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Didn’t take it that way at all.

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Yeah, me too. I'm also interested in how the burl burns

Oh! Did I misunderstand?? :lol:

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Been splitting firewood last two days haven’t looked as to how I’ll remove the burl. I’m taking it in one chunk though and probably use the bandsaw on it . Much less waste. Now do I cut vertically or horizontally that is the question.

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Wow that was all definitely a ton of work. Great job it turned out beautiful. I only replaced the dash top on this. The cowl was actually good. I did replace 2 sections of the cowl end on the passenger side, along with almost every piece of metal on the body. :waah:

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that's a ton of work repairing that cowl,great work.

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i picked up a pair of rear tires today for my Mustang,that i ordered last August?i went through this same thing a year ago when i got new front tires that were installed a last spring but i'd ordered the fall before?the world got Covid and everything fell apart?i was in such bad shape for rear tires last fall,i stopped driving my car and put it to bed for the winter,cancelled the insurance way early.to make matters worse,they got one tire in Sept or so,the second arrived now?i looked at the dates on the tires,one was built 17th week of 2023,second tire was built 47th of 2023,in Mexico?we have 2 or 3 Michelin plants here in Nova Scotia but evidently,we have to wait for tires from Michelin Mexico?i know different plants only make certain tires,just frustrating.what's more frustrating is the car has about 30,000 miles on it and this is the 3rd set of tires?love the car but it eats tires.it's going back to Ford when i dig it out of storage.something is wrong??

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^That "Z" rating on the tire is the problem. It's a soft compound for good traction, which goes away in a hurry, as you have discovered.

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Got the same problem with my Camaro, i cant stay off the gas pedal, just to much fun to drive

I get about 50,000 on my set of p zeros

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I hear ya I know these cars use hi-perf tires and they don't last but Pirelli changed the first set of P-Zero tires under warranty all cracked to pieces,second set didn't last,front set wore the inside off right to the steel cord,so I replaced them with Yokohama Sport Advan's and an alignment, they are wearing out again on the inside and the rears are shot.i checked with the service manager at the Ford dealer,he said they got a service bulletin about these cars and excessive wear.we'll see what happens?

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Yes sir,a ball to drive lots of power and a stick.hard to get the smile off my face.my car has about 30,000 miles on it, 2 sets of p-zero's and a set of Yokohama?now I'm trying Michelins?we'll see what happens.

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Pallet forks for the Kubota came today . Should make moving logs much easier.

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Yeah, I only got a little over 5k miles on the last set of tires on my truck. They aged out. Now that I'm not pulling the travel trailer, it gets even less use. I have a motorhome now. I'll probably sell it just before those tires age out. ;)

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I have two BX's Kabota's, one with bucket and back hoe-other with snowblower and sander on the back. When I'm gonna haul something heavy in the summer when the sander is off the second one, I either hook up the landscape rake or bush hog. I aint telling you how to do anything it just seems to work for me. On another note I just got an email from a nursery I buy fruit trees from in Mid-Coast Maine, they have some American Chestnut trees for Saale. I'm going to go down and get a couple. Maybe my grand kids can enjoy the shade some day! Keep posting this stuff please I really enjoy it.
Thanks,
Pete

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Mark, when you mount them, take another picture. I need to get a set to take my topper on and off my truck. I may need to extend the length too.

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I'm always planting trees on my property in southern MI so I looked up the American Chestnut to see if they grow in my zone as I haven't run accross them here. Had no idea there was a blight in the early 1900's that killed almost all of them off and it doesn't seem like they have it figured out yet. Crazy how this happens. Ash trees and the emerald ash borer for example.

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You're changing tires more often than I change my oil...






No, not really. But man, that wouldn't be an affordable situation for me.

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i hear ya brother,it's awful,nothing i've never gone through before.we had a 2013 Mustang GT ragtop before this one,5 liter and a stick.i bought it used in 2015 with about 15,000 miles on it but the factory Goodyear F-1 Supercar tires it came with were worn out.i put Yokohama Sport Advan's on it and loved them.2 years later we traded for this one,new and i don't recall the Yokohama's being worn out on the 2013 car when traded,this new one needs tires everytime you turn around?$800.00 a pair is getting old.

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it's such a shame. Chestnuts were the biggest trees in the east. The redwoods of the east, now gone. I don't see how the blight can live on w/o the trees, but I guess they are hosted by other trees?. I had the most mature Elm tree anyone who saw it had ever seen. I'm talking elderly people. But in '04 the leaves came out, then the tips started turning brown. Buy fall the leaves were gone and by spring the bark was falling off. I had just planted a seedling the year before the disease showed up. That grew for 15 years, then died. Dutch Elm Disease

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You will definitely need to extend the forks for that purpose. These will do for my purposes but I need to make a few modifications. The cross bar bolts are in the way so I’ll weld som new nuts on the sides or just buy some set screws

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The woods around my house were heavy in white and blue ash, probably about 25% of the trees. They all died in a 5 year span several years back. There are a few smaller ones living still but I noticed last summer they were starting to look stressed. Unfortunately their absence had allowed invasive honeysuckle and privet to move in which makes it hard for the nice trees, like oak, walnuts, etc., to grow and replace the ash.

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Works well for my purposes.

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Yes. I will probably build a set for the topper remover
Now I know how those mount. Thanks.

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Check this out. Really cool.

https://youtu.be/J2bDn-bzOxI?feature=shared

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That was cool! Thanks for sharing.

