Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

I’ll be down a few days . Was working the pile yesterday stepped on a piece of bark with moss on it . Wet moss is like ice went down and hurt my left hand and elbow . Nothing broken but hurts like hell . Glad I was just moving rounds and not cutting .

Have been working on my truck almost ready to scrounge wood with it . View attachment 1027078View attachment 1027079
These caps are extreamly rare . I paid $675 for 4 NOS 3 years ago . I could just about double my investment if I sell them .
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And a shot a few days ago .
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Sorry about the injury.
The truck looks great, can't wait to see a video of you guys tossing wood into it .

 

[SS396driver]

Hope you are feeling better soon!

Thanks

 

[SS396driver]

Sorry about the injury.
The truck looks great, can't wait to see a video of you guys tossing wood into it .

I plan on using the dump trailer for wood. I don’t even load my dodge up anymore

 

[Be Stihl]

Scrounged some maple and oak on the side of the road. Also got to try out my new light bar, balanced out great. I believe this saw is my favorite. Big enough for bucking and noodling but not too big for lighter work.

 

[Greaser007]

@Sawyer Rob
So, a "self-unloading" trailer ? _ _ an old manure spreader ?
hahahaha

Anyways peeps,
I've got seven (7-ugh) chords of grey pine split and covered for winter. Wife and I have a drafty fireplace insert that we've been using now for 10-years. Geesh, the 10 sure flew by.
The wife runs hot, and I run cold, therefore i freeze my tush or wear long-johns. Can only chase the wife until out of breath, and she is agile as a deer.

The clutch in my older husky 394xp was so worn a spring fell out when I had the saw on side after a horiz cut to fall a dead redwood.
That spring lodged between clutch and cover and really raised a rukus with smoke billlowing. I smoked the cover through falling the dead nuisance tree.

I gave the above incident some thought, and headed to the saw shop to order some pieces and parts to nurse the saw further.
By chance, there happened to be a new Husky 395xp power head on the saw shelf, so without hesitation, I bought it w a 36" bar.

My son, age 33, got to cut the first chord worth of 28" pine rounds.
He sure tips them into the low stock trailer with ease.
I have not cut a chord of rounds yet with my new 395, but from what I have used it so far, my conclusion is:
_ _ _ I should have purchased a new saw 20-years ago instead of always nurse-maiding 30-yr old saws like 2100cd's & 394xp.

All in fun.

So hey, y'all, I spruced up the front driveline on my Ford E250 Van.

 

[chipper1]

I plan on using the dump trailer for wood. I don’t even load my dodge up anymore

I get that, no reason to trash the nice stuff if you don't need to. That's why I only use the stihls for flush cutting and pine, don't want to scratch up the nice saws .

 

[chipper1]

Scrounged some maple and oak on the side of the road. Also got to try out my new light bar, balanced out great. I believe this saw is my favorite. Big enough for bucking and noodling but not too big for lighter work. View attachment 1027088

Nice score.
What saw and what length bar(hard to see on my phone).
I run a 20" lightweight on my ported 261, it's a nice setup for bucking.

 

[bob kern]

nor me either! never seen a story about an attack with a happy ending! one way or another, the attacked looses....

Good to remember that pound for pound they are MUCH stronger than a man. A 200 lb bear would play with a 200 lb man like a toy.

 

[Squareground3691]

@Sawyer Rob
So, a "self-unloading" trailer ? _ _ an old manure spreader ?
hahahaha

Anyways peeps,
I've got seven (7-ugh) chords of grey pine split and covered for winter. Wife and I have a drafty fireplace insert that we've been using now for 10-years. Geesh, the 10 sure flew by.
The wife runs hot, and I run cold, therefore i freeze my tush or wear long-johns. Can only chase the wife until out of breath, and she is agile as a deer.

The clutch in my older husky 394xp was so worn a spring fell out when I had the saw on side after a horiz cut to fall a dead redwood.
That spring lodged between clutch and cover and really raised a rukus with smoke billlowing. I smoked the cover through falling the dead nuisance tree.

I gave the above incident some thought, and headed to the saw shop to order some pieces and parts to nurse the saw further.
By chance, there happened to be a new Husky 395xp power head on the saw shelf, so without hesitation, I bought it w a 36" bar.

My son, age 33, got to cut the first chord worth of 28" pine rounds.
He sure tips them into the low stock trailer with ease.
I have not cut a chord of rounds yet with my new 395, but from what I have used it so far, my conclusion is:
_ _ _ I should have purchased a new saw 20-years ago instead of always nurse-maiding 30-yr old saws like 2100cd's & 394xp.

All in fun.

So hey, y'all, I spruced up the front driveline on my Ford E250 Van.

Those old big bore Husky are true legends and great to run .

