Finally, a pickup truck hauling a full cord.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Well my mother bought a place with 10 acres about 2 miles from us, between clearing for fence, blow downs, and dead trees will be lots of wood to scrounge 
Really like my 550, one of those saws that puts a smile on your face every time you use it, especially after I figured out it runs WAY better on 87 at 50:1 than 92 at 40:1, was having some hot start issues so bought another one 
to use while I sent the first one in to get fixed (no good dealers here), but after switching to the other mix zero issues, so now I have twins
now I just have to figure out which one to keep..... maybe both...
Really like my 550, one of those saws that puts a smile on your face every time you use it, especially after I figured out it runs WAY better on 87 at 50:1 than 92 at 40:1, was having some hot start issues so bought another one to use while I sent the first one in to get fixed (no good dealers here), but after switching to the other mix zero issues, so now I have twins now I just have to figure out which one to keep..... maybe both...
Port one...or both!
Good idea!, they don't really fit in with the rest of the heard being stock...
, they don't really fit in with the rest of the heard being stock...
My latest project come to life!!!
I'm guessing you didn't try to hard to talk her out of it! It's nice to be close to the olds too.
I really need to scrounge. I haven't run a saw for about three weeks since I cut some wood for the Lady Farmer. She'll be off the farm very soon and then I'll lose my easy scrounge. The daylight hours are so short now that the weekends are the only option and this weekend I'm going to Melbourne as Cowlad is playing football on the MCG (crowd capacity > 100,000) at half-time in the main game. There are worse things to do on a weekend but not conducive to scrounge.
I have a big chunk of cedar in the heater at the moment. It was incidental scrounge when I went over to the next town and just happened to have the trailer with me
. Mostly I have been burning it in the fire pit but decided to chuck a bit in this arvo. It's burning and doesn't look like it will last long but that's ok. Free BTUs are free BTUs. Smaller piece of candlebark on the left. 
Full moon tonight by the look of it.
Good golly man! That thing will have you looking for more wood in a hurry!
Great looking saw Mike, now we are wondering when the 880 will be on order and heading to Tennessee? (Totally kidding of course)
(Totally kidding of course)
That saw did not visit TN, that is the Cross MMWS bolt on kit, all work was done by yours truly! The P&C comes that way! I built it with a gasket delete, which resulted in .020 squish.
May have already found it. My Aunt tells me one of her friends is having 5 large Oak trees topped, and wants me to come over and take the wood!
Sounds perfect to me!
Awesome!
I have a piston swap to do on my 345/346 hybrid. Never seem to find time though.
Worked up a little more aspen tonight. 3 1/2 trees left to do, all big ones.
Well the big cedar chunk didn't last that long last night, I sat and watched it burn down. However, it didn't produce much ash and the heater pumped out plenty of goodness while it was burning. What it did do since it didn't ash up the place and didn't produce any coals of significance of its own, was burn down the remaining blue gum charcoal that was already in there which was good. I have a few more big cedar chunks that were a pain to split so I'll use it again to burn down what's already in the firebox. Yay for softwood!
Since my better half doesn't quite get my wood burning keenness, and only just tolerates it as i head off to collect wood or go and split some, I took advantage of her being away for a few days to grab another load in. Mix of silver maple and leyland cypress so nothing spectacular, but TBH I wanted some softwood to mix in the pile as it lights easier and with a small stove it is lit everyday. Fortunately the 3 tanks of cutting I did the other day (also taking advantage of her absence) meant I had space for the new wood in the 'out of sight from the kitchen window, rear garden pile' so I don't think she has even realised . She has noticed the pile of wood chips I'd not managed to rake up so must know the saw has been used, but since my 21 month old enjoyed playing with them, and enjoyed playing at balancing on the 'stepping stones' I'd made by cutting half a dozen cookies I seem to have been forgiven, yay! 
. She has noticed the pile of wood chips I'd not managed to rake up so must know the saw has been used, but since my 21 month old enjoyed playing with them, and enjoyed playing at balancing on the 'stepping stones' I'd made by cutting half a dozen cookies I seem to have been forgiven, yay!
Was out by 7:15 splitting this morning and got a tree and a half split so far.
This tree was in a nice spot near my driveway where I could pull the splitter right up next to it and minimize the distance needed to carry the rounds.
This tree was in a nice spot near my driveway where I could pull the splitter right up next to it and minimize the distance needed to carry the rounds.
do i see racks? are you stacking where it fell too? Guess that it is lighter to move seasoned, so why not.
Those are just there temporarily but I'm stacking about 200 feet away.
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Dropped a few dead pines this past week and used little tractor to drag them out today.
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svk, I'm not picking on you but you posted a picture that I've been wanting to discuss for a while. In your post 22114 the last pic of the round on the splitter. I try to read the round before I split it and my opinion is that you are splitting that round the hard way. I know it will still split but I usually try to split from the top of the tree down. It seems to make a difference on my 4 way wedge and it doesn't try to lift the wedge wings as much either.
I split it like that so I can control the size of the big end of the split. When you start from the top down you have a nice split on one end and way too big on the bottom. This way the big end is the right size for what I am trying to accomplish.
If I was splitting tougher wood I would turn it around and do it the other way, I agree with you on that.
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