What happened to to your Duck season? If they closed mine, I'd go crazy. I hunt Fed lands and I wouldn't be surprised if they closed them this Fall due to Covid. State lands were closed this Spring, so I lost out on Spring Turkey season.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Oh my. CAD struck again! Found a Stihl 880 with 5' B&C for $450.. Would that be worth it if it had a scored piston but had good compression?
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Not peppermint its messmate (tas oak) just like ol mate with the old ute is cutting. Best wood Ive ever cut actually...exceptionally dense so heavy as hell. Theres a patch of trees on one side of a particular hill thats mostly like this..just lucky this tree was felled by a pro faller on the edge of a bushfire..had a hollow butt that caught fire. Didnt need to be dropped as the hollow only went up 3 metres...whoever decided this tree needed to come down is wet behind the ears...plenty like that running fires these days.
All good things come to an end and Ive cut all the wattle from the log landing...guess I cut 40 tonnes.
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Good heavens! What's the diameter of that thing? You could fill the bed of a pickup with just two rounds split.
Price seems kinda of low. Another one posted in the southern part of the state for over $1000. Hopefully they'll contact me but the ads 19 hours old so who knows. And hopefully there's no too much wrong with it.
Is it easy to get to the spark plug on a 880? Pics if you've got them. How much scouring on a piston is normal? Again pics if you have them.
Thanks.
P.S. now he's asking $500 for it and says compression is fine. So I don't think he'll let me check the piston or the compression. Probably not advisable to buy it just because it runs? ?
Thanks.
P.S. now he's asking $500 for it and says compression is fine. So I don't think he'll let me check the piston or the compression. Probably not advisable to buy it just because it runs? ?
Okay so its official today our world record run ended, 29 years without a recession in Australia (previous record 26 years held by the Netherlands). We have a generation who have never experianced a recession, infact the last time we had a recession the internet didn't exist. Hope it's short but sweet.
In their infinite wisdom, the State of MN chose to allow it's state campgrounds to stay open this year but locked up all of the bathrooms so covid would not be spread in common areas.
Now they are closing the campgrounds for the rest of the year because people are shitting in the woods.
Did anyone with half a brain not predict this would happen?
Anything open around here has been trashed this year. Different type of folk who do not give a F about cleanlinesss. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area was originally closed to campers but reopened and they have had tons of trash as well as increased vandalism and crime. Just read an article this morning about a drunk/stoned naked woman was escorted out by rangers LOL.
The good thing is when I go in, I am 20 miles from the nearest road and all of the dipshits tend to take the first campsites along the first lakes.
The good thing is when I go in, I am 20 miles from the nearest road and all of the dipshits tend to take the first campsites along the first lakes.
Never made it to the boundary waters. A friend and I had made plans to take a trip later one Summer. In the Spring he came by and told me he couldn't go. He got his girl friend pregnant. And that was all she wrote.
My house is 5 miles from one entry point. Sadly to say I haven't been in that one for several years or any of them for a couple. But if you want to come up, I would be happy to take a trip in.
Good fishing can be had by traveling one portage in and near complete solitude is only two portages away.
Good fishing can be had by traveling one portage in and near complete solitude is only two portages away.
Haven't heard from the guy with the 880 for an hour now, and he said he had 2 other people (from what I could decipher from his text speak) that had offered him $500. So he probably got pissed I wanted to check out the saw and passed me over, even though I was first.
That does happen, although with your luck you are better off missing out on a questionable deal rather than ending up with another potential project saw.
My Luck? What are you saying about me? My ignorance/stupidity 
. Yes I know what you mean. Seems too low for a good saw.
. Yes I know what you mean. Seems too low for a good saw.
Partially bad luck! I never had a bad saw deal until I knew better but did not bother to verify piston condition!!My Luck? What are you saying about me? My ignorance/stupidity
Did you ever hear back from the guy on that other one?
Asking prices on used saws vary. Sometimes guys want $25 bucks for a running pro saw and other times (especially the case for 170 Stihls) they ask more than new retail LOL.
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So it's not just the bears now. Oh sh*t
I made had lots of good cutting time in recently, lots of spare chains to use when the others got dull. Then I realized that I had 7 chains to sharpen so I had to stop cutting yesterday and grind chains. This was an "interesting find" A nice chunk of steel hidden by bark growing over it.
We haven't had any rolling blackouts yet. Yeah, I don’t want to do anything in that heat either. Especially after being in the mountains where it’s about 14 degrees cooler. If I need to do something in that kind of heat, it’ll be in the hour and a half before dark.
