Lakeside53
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lolol.. I did think of calling a few tree service friends for help at one point, but... then I'd have to eat crap for a year
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lolol.. I did think of calling a few tree service friends for help at one point, but... then I'd have to eat crap for a year
Lakeside53
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ebay special - cuts around corners... $100...:greenchainsaw:
ms310
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just put it in the vise and straighten that bad boy out!!
Nahhh...I think Andy can get a deal on a new tip at the local Stihl shop.:greenchainsaw:
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
lolol... I was just working on it... I have several spare tips, but I put them somewhere safe... grrrr...
The bar is fine.. the chain is toast (yes, I could mess with it, but to heck with it...).
The bar is fine.. the chain is toast (yes, I could mess with it, but to heck with it...).
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Oh, it burns.... but so quickly I think it actually produces negative net thermal energy, something to do with adiabatic atmospheric something or other....
(not really, but it produces so little heat that you are warmed only twice by it: Once when you cut and haul it, and once when you split and stack it.)
Kind of like our midwestern "pi$$ elm," but at least the elms will burn once you get the sinewy stuff split! lol
Man that stuff stinks when it is wet.
lolol... I was just working on it... I have serveral spare tips, but I put them somewhere safe... grrrr...
The bar is fine.. the chain is toast (yes, I could mess with it, but to heck with it...).
That's an easy fix. Grasp the old tip firmly in whichever hand isn't holding a beer, step to the door of the shop, open door, throw old tip into dumpster.
Then, since you'll need two hands to install new tip, finish beer.
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Do you ski?:greenchainsaw:
There are lots of big cottonwoods in this part of the country and Bill G mentioned. Some are used to make pallets and such, light weight when dried but pretty tough stuff. Lousy firewood and the coarse, thick bark hold so much dust and dirt that it dull chains in an unbelievably short time.
Sometimes it will be used as the core material for hardwood plywood, interior components for furniture, etc.
I think the cant we were cutting in Baraboo was cottonwood. Maybe that is the best use possible?
Mark
Sometimes it will be used as the core material for hardwood plywood, interior components for furniture, etc.
I think the cant we were cutting in Baraboo was cottonwood. Maybe that is the best use possible?
Mark
Oh, by the way, I did that to a bar once a long time ago. Pinched in a limb I was removing; to my good fortune I was a one saw man at the time so no choice but to remove the bar, install another on the saw, finish taking off the limb but stupid me, cut it behind the pinched bar so the bar fell with the limb and similar results except not at the tip, bar became scrap iron.
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lolol... I was just working on it... I have serveral spare tips, but I put them somewhere safe... grrrr...
+1 Just love them safe places we put things......dammit
rbtree
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nope, Andy slash cut it....allows the tree to be shortened whilst still hung up.
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rbtree
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lolol.. I did think of calling a few tree service friends for help at one point, but... then I'd have to eat crap for a year
Hmmm....I've heard of a couple fellas.....
sure glad you got it down safely with naught but a bent tippie....
windthrown
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That will teach you! I did the same thing once, and only once. Bent the bar in the middle though (A GB, it bent right back in a vice). From then on, pinch a bar, remove the saw head without even thinking about it. Now second nature. You are lucky, you could have bent the crank!
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Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
RB - You can do the others.... Hateful trees...
The one cottonwood I tried to use would not split either with a splitter or by hand, even after drying for a year and cutting the rounds in half (8"). There just isn't many trees out here except for willow with some pine/spruce in the canyons. I'll burn anything but won't even slow down to look at a cottonwood.
Harry K
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Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
Yes,,,, I watched and expert do it once, and have pics of him nearly eating the tree...:0
GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
The 30" logs we cut up here at the log shows with the hot saws are usually Cottonwood...
After making only 4 or 5 cuts all weekend long... you smell like cat pi$$ for the entire weekend...
Gary
After making only 4 or 5 cuts all weekend long... you smell like cat pi$$ for the entire weekend...
Gary
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
I'm not so sure that was from the log:monkey:
