Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[cantoo]

I bought a couple more saws at auctions a 362 and a 201. Both in decent shape and good enough prices. Bought a ton of other stuff but nothing related to wood. I'm getting sore wrists from all the online bidding, too much clicking to view pictures and bid. I'm hoping they start having on site sales soon but at least it's saving me a ton of driving. I can bid at home or when I'm on the road with my phone and on my laptop at night in motels. Then I usually have my wife pick the stuff up wherever it's located. I've gotten a couple really good deals and sold them well and then there is the stuff we don't brag about. I bought some electronic stuff at a sale a few weeks ago and the pictures looked good but it was all crap. Going to be going into the recycle bin soon. Been running my sawmill trying to cut up and bunch of cedar for a couple of home projects. Hit the damn log stop yesterday with only 4' of cutting left to do on my last 6x6. Put a new band on and when I was cutting the last 7 1/4" post I decided that I needed to shave an inch off my log dog. That one sure ruined the band quick. Good thing I have a new 10 pack hanging in the shop. My grandson at practice today. In my day we had to yell from the corners and hope they could hear us, today they wear radio headphones and my son follows behind to tell him what to do. No one other than parents allowed at the tracks yet.

 

[tnichols]

Haven’t been on here in a while. Life gets in the way sometimes. Just started on a blown down trifecta (Shaggy took down 2 Oaks). Slow going my first day in with the tops in a tangled mess. Hope to get back tomorrow with cooler temps.

 

[MustangMike]

Nate, looks like your taking to that 462!

 

[KiwiBro]

Bought a dado set on ebay. A day later got a tracking number. Day after, seller's listings say away for a while. After almost two days still no tracking info showing when I try to see if it actually got shipped. I can't take the risk they did nothing but plug in a tracking ticket number but never actually got it out before they went away, so have bought another set from another ebayer I have used in the past, just in case. I'll give it another few days for the first one to show some tracking info but if it doesn't, I'll be asking for a refund. Do you fellas think that's reasonable? I wouldn't have bought it had I known they were going to be away for a while.

 

[farmer steve]

Well no more cutting from the close by easy cream patch for nowView attachment 844960Have plenty of splitting to do though
And still have the rest of this one to go get

 

[farmer steve]

Nate, looks like your taking to that 462!

I noticed that too Mike.

 

[KiwiBro]

View attachment 845000

dead trees tell no tales

 

[KiwiBro]

What's the attraction of the 462 when the 500i is moar powa and same weight?

 

[Cowboy254]

I used to be able to load rounds this size, but that was many years ago.

We just use a Donk.

 

[MustangMike]

What's the attraction of the 462 when the 500i is moar powa and same weight?

The 462 is a little lighter and has better features, most notably the clean air filter tech. The 500 has more torque, but stock, often a 462 will out cut it. Plus, the 462 is available.

The 462 suits my cutting needs near perfectly, so why bother with the 500? (I have 2 of them, both ported. One with 20" light, one with a 24"). They are my "go to" saws. The weight of a 60cc saw and the power of a 77 cc saw!

 

[U&A]

Well no more cutting from the close by easy cream patch for nowView attachment 844960Have plenty of splitting to do thoughView attachment 844961
And still have the rest of this one to go getView attachment 844962

Nice pile[emoji4]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[Logger nate]

Nate, looks like your taking to that 462!

I noticed that too Mike.

Yeah I like it, actually thinking about selling the 572.
And getting a xpgw.... or 462R arctic when available. Still don’t care for the caps and the price, but the weight and handling

 

[Logger nate]

The 462 is a little lighter and has better features, most notably the clean air filter tech. The 500 has more torque, but stock, often a 462 will out cut it. Plus, the 462 is available.

The 462 suits my cutting needs near perfectly, so why bother with the 500? (I have 2 of them, both ported. One with 20" light, one with a 24"). They are my "go to" saws. The weight of a 60cc saw and the power of a 77 cc saw!

Yep

Nice pile[emoji4]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Thanks!

 

[Philbert]

Bought a dado set on ebay. A day later got a tracking number. Day after, seller's listings say away for a while. After almost two days still no tracking info showing when I try to see if it actually got shipped. I can't take the risk they did nothing but plug in a tracking ticket number but never actually got it out before they went away, so have bought another set from another ebayer I have used in the past, just in case. I'll give it another few days for the first one to show some tracking info but if it doesn't, I'll be asking for a refund. Do you fellas think that's reasonable? I wouldn't have bought it had I known they were going to be away for a while.

