Zero Gravity
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Northern Michigan Ironwood. I have blued a brand new Stihl chain in one tank of fuel. There is a reason most people will let you cut it for free!
ZG
ZG
Northern Michigan Ironwood. I have blued a brand new Stihl chain in one tank of fuel. There is a reason most people will let you cut it for free!
ZG
Shagbark Hickory around here
It's even worse after it has been skidded to the landing. The bark holds rocks and stones that are chain magnets, as if the wood wasn't tough enough. Kinda like biting into a black olive only to find the pit is still there.
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What is the hardest wood you cut?
Mine is scalybark/shellbark hickory. The wood is tough enough,
but the outer bark will booger up a chain almost as fast as
fence wire.
The wood is real good for barbeque pits and grill wood.
I haul some of the small limbs up & cut them up with a carbide
tip circular saw and mix them with charcoal on the grill.
Im sorry to say that I never got pics of the wooden piston... but it came out pretty good. I oiled the piston up well and it actually gave surprisingly good compression. The ryobi was a free string trimmer / wiper snipper and it ran for a while with the new piston. But in the end I got sick of pulling starting the ryobi – 15 pulls to get it started..... and thats just a ryobi thing. So i just used the stihl instead – always starts
I actually got the idea from an old man who told me how they used oak wooden pistons in 2-stroke motorbikes in the WWII in germany.
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