That’s a lot of nice oak, I like the axe also very slick looking handle. What is it, the axe?
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That’s a lot of nice oak, I like the axe also very slick looking handle. What is it, the axe?
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I just spent six days at our mountain place, that’s where I do most of my firewooding nowadays. Our lower driveway had two trees across it, plus a small treetop.
You can see little bits of snow in some of the pictures.
You can see little bits of snow in some of the pictures.
The main forest road goes through our place, I went back up the first morning and cleared it. It had been hastily cleared just enough to get by. One reason I did it is I don’t want it pushed over the side, I took branches and all in the trailer. Branches went into the burn pile.
All over the web, just search JDM engines. There are large suppliers in pretty much every large metro area near a port since they come over by boat/ship. From my understanding in order to keep the Japanese auto market going they charge more and more every yr of ownership on a vehicle, like if you were charged more every yr for registration, to the point where only the wealthy can afford to drive older vehicles(ironic that the Japanese were buying many of our classic cars up in the recent past). So then these vehicles get traded in on new cars and the "old" ones with typically 40-60k on them get auctioned off to buyers who then cut them up and ship the parts all over the world.
So any of the Japanese car manufactures parts/engines/trans can be had for pretty good prices.
Here's a link to a company out off Chicago.
I'd just take a drive over for something to do and throw an engine in the back of my car
, but they ship all over, you can even get them from the east or west coast which is where the largest JDM dealers are at.http://jdmengineschicago.com
Nice! Great pictures. Looks like a nice area.
I didn’t get an after picture because the iPad was too cold to work, but I got all of this out of here. Some of it had been pushed in there before, and was partially buried. I had to dig to get a chain around it. Once the wood was out, I back bladed with the bucket and pulled the dirt into the low spot with the water.
The branches and logs on the right are out of here too.
I cut another two logs off this stump. I was tempted to cut one more, but thought there would be too much dirt.
I’ve already dumped more here, again the iPad wouldn’t work to take a picture. These are cut at 15” and will go to a 4WD club fundraiser.
I stacked them this way so they wouldn’t be as likely to roll back at me when I dump them.
The branches and logs on the right are out of here too.
I cut another two logs off this stump. I was tempted to cut one more, but thought there would be too much dirt.
I’ve already dumped more here, again the iPad wouldn’t work to take a picture. These are cut at 15” and will go to a 4WD club fundraiser.
I stacked them this way so they wouldn’t be as likely to roll back at me when I dump them.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
May have been E.botryoides. Is a blue gum like Saligna, really hard to tell them apart but the grain is more interlocked than Saligna.After having a (relative) dream run splitting the blue gum rounds last week, I was hopeful that it would continue. Maybe the blue gums at Mitch's are less interlocked and stringy or maybe the Fiskars is the answer, or maybe I'm just getting stronger as I get older
Today burst my bubble.
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Took ages to bash through those rounds. Half dry and hard and a bit stringy so that even once it started to open up I had to chop through every silly strand.
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I found myself hoping that I had a Ranger load from just the blue gum rounds I had already split so I could go home but as they say when you're digging a hole, if you have to measure it, it's not deep enough. So when I was getting disillusioned with splitting, I thought I'll split the candlebark.
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It has pretty salmon coloured heartwood and the gentlest of swings with the Fiskars halved the rounds. A nice way to finish up the load.
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The factory grind is what makes it cut so smooth and fast, but they do well just filing as normal with the 10 degree down angle added.
They are about as hard filing as stihl chains and hold an edge just as well, Oregon and husky both upped their games greatly with their newest chains. I'm sure they will recover some of the chain sales that they had lost to stihl in the near future, but some guys will take longer to switch than others.
That's a great price, You could use them until they dull and sell them on CL for 10 each, I know of a few tree guys who do that, no time to sharpen chains when you're making big money, can't be tripping on dollars to pick up dimes
. That being said if you ain't making money it's a good habit to save money, very hard finding the balance between those two dichotomies.
This stuff already had termite or ant holes, I cut it 18” and it'll be campfire wood.
I’m cleaning up the branch mess too, I go dump it into a pile. We can do pile burns for fuelwood reduction. I know it would be good kindling, but it‘s time consuming. Plus there’s way more kindling than I need.
These wouldn’t come back at me where I dumped them.
I’m cleaning up the branch mess too, I go dump it into a pile. We can do pile burns for fuelwood reduction. I know it would be good kindling, but it‘s time consuming. Plus there’s way more kindling than I need.
These wouldn’t come back at me where I dumped them.
Thanks, I like it there. It’s on the road less traveled too.
