Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Thanks Mike, good to know. I had read that stock numbers were pretty good and hard to get much more out of them so wasn’t sure if it’d be worth it.I like it a lot, definitely more torque than stock, so you can lean on it more.
The stock ones do run well, but there is still a little more to get. I believe Randy says he gets 20% more out of them, and the power to weight is sweet to begin with!
I tend to be heavy handed, so I like a saw with some addl snot. I also like if it buys you an additional fraction of a second before it pinches.
That Ash I cut up was not large, but most of it was dead, dry, and solid, so being able to cut each round just a little bit faster helps to keep me on schedule. My time always seems to be limited.
I cut that up and loaded the trailer and made it home just in time for dinned (which keeps me out of the doghouse), then delivered to my Daughter after dinner (my SIL and Grandson helped me unload), then got home and finished some more tax work. Was after 9PM before I was done, and it was enough, I was shot!
I tend to be heavy handed, so I like a saw with some addl snot. I also like if it buys you an additional fraction of a second before it pinches.
That Ash I cut up was not large, but most of it was dead, dry, and solid, so being able to cut each round just a little bit faster helps to keep me on schedule. My time always seems to be limited.
I cut that up and loaded the trailer and made it home just in time for dinned (which keeps me out of the doghouse), then delivered to my Daughter after dinner (my SIL and Grandson helped me unload), then got home and finished some more tax work. Was after 9PM before I was done, and it was enough, I was shot!
Ok thank you. I was hearing 12-15% from the guy here but he was still working on it. They are great saws, especially the power to weight and air filtration is so much better than most other sthils.
Sounds like you had a great day!
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Frustrating couple days. Have been dealing on a couple Ford Rangers. Yesterday I had an agreed on price on an XLT, then at the last minute sales guy says I need to bring 1200 more in down payment cash or add 1200 to the financed amount. Politely said thanks, but no thanks.
Today the same thing at another dealer. Had a price in writing on a Lariat that I was going to take. They wrote up the finance agreement for $1250 more. Again, I said not going to do that.
These are not fees, additional interest, or taxes, they just boldly tacked an additional amount into the financing. It's partly the extra $1200~1250, it's more the underhanded way they're trying to tack it on.
The old F250 will be around a while longer That's good, I would have been sad to see it go.
Thanks for a venue to vent my frustration
Today the same thing at another dealer. Had a price in writing on a Lariat that I was going to take. They wrote up the finance agreement for $1250 more. Again, I said not going to do that.
These are not fees, additional interest, or taxes, they just boldly tacked an additional amount into the financing. It's partly the extra $1200~1250, it's more the underhanded way they're trying to tack it on.
The old F250 will be around a while longer
That's good, I would have been sad to see it go.Thanks for a venue to vent my frustration
That is frustrating...is this for in-house financing? Or they wanted to simply up the price at the last minute?Frustrating couple days. Have been dealing on a couple Ford Rangers. Yesterday I had an agreed on price on an XLT, then at the last minute sales guy says I need to bring 1200 more in down payment cash or add 1200 to the financed amount. Politely said thanks, but no thanks.
Today the same thing at another dealer. Had a price in writing on a Lariat that I was going to take. They wrote up the finance agreement for $1250 more. Again, I said not going to do that.
These are not fees, additional interest, or taxes, they just boldly tacked an additional amount into the financing. It's partly the extra $1200~1250, it's more the underhanded way they're trying to tack it on.
The old F250 will be around a while longer
Thanks for a venue to vent my frustration
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Ford has 0% for up to 72 months on 2020s & 84 months on 2019s through the end of April. One, after the deal was struck said I needed to up my down payment. The other just changed the amount to be financed without saying a word.
GM has 0% for up to 84 months for 19s & 20s and 3 months deferred payments.. I'm to spent to check them out at the moment.
I'd be talking to the HMFIC and mention attorney general's office an better business bureau about their bait and switch tactics.
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I believe, after the past two days, their strategy is to wear you down to the point you just don't care or aren't paying attention.
