Island Faller
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Here on Vancouver Island it's pretty simple, Vibergs, 105's water buffalo, I get them to do a urethane sole, superior boot that go forever
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Here on Vancouver Island it's pretty simple, Vibergs, 105's water buffalo, I get them to do a urethane sole, superior boot that go forever
KYLogger
Professional Tree Assassin
Anybody wanna make a donation to "Budget Zero Logging" (as I am considering renaming my outfit) The week of frozen solid ground has been great for the equipment but hell on maintaining a vertical stance on the side of a mountain! Equipment also badly needed; a newer skidder, skidder chains, additional chainsaws, labor, but anything would be awsome, half used cans of ether, saw chain with at least one more sharpening before tooth decapitation, almost worn out files (see previous statement)
See I have thought this out, gypo logging being almost a "not for profit" endeavor should qualify you all for a nice tax write off as well as peace of mind knowing you kept a few more woods bums going for another month or two
See I have thought this out, gypo logging being almost a "not for profit" endeavor should qualify you all for a nice tax write off as well as peace of mind knowing you kept a few more woods bums going for another month or two
Anybody wanna make a donation to "Budget Zero Logging" (as I am considering renaming my outfit) The week of frozen solid ground has been great for the equipment but hell on maintaining a vertical stance on the side of a mountain! Equipment also badly needed; a newer skidder, skidder chains, additional chainsaws, labor, but anything would be awsome, half used cans of ether, saw chain with at least one more sharpening before tooth decapitation, almost worn out files (see previous statement)
See I have thought this out, gypo logging being almost a "not for profit" endeavor should qualify you all for a nice tax write off as well as peace of mind knowing you kept a few more woods bums going for another month or two
thats a full boat sir... I just haven't had the guts to quit my day job yet... I'm saving all my used files some day I want to forge weld them together and make a big ugly knife out of em
mile9socounty
Two-Stroke Swope
I have a few dried out cans of chew I can donate. A ton of chains ran past the point where the teeth come off. Though I'd have to dig through my 55 gallon drum to find them. How about some 28" Stihl bars that you could probably run 3/4" chain through? Have about 30 of them. :spam:
KYLogger
Professional Tree Assassin
I've never forge welded for knife material but I have made several knives out of files, and I have found that the newer files are just case hardened and make for crap material as far as tempering and edge holding capability. I haven't used chainsaw files so I ain't quite sure about the quality of steel. I did see where a guy forge welded chainsaw chain together to make a knife, kinda like damascus. I might have seen it here come to think.
Ahh.......It's just life in the woods! And I love it, like the log buyer at one of the mills said "chicken today, feathers the next"
I did manage score a set of used chains for the skidder for $300!! And I have a PILE of used up chains and files I would donate to any interested metallurgists. LOL
Ahh.......It's just life in the woods! And I love it, like the log buyer at one of the mills said "chicken today, feathers the next"
I did manage score a set of used chains for the skidder for $300!! And I have a PILE of used up chains and files I would donate to any interested metallurgists. LOL
ft. churchill
Addicted to ArboristSite
I don't know about oberhauff's shoe grease, But sno seal works great and does not soften the leather. It stuffs the pores of the leather with a bees wax compound. Also had good luck with Hubbard's shoe grease. It's a old timer's favorite.
KYLogger
Professional Tree Assassin
On the chew what kind? (awww....what the hell who cares)
Regarding the chains do you still have the teeth so I can weld em back on and build em up and reshape em?
And the bars, I don't see why a couple of shims and a wire welder wouldn't fix em up good as new!
That all should be worth about $2.83 in tax deductions.
ROTFLMAO!!!
mile9socounty
Two-Stroke Swope
Mostly Griz Green, a few of Cope long cut and even less more that are mixed??? Found one old can in my '67 High Boy that's been there since '02.
No sir, don't have the teeth left. There spread out all over Southern Douglas County. I could check the bottom of my chaps to see if there are a few trapped in there.
All I could do is laugh about your bar comment. I actually know a few fella's that would try that. Haven't figured out what I'm going to do with them quite yet. Make up some jig to sharpen chains on probably. Or scrap them. Some of them I could have ground out to 063 gauge and run since that's what I run. Others look like the front sight post of an M16.
Anybody wanna make a donation to "Budget Zero Logging" (as I am considering renaming my outfit) The week of frozen solid ground has been great for the equipment but hell on maintaining a vertical stance on the side of a mountain! Equipment also badly needed; a newer skidder, skidder chains, additional chainsaws, labor, but anything would be awsome, half used cans of ether, saw chain with at least one more sharpening before tooth decapitation, almost worn out files (see previous statement)
See I have thought this out, gypo logging being almost a "not for profit" endeavor should qualify you all for a nice tax write off as well as peace of mind knowing you kept a few more woods bums going for another month or two
All I can offer is "original expression of emotions" which probably shouldn't be said and definitely not typed here. The planets must be misalligned and the tides at a 12.5 foot level and only in months ending in consenants, not vowels except for Y.
4x4American
Got Sawdust?
Ever had stokers? Love that stuff, made right in louisville KY. They gotta lotta different styles being shipped up here, my favorites been mint long cut. Been through a metric #### ton of them tubs. I switched from cope original, to cope wintergreen, to grizzly wintergreen, to stokers mint and I've been on stokers mint for a couple ten tubs now.. $12/tub which is 10-11 cans or so. got two tubs in ky at the national farm machinery show for $2 a piece, I was happier than a clam at high tide. Small gas stations try to sell em for like $35 a whack. I get mine from the indian reservation for $12. now im done pretending to be a stokers salesman
mile9socounty
Two-Stroke Swope
Ive never heard of that Jazz man. I could ask the local smoke shop about it. But I'd end up paying more for it than I do grizz. Right now I'm paying 4.25$ per can of grizz. If I wanted to go low, I could buy some Longhorn for 2.55$ a can. Its kind of hard to find logs around here that have more than 5 cans in them. A friend of mine worked for the company as a mech. Use to make runs to CA to pick up chew. Cheaper down there than up here. The border is 100 miles south of my exit.
4x4American
Got Sawdust?
Its wayyy better than longhorn, I like it way better than grizzly too. They come in a tub with a pocket carry can inside, It's similar to a can of coffee grinds. I usually just keep the tub in my pickemup truck and a can of it in my back pocket.