 

[bob kern]

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i knew if i looked hard and long enuff this thread true to its theme... would show me a wood pile of scrounge firewood

Here ya go

 

[chipper1]

@Sawyer Rob
So, a "self-unloading" trailer ? _ _ an old manure spreader ?
hahahaha

Anyways peeps,
I've got seven (7-ugh) chords of grey pine split and covered for winter. Wife and I have a drafty fireplace insert that we've been using now for 10-years. Geesh, the 10 sure flew by.
The wife runs hot, and I run cold, therefore i freeze my tush or wear long-johns. Can only chase the wife until out of breath, and she is agile as a deer.

The clutch in my older husky 394xp was so worn a spring fell out when I had the saw on side after a horiz cut to fall a dead redwood.
That spring lodged between clutch and cover and really raised a rukus with smoke billlowing. I smoked the cover through falling the dead nuisance tree.

I gave the above incident some thought, and headed to the saw shop to order some pieces and parts to nurse the saw further.
By chance, there happened to be a new Husky 395xp power head on the saw shelf, so without hesitation, I bought it w a 36" bar.

My son, age 33, got to cut the first chord worth of 28" pine rounds.
He sure tips them into the low stock trailer with ease.
I have not cut a chord of rounds yet with my new 395, but from what I have used it so far, my conclusion is:
_ _ _ I should have purchased a new saw 20-years ago instead of always nurse-maiding 30-yr old saws like 2100cd's & 394xp.

All in fun.

So hey, y'all, I spruced up the front driveline on my Ford E250 Van.

Congratulations on the new saw.
Cord=firewood. Chord=notes/harmony/music.
I like seeing a nice rust free chassis, sure wish we had more of that here in the Midwest, I have to work hard to find rust free rides. Now your gonna have some old timers coming to you to get their haircut with that driveshaft painted like that lol.

 

[chipper1]

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Here ya go

They're still working on that piece.

 

[JimR]

I feel like getting an air rifle to pop at a free squirrels. ... The ****ING bushy tailed rats have been Chewing holes in my high quality tarps and continually chewing the paracord I'm tieing it on to my stacks with! I've a4' wide stack along my garden fence, with a good slope to the top so once tarped the rain runs off well. Small clips hold the tarp and paracord ties it to the fence posts.... Except twice in as many weeks I've found the tarp on the ground and all my ties neatly severed.... Little ****ers.

I have one of these in .22. They are very accurate. https://gamousa.com/product-category/air-rifles/magnum-high-power-hunting-pellet-air-rifles/

 

[JimR]

I've cut up a bunch of ugly, unruly ones the last 4-5 years in our woodlot. They can be unpredictable to fell, rough on chains and a real bastard to split/stack if they're twisted. Despite that, I'd never want to see them eradicated from the property, just managed better.

They are fine and make great shade trees for open property. In a heavily wooded area they encroach and choke out all trees from sunlight and growing. If you are trying to grow Ash, Oak, Maple, and Cherry trees the Beech need to go.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Greaser007 said:
@Sawyer Rob
So, a "self-unloading" trailer ? _ _ an old manure spreader ?
hahahaha

Yup! and if I ever get over my lazy spell, I'll have my "supersized, self unloading" trailer ready!! lol

SR

 

[Be Stihl]

Well, in that case, so does bear protection lol.

Here are some photos from last time I did play with square filing. I learned in a hurry you can't have the rakers as low as you can with round filing

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Nice looking cutters. By the looks of those rakers they were ground. You can see the temper is pulled out of them, the rainbow colors. I can’t say much though I have done the same thing in a hurry.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

They are fine and make great shade trees for open property. In a heavily wooded area they encroach and choke out all trees from sunlight and growing. If you are trying to grow Ash, Oak, Maple, and Cherry trees the Beech need to go.

My woodlot has many large oak, maple and cherry along with other species, and it has big beech scattered all through it. Actually, big and small of all of them.

I rather like the beech...

SR

 

[JimR]

I'd like to see that. I try to hand file mine, but the file doesn't seem to cut. Maybe I'm using the wrong cut of the file?

You need a good quality file to file them down. It is time consuming. I use a Dynabrade 24 x 1/2" dynafile. The cost for these is super high now. I bought mine on Ebay years ago used cheap money. You can get a cheaper version of this from Harbor Freight. They also work great for removing any edge burrs on the sides of your cutting bars.

 

[olyman]

Yup! and if I ever get over my lazy spell, I'll have my "supersized, self unloading" trailer ready!! lol

SR

cant carry a lot with that FLAT tire!!!!!!

 

[turnkey4099]

That's how I feel about all the junk mulberry, red oak, white oak, maple, cherry, hackberry, I'll keep a few around; but man, that black locust .

Yes!! I'm currently working at split/stack of 2.5 cord I cut 4 years ago. One kinda forgets how heavy those rounds are!