Probably get more feedback on the eBay / CragsList thread. Could be legit or a scam. Good communication between seller and buyer is critical.

Philbert

 

[rarefish383]

I'm looking for ideas on contraptions to help me load the big chunks of hardwood firewood into my trailer. My trailer is only a 5' x 8' single axle trailer with a 2" (?) angle iron frame and 1" angle iron side frame. I can lift probable 80# myself but when the rounds get up to 24", I have to noodle them. That's fine, and I've done that before, when it's cool out, but now in this heat, I just want to load my trailer and go home. Once home I just roll them onto my rock driveway, noodle and split them there at my convenience. A half hour or so at a time.

I'm looking for something simple and bolt together. I have plenty of unistrut that I thought I could use. Since I'm only loading rounds I don't need a log arch. Only looking to lift up to 120# (guess). Something I could bolt to my trailer once at the log yard. And I don't want to only support it by the top frame of the side rails and eventually destroy them. Also it would be human powered; something that works quickly. My basic idea is a long beam that straps to the round and then is lifted and then swung into the trailer. There would be a fulcrum (pivot) point on the beam. I'm guessing it would have to be mounted to one side. and that's as far as I get with ideas. Hope I've been clear.

any thoughts?

Edit: Something like his.
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This is the second "Gantry" I've built on my trailer. The first was just under 6' high and people kept hitting their head on it. This one is close to ten feet high. I can hang a snatch block anywhere along the beam to get the log where I want it. This one is made with Pressure treated 4X6's. I unhook the truck from the trailer and run a 17,000 pound bull line through the pulley. Tie the end around the log about 3 feet back on the log. That way if you pull up just a few inches from touching the pulley, when you back up and let the log down, it slides forward on the trailer. I do put chocks under the trailer tires, but, the force of the truck pulling down on the gantry keeps the trailer from moving. When I pull the chocks out, they are loose.

If you don't have a dump trailer, make some short chain or rope chokers, and leave them on the back end of the log. Back up to a tree and tie off to the choker and pull out from under it.

The full load was loaded in less than a half hour, and it was our first day playing with the new gantry,

 

[rarefish383]

We have been helping our friends pack up to move to Florida, actually I've been busy, and they left two weeks ago. Linda asked if I wanted any of her gardening stuff. I said I'd like to buy her cart. She said, It's yours! It looks like a small hay wagon. I got the bright idea to clean the metal up and paint it green and yellow to look like, and match, my JD. Another friend found the company that makes them, it's called, Country Wagon. It's 7' long and rated to haul 2,000 pounds. I'm going to use old Oak fence boards for bed and side boards. If you have ever seen an old hay wagon they had very tall back boards to stack the square bales against. I'm going to build a proportionately tall back board and make slots in it so I can hang my long barred saws on it. Then put a big Ash log on it and cut grooves in it to mount other saws and use it as a display at the fair. I'll post up dates to the resto/build.

 

[rarefish383]

Oh, it is available with an optional dump! the dump package uses a hand pump bottle jack, I think I'm going to try Baile's Hydraulics and get an electric/hydraulic dump package. All I'll have to do is build a battery box.

 

[H-Ranch]

Took this down at sister-in-laws yesterday. BIL has an MS-170 that wasn't going to do. He was good enough to get a man lift and take down all the limbs this week. Tree was mostly leafless so surprising to me that the trunk was completely sound. It's probably up near 36".

I should have opened the notch more, but wasn't too concerned with the strap to pull it. Missed the notch by a little on the far side.

And in addition to family time, was rewarded with this. And more than this left for another trip later. White oak. Oh darn.

 

[djg james]

Rarefish, I don't have that much room to maneuver but I was planning a smaller version of your gantry on the few occasions I do haul a log. I think my small HF electric winch would lift a log onto the roller on end of my trailer. I'd rechoke to move it the rest of the way.

On another note, I like your free trailer. I could come up with ideas for that.

Hay wagons? Probably people on this forum would know what they are, but most people wouldn't. Spent a few summers on a wagon helping out the local farmers with their baling.

 

[LondonNeil]

I think it shoes that Joe has done this for a living....his solution is cheap, simple, effective and fast! very clever.

Yeah I like it, actually thinking about selling the 572

wash your mouth out!

H-Ranch, looks like BIL did outstanding to delimb that with a 170! That said, shortly before I bought my 365, my brother dropped a cherry tree in his garden with a 24+" trunk with....a 14" bar on a ms180 it was a short and dumpy tree but necessity and invention and all that.