Given the size, it can almost only be this:
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Even with the nose off I had problems with the headers on my Chevelle. I sent two sets back to Summit . I ended up with Doug’s headers and they went in with a little cussing and a few tweaks
We have had a run of glorious weather in the last few weeks, nights down to 3°-6°C and days to around 18°-20°C and clear. Perfect for scrounging, but also my current staging area for overflow scrounge floods when it rains and is often wet all through winter so I want to get as much cut and stacked before that happens. I'm out of pallets now so I'm using uglies as a sacrificial bottom layer.
Chainsaw Collectors
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Ok. Never seen one of those.
carving disc for a right angle grinder.
Watch for ticks, boys! Sitting here in the shade getting a drink/taking a break and felt something on my arm. They are tough little fellas, but no match for the Leatherman pliers!
Also known as the spinning wheel of death
cuttinstihl
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Got to run the repaired 290 against my 590 in some 20” oak. I forgot how slow the 029/290 was for the weight, I thought 16” .325 it had would give it the win over the 590 running 24” 3/8.
Nope, the 590 gave the 290 a beatdown even with the 50% longer bar and bigger chain. And it was cutting 4” more wood than the 290. Granted the 290 had semi chisel as opposed to the full chisel on the 590, both were freshly sharpened to the same extent. Both were tuned to 4 stroke with no load and immediately clean up under load, everything under my control was as equal as possible. 290 is also stock whereas the 590 has a muffler mod and base gasket delete.
Nope, the 590 gave the 290 a beatdown even with the 50% longer bar and bigger chain. And it was cutting 4” more wood than the 290. Granted the 290 had semi chisel as opposed to the full chisel on the 590, both were freshly sharpened to the same extent. Both were tuned to 4 stroke with no load and immediately clean up under load, everything under my control was as equal as possible. 290 is also stock whereas the 590 has a muffler mod and base gasket delete.
I knew there must have been some LOGICAL reason for you cutting that wood up
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MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Awesome!!
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
19 so far, almost a “life sentence”…
No doubt... not much call for chains for 18th century tools.
Reminds me of the season my oldest son was born. His DOB was written on all the venison packages in the freezer.
I actually got it the day before and a buddy processed it for me as I was busy.
Nice! I did some exhaust work today too! My father's zero turn continues to haunt me... While mowing last week the muffler fell off. Seems the bolts loosened and fell out... only took about 18-20 years but they did. With fingers crossed I visited my son at his work place and obtained new flange bolts to attach the muffler to the stainless steel mounting bracket that attaches to the frame. No good. The threaded holes had been worried by the bolts and the new ones were not grabbing the threads. Another trip to see my son... This time for the next diameter size up bolt. I took the bracket, muffler and new bolts to my shop. Drilled the holes to the appropriate size for the new bolts and tapped them. Then it was a matter of reassembling everything... and then mow!
I was happy nothing else failed! Two weeks ago there were battery and cable problems, last week the muffler fell off, this week I fixed the muffler... I fixed it as a new one listed for $150 and it had to be ordered... Seemed a bit pricy to me for what it is. The pipes coming off the engine simply stick into the two large holes shown in the image. There are no gaskets or anything else to seal them... slip fit!
While writing this I noticed the Walmart ad... Seems like a dumb ad to run on an arborist site! LOL
I knew there must have been some LOGICAL reason for you cutting that wood up
Why would you assume that?
Actually I was just removing mess (to keep getting invited back for more scrounge) that could eventually be burned to keep us warm but thought of making them sacrificial as an afterthought.
You know, I feel that cutting wood from piled straight logs that someone else did for you is not quite the same as cutting from trees that have come down naturally that you have to think and work through. Never mind the snakes, scorpions, bull ants and drop bears that we have to contend with over here. I think that @H-Ranch should have a few points deducted from his score for the SOTY trophy because it is just a bit too easy cutting from a pile. There, I said it.
It was time to till one of my gardens,
It worked up rather nicely,
SR
That soil looks so rich you ought to be able to grow donuts
G'day fellers,
Lots of pics today, for those with low bandwidth, I don't really apologise. This big narrow leaf peppermint must have been a monster and quite twisted. After it died, it fell, split into several parts, some with rot in them. The picture is deceptive, this is from the skinny end, 20' at the nearest fork.
The main trunk split into several parts on landing
On the other side, part had split off to the left and this looks good for the scrounging at a later date.
There was a branch stub supporting the log up to this point so I felt safe cutting to there
Those rounds are not quite dry but fairly close, I think I'll give them to Roscoe.
TBC...
Lots of pics today, for those with low bandwidth, I don't really apologise. This big narrow leaf peppermint must have been a monster and quite twisted. After it died, it fell, split into several parts, some with rot in them. The picture is deceptive, this is from the skinny end, 20' at the nearest fork.
The main trunk split into several parts on landing
On the other side, part had split off to the left and this looks good for the scrounging at a later date.
There was a branch stub supporting the log up to this point so I felt safe cutting to there
Those rounds are not quite dry but fairly close, I think I'll give them to Roscoe.
TBC...
There were a number of good dry limbs that were easy to cut.
TBC...
TBC...
