Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

Humidity often is worse than the actual heat temp. A warm humid day is not fun.

Exactly. 82 and humid is worse than 90 in a drier heat.

 

[chucker]

with the heavy storm we had last night the humidity should be real fun to play in today! @ 87*

 

[foxtrot5]

I'll take hot and dry over warm and humid any day

 

[woodchip rookie]

I'll take not snowing over all of it

 

[dancan]

I like snow
Last weekend was 78 with a very humid feels like 95 , I couldn't keep my safety glasses from fogging up , calls for the feels like 80's tomorrow and warmer on Sunday .
Should be in the 45/65 range up here this time of year .

 

[farmer steve]

I like snow
Last weekend was 78 with a very humid feels like 95 , I couldn't keep my safety glasses clean from sticky spruce noodles, calls for the feels like 80's tomorrow and warmer on Sunday .
Should be in the 45/65 range up here this time of year .

 

[dancan]

It's pine and pffftfir that make a mess , spruce is great

 

[MustangMike]

Gave the MOFO 360 another workout today, that saw is starting to grow on me. A lot of nuts for it's size, and real easy filter clean up (I just use the dust pan brush on the metal screen, what could be easier).

I took down a real dead leaner that had vines holding it up like crazy (that is where the ropes came into play), then a few small ones, and this little Red Maple.

The 360 made chips all over the place!

 

[Cowboy254]

Looks like you're enjoying yourself, Mike. Tax season must be over.

We've been burning morning and night over the past week but haven't had the fire going since yesterday morning. Today got up to 26*C - no need for the fire to keep warm but might light the firepit and have a few couplas later. We've been burning wattle material which goes ok but I've just found another use for peppermint bark. I've been debarking Mt Cowboy and moving it over to the shed. It's almost all broad leaf peppermint and the bark is piling up.



Redgum, bluegum and candlebark bark is so ashy it just smothers everything under it (making it bonfire material at best) but the peppermint burns away sufficiently not to smother it and you've got nice high flames to get mesmerised by. If you look below the spare on the trailer there's a bit of a blur there - we've had the first insect hatch for the season and the little sods are everywhere. Might have to find the fishing stick and hit the river.

Edit: Not sure why a pic of the new weapon on the assembly line is there, but there you go.

 

[Flint Mitch]

Picked up a small fallen Ash from the roadside. The little Focus handles it well!

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[LondonNeil]

Just ran another tank through the 038, chips and noodles every where.... Big pile! 1.6mm guage I guess makes more then 1.3mm, and of course 67cc makes more then 30cc.

I've almost dealt with my uglies pile, nearly. About 8 bits left, half of those are ash with wire in but hopefully I've deduced where and can cut them down without incident.... I'll leave them until last though. It'll feel good, very good to finish off the uglies and that ash.... Less than one more tank.

 

[rarefish383]

Neil, now you are up to half a real saw, when are you going to 100cc? You know there is no looking back. I was watching an old single cylinder saw on Ebay. It was 250cc's. I was waiting for the last day to bid. I didn't notice it had a "buy it now", and some one else got it. Worse part, it was only about an hour from me, Joe.

 

[rarefish383]

It was a Reed Prentice "Timber Hog A" 250cc's. I just wanted to see if I could pull the thing over, Joe.

 

[LondonNeil]

Oh no! Hard luck missing out.

I think 67cc is plenty for me. I'm toying with doing a slow strip and refurb to the 038. After I've done that if I wanted more toys I'd look at a hutzl kit, ms660 maybe, with any better bits thought wise by the boys that know. Doubt I'd ever run it though!

 

[JustJeff]

Oh no! Hard luck missing out.

I think 67cc is plenty for me. I'm toying with doing a slow strip and refurb to the 038. After I've done that if I wanted more toys I'd look at a hutzl kit, ms660 maybe, with any better bits thought wise by the boys that know. Doubt I'd ever run it though!

You have lots of saw for what you do. Keep that 038 super in good nick with a good chain on it and it will handle anything you want to throw at it. Your saw stock will pull a 20" in hardwood all day so unless you are cutting trees over 40", you are set.

 

[LondonNeil]

I agree. I'm in 2 minds about it and a refurb. Part of me says now it's working, leave well alone, playing will consume money needlessly and may break things! The other part says it's an old saw that although my gut says has had an easy life and is not worn, I reckon it possibly hasn't had much maintenance in its life either. I'm sort of leaning to working out what bits might be worth renewing/servicing and doing the jobs one at a time, keeping the saw together and running, just do a job at time. Haven't worked out the list of jobs yet but first stab would be, new fuel line, new oil line, new AV mounts, carb kit and service the carb, I think there's' some rubber intake boot thing on this saw, if so that's something to renew, err what else? Erm, impulse line? That would be the fuel side all renewed. Nor sure there is anything electrical worth doing beside the new plug it's had, err new coil? Then there is the damaged plug threads.... If I decide to do a more permanent fix I'd remove the cylinder, get a better thread insert inserted, refit cylinder deleting base gasket, think someone said something about new rings, caber I think. Might need some new clutch springs, although I seem to have stopped the chain creep now, bar has some life but gonna keep watching for a bargain rollomatic and after all that, or might get a lick of paint.

If anyone has any comments on that I'm all ears, although I will probably be asking on ope or the chainsaw forum here.

 

[LondonNeil]

O P E. D'oh, I knew the swear filter blocked that but forgot.

 

[dancan]

Second full day of fall , 80* with a feels like 91* up here in The Great White North
I started lot #32

Thick **** in there
After 1 tank

2 tanks later

4 tanks

The fella that wanted the wood ended up babysitting his granddaughter so I was solo , I still piled up the spruce and a few small maples .
Paul stopped by and asked where my help was so I told him , he looked at the piles and said "You still hate to see that wood get wasted don't you ?"
I had to laugh , waste not want not

 

[KiwiBro]

That looks like the perfect gig for the ryobi. Is machinery available later on to lift those logs out? Or maybe the machinery will scrape vehicle (and trailer) access to the piles? Or? I ask b/c I'm assuming you don't have your tractor/winch on this job? Thanks

 

[dancan]

Well , the tractor and winch are 50 yards away lol
If my friend had showed up with his helper , hand balm would have been faster .
I don't have time to winch out anything , getting the lot cut is priority but making piles of 8' is not problem .
Pioneerguy600 might have time to winch out some throughout the week .
And yes , a perfect 241 Ryobi lot lol