land clearing with husqvarna 365sp & 440xtorq

[johncinco]

Somebody wanna tell this guy the site is fixed? Always liked his posts about firewoodin in the green isle. And it is St. Patricks day!

 

[NHlocal]

Somebody wanna tell this guy the site is fixed? Always liked his posts about firewoodin in the green isle. And it is St. Patricks day!

Thanks for bumping the thread. I was recently thinking the same thing, I enjoyed his posts too.
Hope he's doing alright.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
logger12345, stop by and give us an update.....

 

[wyk]

You are expecting a reply on paddy's day?!

I am already hungover and the night isn't even through yet!

Slainte'!

 

[logger 12345]

Hello all,

firstly,happy St-paddys day,me and my missus are having some drinks tonight,i am after 5 or more guinness now and at this stage i have lost count...LOL... i will recollect how many i have had tomorrow morning most likely when my head hurts

so,firstly,i got lazy about updating here because of my PC's slow pic uploading speed or lack of,maybe it was related to when the site was acting up or something...who knows.....

i have a LOT of updates,i have been seriously busy and took lots of pics,working with the county council,ESB and clearing up after our bad storm a few weeks ago,so at the moment i am still doing storm clean up work for people.

will loads pics soon.

Regards
Logger-

 

[NHlocal]

Hello all,

firstly,happy St-paddys day,me and my missus are having some drinks tonight,i am after 5 or more guinness now and at this stage i have lost count...LOL... i will recollect how many i have had tomorrow morning most likely when my head hurts

so,firstly,i got lazy about updating here because of my PC's slow pic uploading speed or lack of,maybe it was related to when the site was acting up or something...who knows.....

i have a LOT of updates,i have been seriously busy and took lots of pics,working with the county council,ESB and clearing up after our bad storm a few weeks ago,so at the moment i am still doing storm clean up work for people.

will loads pics soon.

Regards
Logger-

Looking forward to your updates.....

 

[7sleeper]

Me too!

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[logger 12345]

I am looking forward to updating this evening,i have loads of pics saved,it was funny because i was meaning to update here,i find the site is much improved now because the pics save as thumbnails which means the pages can upload at a nice fast speed afterwards.

i have cut some massive trees in the last few weeks,some pine and some ash which came down in the storm,i didn't keep any of the wood as the people i cut the trees for kept that,it was all paid work for me which was handy.

these trees were a huge challenge.

-Dan

 

[logger 12345]

That tree up there was for a farmer in county limerick he was very unlucky because the night of the bad storm a massive pine tree came down in the entrance to his house,ok firstly for anyone that does not know we had a very bad storm here a few weeks ago,maybe the first of it's type to hit the good old emerald isle,it was very bad,anyway as i was saying this paticular guy had a very bad night as his mother was alone in the house and he could not get in to his house at all,the tree had blocked his entrance at the road which meant he had to walk almost a half of a mile in to the house,in any case he needed to be able to get the tree out of the way and be able to drive in again and out....

that evening all the locals came down to move the tree they had a JCB digger and some cheap argos chainsaws it was funny when he was telling me the story because he was saying that the saws the local guys helped with were cheap of the cheap saws and they were just hopping off of the tree and really not able to cut it at all,also they had to cut it in the dark to try to move it out of the way :O

they got there in the end and was able to move it aside with the digger.
so then i came on the scene to cut it all up.....wow it was a huge tree.

but this was only the start of my HUGE tree adventures this year,i will update

 

[logger 12345]

i'm trying to route out my pics and they can be so hard to see from my PC
you will have to bear with me here until i get used to this again


This was a huge ASH that fell,it was completly rotton at the base but up a few feet it was nice and solid again,it made some excellent firewood,i got 10 massive tralier loads out of it and i got it free to take away..... so it was great,the guy just wanted to clean the mess up,it fell out across a railway walkway and made a big mess,knocked down fencing,i was very lucky to get this tree cause a lot of local guys asked before me....he was a nice guy.

