bitzer
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Does that work pretty well?
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Falling pics 11/25/09
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bitzer
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That a maple? Lightning strike as you were tipn er?
Alder, just couldn't cut fast enough to get through it. She was snapping and popping from about bar deep.
Didn't coos or gol it cause it was mostly straight up and down... and I really needed to control it, being that it could have gone towards that really nice house...
there was also a little doug fir that was hung up in the top, but cut free to make things a little more interesting.
hindsight being what it is, I should have taken more out of the face, and maybe gutted the middle, but the way she blew up? don't know if anything would have worked. The top stems detonated on impact as well.
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Even going deeper and gutting I still think it would of chaired up from the looks of it, you could of bored in straight up and down in a few places before your hinge as releases.
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Yes it does, I need to build a smaller one for chainsaw bars as that one is for the 3/4 harvester bars. Or build a jig with a few pieces that could be used as pushers or as clamps to straighten bars.
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bitzer
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At the first signs its going quicker than you planned, pull out and cut just the back quarter (leaving the pull side intact). Then it should pull where you need it and probably not chair. I'm guessing you tried to chase it? Usually works for me. That added pressure from another tree leaned into it must have been enough. I've definitely busted the **** out of my share.
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Normally an alder you have to try to out cut they flat out just like to chair out, mother nature's way at getting back at us.
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bitzer
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I've heard that from you guys out there. We have our share that like to split too. I'd like to cut one of yers for comparison.
Well I am sitting here in the dark throttling my 12 volt truck trying to get enough juice to jump my 24 volt truck. Glow plugs keep sucking out all the stored juice.
Will pass the time with this post to bitzer and the rest of my on-line friends: Don't hesitate to give me a hard time - it might save my life one day. I was just musing yesterday that firewood cutting has sent me to the hospital three times in 35 years. Once was life threatening. But none were caused by doing something beyond my minimal skill level or by taking some exordinary risk beyond the time I was showing off with an old gear drive bow saw. My point is this made me think of all the dumb, foolish and unnecessary risks I have taken or created and survived unscathed, and the fact I need to take more care and pay greater attention.
Well, let's see if the old truck will crank now.
Ron
Will pass the time with this post to bitzer and the rest of my on-line friends: Don't hesitate to give me a hard time - it might save my life one day. I was just musing yesterday that firewood cutting has sent me to the hospital three times in 35 years. Once was life threatening. But none were caused by doing something beyond my minimal skill level or by taking some exordinary risk beyond the time I was showing off with an old gear drive bow saw. My point is this made me think of all the dumb, foolish and unnecessary risks I have taken or created and survived unscathed, and the fact I need to take more care and pay greater attention.
Well, let's see if the old truck will crank now.
Ron
Didn't crank. Ron
Hey Ron... You may have noticed that more then a few hacks have been ran off of this page over the years...
Don't worry too much about us being nice, its a matter of how its taken more then anything, I'm sure that I've been called out at least half a dozen times, and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last.
Doing sketchy stuff and passing it off as legit versus doing sketchy stuff as an only way out and saying so are two different things.
Don't worry too much about us being nice, its a matter of how its taken more then anything, I'm sure that I've been called out at least half a dozen times, and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last.
Doing sketchy stuff and passing it off as legit versus doing sketchy stuff as an only way out and saying so are two different things.
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Ron I hate to ask this but do you have the cables hooked up correctly for a 12 to 24 volt jump?
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I think so - cables are connected to one battery only. Same way I charge them with a 12 volt charger. Ron
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Yep you always go to the first battery the one with the main ground.
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Thanks, that is what I did but not because I knew it mattered which one. I thought you could do either just not both. Ron
You do better than you think you do. Most of all and most importantly, you're thinking and learning all the time. That's good.
I'd cut with you.
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Some of the stuff from before lunch.
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bitzer
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Some good sized sticks in there. Processing what you can by machine? Those clumps with more than one stem can get interesting.
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Too big for a machine it's all done by hand my 36 doesn't reach through the stuff.
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$311.67 and it cranks. Both batteries were shot.
After we cut a few limbs and a couple nice perches, peeled the taters and carrots, production wouldn't be high but the stew would be good.
Ron
After we cut a few limbs and a couple nice perches, peeled the taters and carrots, production wouldn't be high but the stew would be good.
Ron
