Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Chipper gets the best of both worlds. Older kids who are adults to hang out with and enjoy life, and younger ones at an older age so you are a more mature parent and enjoy the smaller things with them.

There’s definitely a trade off depending on when you have kids. Young/broke/inexperienced parents means you’ll probably have grandkids sooner. Having kids when you are older/more mature/probably more financially stable is good too.

 

[LondonNeil]

I'm 46 and have a 4 year old. He keeps me young, though. Get to play with Legos again and catch toads! Haha
Got awhile before I'll be a gramps.
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I caught a decent sized frog in my garden yesterday in order to show my 2 and be 4 to girls. Then commented to my wife that must have been the first time in about 37 ish years, is since I was about 10. It's great bring able to do these things again!

 

[Logger nate]

Happy birthday gentlemen!

 

[chucker]

50's not old. Is it?

! only if your 29....? lol ? 50 is young still, if you are over the third hump of a two hump mountain!..... then it's a down hill slide to retirement or inturnment!

 

[Logger nate]

I'm 46 and have a 4 year old. He keeps me young, though. Get to play with Legos again and catch toads! Haha
Got awhile before I'll be a gramps.
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Great picture!! That’s awesome

 

[Logger nate]

That's an awesome pic.
Our kids have a bunch of toads in the window well, they carry them around and they don't even try to get away, trained toads lol.
I've found kids can make you feel young or old lol.

The kids found this little guy a bit ago, yesterday they were on the neighbors property by the creek and found an eastern box turtle.
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Wow that’s cool! That things tiny

 

[Haywire]

Great picture!! That’s awesome

Yeah, he was pretty proud of that catch!

 

[farmer steve]

Great picture!! That’s awesome

Hey Nate. How'd ya like to wear these spikes? M. Klein and sons ,Chicago IL.1945. Got them from my neighbor who was a lineman.

 

[Logger nate]

Hey Nate. How'd ya like to wear these spikes? M. Klein and sons ,Chicago IL.1945. Got them from my neighbor who was a lineman.
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No thanks! Those guys were tougher than me, lol. I know some guys can use stuff like that and small single belt and be just fine, maybe they just get used to it. My Dad did a lot of stuff I couldn’t do or would have a hard time. Guess I’m spoiled and kinda wimpy, especially compared to the old timers.

 

[Iowawoodguy]

Found 3 decent brushpiles within 3 miles of the house. Now I just have to get permission.

 

[chipper1]

Happy birthday gentlemen!

I thought he was on the other forum

 

[rarefish383]

Look who's in my wood pile? Sure is pretty.

 

[Haywire]

Look who's in my wood pile? Sure is pretty.

Is that a milk snake? I only hit like because it's in YOUR wood pile! I probably would have shat myself! Haha

 

[JustJeff]

I was given a number of 66DL .325 bars. The 67 DL chains work just fine on them. And the price was right.

Some bars work with chains 1 DL off of standard and some don’t. Just need trial an error to make sure that you don’t run out of adjustment and the oiler still works.

So far here’s what I found:
-Stihl 3/8 LP small mount 55DL will work with more common 56DL chains
-Husky large and small mount 3/8 60DL bars will work with Homelite specific 59DL chains.
-Homelite 3/8 59DL bars will not work with 60 DL chains
-Husky small mount .325 66 DL will work with 67 DL chains
-53DL 3/8 LP chains will work on 52DL bars.

Yeah I found out the hard way that I couldn't find a chain with the correct drive link count for my junkyard homelite. Only guy that makes chains local is the Stihl dealer. So I have a $42 chain on a saw I'd be lucky to get $40 for. Lol.

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[dancan]

Happy birthday to @mainewoods and @95custmz. Have a great day fellas.

Zactlty !!!

 

[dancan]

which remeinds me lots of mountiain bikers here swear by Avon skin so soft moisturiser as an effective mossie rep. Personally i think if you need one, you need to cycle faster

Deer flies , no repellent works , clocked one at 12mph keeping up with me on the Yanmar 336 at about 13mph in high range wot .

 

[Philbert]

Only guy that makes chains local is the Stihl dealer. So I have a $42 chain on a saw I'd be lucky to get $40 for.

Buy a spinner with your COVID money, and become the guy that other folks in the area come to.

Philbert

 

[KiwiBro]

When the auctions start back up I'll look for a set, they sell cheap, 10-15 bucks a set. Shipping is rough getting them down there. I have a friend that collects Savage rifles down there, he won a first place award for best display a few years back. There used to be a brick factory in Western Maryland, in the Savage Valley. I had a real pretty brick that was a cream color with pink and yellow streaks running through it, that had Super Savage stamped in it. I thought one would look good on his display table, it cost $65 to ship it.

That's very kind, thank you. It sure would be good to have USA-made quality. I'll do a quick look tonight online at what sort of costs are likely to ship'em and be in touch with what I might be able to afford to pay should you ever come across any on the other side of the lockdowns. Thanks again, that's really cool to have a pair of eyes and ears up there for this sort of thing.

It's not every day someone sends a brick downunder. I agree it can get pricey sending stuff to us here. There was a time our NZ$ was much stronger against the US$ and it made sense to buy lots of stuff from USA, including saws and tools. Lately, not so much.

Friends here produce highly potent Manuka honey and I got them to send a 1kg jar of the 20+UMF honey to AS member lone wolf. That was sent just before covid-19 and it only just got delivered a little while ago, such is the backlog up there. At least the stuff doesn't go off. But usually I have found our main postal service here is way cheaper than sending the same parcel the other way, regardless of where it is going to. However, this time around, with the honey, it was much more expensive than i thought it would be. I think our NZ Post is starting to catch up to the rest of the world with their costs, darn it.

 

[Iowawoodguy]

Got access to the neighbors brush pile. Theres wood in there I swear.

 

[muad]

That's sweet!


I agree with Steve I wouldn't run 325 on it, not reason. I'd put a 20x3/8 on it myself.
If you decide to run an 18x325 it should have no problem doing that with an 8 pin. The problem you will have is making a chain that will bite well and be smooth, since the saw is lighter with rubber AV I think you would be better served with the chain spinning slower taking a larger bite with 3/8.
Here's a stock 254 running a 20x325 with a 7 pin in cherry, it was very fast cutting when it wasn't chattering .

Stock husky 545 in the same cherry log, nice runner, but the 254 with the aggressive chain put it to shame.

Just for fun .
Ported dolmar 7900 in the same cherry with a 20x38 square.

Thanks guys. I need to look at the bar/chain I have for it now. Pretty sure it's a 16" with .325.

I'm assuming to run 3/8, I'll need another drive gear (whatever it's called).

I believe Kevin put a 357 clutch on it for me.