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chipper1, you have to drive within 6 miles of my place to get to Wood Nazi's place. Just built a dozen more crates tonight, you can fill them for practice. And if you are any good at fixing 4 wheelers I have some you can play with too.
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Man that all sounds great.
Sell a motor, catch some fish, crate some wood, and fix on quads. Sounds like a place I call home:).
How far "north" of Goderich are you guys.
If this is it, you ain't to far at all.
https://www.google.com:443/maps/dir...1!1s0x8828c33b1b47184d:0xae30f38c3c87c066!3e0
 
My free wood story. The next door neighbor had a huge oak tree taken down a couple years ago. It was close to the house so they took it down in small pieces. When they got down to the trunk, they cut 3' chunks, that ranged from 4' to 5' in diameter. The tree service had a Bob cat that could barely pick up the trunk pieces. Now here is Larry the wood scrounged, hey I'll take a couple trunk pieces, if you put them in my splitting area and deliver some of the nice top sections. Well when it was all done, I had a bunch of top pieces and 12 60" diameter trunk rounds 3' long. They are a little awkward to deal with but the red oak is awesome. I have two pieces left and worked on them tonight
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>Now here is Larry the wood scrounge...

:) " Go Larry!~..."


small scale urban forestry, part II:

I just finished hauling in some free scrounged oak wood, limbs and trunks... oak and cedar, cedar for outside use... in from a neighbor's, couple houses down the lane. but no 60" diameter stuff... :eek: not even sure where I would put it, much less cut it up... but I will say this: way to go!! :clap: here are some Before and After pix of my oak scrounge site... and some of the booty!:

Before:

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After:

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The Booty:

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and some for Brutus, too.

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got the biger chunks in on a nice sunny day... skid row, chains n bolts... but the rest... yesterday... cold, gray, windy and rainy! rainy! nobody was outside but me!!! gloves, (needed 3 pairs) chaps, boots, rain coat, orange safety vest, 2 sets ear plugs, googles and my saw! me and my saw! teamed up... still, clearly - no two ways about it... getting wood is hard work, and so...

now the real work begins.:chainsaw: :chop:
 
Man that all sounds great.
Sell a motor, catch some fish, crate some wood, and fix on quads. Sounds like a place I call home:).
How far "north" of Goderich are you guys.
If this is it, you ain't to far at all.
https://www.google.com:443/maps/dir...1!1s0x8828c33b1b47184d:0xae30f38c3c87c066!3e0
I am about 2 hours north of Goderich just outside of Owen Sound. And "guarantee" lake isn't on the map, it's a small spring fed lake (or really big pond). Only way to fish it is to drag a canoe through the mud. It's full of bass, you can catch them any day all day. I usually release them because its such a small lake.
 
I'm still leaning towards a 16. I cut lots of wood up to 16" up here but not much above unless I'm stumping or attacking yard trees where the 2186/28" comes into play.

Plus a powerful saw with short bar really rips through the wood. :D
I just scrounged up a new 16" replaceable tip bar from ebay for $25 delivered. I have an 18" although it's a .058 so I only have semi chisel chain, and a 20" with lots of chain options. As I now have all three options available I will see which one I like best and if it ends up being the 18" I will order a better quality bar in .050 so I have more chain options available.

I was a little surprised how much more the .058 chisel chain was than .050. I guess there are just more guys spinning .050 loops to keep the cost down.

I really liked how my 2165 performed with a 16" so now I have a slightly more powerful saw that's a couple of pounds lighter. Should be a good time.
 
I just sorted through chains today myself. Ironically, my 20" and 36" are both in .050, but now (I did some swapping with my neighbor) all my 24" and 28" are .063. Likely, those are the bars lengths I will be using for milling. If I need to use the 36, I'll just be real careful.

I'm planning to do one more wood cut on Sat, as I have Tax Appointments scheduled for Sunday, so play time will be over!

Previously, I had 24" in both .050 & .064, not good.

The .050 & .063 chain cost the same, through Stihl or Baileys (all Stihl chain).
 
