Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[cantoo]

Farmer steve, cotter pins are all already back in the bush with a bunch of linch pins too. Branches and twigs just rip them off, this is the 1st time I've lost the wagon. My 3 point hitch arms and the grapple are all bolted on with double nuts after loosing pins so often. I've lost the receiver pin several times too.

 

[KiwiBro]

Gusting to 49 knots tomorrow. The 395 is leaking bar oil in anticipation of a happy ending.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Pay dirt. Wheelbarrowed the stuff in the neighbors yard over to my pile then took a victory nap. Then got up and went to the big pile. The "grid plan" worked. Biggest wood I have cut yet, and probably the biggest I'll ever cut. I could even slide most of the blocks right off the log strait into the bed of the truck. The 395 with a 32" bar altogether is still shorter than this big oak is across. I couldn't do the 2x2 grid to make 9 pieces. I had to do a 3x3 grid to make 16 pieces because the tree is so big. ONE piece that is 1/16 of a 60" tree cut in 18" lengths is roughly 12"x12"x18". Wet oak in chunks that big are pretty heavy.

 

[Tree Feller]

Dropped this white oak today out of a buddy’s yard. 40” across at the stump.

 

[chipper1]

Dropped this white oak today out of a buddy’s yard. 40” across at the stump.

Nice work, there's a few BTU's in there .
What saw/bar size did you use on it.

 

[Cowboy254]

Pay dirt. Wheelbarrowed the stuff in the neighbors yard over to my pile then took a victory nap. Then got up and went to the big pile. The "grid plan" worked. Biggest wood I have cut yet, and probably the biggest I'll ever cut. I could even slide most of the blocks right off the log strait into the bed of the truck. The 395 with a 32" bar altogether is still shorter than this big oak is across. I couldn't do the 2x2 grid to make 9 pieces. I had to do a 3x3 grid to make 16 pieces because the tree is so big. ONE piece that is 1/16 of a 60" tree cut in 18" lengths is roughly 12"x12"x18". Wet oak in chunks that big are pretty heavy.

Where are the rest of the pics? I approve of your scrounginess in cutting that big oak but your photo taking performance needs to improve. Why, that log is worth at least seven pics per scrounge.

 

[James Miller]

@svk told me when I mmd the 310 to open the muff with a torch to do it right. So for the 225 I did it his way. Somewhere along the way I lost my sanity and this is what's left of the baffle/cat plate. Probably gona make a little noise.

 

[farmer steve]

Farmer steve, cotter pins are all already back in the bush with a bunch of linch pins too. Branches and twigs just rip them off, this is the 1st time I've lost the wagon. My 3 point hitch arms and the grapple are all bolted on with double nuts after loosing pins so often. I've lost the receiver pin several times too.

i have the same problem. tool box always has extra pins in it. have you seen these?
https://www.agrisupply.com/double-locking-hitch-pin/p/79285/

 

[woodchip rookie]

Where are the rest of the pics? I approve of your scrounginess in cutting that big oak but your photo taking performance needs to improve. Why, that log is worth at least seven pics per scrounge.

Too busy running a saw. I cut a grid in the end of 2 logs. I didnt get pics of the smaller one. Its only 40" across.

 

[Tree Feller]

Nice work, there's a few BTU's in there .
What saw/bar size did you use on it.

My Dolmar 6400 with a B.B. kit. 30” bar with jgx Oregon chain. I think I’m going full comp on my next chains.

This is the 4 th tree we cut for him. All white oaks and the smallest being 20” or so.

 

[chipper1]

My Dolmar 6400 with a B.B. kit. 30” bar with jgx Oregon chain. I think I’m going full comp on my next chains.

This is the 4 th tree we cut for him. All white oaks and the smallest being 20” or so.

Great saws, I've got a 6421 with the stock cylinder that's ported. While it's fun the 7910 cylinder is the way to go.
That's a lot of wood, are you guys keeping it all.

 

[farmer steve]

after seeing this i'm gonna quit burning my mulberry.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/177567659528560?surface=product_details

 

[James Miller]

after seeing this i'm gonna quit burning my mulberry.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/177567659528560?surface=product_details

Send it to me I'll I'll mix it with my valuable cherry and black walnut. Can' see the add cause I refuse to have any kind of social media presence.

 

[rarefish383]

View attachment 638683 @svk told me when I mmd the 310 to open the muff with a torch to do it right. So for the 225 I did it his way. Somewhere along the way I lost my sanity and this is what's left of the baffle/cat plate.View attachment 638685 Probably gona make a little noise.

The first thing we used to do when we bought a new saw was gut the muffler. I tried wearing muffs a couple times, but the chipper ate them, so I gave up. When I took a hearing test, many years ago, the Doc said my hearing in my right ear was way worse than my left, and that was not common. I told him it was from shooting Hi Power competition without ear muffs. He said no, when you shoot right handed your left ear gets the muzzle blast, and your right ear is protected by your shoulder. Then he asked if I was a pilot? That my hearing loss fell in the parameters of a pilot flying single engine prop planes. I said no, how about feeding high pitched drum chippers with my right ear next to the drum, and running chainsaws with gutted muff's on my right side? He said, yep, that will do it. Just think of all the cool stuff I could buy with the $7000 I spent on the hearing aids. Actually, it was a little less, my insurance covered $3000.

 

[Tree Feller]

Great saws, I've got a 6421 with the stock cylinder that's ported. While it's fun the 7910 cylinder is the way to go.
That's a lot of wood, are you guys keeping it all.

Yes. Two of us cut wood together and split everything 50/50. Both of us have OWB ers.

I was going with the Oem 7910 kit but I got a bit in the B.B. kit so I will run it until it dies. It’s actually a really good runner. I have a 20” bar as well and was thinking of going to a 8 pin rim but it may be too much when I put the 30” on it and I don’t want to switch rims every time I change bars!

 

[MustangMike]

SVK, If you milled large hardwood more, you would have bigger bars and bigger saws!

 

[rarefish383]

SVK, If you milled large hardwood more, you would have bigger bars and bigger saws!

Mike, you notice how every time you mill a log the bar stretches an inch or two?

 

[James Miller]

The first thing we used to do when we bought a new saw was gut the muffler. I tried wearing muffs a couple times, but the chipper ate them, so I gave up. When I took a hearing test, many years ago, the Doc said my hearing in my right ear was way worse than my left, and that was not common. I told him it was from shooting Hi Power competition without ear muffs. He said no, when you shoot right handed your left ear gets the muzzle blast, and your right ear is protected by your shoulder. Then he asked if I was a pilot? That my hearing loss fell in the parameters of a pilot flying single engine prop planes. I said no, how about feeding high pitched drum chippers with my right ear next to the drum, and running chainsaws with gutted muff's on my right side? He said, yep, that will do it. Just think of all the cool stuff I could buy with the $7000 I spent on the hearing aids. Actually, it was a little less, my insurance covered $3000.

I can choke it if it's to much. That's the stock outlet for the muff I'll put it back on and just open it a little. I have a troybuilt and POS Stihl trimmer that are stone stock. This echo came off the scrap pile at my friends landscaping business and I'm just playing with it.

 

[svk]

SVK, If you milled large hardwood more, you would have bigger bars and bigger saws!

I have trouble finding 16” oak up in my neck of the woods lol.

 

[rarefish383]

I have trouble finding 16” oak up in my neck of the woods lol.

You can mill big Pines too.