The working man, and chainsaw thread!!!!!!!!!

[Marc]

WOW! From the pics that looks like a very large Red Maple. :msp_ohmy: Did you get any pics of the trunk when you dropped it? I'd love to see what it looks like. :msp_drool: Looks like you had your work cut out for ya', did you have any "help" on that take down?
Great pics! :msp_thumbup: Thanks for posting them.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

It was big. Twin stems split at 5 feet up, then each stem split 3 ways. Lotta wood. I'm going back to work up the two main stems this weekend. I'll see if I can get a shot. Each main stem was about 30 inches where they split.

Had two friends dragging brush and bucking. Going to have a bonfire with this one

 

[NHlocal]

It was big. Twin stems split at 5 feet up, then each stem split 3 ways. Lotta wood. I'm going back to work up the two main stems this weekend. I'll see if I can get a shot. Each main stem was about 30 inches where they split.

Had two friends dragging brush and bucking. Going to have a bonfire with this one

Having help on the ground makes the job go sooooo much easier.
If you do get more pics post 'em, I'd love to see 'em. :msp_drool:

Hello my friends! And yes Happy thanksgiving I agree Randy great pictures, job and tree Marc! Thanksgiving REP my friend

Have a safe and HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone!

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I agree Randy, ground help is a must, very handy! Nice thing to, as John and I have learned, with years together. You also see different angles of approach, and can spot or identify different hazards. As one is in the tree, and other always looking up from the ground, makes life better.

 

[struggle]

Been quiet here on tree work paid that is for me.

The last couple of days have been interesting though:msp_scared:

A friend of mine that kind of takes more wood than he helps with decided he would start pushing to cut more firewood with me. So we have been going out to his brothers farm 6 miles from my homestead and his brother has a hired man cutting down all the trees that are shading his farmland and there a lot of them. I will get some pictures maybe tomorrow as I plan on splitting all tomorrow if it works out.

Anyways his hired man has been using Robert's (friends brohter)MS290 farm boss to do the bulk of the cutting but decided that the saw wasn't big enough so he went out and bought a new MS391 with 25" bar. Well the hired hand is a bit well lets say not the safest or maybe better put more of a risk taker to a certain extent. He had stuck his saw a couple of times and used the 290 to get it out pinching the bar down tight on trees he was dropping. Well yesterday he did the it and left the saw in the tree and cut it out and all was fine. I mentioned to him that sometimes if you get a saw stuck that bad it might be a good idea to remove the power head to avoid the saw being throw etc when it comes free. Today Robert called me and told me the guy got his saw stuck agin and cut over the top of his saw and cut through the oil tank on his new 391:msp_angry: Nothing a llittle JB weld won't take care of

So there were two size-able tree left to drop that his hired hand didn't want to do so I said I would do it:msp_smile: I will try to get the pictures tomorrow, the one was I think some type of elm maybe red as it was very red in the center. I had my MS660 dressed with a 28" bar. The tree is right at or just over 48" across and is on a bank. I notched it on the bank side for it to fall that way and it went as planned. The other tree was a large silver maple maybe 36-40" in diameter. They were fun to cut down.

Anyways the hired guy was quite happy to not have to drop them. He was battling the smaller ones enough with getting his saws stuck.

What has been working out great so far though is all the mulberry and elm trees they are skidding them out into the middle of the field and then friend and I cut them to size and split on site directly into my dump trailer and then haul the stuff off. It works really slick with the dump trailer as this is the first year doing firewood with it. Man is it ever nice to not have to hand unload the stuff.

Today I tried splitting some of the elm they drug out and it was dry and we tried splitting it with my log splitter and another one and it was a no go. I had to cut the rounds into 8" lengths and then split them. I have split a lot of elm and it has always been tough but never this bad. I will say this is the devils firewood for sure Toughest stuff I have ever dealt with for splitting.

I have tonage of trees for splitting now so that is good. It will keep our home warm for the days to come.

Other hiccups on the day were I put a carb kit in my Dolmar 5100S and while it ran the best it ever has in the cut it all of sudden started dying at idle. It also flooded three times when starting it cold. I reset the needle tab depth as I'm pretty sure it was to high, so I hope that resolves that.

Then this Mcculloch Timber Bear I have recently aquired which runs good I broke the rope on it starting it for the third time:msp_angry: so I rounded the edges on the pulley where it knots and tried a different method of tying it off. I alos noticed that it quit auto oiling and it didn't take long at home to figure out why as the oil pickup hose fell off. Someone else had replaced it before but they left it a little to short so the pickup filter was always hanging on the hose. If you have ever taking on these aprt to repair the oil tank hose you know how frustrating it can be to work on.

