SteveSS
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New saw?
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I thought that the photo caption would say that it was all forest, prior to your scrounge!
Philbert
SVK, So, you are giving that big boy a workout! Nice!
hardpan
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Going out on a limb (pun intended) but my guess would be you are really digging your time with 85CC? Nice.
Is that a Big Tulip (Yellow Poplar)?
hardpan
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"Free" is a pretty powerful word.
zogger
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zogger
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Ha, that's a whopper!
Picked it up in early September. I've only used it four times though, two of them were to do these big willows.
Yes definitely. That square filed loop on the shorter bar made fast work of noodling till I hit a bunch of grit in the bark. I was quite happy how well it held up cutting in this gritty crap.
Oh yeah.
The newer Hemi's get a lot better MPG, my '05 3/4 ton 4x4 gets 6.5-8 pulling, and 10-11 driving if I am lucky.
Coro cutter
Stihl mad in kiwi country
Hi Philbert. The Chinese splitters are cheap and break easy. Fine if you like splitting straight grain wood. I prefer the vertical splitter with a table. The grey splitter is a vertical but lay it down for storeage and traveling.
The yellow one is good having a decent table
the yellow one also has a log lifter which is handy. 
I would have to say the table is the way to go. No bending over too much i thought it was a ash but could be wrong.
nomad_archer
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If the log is fresh and not dried, when you cut a round the center will have a green color to it and sort of smell like green tea if it is a tulip poplar. Based on bark alone, I get ash and tulip poplar mixed up. One cut and I can tell the difference. The ash wood will be very white. Do you have any pictures of leaves?
Ash & Tulip look very similar on the outside, but the core wood of Tulip will be greenish or brownish. Although Ash can grow large, it often does not, and the larger the log the more likely it is Tulip (a fast growing tree). The Emerald Ash Bore has severely reduced the number of large Ash trees. (Tulip, AKA Yellow Poplar, is actually a Magnolia tree). Ash wood is much harder than Tulip.
Ash will often have some symmetrical branches (180 degrees apart), and the leaves are very different.
Ash will often have some symmetrical branches (180 degrees apart), and the leaves are very different.
nomad_archer
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That is an understatement. The difference in the leaves is like the difference between a bicycle and a full size pickup. Not like trying to tell the difference between a red oak/white oak which is more like telling the difference between a ford and a chevy pickup.
hardpan
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I'm betting that is Tulip Tree.
Glad you like the square file, let me know how you make out sharpening it.
After I saw you, I drew two 45 degree lines on the top of that box I sharpen my saws on to help me keep the angle consistent. I move the cutter close to the line and try to keep the file parallel with the line. It helps me. I also hold a paint stirrer in the hand that does not have the file, and put it in back of the tooth to keep it from moving (much faster than setting the chain break each time). When I saw you upstate, I just used my thumb, the paint stirrer works much better.
Remember, keeping the corner of the file in the corner of the tooth is the most important thing, and don't let the side cutter get a negative lean or your chain will not feed into the wood. (The corner should contact the wood first, not the bottom of the side plate). It is OK if the side plate is 90 degrees.
I always keep this chart in mind:
http://www.madsens1.com/bnc_cb_angles.htm
