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Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:56 pm

Happy wrote:QR_BBPOST @Killerbunny stop wearing those pumps out to the coop

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:27 pm

thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST hey Baron, I cut some wood today!
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Today? Dude I saw a wood pile in front of your place in the summer when I was there. You're just getting to it now? Lol so your bum get's cold then you cut wood? Lol
Nice saw! Looks like a 20" blade, that's a little serious for backyard use!

So I finally got started with some quail.

They were advertised as Texas A+M quail but they're too small. I'll hatch a bunch and feed em right and see how big they get.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:44 pm

I knew you would catch that! I love that saw! technically not mine, My FIL has everything, and sometimes when he has 2 of something and knows I could really use it he brings it to live with me. he wont give it to me and he wont sell it to me either, man am I ever lucky! the price of that saw puts it waaaay outta my budget I almost couldnt believe it when I saw the price. but it is of the highest quality. I used to use a 16" Stihl, it was sooo much lighter and easier on the arms but took twice as long to cut wood and dulled the chain down twice as fast.

tommorow I split n stack in the sunroom. theres tonnes of good dry ash in th bush, easy to get out as long as there isnt crops on the field. Im hoping to get a deer as soon as bow season opens back up...

and then im guna be logging like crazy, just to get them up to the house to get cut n split later....

Congrats on the new quail!!!

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:40 am

Flat Rock Farm wrote:QR_BBPOST
Happy wrote:QR_BBPOST @Killerbunny stop wearing those pumps out to the coop

Those are some snappy shoes, no wonder he has the hots for her!!!

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:43 am

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST
thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST hey Baron, I cut some wood today!
Screenshot_2016-11-10-14-00-12-127090221.png
Today? Dude I saw a wood pile in front of your place in the summer when I was there. You're just getting to it now? Lol so your bum get's cold then you cut wood? Lol
Nice saw! Looks like a 20" blade, that's a little serious for backyard use!

So I finally got started with some quail.
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They were advertised as Texas A+M quail but they're too small. I'll hatch a bunch and feed em right and see how big they get.

Good for you, hope some at least are girls, with my new batch one is crowing! Blah!!

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:53 am

Good Morning all! Long day today, longer day tomorrow...will be up early to get to remembrance day ceremony, haven't done chores yet tonight. Reason being I'm tired and doing chores wakes me right up, and by the time I actually get to sleep it will be time to get up again, so I might just as well put them off so I'll be wide awake when I need to be LOL. After that, wake me up when November is over.

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST SO I believe that OCs roosters are perverts. "CHunky" seems to have similar urges as "Lucky". In the am letting them out I get a lovely dance and he thinks I have very sexy shoes on LOL.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I blame OC, I think she must somehow be confusing them during their formative months!! Seriously though, I've had a couple roosters like that, and they were always the early "favourites" and spoiled rotten. I'd bet money OC hand-fed them little tidbits while they were wide-eyed little chicks and they imprinted on her :)
FRF, those are quite possibly the funniest shoes I've ever seen. OMG.

thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST I knew you would catch that! I love that saw! technically not mine, My FIL has everything, and sometimes when he has 2 of something and knows I could really use it he brings it to live with me. he wont give it to me and he wont sell it to me either, man am I ever lucky! the price of that saw puts it waaaay outta my budget I almost couldnt believe it when I saw the price. but it is of the highest quality. I used to use a 16" still, it was sooo much lighter and easier on the arms but took twice as long to cut wood and dulled the chain down twice as fast.

It's all in the cc's Al! More cc's = faster cutting. Also means more weight. We have had several saws of several makes and sizes (used to do firewood for a living), and keep going back to Stihl, and will keep our trusty 46 cc model (can't remember model number but it's discontinued anyway) running as long as humanly possible. We use a smaller saw for limbing when we have to have two saws running, but for felling trees and bucking, this saw is the best either of us have ever used. It weighs 14 lbs, which can get old pretty fast if you've got it up in the air for any length of time (me, anyway) like for a hung-up tree, but even little old me can fell and buck a cord of wood before my arms fall off, because it's just so powerful and fast. Love that saw. Also the chains you buy can make a surprising difference. Cheapie Oregon chains have to be sharpened a LOT more often (and thus replaced more often) than Stihl brand. WOW, maybe they should be paying me for all the advertising LOL

OK, enough procrastinating. Off to feed critters I go. If I leave it much longer, I'll get covered in pig drool and chicken stink-eye :) And don't forget to thank a soldier.

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:14 am

Morning!
Stihl are AWESOME! and worth every cent.
we ran stihl when i was a kid, and then again a couple years ago helping someone else cut. our next saw, i'm going back to stihl, although at the time we couldn't afford them and got some crappy chainsaw look alike that actually did serve us well for 7 years. i know how to sharpen chains by hand, so that was no problem, but we burn through chains like crazy....i love the weight of a stihl-pulls the saw through the wood for you.

Definitely thanking all the vets today. won't be going to a ceremony, but will observe. We have what we do because of their sacrifices. I hope that we never ever have to live through a world war....ever again.

work from home day today. very nice. raining off and on and super windy....sigh. but looks like a decent day all told.
my broody mom is still sitting-that's 14 days as of this coming monday...she's a trooper. and all the other girls are ticked because they can't get into the nesting box. so....i will move her shortly out of that pen and into a safe place, and then hopefully get around to making a few more nesting boxes for the 4 pens needing them. my pullets started laying last week! yay! so i'm getting a few TINY eggs right now. whoohoo!
hope everyone has a wonderful day.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:37 am

The Irish Rovers , First day on the Somme, worth a listen, especially today

Post by **Killerbunny** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:59 am

I remember being shocked when I saw the beaches in Normandy. The cliffs above and a vast stretch of beach to cross with fire raining down.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:19 am

Al, ..."dulled the chain" hmmm i think its a question of the wood (ironwood and dry elm is hard on a chain) and technique (i've gotten good at not touching the ground or a rock) and I think you have better control with a smaller saw. A perfectly sharp chain is like a hot knife through butter. Plus they put 16" blades on saws big and small: I have three Stihls with 16" chains and there's a big difference in engine sizes (there ain't no replacement for displacement)