Beautiful wood cutting day. Pictures.

[Backwoods Savage]

Not only a beautiful day for cutting wood but today my wife was a big help. I love cutting wood but it just makes it special when we can work together. This first picture I took on the way back to where we cut today. It is on our sand hill and this is the spot where we cut our Christmas tree. We also cut one for our unemployed neighbor and these were the only two in this bunch that were good enough for Christmas trees. We do not do any trimming or shaping and all of this bunch came up wild. We do have several thousand others that we've planted over the years.

We talked about cutting this pin oak today but decided to wait on this until the snow melts because where it will fall is on a slope and we don't like sledding or sliding while cutting wood. It will wait for Mother Nature to melt the snow, but the snow melts very slow here on this sand. Out in the open it will melt much faster because of grass growing there. On this sand hill it is just bare sand dune.

This is our bowl. It is just a small area in the sand where it is actually bowl shaped. The deer seem to love it as we often see where they just run around playing. Sometimes is also is a good place for hunting. One time a fox had a den on one side (south facing) and the next year a coyote used it. You can see on the far side where we were cutting this morning.

Here is the wood hauler.

Unfortunately the day ended rather abruptly for us this afternoon. We got the trailer about half loaded and then I noticed a flat tire. Went to the barn for a jack and pump but the tire broke the seal and we could not get a good seal. So we emptied the trailer and took it to the barn. I pulled the tire and we have to go to town tomorrow anyway so I'll make a quick stop at the tire store. Probably if I had a decent air compressor I could get it sealed but it won't take long in town.

Also, before we headed up with the trailer I cut more on an oak we had down....but made a wrong move and the back screamed at me. Not good. But I made it up and got the tire off. Took some nasty pain medicine. It is starting to work some but this is not fun. Also have heat pack in the back which helps.

 

[smokinj]

Rub some oil around the lip of the tire pretty heavy then blower up!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Ya Jay, I figured I might try that tomorrow. Would have today but the back was screaming at me so inside I came.

 

[smokinj]

Ya Jay, I figured I might try that tomorrow. Would have today but the back was screaming at me so inside I came.

Those new tires love to do that...Slime green works very well. Short money used oil.....lol

 

[Flatbedford]

You could also try the ratchet strap around the tread trick to seat the bead. Hope the back feels better soon.

 

[tfdchief]

Wow, beautiful! Dennis, sorry to hear about your bad luck. If you check my posts today, you will probably guess my back is a little sore as well. It sucks to get old, but I'm going to keep fighting it. ;-P

 

[JustWood]

Spray some starting fluid in the tire with your air hose handy.
Light it and grab your hose quick and air up.
Wear gloves or you might lose some hand hair.
Can do it right on the trailer if you jack it up.

Wish we had that little snow. Gettin cabin fever already.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well, there are some benefits to aging but they are few compared to the bad side! I keep saying the older the fiddle the sweeter the song or the older the grape the sweeter the wine or the older the buck the stiffer the horn. Not sure there is a lot of truth to that though. lol

It will all be better tomorrow.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Spray some starting fluid in the tire with your air hose handy.
Light it and grab your hose quick and air up.
Wear gloves or you might lose some hand hair.
Can do it right on the trailer if you jack it up.

Wish we had that little snow. Gettin cabin fever already.

Whoa Lee! That sounds exciting! Might lose some hair or a tire too?!

 

[smokinj]

Spray some starting fluid in the tire with your air hose handy.
Light it and grab your hose quick and air up.
Wear gloves or you might lose some hand hair.
Can do it right on the trailer if you jack it up.

Wish we had that little snow. Gettin cabin fever already.

I have seen this one done on tractor tires pretty cool stuff...Think it was Lefty who was the best at it.

 

[Mrs. Krabappel]

Looks beautiful Dennis. I wish we had that snow. Hope your back is better tomorrow! It helps to get something like this and use it with a damp washcloth for moist heat.
http://www.theherbalnook.com/herbal-packs.html

 

[JustWood]

Spray some starting fluid in the tire with your air hose handy.
Light it and grab your hose quick and air up.
Wear gloves or you might lose some hand hair.
Can do it right on the trailer if you jack it up.

