Strelnikov
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Yup...Osage-Orange. Great wood. Burns HOT. Tough on chains and other wood working implements.
JQ
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Yup...Osage-Orange. Great wood. Burns HOT. Tough on chains and other wood working implements.
JQ
I've got some dead Ash, Red Oak and Locust in the wood pile. I'll try it after Xmas and see. You may be right.You may not, we''ll see.If anyone has cut at dusk, sparks can be seen regardless of the wood being cut. It's simply the moving parts of the bar, tip and chain,
John
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This stuff right here....hard on chains for sure. Makes good fence post though. And my 105 year old house sits on these stumps.
Yup...Osage-Orange. Great wood. Burns HOT. Tough on chains and other wood working implements.
JQ
I have seen sparks from Osage.Cuttin' right at dusk.Clean fresh cut logs.
Sharpening the chain after every tank.Hottest damn fire I've ever built.
Put you in mind of a coal fire.
Locust doesn't even come close.
Hedge.. (osage orange, bodark... whatever) hands down.. go try and cut a corner hedge post off with a new chain and wonder if you'll have all the teeth still on it when you get through it ... after that probably bur oak.. which is easy cutting
Somehow, grits will get into a tree and produce sparks when cutting, and it's not always near the stump. I guess when the tree was growing, it took some grits up with it. I've seen it alot over the years.
You CAN drive a staple into a hedge post.. wait until it rains for 2 or three days and THEN go out in the mud and do it.. it still abour breaks your arm, but she'll stick and stay forever
Bodark - if that's the mustard yellow colored stuff, it's very hard. My cousin uses it in place of ebony for bridge plates in acoustic guitars.Hedge.. (osage orange, bodark... whatever) hands down..
I will try that, I only have 3/8 mile of hedge post and 1/4 mile of hedge row.
But the hedge row doesn't need any fence anymore.
TT
If anyone has cut at dusk, sparks can be seen regardless of the wood being cut. It's simply the moving parts of the bar, tip and chain,
John
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