I think Yooper is quite tight.:msp_smile:
Red Elm
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I think Yooper is quite tight.:msp_smile:
I guess as a person who works with a chain saws as an occupation I found it rather tedious to save chains to file at home and not just do it quickly on the job. for a home owner cutten wood that cant correctly file I would see it fine. I had one of them given to be a couple years ago used it 2 times and gave it to a buddy. didn't like it.
ditto to you my friend:msp_smile:
Well we gonna see how the chain sharpened with the grinder holds up compared to hand filing tommorrow. I sharpened four chains with it. Might go back to the oak some tommorrow.
Use Both
(t is right next to r on my keyboard)
Actually, the point can be made both ways. File sharpening onsite is still a skill all chainsaw operators need to have. I hold the saw's engine on my lap, lean the bar over my left shoulder, and file away without even looking at the chain. I wager that few men know how to do that.
However, after doing that for a few times, I take the chain to the shop and use the Oregon 511a to even it all up. Thus I have saved about 30 chains for several more sharpenings that ordinarily I would have thrown to the garbage.
Now, what has all this got to do with red elm?
Sorry for the typo.
(t is right next to r on my keyboard)Actually, the point can be made both ways. File sharpening onsite is still a skill all chainsaw operators need to have. I hold the saw's engine on my lap, lean the bar over my left shoulder, and file away without even looking at the chain. I wager that few men know how to do that.
However, after doing that for a few times, I take the chain to the shop and use the Oregon 511a to even it all up. Thus I have saved about 30 chains for several more sharpenings that ordinarily I would have thrown to the garbage.
Now, what has all this got to do with red elm?
nutten :msp_thumbsup:
SS rip a log and show us the grain and color, would be in interested to see.
OK, I will do one tommorrow. The stuff don't have much nice grain though.
This elm splits with a maul easy, Smooth also. I'll post some close ups of it tommorrow. I just am down in the dumps right now, Thought i was gonna have a new 880 to work with.
Art Vandelay
Bovinius Maximus
Borrow Rope's. LMAO
Rope don't have an 880, He has a 395.
Art Vandelay
Bovinius Maximus
Hence the LMAO. :bang:
I look for color most the time. I usually use food coloring and white stain to manipulate the coloring my self if I need to.:hmm3grin2orange:
Yeah OK :msp_sad:I'm slow.
Well the elm is history, Son came over and we winched the log out of the ditch and went to sawing.
The noodle bed.
I left a little stump in case they wanted to push it over.
All that's left of the trunk
The noodle bed.
I left a little stump in case they wanted to push it over.
All that's left of the trunk
Some of the grain which looked pretty good in the bigger log.
What's left of the limbs.
The truck loaded.
My son on the pile which is pretty big now.
What's left of the limbs.
The truck loaded.
My son on the pile which is pretty big now.
Nice looking grain in that stuff. I went to the woodpile today and took a pic of the elm that grows here. I don't know if this is siberian elm or what. We just call it elm. It ain't red for sure.
This is what happens when you try to split it. You can't touch it with a maul, you'd have to have something bad wrong with you to even try. The whole center is just twisted strings. It's really good firewood though.
This is what happens when you try to split it. You can't touch it with a maul, you'd have to have something bad wrong with you to even try. The whole center is just twisted strings. It's really good firewood though.
Man that stuff is splintery, This stuff splits smooth. The inside of the tailgate is in bad shape. It has collapsed after years of throwing logs on it. The outside looks ok though.
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how come you don't take your hydro splitter to the site and split it before you load it instead of doing all that noodeling it does stand up vertical right where you can roll the rounds over to it and split them.
