Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

My kinda of scrounging. The red dump truck showed up again with a load of ash.
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Awesome load Steve, looks ready to split and sell .

 

[Lionsfan]

Hi folks, I'm new here and am looking for some guidance. This is the first winter my family has burned firewood. I have a very messed up back. More than 20 years of botched surgeries and procedures have left me with a lot of permanent nerve damage and scar tissue.

Anyhow, I am using a Husqvarna rancher 450 *edit- the saw is not a 455* with a 20" bar. The saw is 0.325, so 20" is the longest I can go. I'm not cutting large stuff, I'm still cutting deadfall Ash on my property, so the biggest stuff I encounter is normally less than 14" diameter.

That said, I'm stooping over more than I would like to be. I'm thinking about picking up another saw that can pull a longer bar. I'd love to go 28", but I may not be able to afford that. My question is this, if I were to get the bigger Husqvarna rancher (I think it's a 460) for which they recommend a maximum 24" bar, could I get away with a 28" bar on it provided I'm not expecting it to cut enormous trees?

If not, could you all recommend a used saw to look for which might fit the requirements? I've been trying to Google models as they come up for sale, but frankly, the manufacturer naming schemes seem to be complete nonsense and I'm having trouble making heads or tails of which saws I should even bother trying to research.

Thank you for your time!
Jason

My kinda of scrounging. The red dump truck showed up again with a load of ash.
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Nice old truck. Don't see many left that vintage around here.

 

[farmer steve]

Awesome load Steve, looks ready to split and sell .

Thanks. I'm hoping it is. The guy cuts them at 32" so I have to cut them in half and split them up.

 

[turnkey4099]

I thought you could take it from there.

After you select a picture and a check mark forms on it, click “Done”. You’ll have to put the cursor where you want the image to go, unless you’re not adding any text. Wait for it to finish loading. Then click “Insert”, and “Thumbnail” or “Full image” (choose one). Then click “Post reply”.

Thanks. I'm 86 so way behind technology. I used to post pictures from photobucket but they got greedy. It was real simple that way, only about 3 key strokes from finding the pic to done.

 

[turnkey4099]

You could hook a drill or impact to the crankshaft/nut that holds the flywheel if it spins the correct way to start it without loosening.

Now why did I not think of that years ago!!! And yes, most horizontal shaft engins will be turning the correct way for it to work. Not so with vertical shafts.

Then there are the hammer drills that usually have reverse on them for the vertical shafts..

 

[rarefish383]

Now why did I not think of that years ago!!! And yes, most horizontal shaft engins will be turning the correct way for it to work. Not so with vertical shafts.

Then there are the hammer drills that usually have reverse on them for the vertical shafts..

All of my DeWalt nut drivers have reverse. They make make a 3/8ths extension that just snaps in. I use it to take 1/2" bolts out of stuff. Not half inch socket, half inch bolt. I don't know if they have the guts to spin a saw over. I was thinking of doing that with my Super 1050 Homelite 100CC's and no decomp, when I was milling with it. Figured I could set it on the rails and just hit it with the drill. I think I saw youtube videos of people that did that.

 

[rarefish383]

Nice old truck. Don't see many left that vintage around here.

I have some back issues and if I lean forward just a couple degrees my back will kill me. Even with a longer bar, your going to have to lean, maybe not squat as much. I've built racks and put a pully up in a tree. Pull the log under, hook the rope on both ends of the log and pull it up in the air with the pickup. Slide 3 saw horses under it. All somewhat close to the middle. Cut 1-2 blocks off one end, then 1-2 off the other end. No squating or bending at all. Now I have a loader with forks and just pick the log up and cut from the ends. All kind of log racks for bucking wood on the internet that would work really well with 14"-16" logs. A 4" longer bar and you can feel the extra leverage sticking in front after a fairly short time.

 

[H-Ranch]

There’s no stopping this guy!

I still have a lot of work ahead of me so I try to knock out a little every day - sometimes I just run out of hours in the day though.

 

[H-Ranch]

Are these REALLY different wheel barrow loads? Or is this like @dancan posting the same mininvan photos again and again?

