Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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they pop up everytime I get on you tube and I usually watch a few before continuing on what I was going there for lol.
Why can't I find any trees like this to scrounge???
It's a toss up for that size wood. If I wouldn't have been for noodling I wood have used the 261. I had to pick up the 462 when I ran out of gas on the 400. A bit snappier and a tad bit quicker in the cut.Maybe you should stick with the 16" on that one.
How you liking that saw, better than the 462 for smaller wood?
OH_Varmntr
Burner of stored sunlight
Thank you BF. Our place has 24 acres of hardwoods, mostly low and wet ground with about 2 acres in the corner that appears to stays wet most of the year. Hunting pressure is pretty much what we make of it. I hunt the wind and mind my entry and exit routes and stay out when the wind isn't favorable. Wife and kids will spend quite a bit of time foraging throughout the year and with the addition of a bandsaw mill this year I'll have more presence back there as well. Mature bucks probably won't stay around with heavy pressure but the back half is super thick with undergrowth and holds a large number of does while it's still lush. I'm mindful of what we shoot but have to be realistic that our 34 acre property is merely a drop in the bucket with no legitimate ability to actually manage anything. We can hunt over corn here but we don't.
Yours look good for not having a ton of direct sunlight, but I bet a lot of that has to do with seed. There are tons of different options for seed and I've always read good things about Whitetail Institute products as well as Frigid Forage.
You're gonna need to get a husky
.Notice, those money trees don't even need a chain to cut lol.
That makes sense to me.
If you put an old style cover on that 261 will noodle better
if needed, but I think you have it covered
(maybe that will help someone though).I have yet to run one, I'm also ready to try the 585/592 huskys as well. I have a buddy who's only about 25min from here who has one I could run if I made it happen, just haven't. He wants to by my ported 440(not that he's short on ported saws, but wants it for work lot clearing), maybe I should hit him up and see if he wants to hang out this weekend.
34 acres is a big chunk of land. We have 40. Alot is not huntable as its bottomland that usually floods when bow season starts. If you could clear a chunk in dense brush that would be great. It's all oak and maple where I'm at with alil mix of everything else. As you can see I lose atleast 10+ acres with flooding. That frost seeding is the way to go sometimes. There's alot of info on the web about that. Once you get the plot established I just frost seed lading or white clover each spring to maintain the plot along with lime and 6-24-24 but the first couple years the soil test is critical because you may need 0-0-60 and 40-0-0 and then something else too and lime. Where the flood pics are at im standing on our bridge in the middle of property its flooded behind me too. All our plots have been sense woods, clear cutted, round up applied then disced with a small brinley disc behind my three wheeler, seed is applied then rolled with a lawn roller.
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OH_Varmntr
Burner of stored sunlight
Very nice well thought out plots.
i'm gonna skip 7 pages. its gone from slow to....!
Your gonna miss the wood pics just for you.
Wood pics....Your gonna miss the wood pics just for you.
I'm not sure how plug removal on macs go but this is how the plug comes out. No doubt when I take my remingtons out to play my gas mileage drops about 5mpg
great looking saw Bob. Probly all the macs you got just rolled their eyes as that went by into the shop
. J6C or 843-1 champion. They sure don't make saws with those beautiful lines anymore.
great looking saw Bob. Probly all the macs you got just rolled their eyes as that went by into the shop. J6C or 843-1 champion. They sure don't make saws with those beautiful lines anymore.Attachments
I like the Remington gear drive that's one beast of a saw. The have a nice retro look to them.
Hey guys. -26 on the house today and others around had as low as -35. I saw -28 in the car.
Quiet weekend. Was planning on having a few cousins up but one of them had covid exposure yesterday so we chose to postpone....probably better anyhow because I wanted to take her husband ice fishing which frankly isn't all that enjoyable in deep subzero. I have a lot of indoor projects to catch up on anyhow.
Quiet weekend. Was planning on having a few cousins up but one of them had covid exposure yesterday so we chose to postpone....probably better anyhow because I wanted to take her husband ice fishing which frankly isn't all that enjoyable in deep subzero. I have a lot of indoor projects to catch up on anyhow.
Yeah its getting rough seems like it's everywhere. I try to just keep to myself in my bay at work and have as little contact as possible. My wife has lupus and I do my best to try and keep her safe. -35 is no joke better check your glycol level in your equipment that's pretty cold for most antifreeze. Hope your having a good evening Steve
Ah, I see I now have the vaunted Supporting Member badge....even better than linkbucks!
Wood pics....
We should have a special thread just for firewood pics, so you don’t have to sift through all these other topics...
Lol... Not really.
I think they would all turn into a friend banter thread. Just seems how it goes we've all had our pages we frequent that seems everyone of them turns into that friends helping friends, sharing life.We should have a special thread just for firewood pics, so you don’t have to sift through all these other topics...
Lol... Not really.
Well said VT, Once my wife gets her health stabilized I will be back to work and I won't be on here as much if that helps anybody out. Been a place to relieve stress and talk about the things I enjoy with other like minded people. It's been touch and go with constant care since September including multiple ems trips and maybe 50+ trips to the ER. I wouldn't know what I would do without a lot of you gentlemen to conversate with about all the things we conversate about.
