Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

It's my understanding that Sugi makes the lightweight bars for Husqvarna, so maybe you have had one? lol.

SR

Not sure who made the ones in the past, but there's always a chance. Who knows, I may have one down there I wasn't aware of too lol.
I do have a very odd older husky labeled Oregon lightweight bar, it's a 93dl by
063. I think it was an error, I got a steal of a deal on two of them from a guy I met on Craigslist about two weeks after I tried to buy some on ebay myself. He and I are still good friends. He does a lot of chainsaw milling, he has a bunch of 120cc saws and some very large bars. He had a set of long aluminum tubes and a couple pieces of scaffolding that had tabs welded on every 3", he would set the log in place and level it up, then set the tubes onto the scaffolding. Cool setup.

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I didnt see the 24" lightweight listed in a .058. They make a .050.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3844704129...KKQZTfARKm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[MustangMike]

Good to know. I know the basics and learn the rest as I go along. Often just try to come up with ways to resolve problems on my own.

The benefit of a site like this is learning from others.

I presume when you bring it inside it needs to have weight or straps on it. I will try that in the future, but my inside space is limited.

I tried stabilizing tabletops by screwing and gluing them to cross pieces, but they cupped anyway ... very frustrating. I had to pull some of them apart and re-do them, but after that they were OK.

 

[svk]

It was still in the high 50's overnight and beautiful this morning. We are now in for some rain for the next 12 or so hours.

I took the day off tomorrow to get deer stands ready. Not a lot of work but by the time I get through it all, the kids will be done with school.

 

[MustangMike]

Rebuilt the carb on the MS460 today and it is running fine!

The gasket that controls the lever in the Cross gasket kit had to be installed upside down as compared to the one that was in there ... they were manufactured differently, but it works so I don't care! (There is metal in the center of both sides, but one is upside down from the other. Does not look like it should make any difference).

 

[farmer steve]

A little ash scrounge today. I knew this tree was dead when I saw it in late spring but never got to it. Ma nature must have dropped it this summer in one of our thunder storms. Only punky the first 2 rounds.

 

[bob kern]

I'm sure there are a lot of factors including the type of wood, the width of the wood, and the width of the log.

I mostly work with Oak and try to make my boards as wide as possible. They are dried outside for two years (I don't have enough inside space to do it) and are properly stacked and stickered. I'm sure if I ripped the boards along the center (making narrower boards) this would not be a problem, but it is not what I choose to do. When I ripped boards in half to make two sides for my gun cabinets both sides remain flat. (Making a 24" wide board into two 12" wide boards).

The boards will be flat in the stack, but when you pull them out to use them, they will cup. My method of flattening them has worked well. If I mill "half round" pieces for benches, I do not have this problem, but wider boards closer to the center always do.

I love the way my daughter's bench looks. It is about 2' wide, one piece, with live edge on both sides. The bottom may not look pretty, but no one sees it, and the top is gorgeous!

Definitely a sharp looking table!!

 

[svk]

Deer opener for us on Saturday. I need to repair a few deerstands yet and cut some balsam boughs that like to obscure my vision. Otherwise we are ready to go besides hauling heaters to the stands we will be using.

 

[MustangMike]

Best of luck Steve, our crossbow opens on Sat, rifle on the 19th.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Good to know. I know the basics and learn the rest as I go along. Often just try to come up with ways to resolve problems on my own.

The benefit of a site like this is learning from others.

I presume when you bring it inside it needs to have weight or straps on it. I will try that in the future, but my inside space is limited.

I tried stabilizing tabletops by screwing and gluing them to cross pieces, but they cupped anyway ... very frustrating. I had to pull some of them apart and re-do them, but after that they were OK.

You are only going to get the moisture down to about 19% outside, it has to be 8% or lower to live indoors. Something really wide needs to be "stickered" indoors for about a month, with weight on top of it and NOT anywhere near a woodstove!

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Today was another sunny 70's day, and I decided to run the BSM. Remember this "big ugly" cherry? (the very top log)

I milled it today, once I got the slabs off it, I made several cuts at 5/4,

and this is what the average board inside looked like,

It's better than I thought they would look! lol

Anyway, went out to one of my food plots, and this wasn't there yesterday!

It's only about 50 yards from my deer blind.

SR

 

[GeeVee]

Ash(?) horizontal, a piece of oak in the middle for reference
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MUST KNOW WHAT THAT SAW IS, MUST HAVE
PLEASE TELL.

 

[tfp]

MUST KNOW WHAT THAT SAW IS, MUST HAVE
PLEASE TELL.

Echo 2511 TES, 12 inch 3/8 lp bar, will probably end up 10 inch 1/4 bar

 

[cantoo]

MUST KNOW WHAT THAT SAW IS, MUST HAVE
PLEASE TELL.

https://www.echotools.com/en_us/products/chain-saws/top-handle-chain-saw/cs-2511tes-c_37

 

[GeeVee]

Echo 2511 TES, 12 inch 3/8 lp bar, will probably end up 10 inch 1/4 bar

Does this saw make my butt look fat? (its a line from an old jeans commercial)

Must be an optical illusion but it just looks SO tiny. Kind of like you can make your fish look bigger if you hold it way away from your body, and closer to the camera lens. Thanks.

Not small enough. I have the Milwaukee Hatchet and its a great tool, I use it alot, and it does exactly what I want, but to get a six or eight inch GAS saw, would be fun..... BAR, not cubic inches, you guys.....

 

[GrizG]

When I said "properly dry them", that includes stickering them "inside" for a time too, not just bring them in and let them cup as they lose even more moisture. That's a very important step.

I'm a retired custom furniture/cabinet maker that used a LOT of air-dried lumber, it didn't take long to learn how to properly handle lumber, if you want it to stay flat when used inside.

Wood never stops moving, no matter what you do to try and stop it, but there are ways to minimize its movement.

SR

Unless I have nice straight grained or quarter sawn boards I find that I need to cut the stock to a bit oversize on all three dimensions needed for the project and dry it some more. The last project I did starting with walnut slabs, for example, did not play nice at all... Every milling operation resulted in the wood changing shape and I had to let it normalize again before the next step. This was because it was crotch wood that was full of tension. In the end it turned out great but it fought me all the way to the end!

 

[sean donato]

It's my understanding that Sugi makes the lightweight bars for Husqvarna, so maybe you have had one? lol.

SR

Pretty sure tsumura not Sugi makes the new husqy bars.

On the bar subject. Look for a laser lite bar, another tsumura made brand bar. I have 2 of them and one sugi bar. Both brands have been great. The stihl light weight is lighter, but trying to find them in stock is hard then you need to rob a bank to pay for them.

 

[JimR]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3844704129...KKQZTfARKm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'll have to check the part number to see if it fits the Husqvarna 372xp. I just checked and it does fit the Husqvarna. Thanks, problem solved.

 

[bob kern]

If I plan to scrounge some wood with it soon I think I can ask this!!
Finishing an 025 Stihl but it has no bar,chain or clutch drum.
Anyone have a lot of time on one of these little buggers and have figured out the best combo??
No safety chains of course.

 

[mountainguyed67]

It was still in the high 50's overnight and beautiful this morning.

Wow! Our mountain place was in the low to upper 30’s overnight on our ten day trip that ended Tuesday, but is supposed to be 24° tonight, then mid 30’s for three days and back to 29°. What’s going on here, Minnesota is supposed to be colder than us.