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Work For Tomorrow

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  1. HDRock

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  2. thewoodlands

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    It might be tomorrow for two different reasons, 1. it just quit raining from overnight,2.my truck alarm went off at 1:25 a.m. in the morning so I headed down the driveway real quick and found nothing so I never did get back to sleep until 3:30.

    Either someone was messing with it or a deer knocked into the truck which set it off. We haven't had a problem with anything since some kids years back got screwing with a laser coming from the northside into our house.
     
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    Well that sucks but at least there was nothing truly wrong .
    The wood ain't goin anywhere :)
     
  4. thewoodlands

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    I had sent the below to Gasifier , what are your thoughts?

    I have a question, I left our trailer hooked up to the truck overnight with the trailer lights plugged in but the truck off, can this drain the battery enough to set the car alarm off?
     
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    IDK maybe if there is a Parasitic drain somewhere .
    Maybe a animal tried to go through the space between trailer n truck and didn't see the trailer tongue and smacked into it .
    I had to get a new converter box wire harness , last time I used my trailer I found the lights were on , truck was of ,lights were off , tested wires and found something wrong in converter box and you can't fix them.
     
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    It should not. It should be quick and easy to check to see if there is current going to the trailer.
     
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    I unhooked it without checking for current going to the trailer but will check it next week, thanks.
     
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    sometimes I'll just push those smaller pines over with the bucket or the backhoe. Most of the time the bulk of the stump comes out of the ground and then I'll just cut it off the trunk. I haven't bent a bucket yet, but I don't go slamming it either.
     
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    If I pushed them over with my luck the tree would snap off and cuff me a good one. The wife likes the stumps out so we take them out, I use to cut them off near the ground but there always seemed to be some that you would catch your toe on.
     
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    No, that wouldn't drain the battery. Not unless the trailer lights have a direct hookup to the battery. Those are rare, but I had one set up like that in my Jeep.

    Maybe it was Sasquatch that set of the alarm?
     
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    Yesterday our neighbor's car wouldn't start so he called a tow truck, everything was locked up so there were a few black marks left on his garage floor because they had to drag it out to get it on the flatbed. It turned out his battery was shot and the whole vehicle locks up, I've never heard that before.
     
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    My trailer lights do have a direct hookup to the battery
     
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    Neither have I:eek:
     
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    I have.

    It's called "bricking".

    A term that used to be reserved for electronic devices like phones, computers, etc.

    As cars get more electronically sophisticated, this can happen.

    New Alfa Romeo Guilia's have had this issue well documented, but they are not the only ones.
     
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    I've found the stump always comes out when doing this. But then, we are in sand so not sure what would happen with heavier ground.
     
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    The first 4 pictures are of what I think is a small damaged Sugar Maple, 0469 is from my first area that I split some Maple, 0470 is the second area.....more Maple with some good & bad.

    The last pictures are of a dead American Hophornbeam (Ironwood or Hardhack in our area) which I'll get when I pick the Maple up.
     

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    We'll be taking down a couple of dead pine in the morning, I hope to have it c/s tomorrow. We'll also remove both stumps with one being on the small side.

    I did some posting today with another area that needs posting before deer season opens on the list.

    Pics tomorrow.
     
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    We'll use this for the outside fireplace this year, the smaller pine will come down tomorrow along with splitting all the rounds up.

    After coming in for lunch and eating in the basement (67 degrees) I decided to call it a day. The temps not real bad but the humidity was around 75 percent.
     

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    That's a good sized pine there zap
    Suppose to be 75 to over 80 this weak here
     
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