I have a saying that I use the new saws to make money paid jobs and the old saws to save money for firewood cutting but I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't just sell of the old stuff and buy new for everything but then that messes with the fate of CAD and that can be some bad juju right there.

I did cut for a guy for 3.5 hours earlier this week dropping some trees for him that he is going to have milled. Cotton wood for barn loft stuff. He was very happy with that. It was pretty straight forward and out in the open work with no hazards beyond a fence which I stayed off of.

Sorry but it was kind of a long rambling on nothing but mild aggravation for today. I left my trailer out in the field so I hope it is still there tomorrow when I go out there to split some more. It is locked on the tunqe so hopefully it will stay put over night

 

[Denis Gionet]

I've got an old saw in the shed, a Jonsereds 36. OLD. It's fighting a carb issue too and I won't waste anymore time on it. I got mad this spring because I need something that works when I need it, so I bought the 435 and have never looked back. I fired the 36 up a couple of times but it's futile if I don't have a carb kit to put in it. It's 25 years old so good luck finding one .....

All this to say, old stuff is ok when it works, but when it doesn't, ya better have some backup !

 

[NHlocal]

Norm,
I agree 100%, the times that I'm able to have someone helping on the ground is better in every way. The work goes faster, it's safer, and I'm never nearly as worn out when I'm done.


Denis,
very true, if you don't know what the real problem is you will end up with equipment that never works quite right.
I'm still chasing a problem with my ms260.....:bang:


Shane,
changed your avatar again eh? Nice. :msp_thumbup: Sounds like you're keeping busy. Good deal on getting all that firewood, even though you have some "challenges". Do you have to work directly with this "hired man"? As I was reading your post I couldn't help shaking my head and thinking, this man (or someone working with him) is going to get seriously hurt or worse. :msp_scared: He cut through his own saw, really?!?
I've been busy myself, between overtime at the shop and doing take downs, this working man is grateful to be able to sleep in this morning. Almost forgot what it was like to sleep past 4am. :msp_w00t: I will be cutting Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon.
Have a safe and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

 

[struggle]

No he work is not dependent on me. I cut the big trees down as a favor for my friends brother so his hired man doesn't risk killing himself.

I'm trying to though to keep up with him on bringing me trees to get them bucked and split and the hired man is way ahead of us at this point. He has trees spread out across the field currently waiting for me. That is why I'm going out there all today to split wood.

Have some turkey boys today:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Denis Gionet]

Denis, very true, if you don't know what the real problem is you will end up with equipment that never works quite right.
I'm still chasing a problem with my ms260.....:bang:

It's just about to the point of the saw will become a piece of yard art, maybe screwed to the wall of my shed at the lake .... unless the bar fits my 435 ..... hmmmm .....

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Well happy thanksgiving my loyal band of great friends!:msp_thumbup::msp_thumbup: Shane some good trees you got into, I like the big ones. Good thing for the trusty 660 I have run into many folks like that over the years, and had to clean up or bail out some ourselves. Some people well it's like being a mechanic, or equip opertator, truck driver whatever. You either got it or you don't. And some should just never touch a saw. Randy glad to see you have help these days, sure cut's down on the wear and tear on you like you said. Shane I think it was your metering adjustment, as you said. Aaron showed me that, had the same problem with a husky, aaron helped me. Denis I agree always backup. Whether I cut wood, brush, or do a tree job, the whole arsenal is in my trailer, all the rigging,pole saw and five saws.

 

[Brian13]

Have a great Thanksgiving everybody. Hope everybody is doing well for the holiday. Getting ready to haul the family off to the parents for dinner, gonna do some serious eating LOL. It is nice having some time off, spent the morning teaching the kids how to use a handsaw. They love tools and chainsaws. Almost everyday one of the kids asks to either work on a saw or cut a tree down. Have a great Thanksgiving!!

 

[struggle]

Shane I think it was your metering adjustment, as you said. Aaron showed me that, had the same problem with a husky, aaron helped me.

I took it apart last night after sealing the tank on the timber bear and I reset the metering level and it was all good today. Very strong running saw with a muffler mod. Snorty little turd the 5100 is.

Here are some pictures of where I have been doing the firewood.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Shane good deal! Nice pics good size stumps. Them 5occ saws are surprising little buggers, my 51 I used to have was snorty, and bullettproof. Brian good to see you my friend!

 

[NHlocal]

Have a great Thanksgiving everybody. Hope everybody is doing well for the holiday. Getting ready to haul the family off to the parents for dinner, gonna do some serious eating LOL. It is nice having some time off, spent the morning teaching the kids how to use a handsaw. They love tools and chainsaws. Almost everyday one of the kids asks to either work on a saw or cut a tree down. Have a great Thanksgiving!!

