Ill drive it til the day it dies and then it goes to the scrap yard or it gets hauled away. It just went over 200k miles and I've owned it nearly 7.5 years. 7 years was my cutoff to replace it.
Old Tacoma has a sale pending. I stopped at my auto body guy a week or so ago to see about some bondo and paint on my bumper. To prepare it for a sale or trade? He called me yesterday begging me not to trade it. He wants it to buy it for his 24 year son. We’re up at our cabin so a deposit will have to wait til Monday. And he said I can keep for 4 weeks after he gives me the deposit. I knocked $200 off my asking price (what bondo and paint would have cost me) settled at $11800. Plus a full tank of gas I told him!
WOO WOO WOO My Toyota salesman called really late after 7pm to inform me that my new Tacoma has been built and has travelled from Mexico to San Diego to Bensenville Illinois (a huge regional Toyota lot). He thinks I *might* take delivery on or after April 6! well now it’s 110 miles away I guess I better look under the the couch cushions for some spare change
Back at it this morning. Spent a couple hours in the neighbors junkyard. Two twisted oaks were on the ground and there was metal everywhere. Did not hit any but I was lucky. Got 63 nice rounds out of the two trees and some limb wood. Left some good wood at the base I was getting frustrated dealing with metal (and porcelain)so I walked away: Ifn no rain tomorrow I will attack a huge black cherry and another oak. Saws ran good and are still cat claw sharp.
Didnt hit metal or ceramics from the looks of it. Guess you're not kidding when you said junk yard. Some nice rounds BTW! Id go through the trouble too.
Back to the junk yard today. The amount of trees on the ground are unbelievable. I have enough gas to cut tomorrow. Big old black cherry hit 3 cars when it came down. The rest were red oak. I ran out of bar length on this old girl. A lot of wood left maybe I can borrow a bigger saw. pulled two ticks of me one on throat one on wrist
Just curious. Did the price go up since you put the order in? Or is the dealership absorbing the difference?
Thank you. There’s been a delay. New Taco still sitting in a rail yard next to O’Hare Airport, Chicago. Salesman’s email said April 14th now. I really don’t care when it gets here. I got wood to cut, haul, split, and stack. And a turkey to harvest. Don’t need a truck for any of these activities. My old Taco goes to its next owner Tuesday. Not sure why but he is paying in cold hard cash. I’ve known the buyer for 30 years I told him a check is fine.
Today was a good day the sun was shining when I started. My goal was to run all 3 saws out of pre mix and I did. Oak came up to the plate first. Then a small black cherry Finished up on a hickory. Left about 6 cuts on the stump hickory punks fast. Am pleased to report I am DONE cutting in the metal nightmare junk yard. I am going to mix up another gal of pre mix and head to my woods. I have a few downers that need my attention.
Nice work, glad you're done with the nightmare. That last picture looks like white oak instead of hickory. Good wood either way. Notice how the wood starts turning pinkish after exposed to air... Bark looks similar to these logs
With all due respect, it’s hickory. White oak up here seems like vanilla when you cut it. Hickory smells like hickory.
30% chance of snow showers here Monday so I did some hand splitting today. Most of the rounds I have laying are almost too big to haul to my monster pile so I decided to split them in place. They will be easier to haul to my monster woods pile. Red oak splits so nice by hand. I was really getting low on water so I bailed. And that big black cherry? It laughed at me. I hit about ten pieces and it just wasn’t happening. I will hire the Amish boy with his dad’s hydro. Back at the shed I put a John Deere decal on my wood hauler tail gate. I’m such a geek. Just another day in the woods.
