Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

One thing I hate since I moved to PA 40 years ago is rust. Vehicle work was so much easier out west without rust. Now, most jobs start with "how much pain will there be just getting s-word apart so I can work on it".

Yes I is a bugger lol. I did finally get it out and new u joints in it. Was good I did because I found a bad bearing in the input cluster. Fortunately I had the right size here. Now im just debating if I should pull the clutch output shaft and bearings and replace them now. Any who. Here's some pics.

 

[SS396driver]

The 72 approves of its new digs

 

[chipper1]

Yes I is a bugger lol. I did finally get it out and new u joints in it. Was good I did because I found a bad bearing in the input cluster. Fortunately I had the right size here. Now im just debating if I should pull the clutch output shaft and bearings and replace them now. Any who. Here's some pics.

Looks like the cylinder will be junk to me, but sometimes you get lucky. Is that an OEM cylinder?
Glad you got the u-joints and bearing taken care of today.
I ran to the parts store to have them make me a hose for the loader on a little kubota bx2350, they didn't have the 1/4" fittings there, so to the big city I went chasing. Got there and the guy made it up and told me $55, for an 18" hydraulic hose . I told him the guy in my town usually bills me under one of our local companies as a cash sale, he did it and I got the hose, 2 auto-lite plugs, and a set of front turn signal bulbs for 48 out the door. Much better .

 

[chipper1]

Oh snap, HVBW .

 

[Cowboy254]

I finished debarking and splitting the spotted gum from the other day. I debarked most of it on the day and the bark (up to 1" thick) peeled off with a sound like sucking air through a straw. There was a layer of moisture under the bark. After sitting for a few days, I went to finish debarking and it wouldn't give, had to chop it off. Check out how much there ended up being from an overloaded trailer plus a third of a load in the back of the ute!



So I ended up with one ute load which I will take to my parents next weekend plus some stacked against the shed. Spotted gum is 950kg/m3 which is the same as hedge/osage.

 

[MustangMike]

I don't see why the cylinder would not be fine, other than the AM ones for that saw are cheap and seem to work just fine.

 

[MustangMike]

I promised some pics:

Made a Hickory Shelf and a Red Oak shelf for the cabin; made a gun cabinet for the wall of the cabin; made a gun cabinet for my house (the tall one).

Both gun cabinets are milled Red Oak and plywood. Finished the one for the house with spar urethane, the one for the cabin is Teak Oil (as are the shelves). IMO, they look pretty similar.

Unfortunately, this wood was aged outside, and the live edge is not what is used to be!

Live and learn, if you age wood outside, live edge has a limited shelf life! Had to use Hardener on some of it.

 

[sean donato]

Looks like the cylinder will be junk to me, but sometimes you get lucky. Is that an OEM cylinder?
Glad you got the u-joints and bearing taken care of today.
I ran to the parts store to have them make me a hose for the loader on a little kubota bx2350, they didn't have the 1/4" fittings there, so to the big city I went chasing. Got there and the guy made it up and told me $55, for an 18" hydraulic hose . I told him the guy in my town usually bills me under one of our local companies as a cash sale, he did it and I got the hose, 2 auto-lite plugs, and a set of front turn signal bulbs for 48 out the door. Much better .

Biggest issue I have with this little machine is parts. It's an 1980 something and they quit shipping them here in 89(to the best I know). Very tough little tractor, but darn hard to get stuff for. As far as I know these were the original u joints to the tractor. And honestly I think them being made of unobtaineom is why I got it given to me. The front pto runs off a short drive shaft and the previous owner blew one and took the yoke out. He didn't want to have a custom shaft made and didn't feel like trying to find a used one. I scored one off ebay for $100.00 from a guy in hornsdale, PA. Looks like it's brand new. Now need to get afew more u joints ordered to have on hand.
Sure is a bugger when you have to run all over to get the parts you need.

I don't see why the cylinder would not be fine, other than the AM ones for that saw are cheap and seem to work just fine.

