Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[SS396driver]

EXCEPT, that you can go to Walmart and buy all you want of them!! Is that stupid or what!

AND those paper bags they charge you a nickel for, are so thin you have to double them or they tear right out with only a few items in them!

SR

The plastics one time use bags? Cant buy them here .

But you can get all the veggie plastic bags you want?!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Glad you are getting the work. Exercising you and the saws in what I hope is a very profitable endeavor. Now the important question, what saws are you taking along?

660 and Pro Modified 661. Im a little behind schedule. Launching the skiff here in a couple hours. I'll try to get a pic or two skiffing over. 40 mile skiff ride.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The plastics one time use bags? Cant buy them here .

But you can get all the veggie plastic bags you want?!

Not long ago I was in the Glenville Walmart, and they had all kinds of plastic bags for sale, on top of that, other business had plastic bags too, so I think all of that is pretty stupid.

SR

 

[WoodAbuser]

660 and Pro Modified 661. Im a little behind schedule. Launching the skiff here in a couple hours. I'll try to get a pic or two skiffing over. 40 mile skiff ride.

Kodiak Kid skiffed out on us.

 

[Lionsfan]

Kodiak Kid skiffed out on us.

Does everyone in attendance know what a skiff is? In my neck of the woods, people call a "Skiff" a "14' er'."

 

[Lionsfan]

How many Wal-Mart bags do you guys want? They're free at our store, and I think my wife has saved every one of them over the last 27 years.

 

[svk]

Hi guys, we had a major wind storm come through last night. Only minor damage in my yard but neighbors receive significant damage. One neighbors storage shed was literally turned into a trapezoid, another had their boatlift blown into the next neighbors beach. Guy across the lake had his pontoon boat flipped completely over. A couple miles away had two resort boat houses that have been around for 60 to 70+ years have the roofs ripped completely off.

I only had to cut two trees off of our road to help our neighbors get out. The 439 Husqvarna that I bought about a year and a half ago was fired up for the first time however it needs to be tuned before I can use it. So I used the Zogger 346 to do the work.

Also fired up my new generator that had been sitting in the box since December 2020. I found out I didn’t have the right extension cord so the correct 220/30 sent me back $311. Oh well I guess I’m good for life now.

 

[svk]

A few pics from my area and the first resort. FWIW this resort sold a couple weeks ago for about 9 million bucks.

 

[sean donato]

Finally got around to stopping by my buddy's place to grab this thing.... well good news is it farted off. Bad news is there's no clutch cover! I felt compelled to give him the money for it. Seems the clutch cover is made of gold. Have a search running on ebay for the various ryobi Jen Feng craftsman clones to try and find one cheap. Told my buddy next time send me pictures and ask before you give someone $80.00 for an incomplete saw.... I'll clean it up and go over the fuel system, has an interesting stratto design. I may fix it up and toss it for sale... no bar or chine with it either...

 

[Sierra_rider]

Finally got around to stopping by my buddy's place to grab this thing.... well good news is it farted off. Bad news is there's no clutch cover! I felt compelled to give him the money for it. Seems the clutch cover is made of gold. Have a search running on ebay for the various ryobi Jen Feng craftsman clones to try and find one cheap. Told my buddy next time send me pictures and ask before you give someone $80.00 for an incomplete saw.... I'll clean it up and go over the fuel system, has an interesting stratto design. I may fix it up and toss it for sale... no bar or chine with it either...

Ok...I don't know my non Husky/Stihl/some Echo saws that well...what is it?

EDIT: I zoomed in, I see it's a Redmax. I still don't know **** about Redmax other than I think Husky bought them years ago...what's the story with the strato design?

 

[Sierra_rider]

No firewood stuff, or even cutting for that matter, but saw related...I decided to make a mandrel to hold a certain saw that is next on my porting list.

A piece of 2.5" round bar was prohibitively expensive, so I decided to make one out of tubing. I was worried about deflection with a hollow tube, but it seems like it will be fine.

Actually grinding on the cylinder is for another day.

 

[sean donato]

Ok...I don't know my non Husky/Stihl/some Echo saws that well...what is it?

EDIT: I zoomed in, I see it's a Redmax. I still don't know **** about Redmax other than I think Husky bought them years ago...what's the story with the strato design?

