New Indiana GTG thread

[ericjeeper]

I would like to thank everyone that came

We had a wonderful time. Cut some cookies..and took four loads of firewood to the widow lady.then came back and cut some firewood. Ran a few saws of others, to see how they felt..
ADS47, Hautions and his hard working son, Computeruser, Casey Forrest, Luke, and Al from Ohio.
Our good deed was very appreciated and heartfelt.

 

[grandpatractor]

Good Job!

We had a wonderful time. Cut some cookies..and took four loads of firewood to the widow lady.then came back and cut some firewood. Ran a few saws of others, to see how they felt..
ADS47, Hautions and his hard working son, Computeruser, Casey Forrest, Luke, and Al from Ohio.
Our good deed was very appreciated and heartfelt.

Thats really nice to hear. It's nice when guys can have some fun and help out the needy.

 

[deezulsmoke]

Man I would have loved to have showed up just to meet everyone and have some fun. Unfortunately I had to work all day today. I hope y'all took some pics and will be posting them on here soon. Cant wait to see them.

 

[Peacock]

Stupid job...:deadhorse:

 

[ads47]

Had a great time

Hey I had a great time today, and broke in my truck. Learned some, worked some, and helped someone who need it, all together a great day.


ads

 

[ericjeeper]

Here are a few pics. Others will have more

The man in the green jacket is my dad.. The two boys on the splitter are my son Jake and his buddy Josh. The split a lot of wood today.

 

[hautions11]

Indiana GTG Pics

The GTG in Indiana was a blast! A little muddy,but that added to the fun at times. Lots of firewood and a very appreciative recipient! Here is our host running the splitter with the fireman handing out technical advice.

Lots of great firewood to cut. A Dolmar and Stihl at work.

A nice view of the trucks and trailer load of firewood hitting the road.

Casey getting a little help out of the field from Eric's dad.

Computeruser pulling on the monstrous 075

 

[hautions11]

More Pics

Cookie cutting was done on a vicious 20+" hickory. Man was it tough. Computeruser going at it with a few chips flying.

Eric had the dubious honor of bragging on his old craftsman saw and then getting his A$$ kicked by Al's 46 year old saw that never even had a new plug put in it. Eric 51 seconds, I could have timed it with a sun dial!

We even got a little time to do some milling. Eric found a red oak that had fallen and split in half. After wrestling with a couple of the tractors we set up an 8' section. No guide rails, just ran the CSM down the split section. 27" wide. Casey adding HP.

Beautifull wood!. These boards went to our host. He will have to tell us what he is making with them.

A huge thank you to our host and fellow saw nut Eric. Here is a great picture of him nad his younger brother in the green coat. ( pretty agile for 74)

 

[ericjeeper]

Excellent. Pics.

Dad said Thanks to all for helping him clean up the red oak top..and getting it to the burn pile.

 

[computeruser]

For those who weren't able to make it, it was a great event. Well worth the 650 mile round-trip it took to get there and back!

Here are some pictures, in no particular order:

The Crew

A nice red oak board from a log that the loggers declined to buy

A trailer load of saws and firewood

Making the above board

Going for a ride on the 3-point log rack

CaseyForrest's Dave Neiger MS361 ran close behind the modded 372 that was in attendance. One damned strong little 12lb saw!!

Handled with a lite touch, Luke's saw was one VERY fast 372

Splitting, milling, and cutting firewood, it all went on at once

 

[computeruser]

A field of oak and ash rounds waiting to be split

A truckload of freshly split oak. Notice the very slick and muddy conditions.

Michelin LTX M/S + slick mud = tying on to the 4x4 tractor. It may look like there was grass in the field but that's just a trick of the camera. It was ALL slick mud.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Big thanks to Eric for hosting the GTG. It was nice to put some more names with faces, and Im still amazed at the level of hospitality shown from one member to the next.

Thanks to Tony at Amicks for sending out goodies AGAIN!!

EDIT: Eric, say thanks to your wife for putting up with all the noise today!!

 

[Luke]

Eric,

Thanks for putting this together. It was great to meet some of the ppl on this site, make some chips, and help someone that is going through a very difficult time.

Computeruser - I can now say I have run a 115cc saw!

Luke

 

[ericjeeper]

Luke- When are you buying the 7900

It sure does lug nice in the wood doesn't it?. Thanks for coming

 

[dustytools]

Thanks for posting all of the cool pictures guys. It looks like you all had a great time.

 

[Luke]

7900

Eric,

Yes those 7900's are nice to use and run very strong.

The way I see it, this GTG will probably cost me close to $2k. A 7900 and something in the 90+ cc range for quartering (spel?) big stuff. I don't need any more saws, but I am sure that given a little time, I will convince myself that these are absolute requirements.

Luke

 

[Freakingstang]

Looks like everyone had a good time. I didn't get back from New york until early this morning. Leave for PA on monday for a week or two... Wish I could have made it.

Thanks for the pics.

 

[computeruser]

The way I see it, this GTG will probably cost me close to $2k. A 7900 and something in the 90+ cc range for quartering (spel?) big stuff. I don't need any more saws, but I am sure that given a little time, I will convince myself that these are absolute requirements.

Yup, that's how it works! I think I made it out with only a couple items on my "what I 'need' to buy next" list this time.

Seriously, and the saw dealers out there should take note of this, there is no better way to sell a saw or saw-related product than to get a group of guys together to try the equipment out in real-world conditions. And there is absolutely no better way to up-sell someone to the next model in the product line than to put both models in their hands in the same wood under real world cutting conditions.

I understand that there could be liability concerns to organizing such an event, but those could surely be worked around. Just imagine the good PR and the number of sales that would come from a saw dealer organizing a charity firewood cutting event, bringing out some demo saws, having a saw raffle or something like that, and offering %-off or x-over-cost vouchers for everyone who came out? A couple stories in the nightly news and the local newspaper and the name of that shop would be known better than after $100k of regular advertising.

 

[Urbicide]

I tip my hat to ericjeeper for putting this GTG together. I know he spent a lot of time getting things ready and his helping out the woman who heated with wood is quite commendable. I think a few rep points would be in order here! I ended up working thus could not make it but I sure would like to attend a future event.

 

[bcmktg]

What a great time...

Many, many thanks to our Eric and his family for hosting the event and to Amicks Superstore for sponsoring the event. Eric and his family are wonderful people... except for someone has got to talk to Eric about his choice of long-range weather forecasters.

Seriously, it made us all feel genuinely good to help someone out who really needed and appreciated what we did, and at the same time, get to make lots of blue smoke and chips with a great bunch of guys.

btw, computeruser declined to try out my killer Craftsman 2.0/14". It was too much for him, but I understand — that a lot of machine we're talkin' about.

I say we have something here in Cincinnati over the next couple of months. How about it, Urbicide and some of you other guys around here?

Al