Wish we had that little snow. Gettin cabin fever already.

Whoa Lee! That sounds exciting! Might lose some hair or a tire too?!

Hair yes.
Tire ,no.
I have to do this with my mower tire often.
It actualLEE takes alot more fluid than you may think to get it inflated.
Big truck tires take a good 20-30 second squirt.

 

[firefighterjake]

Fantastic photos Dennis.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Just might have to give that a try just to see how well it works. It is a new one for me.


Kathleen, thanks for the link but for some odd reason I've tried a few of these with poor results. I seem to get the best from the gel packs or the ThermaCare packs. The ThermaCare lasts a long time, which is supposed to be contrary to the 20 minute heat session most therapists recommend but having that all day heat when out in the cold is super nice! I use the big one for the back when deer hunting just to help keep warm. I've used a lot of the smaller ones on my neck this fall just trying to save my neck. Will be seeing the specialist again next week to see what he recommends but hope it is not surgery.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

Nice pictures Dennis. That is a shame a flat already on that new trailer. I try the racket strap the shoot it with air, take the stem out if necessary.

 

[quads]

Very nice pics Dennis! Good luck with the tire and I hope your back pain goes away.

 

[rdust]

Dennis, I'm off between Christmas and New Years if you want a hand let me know and I'll come out one day. I'll be visiting family the first part of the week but after that I'll have time.

 

[NH_Wood]

You could also try the ratchet strap around the tread trick to seat the bead. Hope the back feels better soon.

+1 - did this last month for a tire on a wheeled blower that came completely off rim - worked like a charm. Hope your back feels better ole' boy! Cheers!

 

[thewoodlands]

Sav, great looking land and pictures. On the MTD 20 Ton tires I had tubes installed when they lost there seal, hope the back is feeling better.


zap

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Try this on your tire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZzzEIb2Bc

 

[Intheswamp]

Using ether, starting fluid, or any other flammable substance to bead out a tire is dangerous. There have been injuries and deaths from doing this. I've done it before, but I haven't in a looonnngggg time and won't be doing it again...life's already too short. The ratchet strap mentioned would be a good option.

Using petroleum products to grease the bead for mounting or to attempt to seal a leak can cause the tire to fail later on. The petro product tends to break down the rubber compounds. I've seen the results of a spare tire that exploded in the truck of a car where the owner had a quart of oil leak in the trunk and pool up in the tire well.

Also, in regards to SLIME...tire people don't particularly like it because the "oiliness" of it often prevents patches and glues from sticking...very hard to clean off during prepping for tire repair and many times a good tire is junked. As a last resort "get me off the side of the road" it's ok or if you figure the tire is toast already it worth using, but on a tire you want to get repaired...nah.

Best wishes,
Ed

 

[Captain Hornet]

I use to get flats on all my small tractors and trailers almost every time I tried to use them. Finely gave up and started putting tubes in the smaller tires whenever one would show up flat. It took about a year but now I think they all have tubes and no more flats. The only real permanent fix is to put a tube in the tire. David

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Dennis, I'm off between Christmas and New Years if you want a hand let me know and I'll come out one day. I'll be visiting family the first part of the week but after that I'll have time.

Thanks rdust. I'll give a shout if we need a hand. You are one great guy!

 

[yooperdave]

hello there dennis!! so...you said the wife was helping you, huh? and then you got a flat tire after half a trailer load of wood, huh? HHMMMMM....you don't think??? no, probably not... but then....

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Dave, you should have seen my wife when she read your post! :lol:

She said if I didn't answer this post she would! She said she might be ornery but not destructive! On the other hand, yesterday when we went out to cut some wood, she took the broom back to sweep snow off the logs. She walked and I took the atv so I didn't see it at first. When we got the last load loaded I started loading up with the gear. I saw the broom so had to ask if that is how she got back there! :lol: That was one of those, "Gottcha!" moments.