Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[woodchip rookie]

Actually, Hickory seems to slow my saws down more than Locust even though Locust is the hardest. Maybe that is why they use Hickory for Ax & Sledge Hammer handles

and drumsticks and baseball bats

 

[MechanicMatt]

Wow, you guys have been busy! 53 pages behind. I had to skip ahead, Uncle Mike i need to call you. We signed the contract to sell. Ive been looking at this twelve acre spread and have some questions. Talk to you tomorrow.

 

[Jeffkrib]

Chipper.... you could have saved your breath and just said .......‘I have CAD’.

. (It's funny because it's true).

I have received information that the shaggy eucalypt from Tuesday may be a variant of messmate - and there are quite a number of types.

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I stihl have a couple of people sleuthing for me on the topic but my reference book tells me that a solid metre of messmate is 750kg give or take - close to your locust. How it burns, I suppose I'll find out in due course.

I got the word from a guy locally who has some wood on his property that he wants gone, already cut up apparently. I'll go and get it this morning .

I believe messmate is a collection of several different species including stringy bark. It’s called messmate because when the early loggers were trying to identfy what species they were actually cutting it was a mess mate.

 

[turnkey4099]

The zero means nothing. Your second digit is odd meaning homeowner saw.

Thanks. Learned something new...and at my age, that hurts!

 

[farmer steve]

Best of Luck with the medical stuff, I'll bring some impressive small says also!

i'm bringing my 241 to try and run in the baby saw class and the J-Red 2240 TSC special.

Sorry to here about ur back Steve......take it easy n get well !!!!

Thanks Brian. to bad you can't make it next Sat. we could infect you with a bad case of CAD!!

 

[MustangMike]

The Stihl system is weird, but generally refers to cubic inch, instead of ccs, weird for a German company (044/440 = 4.3 ci).

Also, 029 is not a pro saw, but 026 is. Generally, the pro saws have white + black handles, the homeowner and farm saws did not, but now they are mixing everything up, so you just can't tell.

 

[Cowboy254]

if it's like locust you better tell cowgirl you'll be busy all day sawin and hawin. and to have a couple of cold ones ready when you get home.

Well, I would have preferred to be swingin' saws but I was swingin' a bat instead. Cricket season has started and I'm still playing. Motivation has dropped in the last couple of years but the club needs me so I carry on. Like most sports there just aren't the numbers coming through to replace those getting old and retiring, kids (and young parents) don't want to commit to sport on a regular basis with the time and travel involved. They're happy to play a bit here and there but on their terms. It is interfering with my scrounging though.

Mike I just found out i have 2 compressed fractures in my lower back so i don't know if i'll get to run any of your big saws next saturday. don't worry though i'll be there with PIE!!!!!

How on earth did you do that? FWIW, non-traumatic compression/crush fractures are generally stable and not serious but they do hurt. You can generally use pain as a guide to activity during recovery. If it feels ok, it is ok, if it hurts, it's not. Prolly be a few weeks. Of course, you should be guided by your local healthcare professional . You might also have to stick to using puny saws like huskys in the meantime until you can swing the big Stihls again .

I went over to check out this wood that one of our friendly business owners wanted gone yesterday morning. He had it moved to a spot where I could reverse right up to it.



Peppermint, some a bit ratty and of varying sizes, but scroungers can't be choosers. Looks like it has been sitting on the ground for a while. I'll cut the dirty ends off the bigger bits to even them up a bit and see how it looks once split. I suspect equal quantities of fireplace and firepit wood, about 3/4 of a metre all up. Can't complain though, I was only away from home for 20 minutes!

 

[dancan]

This fella is pretty smooth with a small saw



What nice spruce
Yesterday morning on the way to work I spotted a large pallet , I figured I pick it up on the way home if it was there .
I was late leaving the shop but it was still there with 3 regular one
As I was loading the last one and getting ready to load the oversize a pickup truck with a utility trailer pulls up , he rolls his window down and sez " I saw them earlier , I guess I shoulda came sooner ." Then "You gonna take that big one ?"
I told him yes , that I had seen it this morning and was amazed it was still there and that I wanted it for a firewood rack .
He then got out of his truck offered and gave me a hand to load and tie it down .
Goes to show that there are some fellow scroungers that do follow the unwritten code of conduct

 

[Cowboy254]

This fella is pretty smooth with a small saw



What nice spruce
Yesterday morning on the way to work I spotted a large pallet , I figured I pick it up on the way home if it was there .
I was late leaving the shop but it was still there with 3 regular one
As I was loading the last one and getting ready to load the oversize a pickup truck with a utility trailer pulls up , he rolls his window down and sez " I saw them earlier , I guess I shoulda came sooner ." Then "You gonna take that big one ?"
I told him yes , that I had seen it this morning and was amazed it was still there and that I wanted it for a firewood rack .
He then got out of his truck offered and gave me a hand to load and tie it down .
Goes to show that there are some fellow scroungers that do follow the unwritten code of conduct

Did you at least give him a stick of spruce to make it worth his while?

 

[dancan]

Speaking of scrounged pallets and spruce ...
I laid out my pallets to make a coral for spruce so I won't have to stack it
It's 10'x16' , if I mound it over 4' it'll hold at least 5 cord .