I had read about/seen pictures of some of these when visiting the redwoods. Been there a couple times and would go again tomorrow if I could.

My son checking a stump out last year.

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Give him a chain saw! :metal:

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Such a shame. Invasive diseases carried across the seas and invasive species thriving
Then there was always building log cabins with labor, not money. My house is chestnut log. It means a lot to me

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I would love to build a 16x20 log cabin on our farm out of poplar trees on the back of the place. I just dont have the equipment needed to make it happen. The trees are plentiful and some are 40" in diameter and go 50 feet without a limb. They could do some real damage falling among the oaks.

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Thanks, I hear ya on replacing most of the original sheet metal. I started with an AMD 1 piece trunk floor and moved to a left quarter skin and outer wheel house, right side, NOS, full quarter, NOS tail panel and AMD extension panel.
I have NOS front fenders too. Not much left of the original car and it spent it's life in CA.....unfortunately the SF coast.

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this story happened in the last couple of days but started back in the fall,i sold an old 1956 DeSoto Hemi engine i had cause i have 2 and didn't see building anything with one, so one was sold.i planned to buy myself a new TIG welder but decided before Christmas,to buy tickets to go to Toronto and see The Raptors play basketball ball and surprise my wife?a fella can't have too many brownie points you know?Christmas came,she unwrapped the tickets and wouldn't you know it,i was a pretty popular boy.i love when a plan comes together.the game was Friday night,March 22nd so we left home early,drove a couple hours to the Halifax Airport and off we went to Toronto,arriving a couple of hours later.i was born in Toronto but left about 60 years ago when i was just a kid,my Dad was in the bakery business and got transferred all over the place so it's always a shock to the system to arrive back in the big city,leaving this little place we live now with about 500 people.the hustle and bustle is fine for some folks i'm sure but my neck got sore trying to see the tops of the buildings?unreal.we stayed at a little Airbnb place close to the CN Tower,the ScotiaBank Arena where the Raptors play and we could walk everywhere as we didn't have wheels.all good.anyway the game was exciting but they lost,not playing so well right now,lots of strange sights to see in the stands and of course,thousands of people there and we have to have a couple obnoxious drunks behind us?then we found out,2 guys right beside us from Halifax,Nova Scotia and 3 women behind us from Cape Breton Island,Nova Scotia.amazing.i think my brownie point account is in good standing for a while.our first NBA game was exciting,lots to see in the city.we took the train from the Airport to Downtown and then back to the Airport and i got a big kick out of Union Station.it's over 100 years old,started before WW1.i wished i took more pictures and i'm sure i was there many times when i was a kid and when my Dad,a 17 year old kid left this little town about 1950 for Toronto for work,alone and with a Corn Flakes box full of sandwiches his Mom made for him and a few bucks in his pocket,he would've gone into Union Station.i loved it and could've wandered around there for days i'm sure.all in all,a good time but i must say,i enjoy the view from our front window here at home,more than i enjoyed the view from the window of out Airbnb.all good and i'm sure we'll go do it again and i'll get a Tig welder one of these days?

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a few more pictures

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and a few more

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the last few,including the view from where we stayed compared to home.

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Been to Toronto many times on business. Always found folks up there good to deal with.
I like that you clear US Customs at the Toronto airport.

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yes sir,a great time,people were fine to us.i have gone through U.S Customs at the Toronto Airport flying out to L.A and Florida and i think we can do it at the Halifax Airport locally if flying direct?all good.take care.

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Made crate to move wood from the pile to the stack can move twice as much than before

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Bought 40 sacks of black mulch at a local diy center. Rented their truck, since I didn't want to clean out my camper shell, duck under the liftgate to load and unload, and reload the stuff. $19 well spent. Threw the sacks around in the planter. I'll slit their bellies another day.

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I'm about a hour and a half east of Toronto , that place is not for me,
Did you happen to go over to the Ripley's Aquarium of Canada.
By the smile on the wife your brownie points are high

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I sold my project 69 C10 that had a 67 front clip.

https://i.ibb.co/nLqrgSD/IMG-8397.jpg

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oh ya,i'm not as stoopid as i look,my brownie point account is in good shape but i can wipe it out at a moments notice??we saw the Ripley's Aquarium but didn't go.we didn't have much time as goofy as that sounds.we had never done this before but i'm sure we'll do it again but left home Friday at 7:00 for the 2 hour drive to Halifax and the airport and to be there early like they want,then the 2 hour flight,figure out the train from the airport to Union Station,then find our Airbnb place.we really only had time to check in,go find a place to eat and then walk to the game for 6:00 pm,started at 7:00.our flight out was Saturday at 4:00 pm so i guess we could've gone Saturday but i don't like going anywhere like that when you have to watch the clock so i'm sure we'll do it again and maybe next time,add a day and do a few attractions?we talked about going to see the Raptors again but maybe driving to Boston,it's only 10 or 12 hours from here,we'd have wheels,you just never know what's around the corner? it's all good.we had a good time,she loved it.

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re-worked the canopy buddy gave me. he said first it was off a sb obs, but after mounting it, didn't come off no obs. he then told me it was on a sb dodge- makes more sense. the cab lines don't match and it hangs over the rear sides of the box a little bit. asked him if had ladders tied on top as it was severely gouged and scratched. he told me no, he dragged it down his driveway upside down.....
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has the texture like a blazer topper
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