The intake side of the cylinder looks OK as far as I can tell, and as far as I know it's all stock. I was kinda surprised to see the piston scored up so bad but so much oil residue on the piston and cylinder. I'll get it popped apart here soon and post more pics. The guy isn't gonna spring for dumping much money in it, so it'll likely get a chicom top end if the cylinder doesn't clean up.

 

[Lee192233]

Looks like the first half of the day will be a wash out. No scrounging today. It'll be a great afternoon to burn some brush though. Any scrounging I do now will be stacking logs as I have no more room for split wood at the moment. I have to move my winter supply to the basement and then I'll have 3 cords room for more split wood.

 

[MustangMike]

The guy isn't gonna spring for dumping much money in it, so it'll likely get a chicom top end if the cylinder doesn't clean up.

The Farmertech (whatever) ones for that saw are very cheap and run surprisingly well. Did one for a guy a few years ago (MechanicMatt's BIL) and he was very happy with is for several years (it was his only saw) until he destroyed it through neglect (the parts did not fail). Did a slight muffler mod and removed the limiters from the carb.

 

[psuiewalsh]

Scrounged some dead stuff from the swamp.

 

[LondonNeil]

Has anyone tried burning creosote?

I've just swept both chimneys, first time for 2 years. I got about 2 quarts of dry brown powdery creosote from each. Not bad. It's bagged up and just about to drop in the refuse bin as normal when I had a thought, can I burn it? Will it burn nicely or just creosote up my flues again? Thinking of making some parcels of it with newspaper and trying, but .....?

 

[farmer steve]

Has anyone tried burning creosote?

I've just swept both chimneys, first time for 2 years. I got about 2 quarts of dry brown powdery creosote from each. Not bad. It's bagged up and just about to drop in the refuse bin as normal when I had a thought, can I burn it? Will it burn nicely or just creosote up my flues again? Thinking of making some parcels of it with newspaper and trying, but .....?

I wouldn't Neil. Send it down the road. Just my 2 shillings or pence.

 

[farmer steve]

Scrounged some dead stuff from the swamp.

Looks good Keith. The boy Stihl using that lectric saw?

 

[LondonNeil]

I wouldn't Neil. Send it down the road. Just my 2 shillings or pence.

Agreed. I wrote that musing, then thought 'wtf!'. Sometimes weird s**t passes into my mind... But I've come to my senses

 

[psuiewalsh]

Looks good Keith. The boy Stihl using that lectric saw?

I get him to cut some more when we are in green trees. Not much on these dead ones. I cut a cord or more out of the left overs so far. Alot of the tops are too far gone esp on the ash and hickory

 

[psuiewalsh]

There are prob 10 more 20-30" oaks further in but we will need the 963 to drag them forward. Maybe later this fall/ winter

 

[SS396driver]

Done with the shelter for this year . Going to put a floor in next spring . Even ran some lights off my road find generator . Used one of my stainless steel tables as a work bench.

 

[sean donato]

You can burn the creosote. It burns pretty hot and is the solid bits of wood gas (and other things) that left as a vapor and Condensed on your chimney/flue. If it's a complete burn it won't form more creosote. Actually there was a furnace that ran off a down draft principal, that wanted the creosote build up to fall back I to the firebox so it could be burned to make heat. Was an interesting idea, I think it was called a wood gun or something like that.

 

[Cowboy254]

Has anyone tried burning creosote?

I've just swept both chimneys, first time for 2 years. I got about 2 quarts of dry brown powdery creosote from each. Not bad. It's bagged up and just about to drop in the refuse bin as normal when I had a thought, can I burn it? Will it burn nicely or just creosote up my flues again? Thinking of making some parcels of it with newspaper and trying, but .....?

I don't see why you couldn't. You creosote accumulation is likely to be occurring during start-up and when the air intake is well shut down. Chuck it in a fire that's already going well with good air and it'll disappear like wood will.