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Got tired of the heavy factory gate on my dump trailer . Made this up today with drops I bought a few months ago . Going to get some expanded steel to keep any small pieces of wood in .
Looking good.
Do you use x-chains, studs, or what on the plow setup lol.
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Got tired of the heavy factory gate on my dump trailer . Made this up today with drops I bought a few months ago . Going to get some expanded steel to keep any small pieces of wood in . View attachment 1030071View attachment 1030072View attachment 1030073View attachment 1030074View attachment 1030075View attachment 1030076
Can you tell where I forgot to turn the gas on :omg:
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Love the motorcycle with the snowplow you have. I see it in the background. Guess you thot you were hiding it. :yes:
 
I'm old enough to remember when there wasn't oil mix!

My David Bradley has instructions for mixing engine oil into the gas, it was made just a few years before I was born. By the time I was old enough to use a chainsaw, mix oil was common though.
 
Added a new tool to to arsenal a few days ago. Works way better then I expected for clearing snow off the wood pile. We got about a foot of snow over the last two days and this Husky 525BX made quick work of getting the pile cleared off.

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I’ve been neck deep in doing the engine rebuild in our suburban, but got some time today to finish splitting that last load of birch I got. Might be time for a bigger splitter.

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That one I sent a pic of on my splitter is a monster where I’m at.
Looks like half the stuff I get anymore. I have a few monsters laying that I'll have to cut with the saw before I attempt to split them. I'll have to remember to grab some pictures.
 
Picked up a Echo CS400 today after a customer backed out of a deal. I always thought they would be on the same level as poulan, but this seems like a decent little saw. Chain adjuster is stripped on it, but other then that it seems to be in good shape.

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Temp dropped to -5 today, but I had to run the echo a bit to see how it did, so I went ahead and split a sled load for the cabin. Wood sure splits nice once the temp drops down below 0.

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it’ll all but shut down my main hunting areas. In addition wind that high can be downright dangerous to sit in a tree.

It‘s interesting what the hunting differences are, I haven’t heard of anyone hunting in a tree stand in California. They mostly drive back and forth on Forest roads, looking for deer. Very few get out and hunt. It’s not legal to shoot on a road, so they plan to throw it in the truck and take off before anyone can see. I’ve talked to hunters, so I know. Plus the road our mountain place is on is popular with hunters. Last weekend was the end of deer season, that Saturday was almost a parade of hunters. For our road anyway, it hardly gets any traffic otherwise. On one trip hunters drove by, then we heard 4 quick shots. Probably a deer in or near the road.
 
Dont you know Harleys can do everything :lol:

You should see it with the Alaskan sawmill attachment
Yup, it's got to be a Harley,

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SR
 
My David Bradley has instructions for mixing engine oil into the gas, it was made just a few years before I was born. By the time I was old enough to use a chainsaw, mix oil was common though.
WAAAAAY back when, I had a SAAB car, 3 cyl. 2 stroke motor.

I'd add a qt. of engine oil, (usually 30w) in the gas tank and fill it up with gas.

It smoked but it ran good...

SR
 
It‘s interesting what the hunting differences are, I haven’t heard of anyone hunting in a tree stand in California. They mostly drive back and forth on Forest roads, looking for deer. Very few get out and hunt. It’s not legal to shoot on a road, so they plan to throw it in the truck and take off before anyone can see. I’ve talked to hunters, so I know. Plus the road our mountain place is on is popular with hunters. Last weekend was the end of deer season, that Saturday was almost a parade of hunters. For our road anyway, it hardly gets any traffic otherwise. On one trip hunters drove by, then we heard 4 quick shots. Probably a deer in or near the road.
Thats how most people hunt where I am too. I went caribou hunting last week. 200 trucks parked on the side of the road waiting for caribou to cross.
 
Went out today to see if I could still get to my firewood spot, about halfway there going over an area that’s about same elevation as where I wanted to go there was 16” of wet heavy snowBCCD53C4-DE67-464C-98AD-FC33CE0A18DF.jpegSo I turned around and tried a different road at lower elevation, wasn’t expecting to find anything so was pretty happy to see these dead red fir by the road 3DB9B1A4-C1AF-4AEB-BE10-95C599603184.jpegAnd one even leaned up hill toward the road5576E292-E920-4D97-9EB9-AE8425AF0C41.jpeg895AC416-8828-473E-9AA4-481C32A437C4.jpeg2221DBB0-8E46-400A-B9FD-4C52B3C4CF5E.jpegFeel pretty blessed.
 
My David Bradley has instructions for mixing engine oil into the gas, it was made just a few years before I was born. By the time I was old enough to use a chainsaw, mix oil was common though.
That's how we did it the McCullough our first saw. It was an ex logger's saw. 30 weight motor oil for both gas and bar/chain.
 

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