If it takes standard wheels, many of the other parts might be simple enough to fabricate.
Philbert
Philbert
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I thought it broke up above and then took the smaller tree down with it.
I need to get some stuff split for the bonfire pit. Have a bunch of pine that would work well, just need someone to show me how to split it, I've only split hardwood lol.
I do have more cleaning up of low hanging branches and a few small trees sneaking into the yard but I'm waiting for a little cooler weather.
I also have two red oaks I killed when I put my wood shed in I haven't taken down yet which need to come down, nice to have the dead standing wood/vertical wood piles
.
They still use White Oak for the locks of the Erie canal. Have not found anything, natural or synthetic, that works better.
Also, the largest tree on the Appalachian Trail is the Dover Oak, a White Oak. Only about 15 miles from here. You can stand in front of it with your arms horizontal, and it is still wider.
http://www.nycdayhiking.com/hikes/dovernuclear.htm
http://www.nycdayhiking.com/hikes/dovernuclear.htm
That's pretty neat.
I plan on using it on a trailer, but we'll see if I can get a hood price on it or not. The guys at the mill jacket the price they quoted me by $6 a board, when I asked if the prices had changed he said not in two years
. Then I asked if I called who I would have talked to and he said me, I said I'll wait, just wasn't right and I'm not in a hurry just happened to be in the area.
I'm with @LondonNeil with the English Oak and the Royal Navy. If ever a tree secured a nation, English Oak was it. Today, Limby took apart the main trunk of a small to middling one (tree, not nation).
Behold, Oak Smoakstravaganza!
Ok. It's not that impressive. But I make up for it in number of pics.
Went back today to clean up what I left from yesterday. This plus some extra bits.
It wasn't much work for Limby to cut the fat bit of the trunk since there was a lot of oak mulch underneath it rather than rocks.
After trying to hit a few bits with the maul yesterday and failing miserably, I decided to noodle the biggest rounds with the workhorse. The biggest ones were 28 inches or so.
The noodling was strong with this one.
Then I realised that the Fiskaring was easy with this one. Didn't need to bother noodling at all. In this case, the speed and sharpness of the Fiskars counted for more than the momentum of the maul. I get what @MustangMike says about oak 'popping' now. Looks like it depends on the species.
Typical leaf.
Ended up with a full trailer at the end including the uglies.
Checking my reference book tells me that the 12%MC of English oak is about 700kg/m3 which is a bit less than the local eucalypts and comparable with Nth American oaks. This is ok with me. Scrounge is scrounge and I am learning that having a mix of species with varying burning qualities is a useful thing depending on the weather and time of day. As long as it's not full of ash.
It was a good morning. Easy oak shmoak. Can't complain about that.
Behold, Oak Smoakstravaganza!
Ok. It's not that impressive. But I make up for it in number of pics.
Went back today to clean up what I left from yesterday. This plus some extra bits.
It wasn't much work for Limby to cut the fat bit of the trunk since there was a lot of oak mulch underneath it rather than rocks.
After trying to hit a few bits with the maul yesterday and failing miserably, I decided to noodle the biggest rounds with the workhorse. The biggest ones were 28 inches or so.
The noodling was strong with this one.
Then I realised that the Fiskaring was easy with this one. Didn't need to bother noodling at all. In this case, the speed and sharpness of the Fiskars counted for more than the momentum of the maul. I get what @MustangMike says about oak 'popping' now. Looks like it depends on the species.
Typical leaf.
Ended up with a full trailer at the end including the uglies.
Checking my reference book tells me that the 12%MC of English oak is about 700kg/m3 which is a bit less than the local eucalypts and comparable with Nth American oaks. This is ok with me. Scrounge is scrounge and I am learning that having a mix of species with varying burning qualities is a useful thing depending on the weather and time of day. As long as it's not full of ash.
It was a good morning. Easy oak shmoak. Can't complain about that.
Hmm. That big difference in colour for the sap wood is unusual for English Oak. It's Oak, it's white oak, it's a (was a) fine tree, I can't say I know what Oak. I'm.... I'm not good at tree I'd.
Looks fun though
Looks fun though
Farmer, Von, showed up with tractor. We pulled 3 sections of log out plus a few big limbs laying across the ditch. Cleared all the brush off the logs and limbs, loaded from stacs of noodled rounds and cme home with a full load. I'll split that load right from the truck tomorrow.
Gotta find the camera and get it charged up and then learn to upload the photos to this site. I had been using Photobucket until they tried to strongarm us to upgrade.
Hmm. That big difference in colour for the sap wood is unusual for English Oak. It's Oak, it's white oak, it's a (was a) fine tree, I can't say I know what Oak. I'm.... I'm not good at tree I'd.
Looks fun though
I'm not at all sorry I scrounged it. I plan to split and stack it along the front edging in that last pic then move it in front of the wood shed once I've moved the manna gum from there. Plenty of sun and breeze. Interesting to see how long it takes to dry.
I should say, there was a big change in the colour difference in the wood after a day of being exposed to air. The difference between heartwood and sapwood was much less distinct.
Save to your puter. Then upload from there.
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Do you think something like a 410-120 would be a better option? I use a file most of the time but a grinder would be handy for rocked chains or hitting metal.
I file chains for a few family members. Whoever grinds there chains doesn't believe in depth gauges and they complained about the saw being jerky and jumpy in the cut. The chain on the little 310 would have maid the 7910 unhappy I could believe the little 30cc saw would pull it at all.
I have not cut much white oak. From what I know isn’t the one with the real dark heartwood a subspecies like bur or others?
That's like comparing a classic saw with a newer model. They will both cut wood.
Any sharpening system will work if you understand how they work, and what you are trying to achieve. A new grinder will come with all of it's parts, instructions, etc., and take up a bit less space.
This is currently the best 'value' (quality/price) grinder IMO:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tecomec-Co...670400?hash=item58ec206e40:g:nu0AAOSwySFZfiXE
Philbert
Any A.S. members down in Blue Earth, MN yesterday?
Philbert
Philbert
That must be one tough push mower!
Ron
Ron
That’s a beast. Is that a big old silver maple or oak?
husqvarna257
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It was over 95* today so no scrounging, did some yesterday. I went out and got a 30 ft strap from T.S. today, I have a large maple to take out of my current scrounge but it is down a hill I wont drive the tractor in. Hooping I can run the strap down to it and pull it at 90* from the road up top, using a small maple for the pivot point. I had a few hard to remove long logs yesterday , one was driven into the ground and had a huge limb buried. Used the back hoe to pull it up. Not sure how much wood I have so far but the pile is 18' -10' -6 with some more around the edges. I welded some back stops on my pallet forks for added safety.
Not a scrounge yet.....right behind the woodpile at the children’s camp there’s a partially dead ironwood about 8” in diameter. The place is so overrun with firewood at the moment that I’ll leave it stand until more wood is needed.
Canada Day up here in the land of Igloo !!!
Heat warnings , full sun 30C with a humidex of up to 40C (100+F) , Yuk !
It was overcast this morning soooo , off to the powerline cut !
Not a lot to cut but it had to be done .
Not much but but the builder is happy
There was this thing about a ladder ... But I did run the new Kita
Heat warnings , full sun 30C with a humidex of up to 40C (100+F) , Yuk !
It was overcast this morning soooo , off to the powerline cut !
Not a lot to cut but it had to be done .
Not much but but the builder is happy
There was this thing about a ladder ... But I did run the new Kita
You are hardcore to work in full sun at those temps. I was mostly in the shade yesterday and it was still hot.
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