Search results

I am not not one to make fire starters or buy them far to cheap to buy . most of my fires start with junk mail. but I grabbed some boxes at the grocery store to pack my groceries in , wife sent me the last few weeks and I take my truck and 12 bags of groceries are just a pain , I can slide...

had a big maple at the farm that was dying and starting to drop good size limbs 6 inch plus. I sort of expected it to be root rot as I had cut other root rot maples in the same area and had seen mice going in and out of some holes in the stump down low , but this one was dying top down and...

back in December I had posted about a different product the timber tuff products Timber claw, it was , ok but not great it had it's short comings. especially sensitive to the length of the rounds the timber claw liking the long side of 16 and I am cutting mostly on the short side of 16 at that...

I was watching a video and the guy in the video was pulling several times on this saw to even get it to pop at +27F he had a Stihl and asked if others have problems starting Stihls at low temps. I think of 27 as about ideal cutting temp 30-25 with light wind and frozen ground little to no snow...

I have a bigish saw big enough to handle anything around here. Jred 2166 I have a medium saw Jred 2255 but I keep picking up the little top handles thinking it would be nice to have a very light saw 6-7 pounds for the small stuff limbs and trimming. why should I not get a top handle , this...

my son is 15 and he has been splitting for me since he was about 9 but he was not ready for a saw. he is getting big enough ,strong enough and I have started him on some simple bucking . I have a set of PPE for him but I have been looking for more training information , I just found a class...

I burn hot and clean and here is why. I decided it had been about 2 years since I cleaned and I should give it a check. that sounds bad but I seldom have anything at 2 years over the last 11 I worked up 1 year for a few then 2 years. I was out running errands all morning and had let the fire...

What do you carry into the woods with you ? generally I will have chainsaw PPE- hard hat , gloves and chaps tool belt - this in an old army pistol belt with the load bearing suspenders the belt carries 4 wedges file scwrench on a loop with a clip to the belt (i got tired of loosing it...

I got my new old stock 2016 model year but never run till Dec 20th 2018 when i picked it up from the dealer and it was started for the first time. I got it with a 24 inch bar 3/8 full comp chisel chain it runs great no slowing it down with this combo. I have been cutting a bunch of 30-36 inch...

any one using a timber claw by timber tough tools or the lockhart's gripper? fleet farm had some https://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/timber-tuff-timber-claw-log-carrier/0000000078259 for what seemed like a good price. lockhart's firewood gripper...

time for a new Saw and time to go bigger. I had a MS260 that was my only saw from 2007 till fall 2016 Fall of 2016 I added the J-red 2255 while the MS260 was down. as of last Saturday the MS260 was down again and I sold it for project/parts this last week thank you to all who were...

I have been thinking are to many saws being sold with too long of a bar for their power? I just because I got a deal on them and I was looking for lower cost bar and chain for cutting around a barn yard and fence rows picked up an 18 inch bar for my Jred 2255 , the saw came with a 20 inch...

I have a Stihl MS260 with a scored cylinder. it was fine a month and a half ago , when I had a new Walbro carb put on at my local saw shop . I figure it sat with gas in it all summer and that gummed up the original carb I didn't run that saw much last spring. I had some issues with a fuel line...

it was 8x12 and the roof was starting to sag a bit in the middle being built with 2x4 to hold up the tin. now it has a wall down the center it is 8 inches on center to make it good to stack against these are the $1.61 studs. on the ground I had 2 ugly but cheap landscaping timbers with a 2x6...

I bought the saw new in 2007 , have run it since , always run good oil mixed to the directions on the bottle with non ethanol gas but I had a fuel line go bad at 9 1/2 years and the saw was apparently sucking air and over heated when that first happened about 3 weeks ago I took it to the local...

Trapper_Pete submitted a new Showcase Item: Dirty hand tools 27 ton log splitter Read more about this showcase item here...