Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[bob kern]

I had a bar cease up like that with wood chips while cutting Chestnut Oak several years ago. I freed my sprocket tip the same way (WD-40, screwdriver and hammer). I believe I have only had it happen when the tip is buried and I'm pressing it.

I try to either select a longer bar or cut over the top first, so I don't bury the tip so much.

And pump that manual oiler if ya got it!!

 

[bob kern]

Just got my hopped up primary back on line. A couple blemishes and cracks in the plastics, but no "cents" in replacing them.
I just may end up smashing her again in the wind before winter is over.

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I tried bucking a log to test her out, but she failed the test. Apparently power saws cut much better with a bar and chain mounted on them!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

Starting them helps too!! Shoving them back and forth like a crosscut is simply exhausting!!

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Some friends of mine are into American trucks, cars (and motorcycles, I used to own a Sportster myself), e.g. Dodge Ram, etc. One of them even has a Boss Hoss, I believe it has a 5.7L car engine under it? ... But those things rarely see the road these times, fuel prices are just too high. My sister bought a Ford Ranger pickup truck last year, for her company, don't know what engine version or whatever (it's a diesel though) but it uses some 11 liters/100 km I believe, and filling up its 80L fuel tank costs you €160... that kinda hurts the wallet.

I went off topic a bit here, but let me fix that . Oak trees here have been producing way more acorns than usual, because of the drought, I suppose they do this to ensure offspring in case they die. They became so heavy that tops broke out, especially in windy conditions. A few weekends back I was driving through an area with a lot of privately owned parcels of woodland, and a top (almost half a tree) was blocking the road. I was there to do some bucking on a property, so had my saws with me... Don't know who the owner of the land was but seeing that I cleared the road, I took quite a lot of perfect firewood with me... Gonna warm my house for several days in a year or two

It cost me about USD $90 to fill my F350 from half a tank right now. I let it get down to quarter tank a couple times and was north of $150 filling it.

I went on a road trip yesterday to Glenallen. Roads were not great so driving 55 mph or less, and I used 7.8 gallons on the 149 mile trip down there which gives me right around 19mpg. Filled up before coming back home and it cost me 56 bucks.

Of course, I was running my fuel saver tune which is only 315 HP.

 

[JimR]

Your heater core is plugged. Pull the lines and back flush it. I just had to do my 2016 Ram 2500 with only 54K on it. My core was plugged.

Its gas, The gauge says its warm 175 or whatever and stays there just wont blow any heat or a lot of heat at least.

I would put a 195 degree thermostat in it. When you back flush the heater core make sure you are putting your garden hose on the return line.

 

[sean donato]

Like over here you mean? That's how we've gone for a decade now. We've always had more expensive fuel and hence smaller motors.... Plus smaller roads and smaller vehicle make a bigger motor less important anyway, but the emissions rules drove European vehicles to smaller and turbocharged a decade ago. 1 litre turbocharged petrol give about 140 BHP stock, easy to drive and 50+ mpg.

Just so long as I can make it have more power then it's OK whatever displacement it is.

We actually have an elk hunt here in PA. Tags are by lottery and I have never attempted to get one. 60 bull tags and 118 cow tags this year.

I entered the lottery every year till this past year. Just seems like a waste if I'm never gonna actually get to hunt one here at home, when I can get out of state tags and a guide for the same money I've spent on the elk lottery here.

I've had mine almost a year, and so far I can't find a fault. As far as a practical power plant for a half-ton pickup, it blows away any of the V-6's or small V-8's I've ever driven. The jury is still out on long-term cost of ownership, but I'm giving Ford motor company the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

I'd love to have one for a beater truck, they just haven't hit my price range yet. Lots of guys at work have the eco boost v6 and can't say enough good about them.

Although I don't disagree with you (I'm from Belgium, same narrow roads etc.), I was wondering, at which RPM's do those engines reach 140 bhp? Even though it's true that excellent cars have been built for the European roads and traffic (try making a 180° turn with an American car on our roads... ), in my opinion there's still something to say for the 'there's no replacement for displacement' idea.
I've driven quite a few cars of the VW range of brands, mainly the older, quite dirty, yet very reliable 1.9L turbo diesels. And while it's true that their modern 1.6 counterparts perform the same on the road, it becomes a different story when you're pulling a 2-axle trailer loaded with 1000kgs (legally too much, but hey, you know, it happens ) freshly cut firewood, off road...

