# Life Goes on - Summer 2024
**URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765
**Category:** Off Topic
**Tags:** life
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765 "2024-03-29T16:40:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 38
### Author:  [@Norman89](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Norman89)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/741 "2024-09-14T22:23:07Z")
I haven’t no, most mine get smoked if it’s freshwater caught. Saltwater fish gets sliced and served on the boat as sashimi immediately and the left overs are fresh baked or smoked/ oven style cooked on the traeger. Got a batch of these coho on the little chief smoker right now sweet and spicy and saved back one fillet for the traeger with dinner tonight
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 2:16am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/742 "2024-09-16T02:16:54Z")
Practicing staining with motor oil and old diesel mix at 50/50 on Mom’s utility trailer. It needed it badly. Done two coats so far and the wood has sucked it up both times. Underside still looks good but topside has seen better days. Should get another decade out of it I think. I’m thinking I can go 75/25 oil/diesel in my climate, 50/50 is awful runny. I think it’s so thin because it’s mostly old 5w20 and 5w30 in the drum, and some ATF.
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### Author:  [@tcholton717](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/tcholton717)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/743 "2024-09-17T18:26:39Z")
One day a father gets out of work and on his way home he suddenly remembers that it’s his daughter’s birthday.
He pulls over to a Toy Shop and asks the sales person, ‘How much for one of those Barbie’s in the display window?’
The salesperson answers, 'Which one do you mean, sir?
‘We have - Work Out Barbie, Shopping Barbie, Beach Barbie, Disco Barbie, Ballerina Barbie, Astronaut Barbie and Skater Barbie, all of which cost $19.95 each.
And we also have Divorced Barbie, for $265.95’.
The amazed father asks:
‘It’s what?! Why is the Divorced Barbie $265.95 and the others only $19.95?’
The annoyed salesperson rolls her eyes, sighs and answers:
‘Sir… Divorced Barbie comes with: Ken’s Car, Ken’s House, Ken’s Boat, Ken’s Furniture, Ken’s Computer, one of Ken’s Friends, and a key chain with Ken’s balls on it’.🤣
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### Author:  [@kmrland](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/kmrland)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2024, 2:10am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/744 "2024-09-18T02:10:28Z")
I working on a millermatic wire feed motor circuit motor control, Well I found a 0–90 volt DC controller, and I tested the motor at 12 volts, seem to have good power just turning slow, What I need is some know how on how the motors are stopped when let go of mig gun trigger- the wire keeps moving from the momentom, HAS anyone here know how the motor stops in its tracks, via motor short ?? or mechanical clutch brake.
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### Author:  [@Woodrunner](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Woodrunner)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2024, 6:44am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/745 "2024-09-21T06:44:10Z")
Close to where i live, about 3 miles, the local skiing and mountainbiking club charcoaling a “mound” every year.
This year a big forest company held a meeting for forest owners at the place, and i and a friend was invited to make a classic chainsaw display this Wednesday.
A nice afternoon with sawing, talking chainsaws, and woodgas, eating kolbullar (charcoal-buns) and some wood fuel followed me home 😃
The charcoal mound is on it’s last hours, it has compacted really well.
The charcoaling smoke smells wonderful (wife doesn’t agree when i came home)
Our chainsaw display, and a nice alder tree to demonstrate on. We bring 49 oldies to show.
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### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2024, 11:27am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/746 "2024-09-22T11:27:45Z")
I was about to go haul another load of wood, but rain started to drizzle. Wife’s complaining it’s getting a little chilly indoors - so I decided to get the first burn since April going.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kIyF-NN68k)
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### Author:  [@Pelletpower](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Pelletpower)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/747 "2024-09-22T17:40:44Z")
Here it is non stop. Every three days I have to light the Atmos. To cheap to use my solar kWh Choose to send them into the grid for use in the wintertime. That means hauling wood and lighting the boiler, even during the hot summer days.
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### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/748 "2024-09-22T18:58:56Z")
Joep, we had negative prices quite often this summer. That’s when the electric water heater was running full blast 😁
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### Author:  [@Pelletpower](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Pelletpower)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/749 "2024-09-22T19:55:30Z")
Yes, here also, but still €0,17 tax to pay. We didnt see minus 17 to get to zero free energy.
You system is coming this way btw but not before 2027.
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/750 "2024-09-27T19:29:14Z")
Hurricane came and went.
Tree fell over, thank God it fell in the opposite direction but IT LANDED RIGHT ON MY BARELY USED CHIPPER.
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### Author:  [@Pelletpower](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Pelletpower)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/751 "2024-09-27T19:52:42Z")
Oef. That is a big one. Good that nobody is hurt. To bad for your chipper, but that is only material.
Lots of wood 😀
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/752 "2024-09-27T20:03:51Z")
I think if I come into any more wood I’ll start turning into wood.
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### Author:  [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/753 "2024-09-27T21:31:14Z")
It is a sign from god you need a much larger chipper… Just saying. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/754 "2024-09-27T22:06:10Z")
Maybe if a money tree lands on me I’ll be able to buy one 😂
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### Author:  [@madflower69](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/madflower69)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/755 "2024-09-27T23:35:41Z")
Understandable, my wood chipper right now is me trying to swing machetes around like nunchucks. And thankfully I don’t have a real machete. 😉
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### Author:  [@Jan](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Jan)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 5:37am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/756 "2024-09-28T05:37:34Z")
Yippie, now I can finally put on longjohns again.
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### Author:  [@JO\_Olsson](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/JO_Olsson)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 9:27am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/757 "2024-09-28T09:27:47Z")
Yup - and they can stay on until the Christmas bath 😄
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### Author:  [@tcholton717](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/tcholton717)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 11:28am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/758 "2024-09-28T11:28:10Z")
We would normally have had a killing frost by now but we are still in Summer. 70’sF in the daytime and 50’s at night. I’d actually prefer it cooler. Garden is done anyway and wood gathering is best done in the 50’sF.
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### Author:  [@Marty](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Marty)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/759 "2024-09-28T12:07:48Z")
> [@ForbiddenTuna](#):
>
> I think if I come into any more wood I’ll start turning into wood.
Still, that oak is mighty fine firewood. In my neck of the woods, most tree species are in the 450 to 640 kg/m3 range. The only tree that approaches oak’s 750 is the aromo at 720. Not common on my land and a real bear to split as it is stringy and gnarly. That trunk could make some fine lumber too.
I always hated taking down large trees. It was always easier for me if mother nature made the decision.
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### Author:  [@ForbiddenTuna](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/ForbiddenTuna)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/life-goes-on-summer-2024/7765/760 "2024-09-28T13:12:15Z")
Day 2 of no power, generator is now on and powering my fridges and freezer. Still don’t have an Interlock Kit.
We got all the Ryobi and Greenworks batteries charged before the storm and we have inverters that use those batteries to keep phone and entertainment laptop running.
It was about time I used up the gas in the Predator anyhow.
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