Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Cowboy254]

My small front garden is looking more and more like a wood yard or a landing at the moment....I got the 365 out of hibernation and finally got it started...after flooding it ...I then ran a tank of fuel through it ...after sharpening the chain...after finding a nail first f&&&ing cut . I've learnt...when you get wood from a tree service and a piece has a cut a 1/3 or so through then stops, it stops because the tree guy hit metal or a stone (usually metal) so DON'T try and finish the cut. I knew the pine had metal in it, in splitting the stuff I found 3 or four massive screws or nails which the tree guy had been lucky enough to avoid...but we all know how chainsaws are magnetically drawn to buried metall...I know all this...so why did I think 'I'll risk it, and just try and finish this cut.....oh &*%$....where's the file?' still, I managed to cut a slot in a chunk to hold the bar and found the file in seconds....and the bar had juddered/kicked on hitting the metal so most cutters just needed a few strokes....4 or so spaced around the chain needed more like 15 strokes but then I was cutting ...at last

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Well that's pretty much all the stuff that was too large to move without risking a hernia or perforated disc now ringed up....or i thought it was...then i noticed one large log left as i was putting the saw away

oh well...at least its an excuse to get the big saw out again soon.

Ah yes, the perils of 'free' scrounge.

What did Londonwife think of the mess you made of the front yard?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Looks like a really efficient process, SR. Do you have any pics of the bucking please? Every time I have tried this I've had trouble with rounds wrecking my shins or risking breaking ankles walking over the rounds, or tripping and falling off the wagon (ha), etc. I gave up trying to do it but perhaps you have found a way. It sure would save some time and probably some chains.

It's just a matter of being careful! It really helps to have a decent operator on the tractor that can hold the logs low and get them in the right place,

Once we have some rounds cut, many times I just sit the log on top so we know where it will roll and then it's just run the chainsaw like the log is sitting anyplace other than a trailer or wagon...

If the log isn't positioned right, I just move the tractor so it is, AND we pay attention! IF you can't do that, then this is NOT for you!

No one has fallen off a wagon or hurt an ankle or anything like that, over all the years I've been cutting this way, and we've cut some BIG loads!

SR

 

[JustJeff]

Looking great Jeff. What is the final finish? Lacquer? Poly? Wax?

Spar urethane

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[JustJeff]

See what I mean? Tis the season!

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[KiwiBro]

It's just a matter of being careful! It really helps to have a decent operator on the tractor that can hold the logs low and get them in the right place,

Once we have some rounds cut, many times I just sit the log on top so we know where it will roll and then it's just run the chainsaw like the log is sitting anyplace other than a trailer or wagon...

If the log isn't positioned right, I just move the tractor so it is, AND we pay attention! IF you can't do that, then this is NOT for you!

No one has fallen off a wagon or hurt an ankle or anything like that, over all the years I've been cutting this way, and we've cut some BIG loads!

SR

Thanks. that's a great system. Yeah, you lost me at "careful" ;-) on the ground, I can't fall far.

 

[svk]

My small front garden is looking more and more like a wood yard or a landing at the moment....I got the 365 out of hibernation and finally got it started...after flooding it ...I then ran a tank of fuel through it ...after sharpening the chain...after finding a nail first f&&&ing cut . I've learnt...when you get wood from a tree service and a piece has a cut a 1/3 or so through then stops, it stops because the tree guy hit metal or a stone (usually metal) so DON'T try and finish the cut. I knew the pine had metal in it, in splitting the stuff I found 3 or four massive screws or nails which the tree guy had been lucky enough to avoid...but we all know how chainsaws are magnetically drawn to buried metall...I know all this...so why did I think 'I'll risk it, and just try and finish this cut.....oh &*%$....where's the file?' still, I managed to cut a slot in a chunk to hold the bar and found the file in seconds....and the bar had juddered/kicked on hitting the metal so most cutters just needed a few strokes....4 or so spaced around the chain needed more like 15 strokes but then I was cutting ...at last

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Well that's pretty much all the stuff that was too large to move without risking a hernia or perforated disc now ringed up....or i thought it was...then i noticed one large log left as i was putting the saw away

oh well...at least its an excuse to get the big saw out again soon.

That’s a neat looking place. Guessing you are on the outskirts of London?

In honor of my British blood, I’m about to cook some neeps for dinner.

 

[svk]

Another chore off the list. The boiler hasn’t been used for several weeks but I finally cleaned it out and hosed out the furnace room so we can use it for storage.

Still need to pick up a better chimney brush from TSC and do the chimney plus install a better rope gasket in the door. But that can happen any time between now and fall.