I just scrounged up a new 16" replaceable tip bar from ebay for $25 delivered. I have an 18" although it's a .058 so I only have semi chisel chain, and a 20" with lots of chain options. As I now have all three options available I will see which one I like best and if it ends up being the 18" I will order a better quality bar in .050 so I have more chain options available.

I was a little surprised how much more the .058 chisel chain was than .050. I guess there are just more guys spinning .050 loops to keep the cost down.

I really liked how my 2165 performed with a 16" so now I have a slightly more powerful saw that's a couple of pounds lighter. Should be a good time.
LCS has/had some epic deals on short GB bars.
My 7900 generally uses the 32" bar, but I have a special 'angry bastard' 20" chain when bucking suitably sized wood with it, that's about as much fun as I've ever had with a saw. It's a chain I am constantly experimenting with different raker angles, cutter grinds. It's one hungry chain and devours everything in its path like a cookie monster. Certainly not a chain to be bore cutting with. Safety chain it aint. It shall get a good feed this arvo.
 
I am about 2 hours north of Goderich just outside of Owen Sound. And "guarantee" lake isn't on the map, it's a small spring fed lake (or really big pond). Only way to fish it is to drag a canoe through the mud. It's full of bass, you can catch them any day all day. I usually release them because its such a small lake.
So if your two hrs north of Goderich then how much past your place is cantoo's.
I wasn't really thinking it was on google maps, just referring back to multiple post of guys saying they wouldn't share there favorite scrounge spots, or fishing spots and giving them a bit of a hard time LOL.
Sounds like my sort of place, sticking lips, fish on.
Fun skipping largemouth across the surface with 6lb maxima on an ultralight:)
 
LCS has/had some epic deals on short GB bars.
My 7900 generally uses the 32" bar, but I have a special 'angry bastard' 20" chain when bucking suitably sized wood with it, that's about as much fun as I've ever had with a saw. It's a chain I am constantly experimenting with different raker angles, cutter grinds. It's one hungry chain and devours everything in its path like a cookie monster. Certainly not a chain to be bore cutting with. Safety chain it aint. It shall get a good feed this arvo.
LCS is one place I always forget to check. Will have to take a look at them tomorrow.
 
Chipper1, do you know Bruce Doll " Images of Visions"? He owns a business or used to do photography just outside Lowell. We built his house years ago near Fallasburg Park, I was there quite abit. I live just 20 minutes north of Goderich and maybe 1 1/2 hr from Wood Nazi.
 
LCS has/had some epic deals on short GB bars.
My 7900 generally uses the 32" bar, but I have a special 'angry bastard' 20" chain when bucking suitably sized wood with it, that's about as much fun as I've ever had with a saw. It's a chain I am constantly experimenting with different raker angles, cutter grinds. It's one hungry chain and devours everything in its path like a cookie monster. Certainly not a chain to be bore cutting with. Safety chain it aint. It shall get a good feed this arvo.
Wow they sure do have good prices. Unfortunately not for any bars I currently need.
 
Chipper1, do you know Bruce Doll " Images of Visions"? He owns a business or used to do photography just outside Lowell. We built his house years ago near Fallasburg Park, I was there quite abit. I live just 20 minutes north of Goderich and maybe 1 1/2 hr from Wood Nazi.
Thats funny. I don't know him, but know exactly where he is(google). Today I drove 3 miles from there. Growing up that was a cruising/racing/parting spot for us at the park and up and down his rd and many others in that area. The first picture on his facebook page is where we used to drive our trucks up the flat river.
I sell boiler wood to a guy 1/4 mile from him. I also used to hunt across the st from the guy I sell the wood to.
My neighbors family owns all the houses on the second private drive south of his place I have a friend who lives at the end of 3 mile.
One of my daughters riding instructors is in the farm on the opposite side of the valley in the curve.
That is some of the best deer hunting in the state of Mi, I'm spoiled to have had the chance to hunt it. It is also one of the two largest herds of deer in our county I'm aware of.
So your only about 4hrs from me, I'm between I-96 and town, on top of the river valley.
 

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