Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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way to go! I got out my 019T yesterday and after letting it warm up good, put that lil sucker to work... but alas, I confess to not cleaning it up just yet. besides, got into some hard oak noodling and while the lil limber's performance is continually noteworthy... a kiss to its chain's cutting teeth is warranted. ah, shucks man... check it out...
got around to being time to do some more work on my latest scrounge pile of oak... dragged in from down the street. all the easy stuff had be cut up and stacked. but there comes a time when I like the neighbors to see that my wood scrounge is not a permanent addition to the neighborhood... so me and the 019T took some more of it on. I wanted to fire it up and this was a good excuse...
first we got after some of the cedar I had hauled in. I don't burn it inside, but nice for outside campfires...
Nice!way to go! I got out my 019T yesterday and after letting it warm up good, put that lil sucker to work... but alas, I confess to not cleaning it up just yet. besides, got into some hard oak noodling and while the lil limber's performance is continually noteworthy... a kiss to its chain's cutting teeth is warranted. ah, shucks man... check it out...
The 550 and 2186 were getting a bit crudded up so they were due.
then I thot, well still got plenty of fuel left... so decided to noodle up some of the fresher chunks I had to cut up to get out of the original pile... and 
away we went. hard oak! not long, flowing hamster nest type kerf... more like bits and reg sawdust... still the 019T shone brightly!
away we went. hard oak! not long, flowing hamster nest type kerf... more like bits and reg sawdust... still the 019T shone brightly!
still have this bunch of chunks to work into split firewood and smaller pcs, but I cleaned up all around the work area... and moved wood into smaller stack... progress! still looked big by urban homefront logging ops standards... but relocating and sweeping the drive helped... lol
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was going to use my Echo featherlight... but decided to give my 019T a run out in the pasture... small job by some AS standards, after all no mountain snow fell when I bucked the oak limb, didn't need a skidder to move to firewood stack... but still dangerous by any stretch of one's imagination in the wrong hands... and even for my small chainsaw tasks... I wear my PPE chaps! good day of making firewood and my saw ran like a top... looking fwd to cleaning it up... and servicing and file kissing its chain and bar... with some refreshened point's edges...
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got a bunch of red maple today
Spent the morning cutting with Ben, my oldest son. We limbed and cut to log length, 8' to 12', 7 trees in all still a couple left but my achin everything says they'll have to wait. 
You can cut a 36" tree with an 18" bar... almost. Great morning still -3c but the sun is melting the frost making things pretty muddy. Broke my $%£# choke button off the 365. Grrrrr. Otherwise a successful scrounge!
You can cut a 36" tree with an 18" bar... almost. Great morning still -3c but the sun is melting the frost making things pretty muddy. Broke my $%£# choke button off the 365. Grrrrr. Otherwise a successful scrounge!
New scrounging tool with a gratuitous saw pic .
Husqvarna's short breaker bar / felling leaver .
Husqvarna's short breaker bar / felling leaver .
zogger
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Took a run out to the scrounging zone this afternoon , had to go find the trail that Jerry cut in last Sunday afternoon .
Got too look hard to spot it from the road LOL
Just passed the hidden entrance Jerry reclaimed an old logging road from decades gone by .
A view back to the road .
This old trail intersected a survey line , we like surveyors
This line headed down to a swamp , they had dropped 2 black spruce that were worth going to get ant there were a couple of dead standing ones with a bonus of 2 leaners .
I backed the tractor in as far as I could on the survey line and went to work .
I had to cut all the 1' surveyor stumps flush to the ground so I wouldn't get caught up on them before I started .
The winch trail was a little narrow .
But I got it all in at full length without too much fighting
Tomorrow's project is to get them off the survey line , we've got more stuff to cut in this section , not a honey hole but still plenty of wood
Mighty Mouse Logging LLC
Got too look hard to spot it from the road LOL
Just passed the hidden entrance Jerry reclaimed an old logging road from decades gone by .
A view back to the road .
This old trail intersected a survey line , we like surveyors
This line headed down to a swamp , they had dropped 2 black spruce that were worth going to get ant there were a couple of dead standing ones with a bonus of 2 leaners .
I backed the tractor in as far as I could on the survey line and went to work .
I had to cut all the 1' surveyor stumps flush to the ground so I wouldn't get caught up on them before I started .
The winch trail was a little narrow .
But I got it all in at full length without too much fighting
Tomorrow's project is to get them off the survey line , we've got more stuff to cut in this section , not a honey hole but still plenty of wood
Mighty Mouse Logging LLC
here's one of several we scrounged from a farmer down the road.. mostly silver maple but did get one nice red oak that i got a nice 8 foot log out of for some lumber. sorry but only one pic of my buddy working a maple. i was busy sawin down more trees 
and trying to beat the snow we never got.
and trying to beat the snow we never got.hardpan
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I cut very little maple and I am not good with ID of them (silver, red, sugar) without the leaves. I notice on the larger pieces that your buddy is working, their is a center that is a different color, approximately 1/3 the outside diameter. Is that a characteristic of silver only or can it be found on red and sugar also?
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was going to use my Echo featherlight... but decided to give my 019T a run out in the pasture... small job by some AS standards, after all no mountain snow fell when I bucked the oak limb, didn't need a skidder to move to firewood stack... but still dangerous by any stretch of one's imagination in the wrong hands... and even for my small chainsaw tasks... I wear my PPE chaps! good day of making firewood and my saw ran like a top... looking fwd to cleaning it up... and servicing and kissing its chain and bar...
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Impressive performance with the little saw.
Please remember to turn the saw off before kissing the chain. "Chapstick" is really not intended to protect your lips from a chainsaw. LOL
Absolutely!
There's lots of top dead birch around. It does go punky about 2/3 way up but still lots of good wood to be had. In another year those trees will be shot.
Agent Orange
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Shameless cut and paste because I don't feel like typing this post again.
@svk. I'll run ya for pink slips.
Worked on the splitter today. Fabbed an axle from an old boat trailer, repacked the bearings, and gave her new shoes. 12" wheels for a bit of lift.
Slick redneck support that slides up for trailering. Bar stock handle with R pins.
Still needs paint and bolts instead of screws to secure the axle.
@svk. I'll run ya for pink slips.
Worked on the splitter today. Fabbed an axle from an old boat trailer, repacked the bearings, and gave her new shoes. 12" wheels for a bit of lift.
Slick redneck support that slides up for trailering. Bar stock handle with R pins.
Still needs paint and bolts instead of screws to secure the axle.
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