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[Curlycherry1]

PM me your address and send me 2 semi loads of stamps and I'll mail it to you.

Call Bob at Freghtquote.com and tell him to use Curlycherry's account for a stick or two. Heck, I would be glad to get the branches from some of those trees!

So I still have two questions:
Where does that redwood go once processed - overseas?????

And is that tree in the pic a fallen tree that was taken out by some act of nature, or is that part of a normal harvest?

 

[2dogs]

Call Bob at Freghtquote.com and tell him to use Curlycherry's account for a stick or two. Heck, I would be glad to get the branches from some of those trees!

So I still have two questions:
Where does that redwood go once processed - overseas?????

And is that tree in the pic a fallen tree that was taken out by some act of nature, or is that part of a normal harvest?

Great! I'll send that tree freight collect!

I can only say the local mill sells most of its redwood with a few hundred miles of here. I think they have 5 lumber yards.

This tree was a victim of the fires of 2008 even though it fell 2 weeks ago. That stump was cat faced over the years by fire and a recent windy rainstorm took it down. The base of the tree, that is the cat faced trunk broke apart. The cat face is on the uphill side where debris collects and the burns aginst the stump each time a fire blows through. The good wood is on the down hill side so it has to break before the tree comes down. It broke the top out of another redwood, maybe around 4' DBH, I haven't hiked up the hill to it yet, that I will have to fall soon. The tree fall gap this tree left is huge! The tree fell over and then slid 120' down the hill, spanned the road, and finally the top stuck where the hill ran out. It has heart rot so it will not yield great lumber. I forgot to take a pic of the butt log showing the rot.

Since we are chainsaw geeks here is a pic of the 090 with a 4' bar about 50' from the butt.

The next two pics are of the same small fir that blew over in the same storm that knocked over the redwood. This tree obviously fell over when the root plate failed. I had marked this tree for removal but the forester wouldn't allow it to happen. There a many of these trees to take care of.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

That nameplate on the starter cover looks new, of course the saw looks good as well.

 

[2dogs]

That nameplate on the starter cover looks new, of course the saw looks good as well.

I bought that saw last year for $500.00 without a bar. It had a 5', 1/2" pitch bar and chain on it that the my friend kept. I changed the sprocket and bought a 4' bar and a 5' bar with 2 chains on ebay. Nothing had been used much. The dealer tuned it up and set the governor, it starts easily. A little sun fading is its only blemish. I think I could spray clear Rust Oleum and bring out the shine. But, it's just a working toll for me. That said I have no love for this thing. It vibrates way too much, its loud and heavy as heck. It set the bark on fire while I was bucking the redwood in the pic.

I think there are quite a few 090s here, maybe from the days when the redwood burl business was strong. My friend Andy finds one every 6 months or so.

 

[RandyMac]

That said I have no love for this thing. It vibrates way too much, its loud and heavy as heck. It set the bark on fire while I was bucking the redwood in the pic.

Ha ha, I said that very thing, they are far worse than the Homelites of that time.

HorseShoe, that is a big Cedar, and a very old one at that.

 

[GNAR13]

Wonder why mac and homelite stopped making pro saws and go to the cheap things they make now. Looks like one of them would start making good saws again and try to sell the people that use them everyday. I think if they did come out with a saw that was worthy of a pro saw it would sell. I remember some of the old macs i have run, They were well built, now none of them were the size of the ones Randy has used. I would certainly look at one if they came out with a good saw.

so that wal-mart and others would keep selling their saws at prices that the average homeowner liked