woodchip rookie
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I've done trees with vines. Buck up the tree and 16"-20" long sections of vines come right off
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Among the not having killer bugs , reptiles and drop bears I don't have any pi in my cutting zone [emoji3]
Yea, PI is all over the place down here, along with a million other vines, several of them invasive. But at my upstate property, no PI and no real vine problem.
They must like the warmer weather.
If you have to buck the log to get the vines off, then you are wearing the chips. Wearing PI chips is never a good idea.
They must like the warmer weather.
If you have to buck the log to get the vines off, then you are wearing the chips. Wearing PI chips is never a good idea.
nighthunter
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One of the smallest trees in have to cut today with my
ms 291
ms 291
Get some plastic wedges and a long handle ax to drive them home. Your chain will touch the wedge once and you will thank me! Also, when felling a good size tree, you will want move force on the wedge than that little hammer can provide (I have wedged over heavy Red Oak over 40" in diameter. Used 3 sets of wedges, each double stacked. It is what it takes. The tree was near a house and could not be tied, and half the neighborhood was watching me!
Especially if you are using wedges when dropping a leaner, to prevent the pinch, and when the cut is complete the wedge drops toward the B&C. INVALUABLE!
nighthunter
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Thanks for the info but I only used the wedge and hammer when it was on the ground to stop pinching the bar
nighthunter
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I would want nerves of steel to drop a oak Tree of that size in a neighbourhood with so many witnesses must have Been quit
nighthunter
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This is the second beech tree i had to cut today it snapped in half 3-4 years ago the part of the tree that is standing has a diameter of roughly 7' that's my ms 261 on it
There's some serious cutting to be done
Can't wait
There's some serious cutting to be done
Can't wait
nighthunter
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I'll do what I can on a friends woodmizer but some of it will be turned into firewood
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Will you get it on the bed or turn it once on there, without breaking the log down? It's hard to tell from the image but what sort of length to that fork please? If not much, I still think there'd be some interesting grain in there, especially at or below that fork, if slabs will hold up through drying. You guys would know more than I but I think even the slab guys are having good success with steaming beech. I thought it was only for thinner (1 and 2") lumber but works on the thicker slabs too. But this is in our South Island (not much beech up here in the North) and I haven't been able to see it with my own eyes.
I also used steel wedges at first...and paid the price for ruined chains until I smarted up and got some plastic ones.
Those plastic wedges sure have increased in price!
nighthunter
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About 6' to the fork my brother is a carpenter by trade but makes furniture in his spare time so he'll take what he wants
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Regarding steel wedges, heck, I still get more a kick out of pounding on steel than plastic. It means I'm in really big timber where there is no risk of damage to the chain. Don't like dragging many steel wedges through the bush though.
I haven't had to wedge a tree in a long time [emoji52]
woodchip rookie
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I can afford to be picky. I normally leave the ones alone that need wedges.
Rerun of some pics: That is one of my ported 460s with a 36" B&C.
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KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Hahaha. If you made room for a wedge, there'd be no holding wood left. Hmmm, how about cutting plastic wedge in half, making a 4" wide wedge 2", and using one of those carving bars on the ryobi to bore a pocket? This one time, at band camp I had a bunch of pecker poles to drop into a pile to be burned. Tall but skinny, with the canopy acting like a sail. Trying to swing'em was only marginally successful but about the same as trying to bore a wedge pocket and hope like heck the sides didn't break. I only lost one of 'em overboard, much to my and the landowners surprise.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Where's the fun in that? You haven't lived until one sits back, hovering over a house while the homeowners stand on their balcony watching the show from their vantage point in what is now the most likely impact zone, while you frantically grab and just as quickly get stuck, your back up saw and you use every single wedge you can find, pounding on them like your life depends on it, after you have already snapped , twice, the crap rope you thought you had thrown out but which happened to be the only rope that made it to the job site that day. Most people need a sit down after a small panic, but when it is a sustained panic of about 20 minutes, well, i for one needed about two weeks to get over that.
I'd need to take my socks off to count how many lessons that one tree taught me.
