Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[KiwiBro]

Hey Dancan, my freight guy said about 4k ball park to get Kermit up there. I told him ain't gonna happen so not to waste any time firming up costs. Only way I can think of is if Kermit has a working holiday up there and can earn enough to pay for the cruise ship travel expenses. That or the aforementioned goFundMe pipe dream'n.

Offer stands though. If the travel money can be found, I'll see it gets on the boat.

 

[turnkey4099]

Man that's right out the back!
Good nothing hit your place.
I saw that storm moving thru, I think we are supposed to get some of it this next week.

High winds today, gust to 50-60mph. Spokane got hit badly, lots of big pines down, some still standing but leaning badly. One neighborhood had to evacuate due to down trees and power lines with more still leaning. Be a good time to own a tree service business.

I haven't heard of any local but will probably hear of some in the morning at the coffee club. I'll offer my services, none hazard only.

 

[rarefish383]

When we were in business, we hated big storms. We were booked 4-6 weeks out and they screwed up your regular customers. Always the chance the power company throws the switch a mile away and energizes the whole yard you are standing on. If a tree was on a house we would notify the power company that we were bringing in a crane. Never had a problem, but always had the thought, I wonder if the guy by the switch got the message not to throw it? Downed trees we would check to make sure there were no downed wires under that could be energized. If the tree wasn’t blocking anything we made them wait till the weather cleared or get someone else.

The ones that liked jumping on cleanup work were the grass choppers. They could take a little XL12 and a pickup and make more in an hour than they did mowing all day.

 

[95custmz]

Petey and I scrounged a dead Ash blow down. A beautiful 56 degrees today. Can’t complain!

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[muad]

The good Lord blessed us with a sunny, but windy day today, and the temps are up. Decided to get a few cuts in with my new to me MS461 that I scored from another AS brother. I don’t have my new bar yet (28” Rollamatic ES is what I decided on), so I threw a 20” ES on there with a new chain. She eats good!

I ran some cuts in this huge downed red oak. I have little experience with red oak for fire wood. About 10 years ago I cut one up and it would not burn for ****. But, I was still a little green back then, and while it was a dead tree that had fell over, I think the wood was too wet.

Anyhow, what do y’all think? Does she look burnable??

 

[muad]

Sorry for the sideways pics, stupid iPhone...

 

[95custmz]

Still looks like it is holding moisture. I’d let it season at least one more year.


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[muad]

Still looks like it is holding moisture. I’d let it season at least one more year.


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My plan was to buck and split, then stack it up for next winter. But, don’t want to was the time splitting and stacking if it’s too far gone. Would just buck it up and toss it in a burn pile.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[SS396driver]

In my experience oak unless it looks like this when you cut it ,it needs to be cut and split and seasoned. I have rounds that have been bucked for over a year and when I split it it's full of water still

 

[svk]

Muad I’d say after a summer of drying your wood will be primo.

 

[muad]

Muad I’d say after a summer of drying your wood will be primo.

Thanks all! Looks like I need to hit my dealer tomorrow after work to get my 28” bar. My pics don’t show it, but the main trunk is huge.

 

[svk]

Can I ask what this symbol means?

 

[muad]

Can I ask what this symbol means?

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It’s a bolt face logo, bolt face of the bolt on an AR-15.

 

[muad]

It’s a bolt face logo, bolt face of the bolt on an AR-15.

Here is an example (this is actually the bolt face of my .450 Bushmaster build), but it shows a “real” one.

 

[svk]

Ah ok. I’ve owned hundreds of guns but never an AR.

 

[muad]

Ah ok. I’ve owned hundreds of guns but never an AR.

I had black rifle disease for a few years, had a bunch of them. I like the M1 Garand much better, but ARs are like legos for adults.

 

[KiwiBro]

Ah ok. I’ve owned hundreds of guns but never an AR.

AR's are nasty. They cause world hunger, cancer, rob banks, kill people, transmit the coronavirus, and meddle in elections. I feel so much safer now that our govt banned them.

 

[rarefish383]

Most of my firewood is Red Oak, all of it is standing dead or just fell over , most has no bark. The small stuff that will fit in the stove is usually dry as a bone. If it needs split once it may burn ok. If it needs to be split more than once, it needs a year.

Back to the 461, how many CC’s are they? I just picked up an old Mac 200, 80CC’s. Since my wife was picking it up I asked the guy to pull the bar so it wouldn’t mess up her new Lexus. When she got home I laughed at the bar, put the tape on it and it was only 20”. Then I put it back on the saw. A full four inches are under the side plate. There is exactly 16” s of usable bar sticking out. Just cracked me up a saw that big with such a short bar. Can’t wait to get it running.

 

[MechanicMatt]

I had black rifle disease for a few years, had a bunch of them. I like the M1 Garand much better, but ARs are like legos for adults.

If you liked M1’s I figured you’d have some m14’s and Mini14’s and of course the original Garand!!!

That bolt also looks very similar to a Beretta A400 semi 12 ga. I’m sure it was purposely engineered to be similar

 

[Haywire]

I've got a Mini-14 resting in the corner. Had a stainless Mini-30 that I sold up in Alaska. Kinda wish I had that one back.