Doesn't matter now, the trust no longer exists. Wouldn't buy from either one even if they came back with the agreed on deal
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was not to lucky to have free wood scrounged today, but did get a few paying jobs of free money from the orange great one? lol 4.5 cords block and split to do... the other job is an 80 acre fence row clean up with a few dump truck 2 cord loads of oak that will come home with me! $3.50 a foot for the fence row at 5 feet wide ... 1/2 mile line is tared road/ditch and cleaned/clear already! figure there will be about 4000 feet of work, this will include restapeling wire and pounding steel posts where needed. 3 wire fence dry ground not bad! this might be my best job of the year.. i love lazy people with money! lol
Okay so I owe you all some pics, and then perhaps Sensei Dan can (see what I did there?) decide if I have progressed to '1st Dan'
first of all a progress pic. most of the oak/chestnut/leylandii delivery that was short enough has been split and stacked, and getting the splitting done on the large Pine delivery. 2.5m3 or so stacked there now ( a cord is ~3.5m3)
the wall is south facing and its been gorgeous here for the last week or 10 days so its drying fast and already settled enough to squeeze another row of splits under the windows
Some of the pine has been big enough to test my splitting, a few rounds approaching 30" and some from the trunk splitting into 2 leaders. The stihl maul persuaded some and the rest I remembered the 'flake it off the outside' technique, or 50p technique as I think of it (our 50p coin is a septagon and the round getting flaked reminds me of that). only a few unsplitables being added to the 'need the saw' pile on the right.
So when outside splitting a bit for my daily lockdown exercise yesterday a neighbour across the street told me of a house around the corner 'a load of trees' were being dropped. He said he'd spoken to the tree guy about me so it should appear. Just in case I took a walk around the corner and found the place just as the occupier was coming out so I checked it was ok and then went back once my girls were in bed with the car. My wifes little runabout (Hyundai i10) was on the drive in front of my vRS in the garage and I'd seen the pile wasn't that large so.....
yep it wasn't a big scrounge....but you'll notice the car is down at the back....very
very very.
I thought Hawthorn, but I learnt it is pear. Bloomin' heavy though.
Had to squeeze the last few bits up front
maybe 1/2 a cube, maybe just under.
Then while outside this morning to take the photos and unload....the tree guy pulls up. And as well as aking for my contact details as he is local and would like to tip more with me he dropped a bit of leylandii he had in the truck!
So more wood and best of all a second new local contact in a few weeks. I'm doing better under lockdown than normal! perhaps because its so quiet I can hear a chainsaw running anywhere nearby....but more likely because more and more neighbours know I'm the weirdo that collects logs
. I've probably got half the year's supply replenished already, way ahead of where I'd normally be atthis point, and I've got 2 new contacts. yay!
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Okay so I owe you all some pics, and then perhaps Sensei Dan can (see what I did there?) decide if I have progressed to '1st Dan'
first of all a progress pic. most of the oak/chestnut/leylandii delivery that was short enough has been split and stacked, and getting the splitting done on the large Pine delivery. 2.5m3 or so stacked there now ( a cord is ~3.5m3)
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the wall is south facing and its been gorgeous here for the last week or 10 days so its drying fast and already settled enough to squeeze another row of splits under the windows
Some of the pine has been big enough to test my splitting, a few rounds approaching 30" and some from the trunk splitting into 2 leaders. The stihl maul persuaded some and the rest I remembered the 'flake it off the outside' technique, or 50p technique as I think of it (our 50p coin is a septagon and the round getting flaked reminds me of that). only a few unsplitables being added to the 'need the saw' pile on the right.
So when outside splitting a bit for my daily lockdown exercise yesterday a neighbour across the street told me of a house around the corner 'a load of trees' were being dropped. He said he'd spoken to the tree guy about me so it should appear. Just in case I took a walk around the corner and found the place just as the occupier was coming out so I checked it was ok and then went back once my girls were in bed with the car. My wifes little runabout (Hyundai i10) was on the drive in front of my vRS in the garage and I'd seen the pile wasn't that large so.....
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yep it wasn't a big scrounge....but you'll notice the car is down at the back....very
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very very.
View attachment 818857
I thought Hawthorn, but I learnt it is pear. Bloomin' heavy though.
Had to squeeze the last few bits up front
View attachment 818858
maybe 1/2 a cube, maybe just under.
Then while outside this morning to take the photos and unload....the tree guy pulls up. And as well as aking for my contact details as he is local and would like to tip more with me he dropped a bit of leylandii he had in the truck!
