Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

I don't currently own the 441, but it still lives next door.

HL Supply just developed and Pop Up piston for the 390 (since you can not delete the base gasket on a clamshell) if you are looking for some addl performance.

 

[MustangMike]

Most of the Ash trees on my Catskill property are still alive (unlike all the dead ones down here), but every year the storms blow many of them down.

When dead, they go punky fast, (when in the shade), but most of these were blow downs that still had roots in the ground. We milled them, stacked, stickered and strapped them in an open area, and the majority of them stayed good. Ash is very strong for it's weight.

We used 8 - 12' posts, 2 - 17' posts, 4 - 20' beams and 3 - 27' beams for the post + beam construction (cabin is 20' X 24" with 1.5' over hangs). All post and beam were 6.5" x 6.5", except the ridge beam which was 9.75' X 3".

No electricity up there, we raised the sides with a hand cranked rope winch.

 

[MustangMike]

We used dimensional lumber for the roof + second story flooring. The floor is 8' high on a 12' high post.

The 17' posts (front & back) were set in place after the 4 - 20' cross beams were in place. Then we strapped extension ladders to the 17' posts (sticking about 6' above them) and used rope + pulley to haul the ridge beam up.

Siding is just stained 5/8" plywood, with cement board on around the bottom to keep the porcupines out. They will chew right through plywood.

 

[svk]

We used dimensional lumber for the roof + second story flooring. The floor is 8' high on a 12' high post.

The 17' posts (front & back) were set in place after the 4 - 20' cross beams were in place. Then we strapped extension ladders to the 17' posts (sticking about 6' above them) and used rope + pulley to haul the ridge beam up.

Siding is just stained 5/8" plywood, with cement board on around the bottom to keep the porcupines out. They will chew right through plywood.

I like the long/tall windows. Cabins often have little tiny windows that barely let light in.

It is cool that much of the materials were sourced on site. When I build a woodshed at my hunting cabin I think I am going to do timber frame with chainsaw milled beams.

 

[svk]

I don't currently own the 441, but it still lives next door.

HL Supply just developed and Pop Up piston for the 390 (since you can not delete the base gasket on a clamshell) if you are looking for some addl performance.

Cool to know.

My my how things have changed. Just a couple years ago, popup pistons were the devil

 

[chipper1]

Cool to know.

My my how things have changed. Just a couple years ago, popup pistons were the devil

Maybe I can add some more to my signature over there .

 

[chipper1]

We used dimensional lumber for the roof + second story flooring. The floor is 8' high on a 12' high post.

The 17' posts (front & back) were set in place after the 4 - 20' cross beams were in place. Then we strapped extension ladders to the 17' posts (sticking about 6' above them) and used rope + pulley to haul the ridge beam up.

Siding is just stained 5/8" plywood, with cement board on around the bottom to keep the porcupines out. They will chew right through plywood.

That's all super cool Mike .
That's what all of us probably want to do something much like with our own little flavors added to it .
You've seen my little village out back with the shed(looks like a shack), then the kids playhouse(future hunting shack or to be sold), then the woodshed which will have some siding installed soon. It's fun to build these type of things for sure. Maybe I need to get the CSM I've had in the basement out and make something happen, got a nice square chain I can borrow .
To stay somewhat on topic I got another scrounge today, but I'm not sure you guys would be interested in them, both are all orange.
Also missed this one today , hope my buddy @Armbru84 got it.

 

[Armbru84]

That's all super cool Mike .
That's what all of us probably want to do something much like with our own little flavors added to it .
You've seen my little village out back with the shed(looks like a shack), then the kids playhouse(future hunting shack or to be sold), then the woodshed which will have some siding installed soon. It's fun to build these type of things for sure. Maybe I need to get the CSM I've had in the basement out and make something happen, got a nice square chain I can borrow .
To stay somewhat on topic I got another scrounge today, but I'm not sure you guys would be interested in them, both are all orange.
Also missed this one today , hope my buddy @Armbru84 got it.
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I wish

 

[svk]

Maybe I can add some more to my signature over there .

Somewhere in here there is a thread with many of the saw intelligentsia adamantly stating that finger ports DO NOT WORK.

 

[chipper1]

I wish

Me too . I was really hoping you got it .
In did manage to scrounge something up so the week ending better than it began.
@James Miller will probably like it .

 

[chipper1]

Somewhere in here there is a thread with many of the saw intelligentsia adamantly stating that finger ports DO NOT WORK.

I think I remember something about pop up pistons not working either, wonder who designed it .

 

[James Miller]

I don't currently own the 441, but it still lives next door.

HL Supply just developed and Pop Up piston for the 390 (since you can not delete the base gasket on a clamshell) if you are looking for some addl performance.

Sounds like a fun way to hurt some feelings. Ported pop up 390 sleeper saw. Remember reading Randy did a 390 that turned out to be a pretty good saw.

 

[svk]

I think I remember something about pop up pistons not working either, wonder who designed it .

Dont know who first started using it but I know who used it extensively in their builds. Call BS if you want.

 

[James Miller]

We used dimensional lumber for the roof + second story flooring. The floor is 8' high on a 12' high post.

The 17' posts (front & back) were set in place after the 4 - 20' cross beams were in place. Then we strapped extension ladders to the 17' posts (sticking about 6' above them) and used rope + pulley to haul the ridge beam up.

Siding is just stained 5/8" plywood, with cement board on around the bottom to keep the porcupines out. They will chew right through plywood.

That's a nice cabin. My buddies cabin in grantsville Maryland looks like a shack in comparison. But its somewhere to disappear to.

 

[Philbert]

Somewhere in here there is a thread with many of the saw intelligentsia adamantly stating that finger ports DO NOT WORK.

Neither do battery-powered saws. Or plastic handled splitting mauls . . . .

Philbert

 

[svk]

Neither do battery-powered saws. Or plastic handled splitting mauls . . . .

Philbert

The maul wars were probably the best. There was still some civility as compared to the builder wars but man did people get mad at the Fiskars LOL.

You had some legendary quotes from those. You already know which one is my favorite

 

[James Miller]

Me too . I was really hoping you got it .
In did manage to scrounge something up so the week ending better than it began.
@James Miller will probably like it .

So its a big domar saw or a 600 series Echo .

 

[MechanicMatt]

James, our old cabin was a shack. Built when I was 11. It beat the hell out of a tent though. Here's some pictures of us patching the poor old girls roof.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Can you guys guess who the fella wearing the STIHL hat is.....

 

[95custmz]

Uncle Mustang Mike?