Mastermind
Work Saw Specialist
If a saw is all ya need............heck man we got saws.
I cut Juniper (soft wood) biggest diameter is 18". Average is probably under 12".
Would love to cut Oak but it's too far to drive and too hard to find (and heavy).
The Homelite 4620 I have is about the perfect weight for me to handle, and it has a 20" bar, but being a cheap Chinese saw, with a .325 chain, it doesn't really do all that well except for limbs and small diameter trunks. Even with a nice sharp chain it cuts slow and I end up with a screaming back from being hunched over handling the saw. And I don't expect it will hold up to much use, bought it new, cut a few limbs and it's been sitting two years. When I was still able to muscle the Dolmar 120, I was spoiled, it flat out cut the wood fast. Ideally a saw with the power of a 68cc engine and weight of a 46cc would work for me.
If a saw is all ya need............heck man we got saws.
He has a saw..........no worries.
Is a lighter saw with good power the only thing that you're needing to be happy "living off the grid," or is maintaining your place getting to be too much? There are builders (some are sponsors, some are not) here who can set you up nicely for the $$ that you eralier mentioned.
:msp_thumbup: Do tell.
Do you live kind of close to Chaco Canyon? I've met a few folks who live off the grid in New Mexico and they really enjoy it. However, it is a very harsh environment! I don't think that most people on the forum can understand the remoteness with all it's challenges, if they have never been out there. For example, I met someone who owns 16,000 acres, it was 4 1/2 miles from the road entrance to his house, nothing but high desert scrub, etc. Another person I met was driving to the closest town nearby to have lunch which was 75 miles away.
Randy has stepped up to the plate and made a most generous offer that left me speechless. I will be able to keep the woodstove going.
Don't know him and I'm new hear, but Randy obviously desrives a shout out. Great to start a morning, reading something like that.
I don't deserve anything........
This site and it's members have been very good for me. I found this place when I was in very poor health and the reading I found here kept me from going insane.
I'm just happy to be able to give something back.
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