I guess it was too muddy to be driving a 31 thousand lb loader, ha ha. I went back with a shovel and scooted the mud back into the tracks before it hardened.
One of two oaks that had the tops break off. We have few oaks, so it was a sad sight.
What I used to drag the logs around. It‘s the first use of the short cable, I had it made because the pin is too awkward/heavy to deal with every time. I also have an old loggers choker cable that’s not in any of these pictures.
panolo
Seldom right...Always opinionated!
Were holding some higher temps at night in the greenhouse. Little bit of moisture on the top.
Got set in here on Saturday. Already starting to see some end cracking. This red oak was over 40% when split. Even though it was barkless and cut in logs last fall oak still holds so much moisture up here.
Got set in here on Saturday. Already starting to see some end cracking. This red oak was over 40% when split. Even though it was barkless and cut in logs last fall oak still holds so much moisture up here.
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I may have been involved with turning a few of those JDM motors into shrapnel over the years. Could pick up B18C and B18R long blocks for 6 to 8 hundred back then. The 2 more door civic had a stock B18C long block that turned 10k and swallowed 18psi for better then a year before the rings started going. Killed one on nitrous before that, broken ring lands and the first turbo motors rods left extra inspection ports in the block do to a tuning errorAll over the web, just search JDM engines. There are large suppliers in pretty much every large metro area near a port since they come over by boat/ship. From my understanding in order to keep the Japanese auto market going they charge more and more every yr of ownership on a vehicle, like if you were charged more every yr for registration, to the point where only the wealthy can afford to drive older vehicles(ironic that the Japanese were buying many of our classic cars up in the recent past). So then these vehicles get traded in on new cars and the "old" ones with typically 40-60k on them get auctioned off to buyers who then cut them up and ship the parts all over the world.
So any of the Japanese car manufactures parts/engines/trans can be had for pretty good prices.
Here's a link to a company out off Chicago.
I'd just take a drive over for something to do and throw an engine in the back of my car
http://jdmengineschicago.com
.Nice that they moved up in the world! Those used to be the full-sized GM station wagons, then high end Chrysler mini-vans, except for the Volvo wagons in the affluent suburbs.
What? That I used to have long hair or that I like women?
Philbert
Thanks Nate.Sorry to hear about your friend Brett, will be praying he has a quick recovery.
Started splitting up and loading some more wood for my buddies shop. Will be glad when the snow and ice melts so I can clean this mess upView attachment 820958Have one more small piece to mill then we will be done with this treeView attachment 820959Had some guest stop by for dinner last night that weren’t practicing social distancing
They all seem to be doing well, but from what I've seen until you get over the threshold with this crap it seems you just can't be sure, he's about a week into it. Another good friends BIL was just released from the hospital last week, he was on oxygen for 10 days(no vent thank God), then he was off the airand sent home a day later. Kinda crazy sounding, but that can be how it is with asthma too, one day you're in intensive care and the next your going home. I know very little about the disease, but it isn't something I'm wanting to try I can tell you that much!
We've been getting a lot of the mess around here cleaned up, and organized/re-organized
. Ready to start filling the area around the shed(not the woodshed) with more gravel/sand, that will keep me busy for a while. I need to pull the front porch off the shed and the uprights that partially support the porch roof. Then I will move the shed once I get the ground a little higher and raise it up about a 1-1.5', then I need to rebuild the deck and set the large support uprights on top of the deck so they don't rot anymore. I'll be setting everything on black locust logs for the main pillars into the ground, they won't rot . I need to clean out the area behind the shed and drop a red oak that's leaning and already compromised from the storm last fall before moving the shed. It will need to be tied off to another tree so it doesn't bounce into the shed since it has a large sweep in it and it could wipe out the back side of the shed since I have no way to drop it so it lands flat, better safe than sorry.What will you be using the boards for.
My kids liked your visitors. I had three of them laying about 30" from my large dwindling wood pile when I went out there to grab a few pieces before going to bed. I shown the streamlight over there and they were all curious, stood up and were all checking me out. They were one pop from being dinner
.Simple way to measure is with a straight edge and some automotive feeler gauges.
Optional way is with a fancy micrometer / caliper / or cheap ($7) tire depth gauge off of eBay.
https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/depth-gauge-tools-for-saw-chain.279374/
Why measure?
- Sometimes it is diagnositc, to let someone know why their chain is behaving a certain way ('Specs say 0.025" and yours are more like 0.042"!')
- Similar, but to explain the concept of 'consistency' ('Yours ranged from 0.017" to 0.035"!')
- To copy /replicate settings that you really like ('0.029 works really well for me in this wood').
Philbert
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