Yep, redmax, which is a rebranded zenoah engine. Which husqvarna, owns or I should say it belongs to husquvarna group.
They still offer their own Japanese made products, with some wearing husqvarna orange, as well as rc engines. (Which I run in my 1/5 scale trucks)
The interesting part of the stratto is they use a rotary valve for controlling the secondary air as opposed to a butterfly valve. It actually looks like it should flow a lot of air through it, or has the potential to flow a lot of air through It. But seems the stratto passages are more of a traditional transfer port then the big blown out stratto tunnels we typically see. I'll take some pics of it tomorrow. Deffinatly different then what I've seen before.

 

[chipper1]

Braved the temps today and snagged a load of oak, some red, some "hole" oak .
Guy where I snagged the wood from was thinking I was overloaded lol. The excursion rode real nice, perfectly loaded for a smooth ride, you get lucky now and then.
Even snapped a pic for you guys . Really not sure why I grabbed it, but so I could post a picture. I know it's not a wheelbarrow, but it should help someone.
Hope everyone managed to stay cool today.

 

[chipper1]

Kodiak Kid skiffed out on us.

What a scrounge abuser .

 

[Sierra_rider]

Yep, redmax, which is a rebranded zenoah engine. Which husqvarna, owns or I should say it belongs to husquvarna group.
They still offer their own Japanese made products, with some wearing husqvarna orange, as well as rc engines. (Which I run in my 1/5 scale trucks)
The interesting part of the stratto is they use a rotary valve for controlling the secondary air as opposed to a butterfly valve. It actually looks like it should flow a lot of air through it, or has the potential to flow a lot of air through It. But seems the stratto passages are more of a traditional transfer port then the big blown out stratto tunnels we typically see. I'll take some pics of it tomorrow. Deffinatly different then what I've seen before.

On my strato Stihls, the strato ports have the dedicated transfers directly into the cylinder. On my 372xt, they are mostly just cut outs in the piston...so I gutted the dividers in the intake and carb and just made everything a fuel/air charge. It's a way better runner that way, between that and some port work, it runs like a bigger saw than it is.

I'm assuming the newer Huskies are fairly similar to Stihl in regards to the strato ports. The 372xt was just an early design and wasn't the best implementation of it IMO.

 

[JustPlainJeff]

Okay, apparently, I'm out of touch with reality. I haven't bought chains in awhile, but I don't remember them being this expensive. I bought two full chisel chains for a 25" bar for my 462, and they were 97.00 for both, including taxes. Does that sound right??????? If so, holy crap.

Granted, I paid 1,000 for that saw 18 months ago or so, and this dealer still had the same saw priced at 1,300, so I automatically figured their stuff would be more expensive than I am used to paying, but pretty much 50.00 per chain????

 

[Sierra_rider]

Okay, apparently, I'm out of touch with reality. I haven't bought chains in awhile, but I don't remember them being this expensive. I bought two full chisel chains for a 25" bar for my 462, and they were 97.00 for both, including taxes. Does that sound right??????? If so, holy crap.

Granted, I paid 1,000 for that saw 18 months ago or so, and this dealer still had the same saw priced at 1,300, so I automatically figured their stuff would be more expensive than I am used to paying, but pretty much 50.00 per chain????

Stihl brand chain? IIRC, my dealer was selling loops of 3/8 Stihl chain for $0.40 a driver last time I checked...so $35ish for a 84dl chain after taxes. $50 does seem kinda high. Even the .404 chain I bought from them was only $.045 a driver, but that was a few months ago.

 

[JustPlainJeff]

Stihl brand chain? IIRC, my dealer was selling loops of 3/8 Stihl chain for $0.40 a driver last time I checked...so $35ish for a 84dl chain after taxes. $50 does seem kinda high. Even the .404 chain I bought from them was only $.045 a driver, but that was a few months ago.

Yes, Stihl. From some small "power sports" dealer. I don't mind a guy/business making a profit, but within reason. And like I said, I haven't bought chain in awhile, so I thought that maybe I was just "out of the loop" as far as pricing on some stuff has gone.

 

[djg james]

Braved the temps today and snagged a load of oak, some red, some "hole" oak .
Guy where I snagged the wood from was thinking I was overloaded lol. The excursion rode real nice, perfectly loaded for a smooth ride, you get lucky now and then.
Even snapped a pic for you guys . Really not sure why I grabbed it, but so I could post a picture. I know it's not a wheelbarrow, but it should help someone.
Hope everyone managed to stay cool today.

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What no Bk. Locust? I'm so disappointed in you .

 

[JustJeff]

My Stihl dealer has had the buy one get the second one half off deal. I'm still using chain from 5 years ago