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Dennis Cahoon
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Let us know Ben if you need any help putting it back together. Gypo has a ton of mashed Husky parts......Hahahahahaha!
Dennis knows.
Where is the AS site historian? Could use his services tonight.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
40" long or 40" tip? lol
If it's a 40" tip and 10' long, thats 810 ft. on the Doyle and at 14#/ft. thats
about 13,500# appox. But who's got a Maple log with a 40" tip? Only one guy I know of.
Hahaha
John
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wow, that sucks man. we're a stihl/husky dealer(among other lines for non saw stuff) and we keep a majority of the models in stock for both and try to have a fairly decent parts selection for saws, trimmers and blowers. it's zero turns that are hard to decide what parts to keep or not keep around
TooTall999
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As some of you may know I had a bit of a mishap that resulted in a crunched 346. Todays I made a trip to the dealer to order a exhaust gasket, set of circlips, piston ring, base gasket and and a few other misc parts. I was pleasantly surprised when they had everything in stock save one part and as a bonus the price wasnt too bad either.
Try that with a Dolmar..:jester:opcorn:
Wouldn't need the parts if it'd been a Dolmar,log would've just stopped like it hit a wheel chock:jester: :jester:
John, I think you flunked math. More like 3,800lbs.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl
This one probably weighed a bit less as it was, like all my firewood logs a hardwood cull log and a portion of it that was punky/hollow. I
I guesstimate it was 34 or so on the small end and 40'' or better on the root flair end. Its not a saw log by any means and was cut to 8' pulp length. I buy these large culls off the the logger I deal with because the paper mill he sells to wont touch big nasty logs like this and I get a better price on them. I believe their cutoff is something like 32''. Not to mention there is more wood in a load of large logs vs. a load of small logs.
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl
This one probably weighed a bit less as it was, like all my firewood logs a hardwood cull log and a portion of it that was punky/hollow. I
I guesstimate it was 34 or so on the small end and 40'' or better on the root flair end. Its not a saw log by any means and was cut to 8' pulp length. I buy these large culls off the the logger I deal with because the paper mill he sells to wont touch big nasty logs like this and I get a better price on them. I believe their cutoff is something like 32''. Not to mention there is more wood in a load of large logs vs. a load of small logs.
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Ben, you may have egg on your face, but at least you are here to wipe it off. And hopefully keeps us thinking about safety. Glad you were not hurt. At least you are not eating wood.
Well, in this case I the problem started when the logs where delivered when I wasnt home. I bought a 20 cord load. Typically I buy large culls, but the logger didnt have enough to make a full load. As a result I got 10 cords of 8-15'' oak, and 10 cords of culls. The problem was the trucker unloaded the small logs first and then stacked all the large stuff on top of the small. The pile ended up being very high and top heavy as a result. When this saw got crunched the big one that rolled on it was the last of the large logs left and the pile was maybe six feet high. It appeared to be pretty stable as just 10 minutes before I was bucking some logs in front of it. I set the saw down and started to roll some rounds over to my splitter when he thing collapsed. Lucky I wasnt standing in front.
Prior to this I would stand off to the side and hit the pile with my maul when it looked unstable to knock it down, but this time it looked fine.... If all the weight of that large logs was not on the top of that pile it would not have collapsed IMO.
I have a load of logs coming next week and I will be there to see that they are stacked properly.
Prior to this I would stand off to the side and hit the pile with my maul when it looked unstable to knock it down, but this time it looked fine.... If all the weight of that large logs was not on the top of that pile it would not have collapsed IMO.
I have a load of logs coming next week and I will be there to see that they are stacked properly.
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
A few years back a lady with a mini van full of kids was killed when a log truck lost its load just outside Republic, MI. I think the kids lived, but the mother was killed. Not too long after that accident enclosed pulp trucks started to show up. Instead of having open sides with stakes at both ends the stakes where on the side and enclosed by steel bars. These are still sort of rare, but seem to be getting more popular.