Hey Brian,
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Good to hear from ya', hope you had a good meal with your parents(and didn't eat "too much":hmm3grin2orange: ). Good to hear your boys are still interested and excited about the work you're doing. As I said before, you may just be teaching one or both of them how to do tree work before you know it.
I'll be cutting tomorrow afternoon(after I get out of work). I'll try to post some pics when I get home.

I took it apart last night after sealing the tank on the timber bear and I reset the metering level and it was all good today. Very strong running saw with a muffler mod. Snorty little turd the 5100 is.

Here are some pictures of where I have been doing the firewood.

Wow Shane, those are some good pics! Is that one of your "groundies" standing on the stump. :hmm3grin2orange:
You've got some pretty good sized trees there that you're cutting. Nice work. Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.
Have a great weekend!
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[struggle]

Wow Shane, those are some good pics! Is that one of your "groundies" standing on the stump. :hmm3grin2orange:
You've got some pretty good sized trees there that you're cutting. Nice work. Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.
Have a great weekend!
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

He has helped me on a couple of stump clean up jobs. One day he might do some ground work you just never know. Mom was not the most happy about today with us going out but I feel it is deeply important for him to experience things that others might shrug off. It seems that our countries mind set it so far from kids learning how to still do manual work. It is from there that you can really appreciate the results of hard labor and a better understanding that not all things are just brought off a shelf at the local store to be consumed:msp_smile:

 

[NHlocal]

He has helped me on a couple of stump clean up jobs. One day he might do some ground work you just never know. Mom was not the most happy about today with us going out but I feel it is deeply important for him to experience things that others might shrug off. It seems that our countries mind set it so far from kids learning how to still do manual work. It is from there that you can really appreciate the results of hard labor and a better understanding that not all things are just brought off a shelf at the local store to be consumed:msp_smile:

Very well said Shane, I agree 100%. Sure would like to see a whole lot more people thinking the same way.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I agree randy and Shane, this economy showed our hand, it left many college educated unemployed, with no labor skills to fall back on. Or left them over qualified. Absolutely nothing against a college education, but many parents failed to educate there kids in Labor like you said, and skills that are basic for survival in every day life. I mean I run into college kids these days who have never done dishes, taken out trash, done laundry. Our generation we did all this, plus worked, plus cut firewood, crawled under cars in the rain to fix them to be able to go to work, or school the next day. We have a large Oak tree to take down for a family member, north of me an hour, right up our alley, big saw country, semi or hollow, only two ways to go, pull and fall one direction, or dismantle. I love it, yes Randy pictures will come, be a couple weeks though:cool2:

 

[Eccentric]

That big oak in Willits Norm? That's about an hour north of you IIRC. I'd like to be there with you for that one.

 

[NHlocal]

I agree randy and Shane, this economy showed our hand, it left many college educated unemployed, with no labor skills to fall back on. Or left them over qualified. Absolutely nothing against a college education, but many parents failed to educate there kids in Labor like you said, and skills that are basic for survival in every day life. I mean I run into college kids these days who have never done dishes, taken out trash, done laundry. Our generation we did all this, plus worked, plus cut firewood, crawled under cars in the rain to fix them to be able to go to work, or school the next day. We have a large Oak tree to take down for a family member, north of me an hour, right up our alley, big saw country, semi or hollow, only two ways to go, pull and fall one direction, or dismantle. I love it, yes Randy pictures will come, be a couple weeks though.

Sounds good Norm, look forward to seeing those pics.
Survived another afternoon of cutting. Got home, took a hot shower, had some supper, and I just got done looking at the pictures and video from today. It was a good day, got a lot done in just 3 hours. Seemed to go really well with only a couple very minor "close calls". Two more Red Oaks down and limbed. I'll go back tomorrow afternoon and buck it to stove length to get it ready to haul out. I'm definitely ready for some sleep. Here's a few pics from today's work.....

.....it's a group of four before climbing/cutting.....

.....ready to cut the first big limb.....

.....lowering the top from "tree #11.....

.....laid 'em down side by side.....

.....not perfect, but good enough.....

This working man has to go to sleep to get up for work at 4am, :msp_sleep: then I get to go and cut in the afternoon. Have a great weekend.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Aaron 8 miles in on cow mountain out of Ukiah. I do like Willits though nice drive. Yes my friend sure was hoping for your company! Be a saturday maybe two weeks out or sooner whatever works for everyone. Randy nice stuff buddy, the working man likes your stumps, nice!

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Husqvarna 181se chainsaw Passing this on my friends, almost headed up in the am it was close!