Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Kodiak Kid]

Yeah they don't make em like that anymore. That series had Reed valves so they are high torque instead of high rpm.

Must be why it sounds different than all my conventional small saws! I mean that 009 just sounds mean and throaty for a small saw! It also has a pretty impressive exhaust for a small saw I must say! I don't even use my two 170's. In fact, I think I'm going to sell them both, but not the 009! That saw is too cool and too useful!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Lee192233]

Burned a brush pile today.

Also scrounged a piece of oak from last weekend. I plan on milling slabs from it for a coffee table at our cottage.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Burned a brush pile today.
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Also scrounged a piece of oak from last weekend. I plan on milling slabs from it for a coffee table at our cottage.
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Nice stick of Oak!

Im also building up a burn pile today as well!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Burned a brush pile today.
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Also scrounged a piece of oak from last weekend. I plan on milling slabs from it for a coffee table at our cottage.
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How many horse is that tractor, and how many lbs will it lift?

 

[Lee192233]

How many horse is that tractor, and how many lbs will it lift?

60 hp. It will lift 2100 lbs on a 4'×4' pallet.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

60 hp. It will lift 2100 lbs on a 4'×4' pallet.

Very nice! I'm in the market for a 4x4 tractor of that size myself! Can you get log tongs or grapples for it? For picking up and decking loggs? Also, a splitter that hooks up to the three point?

 

[Lee192233]

You can definitely get a grapple for the quick attach on the loader. There are also these skidder attachments for the 3pt.
https://www.hud-son.com/log-grapples-and-rotators/The sky's the limit. Depends on the depth of the bank account.
I think most guys would recommend staying away from a 3pt log splitter. It's nice to use the loader to bring big rounds up to the splitter. It also doesn't make sense to run a 60 hp tractor when a 10-15 hp engine will do the job.

 

[ValleyForge]

Very nice! I'm in the market for a 4x4 tractor of that size myself! Can you get log tongs or grapples for it? For picking up and decking loggs? Also, a splitter that hooks up to the three point?

Get your order in now so you stand a chance of getting one next year this time….

 

[LondonNeil]

Hey guys! I had a stag in my garden yesterday! a HUGE one! Biggest I've ever seen for sure. Most impressive antlers. These are a unique stag to the UK I believe and endangered, numbers are dropping, but would you believe south london is more or less the only place they still survive? Hence why I was so pleased to see him.

 

[LondonNeil]

He was a good 3" long!

 

[Lee192233]

I was thinking this..
I noticed your yard looks like mine. Kiddos helping dad and dragging firewood all over.

 

[ValleyForge]

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He was a good 3" long!

Jesus….are they the bugs they want us to eat instead of meat? Lol

 

[LondonNeil]

I wanted you to think they Lee

Yeah Stag Beatles are pretty rare and we don't do big insects in the UK so these things are REALLY eye catching when you see one! I'm 49 and have only seen at most a dozen, although saw 2 or 3 last year so perhaps they are doing better. The grubs are like 'tremors', they spend 7 years eating wet, rotting wood, dead tree stumps and oak is a favourite. The adult girls are big, but only the boys get the antlers so they are really impressive.

Oh yes, my garden is logs, toys and weeds mainly but it's well used and enjoyed! The little blonde cutie is my youngest, my son, not quite 2 but already wants to help his dad stack splits and would be swinging the axe if he could lift it!

 

[husqvarna257]

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He was a good 3" long!

That would leave a mark

 

[husqvarna257]

Good day today filling the wood shed. Left side is this year and the right is last years. Glad to have it and still a fair amount to cut up yet. Smoked up some pork butt while I was cutting and splitting, good time to do it up. Humming birds were coming close to check out the shed and guilted me into filling the feeder.

 

[davidwyby]

Stihl sells a product to clean carbon out of your engine…

 

[rarefish383]

I may have mentioned it once or twelve times, my daughter bought the house two doors down from us. Two acres that had been let go fallow for about 20 years. 60-70 foot tall Blue Spruce on 3 sides, that were planted close and never thinned. I think I counted almost 100 Maple, Cherry, and Mulberry saplings, 10 inch by 30-35' tall. The kids want to remove every other Spruce and all of the saplings. We started playing yesterday. I had a production line set up. We elevated all the dead on the Spruce so we could get to the fence, cut a hole through the fence so we could drop all of the Mulberry leaning over the neighbors yard. I cut up all the stuff in 20' or longer pieces. Gave my wife and daughter 3 chokers. They would stack big piles of smaller brush on the long choker and one or two long pieces, small trees on the short ones. My SIL would swing by on the JD X500, one of the girls would clip the choker on the tractor, and he would pull it to me at my Brush Bandit model 65. I used a 17,000 pound test bull line to put some tension on two of the Spruce and threw them across the yard. I'd already cleaned out all of the saplings along that part of the fence. I put all new valves and knives in the old model 65. I'm really happy with the way it chips. I can see spend a day or two a week on this project for a year or more, probably more. You have to look close at the X500 to see the tag line going to the Spruce. When we put the big one on the ground, it was just my wife and I, we limbed it up, stacked all the brush on one choke and pulled it down to the chipper, and it took just about one hour from the face cut, to turning the chipper off.

 

[rarefish383]

 

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[rarefish383]

The piece Simon had on the tractor is how big we were cutting the saplings, the chipper took them whole with no trimming. I made the video this morning before we started working just to show how big of brush it would take being a 6"X12" feed. Just my luck it ran out of gas on the last piece.