 

[svk]

Other than ******* up the shifter cable it’s been a pretty productive day.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Hey @Philbert , have you seen the multivolt chainsaw hitachi/hikoki/metabo hpt are doing? They have a range of 18/36v tools that you can plug what looks like a dummy battery that's mains powered into it when you are close to a power outlet. Interesting. i love how even on their official NZ website they have what I can only assume is a hyper-saftey chain arrangement :
https://hikoki.co.nz/shop/36v-multi-volt/36v-chain-saw-bare-tool/
While not here in NZ yet, I do like the metabo hpt 10" multi-volt table saw. Mains power for the sheltered workshop and batteries on the small on-site jobs.

That arrangment makes a lot of sense.

 

[MustangMike]

I know Deets has built some very strong Hybrids, how does your run? If it is a strong runner I would think it would be a hard saw to part with.

 

[LondonNeil]

Ah yes, the perils of 'free' scrounge.

What did Londonwife think of the mess you made of the front yard?

Mess? I thought you liked wood?! hand in your scrounge pass at the door! I chatted to the neighbour across the street as I sharpened the chain and he described my splits stack as 'a pretty feature' and 'artistic'......although half hour later a pikey knocked at the door to say, 'I take rubbish away, I can take that if you want.'
'No you can't its not rubbish.....its art.'

besides, my two little girls see it as an improptu climbing frame and assault course already....with its own piles of woodchip for a soft landing....they loved it!

 

[LondonNeil]

That’s a neat looking place. Guessing you are on the outskirts of London?

In honor of my British blood, I’m about to cook some neeps for dinner.

SE19 is the postal zone. I'm by Crystal Palace in south london, zone 3 on the train network of 6. My cycle commute to whitehall is 7.5 miles, once I've gone about a mile I'm into streets of georgian terrace housing but where I am is a big big swathe around London built between the wars as it expanded rapidly. houses here are getting more garden space although London is said to be the greenest city in the world by space as it has so many parks and so many houses with gardens.

Neeps. With Haggis and Tatties?

 

[H-Ranch]

Looks like you are getting them just in the nick of time. Another year and they'd be growing mushrooms?

Yeah, those were a few logs laying partially suspended on the ground close to my landing so I cut them into 3-4' poles and to the stack they go. Not ideal wood, but no splitting and half the cutting and OWB don't care.

 

[Cowboy254]

Mess? I thought you liked wood?! hand in your scrounge pass at the door! I chatted to the neighbour across the street as I sharpened the chain and he descrbed my splits stack as 'a pretty feature' and 'artistic'......although half hour later a pikey knocked at the door to say, 'I take rubbish away, I can take that if you want.'
'No you can't its not rubbish.....its art.'

No, no, I was full of admiration of your wood , I had mentally looked past and excluded that from my 'mess' comment. It's more the chips, noodles, bark crud etc everywhere. I'm sure chicks love that stuff.

How far up the walls are you going to stack?

 

[H-Ranch]

One load for me.

Three loads for my daughter. She split, hauled, and stacked it all by herself with a little supervision - she wanted to start her own stack so who am I to stop her?

 

[Plowboy83]

I know Deets has built some very strong Hybrids, how does your run? If it is a strong runner I would think it would be a hard saw to part with.

It’s a bad mofo runs a 25 inch bar in the eucalyptus really good it’s nothing like the 066 though. The more I think of it the dumber it seems to get rid of them for a new saw

 

[dancan]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...-be-the-longest-animal-in-the-ocean-1.5534443
Of course , another predator in Australia that wants to kill you .

 

[svk]

SE19 is the postal zone. I'm by Crystal Palace in south london, zone 3 on the train network of 6. My cycle commute to whitehall is 7.5 miles, once I've gone about a mile I'm into streets of georgian terrace housing but where I am is a big big swathe around London built between the wars as it expanded rapidly. houses here are getting more garden space although London is said to be the greenest city in the world by space as it has so many parks and so many houses with gardens.

Neeps. With Haggis and Tatties?

Neeps with polish sausage. I must have missed some of the “stump” cause it had some fibrous pieces.

 

[Ryan A]

One of my two regular customers. I make sure they are good for burning season and then everything else I sell on FB marketplace. Today’s delivery on Philadelphia’s Main Line.

 

[SS396driver]

And now hes going to follow New Yorks lead on how to handle this mess. The virus has proven to be nowhere near what the world wide propaganda machine is making it out to be. When we crawl out from under the hand of communism I hope this country wakes up to how easily they were controlled by over reaching government.

I'm very conservative by nature . But if you think this would have been just another flu season without these drastic measures . Your sorely mistaken. My cousin is a nurse in NYC. Its freaking bad still