MS270 update. Liquid sun, perfect! (Joy-joy, hmmmmm.)
Another bash at the piles of wood today, drizzly and warm, nice. Having already cut, split and delivered most of the first pile I begin the rest of the second one. 270 fires right up second pull, freshly sharpened, cleaned, fueled, all ready ta go, woot!
This load is piled two high now as I removed some of the smaller stuff the other day. Used the new Pee-Vee to roll each of two logs off da pile and bucked them up. First pic is of the first fairly largish log 270 will tackle. The bar is an 18", the log is a couple of inches larger.
It eats it up amazingly quickly (start on top, dog over to the far side and go to the ground, then pull back and rocking buck normally) though I can see my chips getting progressively smaller; this timber has been rolled on gravelly mud, the joy continues.
Amost done! Couple of things to mention. These are fairly large and heavy logs, I had to work between them after spreading them apart and thers a bit of a dip between them, very, very dangerous imo, but I had no choice so you will notice the branches and 2x4s wedged along its length as well as the blocks under the next larger log, work safe guys ya don't
ever want something that size pinchin' ya (yikes!).
The big fella on the left is the second length from the tree and the top is on top and next ta go. For those who have never cut fir don't think that because it is called a 'softwood' that its like balsam or something, that 16" diameter top had branches every 8-10 inches and man they are hard stuff to chew through, but in retrospect it may have sharpened my chain a bit (jk, jk)
Gone! Rolled the rounds out of he way, And time ta roll one of the big ones woo-hoo! *groan* Had ta rock it a bit but considering it probably weighed 1400-1600lbs+ and I'm only about 250lbs I thought I did perty good with the PV. Got her blocked steady in several places and it was time to give the wee Stihl a well deserved rest (but I just know it wanted more!) Out comes my borrowed 266. Sharpened to a T, oil, gas.....pull, pull, pull, rest, pull, pull pull. GAH! Finally get the beast started and its off to da races (after brushing most of the rocks and crap off with a bristle scub brush btw, ick!) I must say that saw rocks even at 5000 less rpm than the MS, I did not have the strength to bog it down (but didn't want to of course eh).
Almost the last cut and the 24" bar barely shows its tip when only 1/3 through.
Had to take a breather, Dog I'm feelin' old by now, finished the cuts and rolled the log again to do the tags, saw won't start (out of gas, DOH!), ta hell with re-fueling it for a couple more cuts, I fire up MS270 and finish up, put the tools away in car and gloat for a second. Near to 2 cords worth of rounds in two and a half hours, I'm happy and can live with that. And, I'M ALIVE!
Trust me that quartering these with the wedge and sledge will be fun, especially if the hired hand doesn't show up in the next day or so :taped: :rockn:
Dis is me story for da day, little saw is running better and better each time I use it, must be now approaching 40 tanks through it now and it work really hard today, very happy guy! Hope y'all enjoyed it, more to come I assure you.
Be safe, have fun despite it all!
Serge (time ta make dins for the dwarflette and me)
) file and disregarding the tooth angle marks. Took about half and hour to get the teeth righted again, about 5-7 strokes per. The 24" bar is in good order but I did grease the nose-srocket. Today I get ta drop & buck about 10 little trees, mostly leaning arbutus (not my favorite ones to tackle btw, but I love burning it and I get the wood for my stove 
) for a mate down the road, should be fun to get the old beast into that, will get some pics too I hope.
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