won:
The 3/4" steel bar is about 6' tall. I tried a couple "squirrel proof" pieces of junk. No luck.
In my workshop I have odds and ends like any workshop. One piece was a 2' piece of 4" dryer duct.
I threaded that over the pole and suspended it just high enough that Mr Squirrel cannot reach the top edge.
They can jump but not straight up over 4'. They grab this loose pipe and slide down, trying to dig their toenails in.

btw
I had to put a mesh over the top opening because they would shimmy up inside the duct. Relentless.  
Mesh on top so this would not act like a 2' deep trap.
 
 

sootedupCyndi » 30 Aug 2023, 7:21 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:21 am

Its going for $350 a cord here now. Cut split and dry.
green a tad less. expensive!

I wonder if that's even worth it at all.
Price per "heating calorie" compared to regular old conventional heating can't be good.

My guy is selling his seasoned oak, split, at $95/face delivered.

ROG62 » 30 Aug 2023, 11:50 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 11:50 am

my wife's stepbrother in Houston after a hurricane was out of power for 2 weeks...he had a generator running, woke up one morning to no power...he could hear the motor going, so went to check it out figuring the cord came loose or something ...someone stole his generator and replaced it with a running lawnmower....   "bastards"...

           It's not too bad where I live,
but there's definitely areas where the need to buy a heavy duty chain & lock is considered part of purchasing a Generator ... It's also good practice not to leave the Gas cans outside with the Generator, as they also become targets for thieves... Some go as far as to remove the Wheels from them once you chain them in place, to make it more difficult to steal.. 

            I remember some years ago during preparations for one of the Hurricanes, there was a clip on the local News of a couple scumbags who'd been arrested at a Home Depot not far from me... A customer had just bought & loaded a new Generator in the back of his truck --- he went back in to pick up another item, and by the time he got back outside he saw Cops slapping handcuffs them after watching them back their own truck up to the tailgate of his, and began sliding the Generator box into their own truck... Some **** balls there man.

RedheadedStranger » 30 Aug 2023, 7:06 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 7:06 am

Way back when, me and a buddy used to cut and split young white oaks on a guys land that let us have all we wanted just to thin the woods out.

We would cut and split everything right in the woods with chainsaw, axe, and maul, and let it season right there until we sold it.

I had a '74 short bed Chevy C10 and got $30 a pick up load, delivered. That was good money back then. 

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          My 2 older brothers and myself had a similar gig where we grew up in Connecticut... It was heavily wooded, and neighbours who didn't have younger sons to help them would pay us to fell dead trees.. Mostly Oak, Hickory and some Cherry... We had a small International Harvester Cub Cadet Tractor riding mower with a trailer... We cut the trees into manageable size pieces and haul it back home and stack it along our driveway... Once we had a big enough load, we'd rent the Hydraulic Log Splitter which Dad would pick up for us... But yeah, I remember how back breaking that was before the Splitter when we used Axes & Wedges ... There were also times when the woods were so dense, or terrain was so that we couldn't get the tractor in there, and had to carry the sections of logs out ..

           It was good money for teens back in the 70s... Plowing driveways was another decent moneymaker... We had a Plow attachment that mounted on the Cub Cadet.  That little Tractor was  money-making machine for us. 

              

          

Kobia2 » 30 Aug 2023, 10:58 am » wrote: ↑

30 Aug 2023, 10:58 am

             I remember as a kid up in Connecticut, my Dad went to war with the Raccoons..... They made it a habit of getting into Mom's Bird Feeders, stealing the food and damaging them..... Dad's plan was to string a cord between 2 trees, and hang the Bird Feeders in the middle....  The look on his face was priceless the nest morning when he saw 3 Raccoons walking across it like the Flying Wallendas Highwire Act and raiding the Feeders again..

              They were also good at getting into the Garbage can --- even when he secured the Tops with Bungee-cords... They have dexterous little hands like a human and could easily remove them... On one occasion Dad fired up the BBQ  and had a platter of Hot Dogs & Chicken on a platter next to it waiting to go on the Grill --- by the time he got back outside after grabbing another Beer, the fuzzy bastards were off & running with every piece

too funny...the stuff legends are made of...