Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

Cmon guys everyone post, @Cowboy254 is almost caught up .
You can don it man!

 

[chipper1]

So here's the little cherry again.
What do you guy's think, is it gonna split before I finish the back cut, after it hits the ground?
Should I push it over with the tractor and skip the pull line .

 

[Kodiak Kid]

So here's the little cherry again.
What do you guy's think, is it gonna split before I finish the back cut, after it hits the ground?
Should I push it over with the tractor and skip the pull line .

Ah just saw it off the stump with one pass. Who needs a face cut?

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Today's Haul.

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Who was it that called BS on my STIHL's throwing 2,3 and even 4.5 inch ribbons? How about 5.5 inch ribbons? Dose that count?

That's just produced from my round tune! Don't make me put on the Chaps for square chain ribbons!

 

[chipper1]

Ah just saw it off the stump with one pass. Who needs a face cut?

Should I pull it at all doing it that way lol.

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Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Who was it that called BS on my STIHL's throwing 2,3 and even 4.5 inch ribbons? How about 5.5 inch ribbons? Dose that count?
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That's just produced from my round tune! Don't make me put on the Chaps for square chain ribbons!

Nice haul.
Is that a square chain converted to round.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Should I pull it at all doing it that way lol.

Nice haul.
Is that a square chain converted to round.

Yes it is.I've never once bought a spool of 3/8 round.

 

[chipper1]

Yes it is.I've never once bought a spool of 3/8 round.

That's funny, most do it the other way around.
Why do you run round at all up there.

 

[sean donato]

That's funny, most do it the other way around.
Why do you run round at all up there.

Now he's a logger, he doesn't have time for those fancy sharpening machines... and round is just easier to touch up in the woods... like us hillbillies down south do.

 

[sean donato]

@chipper1 next time, use the bucket as the wedge. Just shove it in the back cut and curl.

 

[H-Ranch]

Cmon guys everyone post, @Cowboy254 is almost caught up .
You can don it man!

Well, I did have a scrounge show up at my place today. Acquaintance in town asked if I wanted a little bit of firewood (you kinda know how that conversation went.) So he drive over twice with a small load in his trailer each time and I was happy to have it. I'll try to get pics tomorrow before @Cowboy254 catches up and he'll be none the wiser.

 

[Lee192233]

Just got done doing routine maintenance on the Traverse before our trip to 'Bama.

Hope everyone's week is going well!

Time for a cold one.

 

[sean donato]

Does this count as a I suck? Just waiting till they vote on the 6th, so I can go pick it up. My old Forman told me about it. Runs and cuts. He even found a few spare chains and all the manuals for it. This eill be number 2, but the other one I have has bad ignition system.

 

[Lee192233]

Here is the saw with the original carb back on it without doing anything to it other than cleaning it out. It was the pulse hose that was the problem. Next time I have a crappy idleing Stihl saw I will spray it down to see what happens. As for my cheap tachometer, it sucks. It works great at an idle and up until about 6000 -7000 rpm's. Sometimes it will go up to 10k 11k before it just drops back to 5600 - 5700. Even with the wire around the plug wire it does the same thing. I can't get to set the high jet with the tachometer. Until I get a decent one it is back to using my bad hearing to set the high end. I tried the tachometer on my 440, 268/272zp conversion and my newly acquired 394XP. It works the same way as it did on the Stihl saw.

Glad you got the running problem figured out. It's usually something easy.

 

[Lee192233]

Picked up this low hour 026 last week. I'll clean it up for up north.
It's not a PRO 026 so no adjustable oiler and it only has the low side adjustable carb. I may swap the carb out with a fully adjustable unit.

 

[AKGuy]

Manzanita is pretty unique. It can sure lock up an area where you can’t get through, but it burns good and is good for privacy. It’s used for making canes and other stuff, I know a Forest Service guy that has access to big manzanita and works with it in his wood shop (cutting slabs). He says he makes more money doing that than the Forest Service pays him. I haven’t paid attention if it’s oily in a long time, off hand I’m thinking they are though. Crazily enough, manzanita is an endangered species. Maybe at one time there was a need for that, but not in decades. I’ve never seen it that way.

Manzanita is extremely brittle. It's not suitable for anything requiring strength. It won't last 2 chops as an axe handle. It turns nice, finishes nice and is good for smoking. Tough to find big enough trees to make much of anything with it though.

Oh, and i have no idea what was wrong with the saw. I tore it completely apart, checked everything and started it with no bar. Then put the bar back on and cut wood. A big mesquite job tomorrow...

 

[Kodiak Kid]

That's funny, most do it the other way around.
Why do you run round at all up there.

The other way around??? I've never seen anyone convert round to square in all the time I've been cutting. Never even heard of it until some of the folks on hear mentioned it. I just ask myself? Hmmmm? Why whould someone convert round to square? Makes no sense at all to me. Unless they are just trying to save money? After using up thousands of feet of saw chain. Be it round or square. A loop is darn near as disposable to me as a round file!

Why do I run round up here?
How much time ya got chipper?
Brett I have so many loops of chain hanging.
That if I'm running square and it's time for a swap. I grab whatever is hanging. If it's a fresh square grind. It's a square that day. If it's has good round cutters it's round that day and probably until the chain is spent or I rock it and have to swap out. Then I grab the next loop hanging.

Whitchever it is? I don't even look anymore! I'm just tip'n timber for firewood. Square is more practical for me in an industrial setting and less practical cut'n firewood if that makes any sense? Counting yesterday and today. I tipped five trees in two days. When I'm strickly cut'n for scale and for a living. I'll tip five trees in ten minutes and swap out up to three or four, sometimes five square chains a day! Thats the difference between round and square. At least it is for me myself anyway. It could very well be different for other folks in other parts of the country.
Either way, round or square? My tunes throw ribbons Brett! Ribbons long enough to tie bow around a present!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Now he's a logger, he doesn't have time for those fancy sharpening machines... and round is just easier to touch up in the woods... like us hillbillies down south do.

........What he said!!!Unfortunately.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

@chipper1 next time, use the bucket as the wedge. Just shove it in the back cut and curl.

Sounds good to me!

 

[mountainguyed67]

Should I push it over with the tractor and skip the pull line

Have H Ranch push it over with his wheelbarrow.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Now he's a logger

@Kodiak Kid is gonna slap you for calling him that!