Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

Time for some MILLING! I deeply regret cutting 3 nice Black Wallnuts into firewood a couple of years ago.

might be some black streaks in the trunk area from the wire but some of the "limbs" might be big enough. my one buddy has a band mill.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I'm taking pics as I'm going. How do yall get anything done while taking pics every 5mins?!

 

[chipper1]

Just be aware they use the same spocket for .050 as they do for .063, so some side to side is OK.

That's right.
So I'm clear for others, I turn the sprocket as it would turn on the saw.
If you make a mark on the chain and one on the sprocket with the sprocket turned as far as you can to the left that align, then turn the sprocket to the right and you get more than a couple mm then I personally would change it out.

Time for some MILLING! I deeply regret cutting 3 nice Black Wallnuts into firewood a couple of years ago.

I did that this summer with a big pine log, I even hauled it to the house whole. Then I fired up the 576 with a 20" bar and started dropping it in there, it was cutting through so fast I had to be careful not to drop out the bottom, then when I finished I was like, "what did I just do" .
I remembered that yesterday cutting up the spruce, but the homeowner wanted 4 rounds out of the butt section about 22" long for a bench. It was my opportunity to make up for the other one, and he took it from me LOL.

 

[muddstopper]

I'm taking pics as I'm going. How do yall get anything done while taking pics every 5mins?!

Well it depends, If I am in a hurry, I dont take pic. I usually dont take pics even when I aint in a hurry. And when I do take pics, they are usually blurry. I preview every pic I take before posting. Nobody wants to see me peeing behind a tree, and I dont want anybody looking at the goodies, (read as junk),I got scattered around and in the shop. And I sure dont want it to get out that it is really my wife doing all the work. A good looking woman that can run a chainsaw, weld up a wood splitter, owns a boat, as well as cook and clean is hard to comeby.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Well I just got back home with a load. I'm not going to try to do this all in one post. Heres the problem, had to pull this one out, but no big, easy access. Then cut to 5ft lengths for benches. My uncle knows a guy who has a mill but after I got these cut to 5ft sections they were still too heavy to get into the truck. And that timberjack thing is great. I'm really glad I got that.

 

[woodchip rookie]

Before I started the saw up I needed to change from the 32 to the 20 cuz OVER. KILL.

 

[Ginger15]

Before I started the saw up I needed to change from the 32 to the 20 cuz OVER. KILL.

That 20 looks like a 14 on that saw.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I couldnt get the 5ft logs any higher and into the truck so I had to put the 32 back on with the rip chain and try to do a "first-time-ever-for-me" freehand rip. I have never ran a saw this big. Never ran a bar this big. Never had a rip chain. Never ripped a log. So here we go. What could go wrong?! It went WAY better than I thought it was going to...

 

[woodchip rookie]

That 20 looks like a 14 on that saw.

It is a monster and with a 20 its absolutely badass...balances better and its lighter. I can sling that saw with a 20.

 

[woodchip rookie]

After I got the 2 logs ripped I looked at all the rest of the big logs I was taking for firewood and thought "Splitting these is gonna be.....WAIT. The rip chain is already on the saw! NOODLE THE LOGS STUPID"!!

photo op with 55gals of noodles with fresh quatered wood....

 

[woodchip rookie]

Four 16" five foot half-round slabs ripped and loaded, then piled the quarted stovewood on top.

 

[Toy4xchris]

Just scrounged this up can pass up a rack filled with split seasoned wood

Sent from my electronic leash

 

[chipper1]

I'm taking pics as I'm going. How do yall get anything done while taking pics every 5mins?!

I'm not sure I follow, taking pictures is getting something done.
Got a trailer with a cord of @zogger wood.
Trailer with 100 less pieces, did I do anything yet.

And 200 less, okay some progress.

300 less that's what I'm talking about.
400 .
Stopped counting at the last bit on the front too lol.

 

[turnkey4099]

That pretty much describes a lot of us! Lol. Make a couple cuts, place the saw on top just right, snap a pic. Load the truck, put saws on top, snap a pic. Drive home and unload, snap a pic......

Don't forget the most important step when taking pic of the stump when you fall a tree before snapping the pic. Take a "trimming cut" off the stump first to hide all the mistakes....not that I do that but the big boys talk about it.

 

[woodchip rookie]

The tree I cut today was already down and trimmed. Just the trunk. Thats why I wanted it so bad

 

[KiwiBro]

Don't forget the most important step when taking pic of the stump when you fall a tree before snapping the pic. Take a "trimming cut" off the stump first to hide all the mistakes....not that I do that but the big boys talk about it.

The silver lining in the dark cloud of lost photos during the site troubles a while back, is all the stump shots I was so proud of and posted in my early years were lost. It was cringe-worthy when those threads were bumped back up, once I had learned enough to know how plain wrong those stumps were and how lucky I was to avoid catastrophe. May we all stay that lucky.

 

[chipper1]

@woodchip rookie it looks as though you worked one hr getting all those pictures, one every five minutes .
Glad you got the pictures figured out .
Don't forget that little saw will run a larger sprocket and spin that 20" way faster than it is with the sprocket you most likely have on it.
It's only just begun .

 

[KiwiBro]

After I got the 2 logs ripped I looked at all the rest of the big logs I was taking for firewood and thought "Splitting these is gonna be.....WAIT. The rip chain is already on the saw! NOODLE THE LOGS STUPID"!!

photo op with 55gals of noodles with fresh quatered wood....

If the opportunity allows, try your standard cross-cut chain to noodle the rounds, if it's long enough. You might be surprised how well it works. Sometimes too well and the noodles clog up the clutch cover. Just have to find the optimum bar angle - not completely noddling but with a tad of ripping to keep the noodle lengths down to exhaust easily, and sometimes need to keep the saw body well away from the log so noodles can escape between the log and saw body before being dragged into the clutch cover.

 

[woodchip rookie]

If the opportunity allows, try your standard cross-cut chain to noodle the rounds, if it's long enough. You might be surprised how well it works. Sometimes too well and the noodles clog up the clutch cover. Just have to find the optimum bar angle - not completely noddling but with a tad of ripping to keep the noodle lengths down to exhaust easily, and sometimes need to keep the saw body well away from the log so noodles can escape between the log and saw body before being dragged into the clutch cover.

I cant do that. The 395 either drags the log to me or drags me to the log.

 

[dancan]

Pff, ms180 and a 14" bar, it's all you really need

Ayup .