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Burning some spruce right now! Smells great in the wood box.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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No, the cracked bar somehow caused the Stihl to lock up. The Echo was the one with the starting problem.
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He had a Stihl and an Echo go down. Twice. So he bought a Husky. 
Looks like my backyard. All rocky and stuff.I can run 27" long and the door is 12"x 12" but that size is not practical because even though the burn chamber is polly 20" in diameter you always have something in there burning .
Beauty day here today so I shot over to my friends place that we had dropped a bunch of trees so he could make a back yard .
Since green oak is heavy I blocked up the stems and split them to make the carry easier .
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Yup , block , split , file then repeat , daum yard trees
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I had plenty already down the the next thing I know ...
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My buddy is up there with my saw , 4 more maples came down this afternoon lol
I got the trailer with all the oak that I blocked and split up but was running out of time so to make it a proper scrounge load ...
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I filled the last row with some nice spruce that we had blocked up the last time we were there
It was a good afternoon , my buddy was happy , the trees fell where we wanted , we did have a rope in a couple just for the extra safety factor because of powerlines .
Lots of nice Red oak there. Great firewood after it seasons about two years, but great fuel.
He had a Stihl and an Echo go down. Twice. So he bought a Husky.
If this one fails I'll get deparate and try a Pull-on or Crapsman
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I still have the little Poulan 3314 that I bought brand new in 2006. Sat in the shed for several years at a time. Dumped old fuel, reload, run. Then I started scrounging. It cut 3yrs worth of firewood that I will burn through the last of NEXT winter. None of the Huskys that I have now touched any of that wood. And it still runs.
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A 2300 or s25 would out last the stihl and echo combined.
I headed out to give the Lady Farmer some more wood today. Not many pics since she was mocking me taking pics of my wood. I'm not convinced she fully understands male needs - specifically, the need to take pics of his chainsawing and post them on the interweb.
Anyway, I split up the rest of the peppermint rounds from the other day and cleaned up a couple of fallen branches from the neighbouring blue gum. That made up the first trailer load. I used the 310 with a freshly sharpened chain and it did ok on the blue gum until the branch got to 12 inches then it was very slow going. The last few cuts I did with the 460 which ate it up.
Nearby there was a long straight fallen blue gum. About 3 inches at the end and about 14 at the base which is deceptively far away. The round propped under the log was about a third of the way along from where I took the pic. In @dancan 's words, it was long, straight....and hers.
Good BTUs in this though and nice and dry. The semi-chisel on the 460 made it cope a lot better with this hard stuff than with full chisel. With the log being dry it had started to crack along its length which made splitting the rounds much less of a pain than blue gum normally is. I halved the rounds too big to fit straight in the firebox with generally only one hit from the 8lber.
The blue gum is more ashy than peppermint but has better BTUs so peppermint through the day and blue gum at night should go well. I've cut about 7 cubes for her in the last week, will hopefully get out and cut a bit for me this week. Nice day all the same and it's good to get a bit of 2-stroke exhaust in the lungs and sawdust up the nose. Makes me feel like a man again.
Anyway, I split up the rest of the peppermint rounds from the other day and cleaned up a couple of fallen branches from the neighbouring blue gum. That made up the first trailer load. I used the 310 with a freshly sharpened chain and it did ok on the blue gum until the branch got to 12 inches then it was very slow going. The last few cuts I did with the 460 which ate it up.
Nearby there was a long straight fallen blue gum. About 3 inches at the end and about 14 at the base which is deceptively far away. The round propped under the log was about a third of the way along from where I took the pic. In @dancan 's words, it was long, straight....and hers.
Good BTUs in this though and nice and dry. The semi-chisel on the 460 made it cope a lot better with this hard stuff than with full chisel. With the log being dry it had started to crack along its length which made splitting the rounds much less of a pain than blue gum normally is. I halved the rounds too big to fit straight in the firebox with generally only one hit from the 8lber.
The blue gum is more ashy than peppermint but has better BTUs so peppermint through the day and blue gum at night should go well. I've cut about 7 cubes for her in the last week, will hopefully get out and cut a bit for me this week. Nice day all the same and it's good to get a bit of 2-stroke exhaust in the lungs and sawdust up the nose. Makes me feel like a man again.
Looks like your other woman has got you doing her chores there cowboy.
James, I love those little 25's, I guess we started using them in the late 70's. A few pages back you said you'd like an old Homelite, but it would have to come cheap. I got the little 150 Automatic for $5, dumped the old fuel, filled it up with fresh, primed it and it runs so well I cut two little trailer loads of Cherry with it Saturday morning. Now I'm going to start grabbing some of the little ones I used to pass on. My old rule of thumb was at least a 24"bar, and 70CC's. I will still only get ones that are old enough that I remember using them or older, Joe.
I have a 2000 and 2300. Takes a year to pull fuel through those long lines when they have been sitting but they are awesome little saws once running.
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I've got this one on the bench waiting for me to the grind up a socket to make a clutch removal. Those screws above the clutch and flywheel are at the worst spots.
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I think this is poplar. Wish ma nature would have taken it down with the wind storm a few weeks ago. Starting to drop branches pretty regular.
Cleared this out of the driveway today.
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Here is my little scrounge of Maple this morning. It was more a get out and do something before the snowballs started falling.
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It was a really nice day today, so it was a good day to cut some firewood!
My helper came over, so we hooked the wagon behind the tractor and pulled it out back, to my stockpile of "scrounged wood" and got started cutting,
You can cut a LOT of wood pretty fast with the tractor doing all the heavy lifting,
So it wasn't too long and we had a full wagon!
"Johnny" really kicked azz again today,
So we hooked the wagon back up to the tractor and headed to where I do my splitting,
We ran EVERYTHING through the 4-way wedge,
and it didn't take too long before the wagon was empty,
and we had another two cord pile of NICE oak splits...
AND, there's STILL another load left in our "scrounge pile" too,
and even more in the woods to skid out yet, but that's work for another day!
SR
My helper came over, so we hooked the wagon behind the tractor and pulled it out back, to my stockpile of "scrounged wood" and got started cutting,
You can cut a LOT of wood pretty fast with the tractor doing all the heavy lifting,
So it wasn't too long and we had a full wagon!
"Johnny" really kicked azz again today,
So we hooked the wagon back up to the tractor and headed to where I do my splitting,
We ran EVERYTHING through the 4-way wedge,
and it didn't take too long before the wagon was empty,
and we had another two cord pile of NICE oak splits...
AND, there's STILL another load left in our "scrounge pile" too,
and even more in the woods to skid out yet, but that's work for another day!
SR
Looks like your other woman has got you doing her chores there cowboy.
My sense of obligation might evaporate fairly quickly if there's no beer in it for me
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Oak, Ash, Dogwood, Cherry + Maple or Elm???
Change that last one to Locust!!!
I don't see no spruce ...