At some point a pretty big van slipped off the forest road close to where I lived, and pretty soon had sunk its right wheels up to its axles into the soft forest ground. No 4x4 available, so I decided to hook it up to my 1.9 turbodiesel Golf ('Rabbit' in the States, I believe). Not a good idea per se, but it pulled it out as if it was nothing... Try to do that with a 1 liter engine... I might be wrong, I'm not a car expert or whatever, just personal experience.

When you mention 1.9L engines to (really) young people, they consider it 'massive'. Go figure .

I had an old 86 pre cup diesel jetta.. I liked it pretty good. Turbo model with a 5 speed. It did good on fuel and just ok with the power department. Don't know if I would want to tow anything with it.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I'm not so sure that it applies to diesel, although I believe you guys over seas are still running higher sulfur fuel then we are, but isn't your gasoline higher octane then whats normally found here in the states?

 

[sean donato]

I'm not so sure that it applies to diesel, although I believe you guys over seas are still running higher sulfur fuel then we are, but isn't your gasoline higher octane then whats normally found here in the states?

Their octane rating is a different method then what we use, it's basically the same as we have here. Their octane number is higher, but not any more knock resistance then any of our pump fuels.
I believe they are at or close to the same sulfur content as we are in the USA as well.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

Their octane rating is a different method then what we use, it's basically the same as we have here. Their octane number is higher, but not any more knock resistance then any of our pump fuels.
I believe they are at or close to the same sulfur content as we are in the USA as well.

My understanding was that their sulfer content is the same as our old 5000PPM fuel, not our current 500PPM fuel.

 

[sean donato]

My understanding was that their sulfer content is the same as our old 500PPM fuel, not our current 5000PPM fuel.

This is all I found looking it up quickly.
https://www.crownoiluk.com/news/sulphur-limits-on-fuel-explained/

 

[freeasaburt]

Just so long as I can make it have more power then it's OK whatever displacement it is.

I entered the lottery every year till this past year. Just seems like a waste if I'm never gonna actually get to hunt one here at home, when I can get out of state tags and a guide for the same money I've spent on the elk lottery here.

I'd love to have one for a beater truck, they just haven't hit my price range yet. Lots of guys at work have the eco boost v6 and can't say enough good about them.

I had an old 86 pre cup diesel jetta.. I liked it pretty good. Turbo model with a 5 speed. It did good on fuel and just ok with the power department. Don't know if I would want to tow anything with it.

I always drove the 5 speeds too, later models had 6 gears but the 6th was mainly useful for saving fuel at high speeds. With my Golf, once I went faster than 140km/h (I once took it to 200, on a German highway ), it started using way more fuel.

Those engines can really take a lot, they put them in all kinds of vehicles. Clutch, brakes, ... not so much, those cars weren't designed to tow anything heavier than let's say 500-600 kgs, trailer included, so you had to go really easy on them. Towed a lot of stuff with that Golf... It was built in 2005 or 2006 iirc, Golf 4 break 1.9 tdi with unit injectors. I still have it but gonna get rid of it, all kinds of damage, I bought it cheap and really used it up. Less than 300 000 kms on it, could be better, but whatever. I used and abused it, no regrets. I took it off road, slept in it, towed with it, used it to go to work for years, drove it to the north of Germany, the north of Poland, Slovenia, Italy, ... The engine is still pretty good, nobody wants it though, emission regulations and all that.

Not mine, but the same apart from some details:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It was another nice day here today, I managed to repair one of my half cord boxes and fill it with oak splits,

We will see what tomorrow brings...

SR

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

while on the subject of fuels, anyone run AV gas in their saws?

 

[sean donato]

while on the subject of fuels, anyone run AV gas in their saws?

No. Nor would I reccomend it. The health standpoint alone doesn't make it worth it. The cost is higher then non ethonal around here as well.

 

[muddstopper]

Dead animals might be to off topic for this thread.

Only one animal needs to be off topic in this thread.