SWE#Kipp
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I work in the woods most every day. Maple is a lot heavier than ash!!! My point is calculate the same size log only in ash. That calculater is not corect.
Rick
Rick, the calculator is nothing more than a estimate and it. We both know a ash log weighs much less than a Maple log.. At any rate a 8' maple log of the size I described doesnt weigh over 13000 lbs. Let alone one thats punky and has decay.
Just did a little diging. Seems white ash has a desnity thats close to maple.
Isnt the Ash we have in MI green Ash?
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Ben, I have come to the conclusion you just like to argue with everyone and anywhere you are on the web. If someone says orange you say red 
if someone says heavier you say lighter if someone says faster you say slower . Guess thats why we have that neat ignore feature her and
thats why everyone gets a kick of setting you off for fun, but then again 10% of the 25-35 age group is easy to set off. :hmm3grin2orange:
if someone says heavier you say lighter if someone says faster you say slower . Guess thats why we have that neat ignore feature her andthats why everyone gets a kick of setting you off for fun, but then again 10% of the 25-35 age group is easy to set off. :hmm3grin2orange:
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
Ben, it's part of my job to know weight and scale of roundwood.
In the following picture what we have is a 17 foot x 22" tip Rock Maple (Sugar Maple). The scale is exactly 324 board feet on the Doyle since I will get two 8' 6" logs., the total scale would be approx. 350 or so since I would probably pick up an addition inch in dia.on the butt log making it 23"
Now since one board foot of Rock Maple in log form weighs 14 pounds, what we have here is two 8' 6" logs weighing a total of 4,900 pounds.
Now if we take your 40" log, lol, and scale and weigh that, assuming it was 17 ft. with a 40" tip, it would scale 1296 board ft. and weight 18,144 pounds.
Now picture this in your mind, a 40" log comes up the just above my waist, yes I'm a sawed off runt, but comparatively it would be right even with Cahoons shoulder. Hahahaha.
The log was all the little tractor could handle on the loader and it bossed the tractor around a bit while I was skidding it. But it was fun.
Regardless, it was big of you to tell us you literaly broke in your 346, as most wouldn't for fear of ridicule, But I say you haven't worked in the woods unless you fubarred a saw or two.
The only thing I wrecked today was the fender light on the tractor, I was winching a large stem down a steep slope and as it gathered up speed in the snow, (tobaggan effect), it throttled a standing dead pecker pole, jack knifed and while I was running away it cold caulked the fender and broke off the light, however, when they made that one, they made lots of em'.
Ben, if you just had of told that log trucker how to unload those logs, this mishap would never have happened!
John
In the following picture what we have is a 17 foot x 22" tip Rock Maple (Sugar Maple). The scale is exactly 324 board feet on the Doyle since I will get two 8' 6" logs., the total scale would be approx. 350 or so since I would probably pick up an addition inch in dia.on the butt log making it 23"
Now since one board foot of Rock Maple in log form weighs 14 pounds, what we have here is two 8' 6" logs weighing a total of 4,900 pounds.
Now if we take your 40" log, lol, and scale and weigh that, assuming it was 17 ft. with a 40" tip, it would scale 1296 board ft. and weight 18,144 pounds.
Now picture this in your mind, a 40" log comes up the just above my waist, yes I'm a sawed off runt, but comparatively it would be right even with Cahoons shoulder. Hahahaha.
The log was all the little tractor could handle on the loader and it bossed the tractor around a bit while I was skidding it. But it was fun.
Regardless, it was big of you to tell us you literaly broke in your 346, as most wouldn't for fear of ridicule, But I say you haven't worked in the woods unless you fubarred a saw or two.
The only thing I wrecked today was the fender light on the tractor, I was winching a large stem down a steep slope and as it gathered up speed in the snow, (tobaggan effect), it throttled a standing dead pecker pole, jack knifed and while I was running away it cold caulked the fender and broke off the light, however, when they made that one, they made lots of em'.
Ben, if you just had of told that log trucker how to unload those logs, this mishap would never have happened!
John
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