Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Friggin’ magic I tell ya!

Can’t believe nobody beat me to that comment.

magic?

or

"I tell ya"

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Can you imagine this? Getting gored by a moose is probably worse than the guy who was eaten by a Kodiak!

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WOW! 'one to the boilerroom and one then to the head!' that's about as bad as the AK plane crashes where the pilot forgot about density altitude... and missed clearing the rocky mountain top by 50'.... @ 150 kts!!!

plane lost... never found again until 25 years later...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Heck of a way to go out I reckon!

no doubt the moose din't suffer long! appears same can't be said for the hunter...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Good to be home, let the wood burning begin.
Creamsicles and candy corn

85f today, had a nice camp fire to keep the chills at bay!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Im sure I'll be posting pics of War Wagon wood loads throughout the winter during my scrounge!

fire pix welcome, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Yeah, they're strong little saws, even in stock form...but they respond really well to mods. I'd almost say that they run well despite the factory limitations...super wide squish band stock and one side of the transfers has a stuffer inside of it. Also not the best port shaped out there IMO.

A fairly straight forward set of mods is to open up the muffler, base gasket delete, and timing advance. I basically did that to another 2511t for a local guy and he was ecstatic with the results. I technically didn't do a base gasket delete on that one...I decked the cylinder to tighten up the squish while still using the gasket.

My personal saw, I muffler modded, advanced the timing, milled a bit out of the squish band, decked the cylinder, yanked the stuffer, tried to balance out the transfers(and open them up a ton,) did a bunch of shaping to the exhaust port (and raised it.) I should really get a video of it up one of these days...it's a mean little saw. It doesn't even sound like a 2511t anymore, it 4 strokes at stupid-high rpms and the throttle response is night/day from stock.

Actually doing the port work on them is quite hard. The cylinder is tiny, and even my small burrs barely fit into the ports. Adjusting the upper transfer timing is pretty much impossible...I can't even get my 90* grinder into the cylinder, it's so small.

enjoyed the tech read! even thou more tha 5 mins long! (lol j/k) as soon as i get my chain back on mine, will reread! it jumped off cutting some pecan other day for ribs smoking. just put it away as i was busy with the cook. almost got to it today. soon, though i am sure! lol.....

wanna do another one?

ribs 1, saw 0


ez how-to! this time i followed Aaron Franklin's ribs 'how to' right out of his book: Franklin BBQ. some say he is best there is! i always said, never, ever would i wait in line from 5 am till 11 am for any bbq. now i know why they do!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Though Cape Chinak winters are not for the faint at heart. It really is heaven to me. Besides, on days like today. Sitting in the house by the wood stove or tinkering in the wood heated shop. Beats crab fishing on the Bering Sea in January and February! Done retired from that 5years ago!

sounds ideal! for the hardy... bit like D Proenneke. Twin Lakes, AK! winter! J?F!! but i bet that Bearing Sea crabs tasty +! i have hand picked Dungeness from the crab pots on boat over in Homer before. cooked that nite back at the hotel room! hunted for fisherman in local dive of a bar. sorta right out of Star Wars! '' there, that guy. gray cap... uh-huh. see him!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That one I sent a pic of on my splitter is a monster where I’m at.

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[Backyard Lumberjack]

A real good guy on here (@Maintenance supervisor) told me a trick, pull cord under the flywheel then hold saw up over bench a tiny bit make sure you have a nut on end of shaft and tap on it. Works everytime on my old saws. Not sure if that would help you out any

prob work well for the old fellers, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I want to scrounge this Oak tree. Do you think I can save this farm implement? LOL My father in law left this here a very long time ago. I know it was there in 1972.

prob worth the effort! even if a chunk still attchd to it...

pix welcome!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

We’ve got wind gusts up to 45 mph tomorrow through Monday mid day. That’s going to F up deer hunting quite a bit. I’ve got a few low lying spots I could go to but it’ll all but shut down my main hunting areas. In addition wind that high can be downright dangerous to sit in a tree.

big storm strolled thru down here couple nights ago. wind warnings advisories. etc but we got off easy. not so close to Dall/Ft W.... winds to 70 mph, hail to 2" and tornadoes to boot!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

60 mph gust here, it's blowing like a room full of que....oh yea, we can't use that word anymore!
Anyway, I see limbs out in my field, so there will be some cleanup when it stops!
SR

i thot (and other stuff) was as good as a waiver!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

I've done a few over the years. Nowhere near what you have done. I climbed Washington 4 times after I turned 45. Twice up Tuckermans ravine. I was 61 the last time I climbed Tuckermans.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Looking good.
Do you use x-chains, studs, or what on the plow setup lol.
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that chipper! don't miss much! i seen the scooter, but missed the plow, thinking first glance... prob jacket off for the welding....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Dang it Chipper1 u beat me to it.

u snooze, you loose!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Back at the cabin and warmed up after spaghetti dinner. Sauna is hot so I’m going to jump in that for a little bit and then hit the sack.

had spaghetti other nite, with extra mushrooms. tomatoes garden canned... imo,

sauna after dinner?....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

It’s funny to see someone mention climbing 4 thousand footers, here we mention 14 thousand footers. I’ve been on Mt Whitney twice.

i admire him! sometimes hard enough just to climb out of bed in the morning!!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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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that's why i moved here...!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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.

some down here come with all the bells n whistles, their deer stands and a chef, too!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

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 snowView attachment 1030112So 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 View attachment 1030113And one even leaned up hill toward the roadView attachment 1030114View attachment 1030115View attachment 1030116Feel pretty blessed.

i am just here for the pix!