Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

Yep. got several paslode nailers of various kinds. They freeze up too, Plus very pricey. I've found it is better to just use pneumatic in the long run. But this is just my findings.

 

I didn't realize they froze too. I was just thinking even though they are pricey...so is buying a bunch of air lines on those stupid cold days.

 

Air lines are only 30 bucks or so. Paslode air and batteries much, much more. I have to look at it from a business standpoint. I go through 10 to 15 lithium Ion batteries from Ocotber to May because of the weather. I do use them for trapping also however.

With the price of batteries now, it is cheaper to burn up 7 or 8 or so air lines a year than ruin even two batteries. Kinda make sense?

 

Yeah, if I lived at 89,000 ft. elevation, I'd Cash in on it too! I bet he weighs 90 lbs. heavier at sea level..

Last night was so warm, all I did was light a small fire mostly to cure a fire brick I cemented back together. The room quickly got up to 89, so I just let it go out at bedtime. It's colder this morning at 43 degrees, and getting colder from there, so I've got red oak going.

 

What do you do with the beaver, sell the pelts, do you sell the meat, or keep it for yourself? We go to a wild game cook off every year, one of the guys trapped a beaver and served up the meat at the cook off. It was very good.

 

Generally sell the pelts, but they aren't worth diddly squat this year. I get decent money for the castor. I don't eat them personally as we have everything else to eat up here. I have eaten them in the past and it was good, but all my freezers are full to the brim. I chunk up some, and grind a bunch and make predator bait. The fur will get shipped to Idaho to be tanned this year. ( at least 50 anyway). I'm going to have a blanket made, and hoop some for the tourist market.

 

3/4 ton Chevy . 7'6" Western straight blade plow.

It does ok in the normal conditions that a plow truck works in.
Our ( the subdivision) winter road got about a foot of packed snow while Brownee was broke down. With the long term cold we get, it gets hard and tough. When the tires fall off what have become ruts. Everything ends up on its belly pan. Or close to it. Then the vehicles can't get back up on the ruts. All the while bashing into the 4 to 6 foot tall berms that are frozen HARD.
And the stupid equipment rental outfit won't rent dozers in the winter time. So it's a loader show. But everyone around here is in the same boat so the loaders are rented out steady.

 

Doug fir is good firewood.

 

#1 stove oil won't gell I put a bit of Power Service in mine. It runs down to 30- 35 below. If it's colder than that I put it in a box. So it draws a bit of warm air in to keep itself going.
Those bright lime green air hoses do pretty good in the cold.
Vinyl air hoses are Horrible things . One time I had a job I Had to get completed before hard winter set in. I taped a heat tape to it. It was a pain. But it got me thru the job and I got it done before the 40 below arrived.

 

All the Paslode fuel nailers I've used did not fair much better than the pneumatic nailers.

 

Going to be Osage & Shagbark the next 3-4 nights, with temps ranging from -4* to 8* with wind chills to -25*. It will be Cherry during the daytime this week.

This should keep the shack warm.

 

A dozer would work good for that, I wish we had rental companies around me that would rent out dozers and excavators, but any company that does, is only for companys, have to have a 1 million dollar umbrella insurance policy on it before it gets delivered and can only do that on business insurance.

Have you tried fabing up a bracket and putting a line of tractor sutecase weights on the snow blade to give it some extra weight to bite into the snow drifts instead of riding up on them?

 

Number 1 is good stuff, but I have to drive 50 miles for it. Did that one winter, just filled up the slip tank. I can run number 2 down to about thirty to thirty five below, if I use power service grey bottle. The red bottle 911 is hard on the fuel pump I've found. I keep a couple shower caps in my jockey box to put over the intake. Just slice a couple holes so the heater can still get some air. Seems to help.

I've seen those lime green lines, but never tried them. If I remember correctly they had plastic fittings on them that made me nervous. I'll buy a couple if they worked for you.

I gave up on the paslode dream after I couldn't shoot hickory trim on a kitchen.

 

I wouldn't trade it for nothing. I've burnt a lot of oak and hickory in the south, and still wouldn't trade some higher BTU wood up here where it doesn't exist.

 

Well let's see, I gave up on any air hose at about -20, but we're a lot warmer here. If you're looking at a D8 long track to move snow you've got some real snow. We went from 48 to 28 in about 5 hours, so the 3/4" of rain is now perfect for ice skating. Stiff NW wind, so the boiler & stove are both burning an Oak and Ash mix. 75 in here, so all good. I'm hoping the ground freezes up decent again for some log skidding.

 

I was helping a rancher friend push 60 acres of snow for a calving ground last Thursday. I was using a 8 foot tire cut in half with a frame welding on for the big skid steer. Now that sucker pushes some snow. He said he used them in the dairy for pushing muck. Gotta have some power and traction to use it very effectively. I was just cleaning up the windrows left behind from the four yard loaders. Pretty neat idea.

We've warmed up to 24 below now. Hope the mercury keeps climbing.

 

We got a lot of ice today. My driveway will be slick for a few days, until the score we are to get happens Thursday.

I might put a few ashes down on the driveway if it doesn't improve tomorrow am.

20° out and snowing. It's not to do too much really.

Ash and elm in the quadrafire. 74° inside

 

61/73. Yep, it’s above 60 right now! I lit up about 45 minutes ago with some red oak splitter scraps and a few pieces of mulberry. Just got done packing in big ‘ol splits of chestnut oak for the overnight burn. Will be letting it go out in the AM again.

 

Yep. It’s some of the best wood we have in this area. I split it into big, oversize splits. They burn for a long time. I think scrap lumber is basically kindling - it burns off quickly. But Doug fir firewood is actually dense and heavy. And it puts out a lot of heat.