 

[woodchip rookie]

This fella is pretty smooth with a small saw



What nice spruce
Yesterday morning on the way to work I spotted a large pallet , I figured I pick it up on the way home if it was there .
I was late leaving the shop but it was still there with 3 regular one
As I was loading the last one and getting ready to load the oversize a pickup truck with a utility trailer pulls up , he rolls his window down and sez " I saw them earlier , I guess I shoulda came sooner ." Then "You gonna take that big one ?"
I told him yes , that I had seen it this morning and was amazed it was still there and that I wanted it for a firewood rack .
He then got out of his truck offered and gave me a hand to load and tie it down .
Goes to show that there are some fellow scroungers that do follow the unwritten code of conduct

we dont cut wood that small here.

 

[chipper1]

0 series are the older saws, MS plus a 3 digit are newer saws. Normally an even number in the third digit of an "oh" series or the second digit in a three digit series means pro saw. A 1 at the end of a MS series means newer series. IE 241,261, 461, 661 are newer models to supersede 240, 260, 460, 660. Now Stihl has some models coming out that end with a 2 meaning that's a new model IE 462 supersedes 461. Make sense?

For example a 026 and a 260 are very similar saws with the 260 being a newer build and easily noticed by the presence of flippy caps. But many parts are interchangeable. A 261 supersedes the 260 but is basically a whole new saw.

Then you have the 044. Early ones were 10mm pin (more desirable in stock form as they made more power) or the later 12mm 044. The MS440 was basically a 12mm 044 with flippy caps. However the 12mm saws can accommodate a 046/460 top end which will make it a more powerful saw than a 10mm 044. I'm just going off memory on all of this stuff here but MustangMike will certainly know it cold.


5 series Huskys are all pro saws. 4 series are homeowner/farm saws. 1, 2, and 3 series had both HO and pro saws

Great explanation, never heard it explained that way.
I mainly went by the white handles being pro saws, but there are rule breakers there also(at least in my mind).
If I would have known that before it sure would have saved me a lot of trouble buying them all so I could learn them and figure that out.
Did the 241 really supersede the 240, I know very little about the 240, was that a European model mainly. The 024 is a bit rarer also, but I see them, but not the 240's.
The husky 545 and 555 although they have the mag cases and are basically the little brothers to the 550 and the 560(pretty much a small mount 562) are considered "powerful robust saws" by husky lol, I would also call them farm ranch saws as they are not the pro designated saws and are missing the xp designation.

When the MS series came out I bought the MS310 which most definitely is a homeowner type. Thus I thought all "0" series were homeowner.

The 310 was a farm ranch saw(most definitely ), and my favorite farm ranch saws in that series of saw. With a mm and a retune they come alive, I had one that in stock form would out cut a 1st gen 362, I sold it as I thought something bad was going to happen to it and the guy ran it for years with never a problem.

The zero means nothing. Your second digit is odd meaning homeowner saw.

Farm ranch lol.
What I find odd is that stihl places the 150, 193, 201 rear handles all under the farm ranch designation, I never understood that(just figured they are kind of a specialty saw of sorts).

 

[chipper1]

The Stihl system is weird, but generally refers to cubic inch, instead of ccs, weird for a German company (044/440 = 4.3 ci).

Also, 029 is not a pro saw, but 026 is. Generally, the pro saws have white + black handles, the homeowner and farm saws did not, but now they are mixing everything up, so you just can't tell.

Cool, didn't know that first part.
Yes I agree on the second part, it's also a shame they are doing that with the handle colors. I find it very odd they are doing that when they have had a lot of consistency with the handle color, and to me it makes some of the real stihls look more like copies/copies look like stihls .
I won't be buying copies to figure out which ones are copies and which are not, hopefully .

 

[chipper1]

This fella is pretty smooth with a small saw



What nice spruce
Yesterday morning on the way to work I spotted a large pallet , I figured I pick it up on the way home if it was there .
I was late leaving the shop but it was still there with 3 regular one
As I was loading the last one and getting ready to load the oversize a pickup truck with a utility trailer pulls up , he rolls his window down and sez " I saw them earlier , I guess I shoulda came sooner ." Then "You gonna take that big one ?"
I told him yes , that I had seen it this morning and was amazed it was still there and that I wanted it for a firewood rack .
He then got out of his truck offered and gave me a hand to load and tie it down .
Goes to show that there are some fellow scroungers that do follow the unwritten code of conduct

Yes he is.
Sweet little ms200 rear handle as well, miss mine, but it's been replaced with a couple others. Now I'll probably be accused of having CAD lol.
That's really cool he not only didn't have a bad attitude, but helped and was seemingly happy that someone who was going to appreciate it got it .

 

[chipper1]

we dont cut wood that small here.

We do, we call them branches .
Even so, it's time on the saws and fun to be had doing it.

 

[chipper1]

Chipper.... you could have saved your breath and just said .......‘I have CAD’.

I do not .
Besides, I thought we were friends here .

 

[chipper1]

Hey Steve, I see you in there, I know what your getting.

 

[Greenmachine]

Scroungers, my moment finally arrived. I was given two piles like the one in the picture. Three long box fulls. Mostly hemlock and wet but also a big big pitchy seasoned Douglas fir. Easy wood baby.

 

[svk]

Hey Steve, I see you in there, I know what your getting.

Lmao I was wondering if you were subscribed to a certain YouTube channel

 

[chipper1]

Scroungers, my moment finally arrived. I was given two piles like the one in the picture. Three long box fulls. Mostly hemlock and wet but also a big big pitchy seasoned Douglas fir. Easy wood baby.
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Nice score.
I like that old chevy too .