 

[LondonNeil]

Although I don't disagree with you (I'm from Belgium, same narrow roads etc.), I was wondering, at which RPM's do those engines reach 140 bhp? Even though it's true that excellent cars have been built for the European roads and traffic (try making a 180° turn with an American car on our roads... ), in my opinion there's still something to say for the 'there's no replacement for displacement' idea.
I've driven quite a few cars of the VW range of brands, mainly the older, quite dirty, yet very reliable 1.9L turbo diesels. And while it's true that their modern 1.6 counterparts perform the same on the road, it becomes a different story when you're pulling a 2-axle trailer loaded with 1000kgs (legally too much, but hey, you know, it happens ) freshly cut firewood, off road...

At some point a pretty big van slipped off the forest road close to where I lived, and pretty soon had sunk its right wheels up to its axles into the soft forest ground. No 4x4 available, so I decided to hook it up to my 1.9 turbodiesel Golf ('Rabbit' in the States, I believe). Not a good idea per se, but it pulled it out as if it was nothing... Try to do that with a 1 liter engine... I might be wrong, I'm not a car expert or whatever, just personal experience.

When you mention 1.9L engines to (really) young people, they consider it 'massive'. Go figure .

Wow, what a difference in perspective! The "little" engine in the Mustang is a 2.3 liter turbo.

Of course, many of us don't really consider it a Mustang unless you get the GT with the 5.0 V-8 ... the sound is just different and IMO awesome!

The only things I drove with more than 2 liter displacement were a tractor, a skid steer (don't know what displacement it had, but quit a lot I would guess) and a big rental van .
I once had a new Skoda Octavia company car with 150 hp, 2 liter turbo diesel, automatic gear shifting (manual shifters are still popular here). The thing had a 'launch mode', first time I tested it (standing still at a traffic light) I thought a truck had hit me in the back... That was a pretty great car, break so lots of cargo space, yet 'sporty' and handled corners very well, *and* good mileage, 5-6 liter/100kms, which is 38-47 MPG if I'm not mistaken. The downside, of course, or at least in my opinion, is that the thing is complex, no space left under the hood whatsoever, difficult to work on, lots of things (sensors for example) can cause problems, etc.

As I've said before, but some time ago, I drive a VAG car, a Skoda Octavia vRS, but I prefer petrol so its the 2 litre TSI 220. 220 ps stock. Remaps with just an hour or so when a laptop to 300-330ps..
Can't speak for the dirty donker diesels, but I know where the tsi turbo hits full boost... Anything less than a dry and clean road and the front is scrabbling around at 2750 rpm in 3rd gear.

 

[LondonNeil]

No. Nor would I reccomend it. The health standpoint alone doesn't make it worth it. The cost is higher then non ethonal around here as well.

Standard avgas is leaded so avoid it. Your can get 100LL (low lead) and just coming in is lead free stuff. It's very high octane, the scale used is different to road fuel, iirc it equates to something like 110ron.

 

[North by Northwest]

Thanks, 6010? I will grind a clean surface before starting.

6010 if really dirty or oxidized , otherwise 6011 or even 6013 would suffice brother !

 

[North by Northwest]

Is seafoam a conditioner or cleaner, I put 1 oz per gallon in all my rec fuel.

Both L it has solvency & lubricity , it can resolve minor carb circuit fouling short term & reduce oxidation & corrosion long term brother !

 

[LondonNeil]

I'm not so sure that it applies to diesel, although I believe you guys over seas are still running higher sulfur fuel then we are, but isn't your gasoline higher octane then whats normally found here in the states?

Their octane rating is a different method then what we use, it's basically the same as we have here. Their octane number is higher, but not any more knock resistance then any of our pump fuels.
I believe they are at or close to the same sulfur content as we are in the USA as well.

Sean is correct, your 87 and our 95 are about the same octane. Our premium must be 97+. Shell market theirs as 98, Esso 99+

 

[sean donato]

Standard avgas is leaded so avoid it. Your can get 100LL (low lead) and just coming in is lead free stuff. It's very high octane, the scale used is different to road fuel, iirc it equates to something like 110ron.

Yeah my one uncle Flys and is all worried about the roll out of lead free av gas. More so because of the price hike thats expected to come with it. It's supposedly a lower octane rating as well, but I have no first hand knowledge of what, or when it will available