View attachment 818859
So more wood and best of all a second new local contact in a few weeks. I'm doing better under lockdown than normal! perhaps because its so quiet I can hear a chainsaw running anywhere nearby....but more likely because more and more neighbours know I'm the weirdo that collects logs
Dan at the very least.
Good job London Dan.Okay so I owe you all some pics, and then perhaps Sensei Dan can (see what I did there?) decide if I have progressed to '1st Dan'
first of all a progress pic. most of the oak/chestnut/leylandii delivery that was short enough has been split and stacked, and getting the splitting done on the large Pine delivery. 2.5m3 or so stacked there now ( a cord is ~3.5m3)
View attachment 818849
the wall is south facing and its been gorgeous here for the last week or 10 days so its drying fast and already settled enough to squeeze another row of splits under the windows
Some of the pine has been big enough to test my splitting, a few rounds approaching 30" and some from the trunk splitting into 2 leaders. The stihl maul persuaded some and the rest I remembered the 'flake it off the outside' technique, or 50p technique as I think of it (our 50p coin is a septagon and the round getting flaked reminds me of that). only a few unsplitables being added to the 'need the saw' pile on the right.
So when outside splitting a bit for my daily lockdown exercise yesterday a neighbour across the street told me of a house around the corner 'a load of trees' were being dropped. He said he'd spoken to the tree guy about me so it should appear. Just in case I took a walk around the corner and found the place just as the occupier was coming out so I checked it was ok and then went back once my girls were in bed with the car. My wifes little runabout (Hyundai i10) was on the drive in front of my vRS in the garage and I'd seen the pile wasn't that large so.....
View attachment 818855
yep it wasn't a big scrounge....but you'll notice the car is down at the back....very
View attachment 818856
very very.
View attachment 818857
I thought Hawthorn, but I learnt it is pear. Bloomin' heavy though.
Had to squeeze the last few bits up front
View attachment 818858
maybe 1/2 a cube, maybe just under.
Then while outside this morning to take the photos and unload....the tree guy pulls up. And as well as aking for my contact details as he is local and would like to tip more with me he dropped a bit of leylandii he had in the truck!
View attachment 818859
So more wood and best of all a second new local contact in a few weeks. I'm doing better under lockdown than normal! perhaps because its so quiet I can hear a chainsaw running anywhere nearby....but more likely because more and more neighbours know I'm the weirdo that collects logs
I recently cut some Bradford Pear from the log pile and it is pretty heavy. Surprisingly high BTU value. I was stunned to see wood piled into the driver's seat, then I noted your location. Da!
The burn is on. The tree guy is burning again so I won't be cutting any time soon. He had a big Osage Orange there, but it had 2x4s nailed all over. Still I would have like to sawn off some small turning blanks. It on the pile that's now burning. When he dozed all the loose piles into one tight, tall pile, I got all the Walnut and White Oak I could that was sticking out or what I could pull out. I was going to hook a chain to a couple of Walnut logs that I would have like to chain saw mill, but there's no room to do that. Oh well, I need to split everything that's setting on my driveway and move it down the hill.
London Neil's pics of wood stuffed into that little car brings back a memory.
In 1973 when my girlfriend & I were first together (married all these yrs later) she had a '69 VW van, our only vehicle. I was buying hay for my livestock from a barn 20-some miles away over country roads, uphill and down. I'd stuff that VW van full of hay, even got two bales into the passenger seat area. The poor vehicle was underpowered for virtually anything, altho I was ignorant of mechanical stuff at the time, so I thought it was just great that I could get 35? bales of hay into that thing. It struggled with every load, and by spring was trailing blue smoke.
In 1973 when my girlfriend & I were first together (married all these yrs later) she had a '69 VW van, our only vehicle. I was buying hay for my livestock from a barn 20-some miles away over country roads, uphill and down. I'd stuff that VW van full of hay, even got two bales into the passenger seat area. The poor vehicle was underpowered for virtually anything, altho I was ignorant of mechanical stuff at the time, so I thought it was just great that I could get 35? bales of hay into that thing. It struggled with every load, and by spring was trailing blue smoke.
They will also revoke your license.
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