Philbert

LOL - the only time I show a repeat is if I forget to take a pic before I stack it. Then I may try to trick @Cowboy254 into believing that 2 views of the same load are different loads. Actually, I don't think he really minds, he just likes photos regardless.

 

[H-Ranch]

Cut, split, and stacked to end the day just right. And now it's Miller time.

 

[SS396driver]

My kinda of scrounging. The red dump truck showed up again with a load of ash.
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My kinda truck

 

[GrizG]

Cut, split, and stacked to end the day just right. And now it's Miller time.

If I had a beer I'd fall instantly asleep after dealing with the ice storm damage for the past couple days... I haven't made a dent in it yet!

 

[SS396driver]

If I had a beer I'd fall instantly asleep after dealing with the ice storm damage for the past couple days... I haven't made a dent in it yet!

You got it worse than us . Not much tree damage here

 

[GrizG]

You got it worse than us . Not much tree damage here

This area got slammed bad... it's been described as "ground zero." I have friends who have not had power since early Friday and others with severe damage to their outdoor electrical hookups... including my son. I got my power back after about 35 1/4 hours... That is a long time to not have power when it dipped to 4°F last night. There are so many damaged trees that I anticipate power outages for weeks to come as the future winds knock the damaged limbs and trees to the ground. My chainsaws and pole saw are having, and will continue to have, a good workout! It will take me at least a week to clean up my family's properties and then there are the many miles of wooded rail trail with which to contend. My saws were getting lonely so maybe they prayed for it!

 

[Jeffkrib]

Hey Scroungers, I was off on holidays for two weeks after Xmas, I’ve only just caught up…. Can’t believe how many posts there were. Anyway we spent a week in the Snowy mountains, here’s a couple of pis of the Eucalyptus trees up at the edge of the tree line. Above the tree line there was still snow (remember it’s the middle of summer here).

 

[Jeffkrib]

After that we dropped the kids off to spend a week at my sisters place out in the country.

I took the trailer to scrounge a load of wood. No pics of the wood but here’s a couple of the 7900. My BIL waned me not to get the bar into the long grass, but I figured that’s him having issues with his ms170. Well apparently, he was right, this grass is like a pair of chainsaw chaps it instantly stalled a 6hp chainsaw. That’s some seriously tough grass!

 

[Brufab]

I find that odd, not that I'm saying it doesn't happen, but it's never happened to me.
I've posted screenshots from my phone at "full size" and then I see them on the computer and they are huge so I change them to "thumbnail".
I've also noticed that when someone just attaches the picture that if I click on it, it will load much quicker than clicking on a thumbnail or even a full sized picture to zoom in on it, not sure what's up with that.

I'm still working on that thumbnail vs full size image thing. The wife is amazed I'm doing so good with uploading videos and being on this site. Probly not as smart as most 5-7 year olds yet on technology but as they say baby steps

 

[GrizG]

You got it worse than us . Not much tree damage here

For those not from the area, this storm hit early Friday and it is now late Sunday evening. 80% of the outages in NY occurred in my county and over half the customers in the county lost power. The numbers kept climbing even as they fixed things as they kept finding unreported problems and trees continued to take down lines. It's a good place to have a fireplace or stove and lots of wood!

I just got an e-mail from the power company that reads in part:

Damage from the storm has been severe. So far crews have addressed nearly 600 individual damage locations and have approximately 670 locations remaining with additional outages still being reported. Since the start of the storm there have been 75 broken poles and more than 2,000 cases of downed lines.​

 

[Brufab]

Cut, split, and stacked to end the day just right. And now it's Miller time. View attachment 962780View attachment 962781View attachment 962782View attachment 962783View attachment 962779

I may have to upgrade my membership. @H-Ranch I think I used up all my on your wheelbarrow pics

 

[Philbert]

My BIL waned me not to get the bar into the long grass, but I figured that’s him having issues with his ms170. Well apparently, he was right, this grass is like a pair of chainsaw chaps it instantly stalled a 6hp chainsaw. That’s some seriously tough grass!

Wow! That type of grass have a name?

Philbert