Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[wudpirat]

Dancan:
If you bring it into the shop, next to the heater, it would help. then a heat gun if needed.
If it don't hold up, make another ,they're cheap enough.
After all, if you made one. then the next one should be easier.
We repair ATV bodies using a soldering iron, maybe it'll work on that drum?
Melt the plastic together and fill the cracks with some of the trimings.
Nice job, I was thinking, to just to cut off the top and poke a hole for the chain. The bottom is rounded.
When they skidded those big Redwood logs, they just champhered the leading edge to keep from digging in.
After all, that plastic is petty slick by it's self, just like a bedliner.

 

[wudpirat]

Fess up time
I'm the owner of a new 33cc Tanaka chainsaw. Was on clearence from Bailey's.
What posesed me to buy a baby saw?
I have enough 50-65cc saws to equip a small company, big saw is the Dolmar 7900.
I mustbe getting old, the Mac 10's are too heavy and viberate, hands can't take much of that anymore.
The Sthil 024 and the 026 and 029 are a PIA to get running. The 020AVP is DOA, can't find a carb.
The husky 50 and 350 need repairs and I won't mention the Eager Beavers and mini macs.
So I'm down to two Mikita 6400, and a Husky 455 rancher, I can count on to run, everytime.
Bottom line, I'm getting older and sooner or later I'll need to use a walker, as my balance is going.
I don't use a cane but like to have something close to touch.
If the walker days come, I'll just bolt a scabard to it and mount my new baby saw.

 

[MustangMike]

Enjoy the new saw, and good on U that U are still out there doing it!

 

[Philbert]

I think that forming the skidding cone might also be easier if you made a pattern, and pre-cut the barrel to shape. Maybe pre drill the bolt holes in one side. Might be easier than wrestling with all of the additional plastic.

Of course, you would have un-roll your current one to make a pattern!

Philbert

 

[Philbert]

I wonder if you could use a heat gun to get the plastic softer, then bend it?

Take it in the sauna!

Philbert

 

[svk]

Take it in the sauna!

Philbert

Was just thinking the same!

 

[dancan]

Take it in the sauna!

Philbert

Not what/who I'd want to take a sauna with ....LOL

 

[dancan]

I got out this afternoon with the Bota , brought the Sno Cone for a ride .

I had all the intentions just to go get some of the wood I cut last week but I spotted a few leaners so I figured I'd try the cone .

The cone worked great !
I also used the davit to load some logs .

I figured by the tire bulge that it was time to call it a day .

 

[farmer steve]

Dancan, is where you are cutting your property, public or private?

 

[Philbert]

Not what/who I'd want to take a sauna with ....LOL

Never heard of a 'barrel stove'?

. . . brought the Sno Cone for a ride .

Probably good for calling moose too?

Philbert

 

[svk]

Not what/who I'd want to take a sauna with ....LOL

@mainewoods new helper? Wouldn't be pretty if you brought his old helper in there LOL

 

[MustangMike]

Hauled another load out of the woods, up hill & over the rock wall, in the snow! This is starten to feel almost like work!

Left 2 big pieces down there that I decided I will noodle when I go back. I think there is still one more full load left.

Almost all Ash, with a little Black Birch thrown in.

 

[svk]

Good looking stuff, Mike. You are really stacking it in lately!

Those clean ash rounds make a guy look forward to the splitting part.

 

[dancan]

Dancan, is where you are cutting your property, public or private?

I have permission to cut all dead/leaning and blown down trees on Pioneerguy600's boss's property .
It's been logged pretty hard and a forest fire has gone through another section but still.
Most of the wood is small but I should have enough for next year and into the following
They'll be building houses there in the years to come so I'll get some including some spruce as the lots need to be cleared .
All just a mile from home .

 

[dancan]

Since the weatherman sez it's gonna another good day tomorrow I'll go get another load or 2 of the stuff already cut and try to find a few more
Gotta do some fine tuning later this week on the davit so that it's easier to use for the loader work , only then will it get a RonCo designation LOL

 

[svk]

Since the weatherman sez it's gonna another good day tomorrow I'll go get another load or 2 of the stuff already cut and try to find a few more
Gotta do some fine tuning later this week on the davit so that it's easier to use for the loader work , only then will it get a RonCo designation LOL

What's the story with RonCo, I thought your name is Dan?

 

[dancan]

I chose the name RonCo on the stuff I try to make because roncoinc , a member here , he had suggested a sled for hauling firewood to the house during my recovery from the first set of surgeries for the tib/fib so for fun anything that I build to help me with woods related stuff gets a RonCo designation if it works LOL
Besides , I may build the next best Ronco Popiel's Pocket Fisherman ..............LOL

 

[MechanicMatt]

Don't over do it Uncle Mike, some of those pieces aren't exactley small.........

 

[SteveSS]

Our weather made it up to 38F today, so I went back into where I cut and split the big hollow black oak a month or so ago, and tossed it on the truck with the help of the Wife. It was a full, heaping, thrown in load, and I left the really big pieces out there since it was a tad slippery. I didn't think there was that much there when I cut it. It surprised me.

And I made a deal on the big bore Makita in the Trading Post, so the next time I get out with a saw, I'll have a LOT more horse power than just my MS271.

 

[MustangMike]

Don't worry about it Matt, I've had a lot of practice!

I think our high today was about 20, it was in the teens when I went out.