 

[logger 12345]

Two saws performed flawlessly,my 445x torque stopped oiling though but it has a LOT of use under it's belt,it wasn't a big job just the worm gear to be replaced and a little pin inside that seemed to pop out of it's mounting place.
the 365 is awesome,this saw can't be killed

my edge got better though,i use oregon and tilitson files and find that they generally are only good for two edges,also i do the rakers every time to keep edge as good as possible.if i push the files for any more than this i just don't get the edge up where i want it and have to work too hard to edge it.

 

[logger 12345]

Right that's it for now i must go and get something done,i have today off but i must take my nissan to the garage i have some ABS problems,i will continue to update on this ash tree later this evening.

i'm glad now i got the e-mail to my hotmail account linking me back to this thread,i was wanting to update here again.

thanks
-Logger

 

[logger 12345]

Must update more pics of the work tonight,lot of work in this finding the pics etc.... at the moment i am topping some large Australian Pine trees,they are huge,i got paid and some nice free wood to take home.

speak soon
Logger

 

[anlrolfe]

I've got to ask, have you ever thought of turning some of those large pines into lumber with an "Alaskan saw mill" or would that be in conflict with the arrangement you have with the farmer. It just pains me to see some of those large cuts destined for the firebox.

Some have commented on small wood chunk. Do many people use this in cookstoves and top load heaters like the Jotul 507 and French Godin? Some of these stove can burn Peat, Coal or Wood.

I have recently scanned through all the old pictures. With all the dense growth and vines have you ever considered a pole-saw?

Great posts and great pics.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[wyk]

Most folks in Ireland would have a tiny fireplace(about 1/3 the average size I have seen stateside), a wood stove(which you wouldn't use to cook, but could maybe put a kettle on) or an AGA(pronounced 'Auger'). The AGA is what most Americans would think a wood stove is where they would cook with one vs heat with it. I see them in larger houses and older houses. AGA's usually use coal, but I have seen wood burning AGA's

 

[logger 12345]

Sorry lads for the lack of responce,to be honest i have such a demand for good hardwood that i couldn't be bothered turning the wood in to anything else and the demand for it to sell for lumbar purposed would not be that big given the varied and mixed amounts i have,given the fact that coilte have such a vast amount of forested land here and also most lumbar companies here import from sweeden and abroad,i don't think i would have many buyers regardless....
so as firewood is in demand here that's my best bet.


some updates,i'm very busy with storm clean up still...have a LOT of pics... lot of jobs done since,firewood sales is quite so this work right now is a blessing......

this is a job i just finished for an old woman, a huge pine tree (actually massive) it fell and split in two at the base,even though it was split in two it was still a lot of work to cut up at the base,it was 3 foot diamate roughly each split piece on the ground when it fell.....
was a lot of work on this,i also topped the rest of her trees for her.

the tree was a native australian pine ........makes some nice burning firewood too so they told me!

they ended up with a shed full of firewood and a backyard too of it.... :O

there was no clean up of the foalage or chipping to be done,a local farmer was arranged to take the waste away.


good old saws didn't miss a beat.

 

[logger 12345]

more pics of that beast of a pine...


will upload the rest my first chance,i have a lot of pics of all the firewood that was out of this large tree....

 

[7sleeper]

Great cap!!! I love it!

7

 

[logger 12345]

haha....yeah that's my missus nicola helping out

 

[wyk]

How did the storms treat you over in Limerick? It was complete mayhem in Tipperary. SO much so, I have bought a chainsaw mill. I had to do SOMETHING with all this wood I am left with. I cut more trees the last few months than the last year. I am gonna try and get into furniture.

 

[logger 12345]

i can imagine in tipp it would have been bad... it was like something we never have seen here,funny thing,in the land that i'm clearing there was a huge dangerous ash tree,i was going to have to get in a friend of mine to climb it to drop it as it had far too many limbs on the top and it would have been a risky cut,long story short,the storm done the work for me and leveled it

where i live is high up,we had massive damage,thank god none to my or my parents house or property,but my brother wasn't so lucky,it took the roof off his shed and done damage to his 4x4...... :O he is more open to the wind where he is located than us!!

there was over 30 miles of a radius of local forestry flattened here.....not to mention everywhere else,Busy time for chainsaws!

i might have months work cleaning up after this,it's bad for firewood sales but great for clean up work


that's a great idea there you got reindeer to make some use out of that wood,best of luck with it buddy!

-logger