Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[jr27236]

I have been using my Earth Stove insert for over 30 yearsView attachment 533516

Nice, this is my woodstove.

 

[Benjo]

But the TSB lightweight feels like a wet noodle compared to my Cannon superbar. It is shockingly lighter for being four inches longer. If it wears like the cannon Ill be set for a while. The Cannon has wore out 4 chains(!) and the tail still looks like my brand new Oregon pro-match I keep as a backup. Dollar for dollar I do think the TSB was the best value. Not a lot more then the Oregon and feels like a far superior, harder wearing bar. Got it from POE. Them guys ship fast too. Probably going to do business with them again.

I'll concur on the service and prices from Performance Outdoor Equipment and the Tsumura/Total Super Bars. I've been too cheap to get the lightweight versions, but the regular solid 32" TSB I just got for my 385 cost $89+$10 shipping, which is the same price as an oregon powermatch from baileys except POE ships much faster to the east coast. I don't hate oregons, but I've worn out 2 even with my very sporadic cutting, so for the same price I'll go Total.

I'd never heard of those bars until I bought a 50 Rancher from the mid-'80s that had one on it, not much ink left, just the tsumura engraving. Bar looked trashed, but upon inspection was in pretty great shape despite some hard use (I think it came on an old Jonsered originally, guy had manuals and receipts from 49sp from 1981). Anyway, it's an odd size (.325 68DL, essentially 17") but I bought a few loops and use it regularly. Picked up a 20 as well. Plus, I won't have to cry over my loss if a tree decides it wants to ruin one.

 

[Erik B]

Nice, this is my woodstove.

Looks like you could cook on it if you had to.
Is there a fan on it?

 

[jr27236]

Looks like you could cook on it if you had to.
Is there a fan on it?

No i never had the blower on it, they do sell it and it mounts on the back, but its expensive

 

[dancan]

No scrounge for me but I helped a friend scrounge today .
One of my regulars was at the shop yesterday , he buys his wood cut , split and delivered .
He has a small clean up company and he will keep good clean construction waste for burning as well .
The reason he was in was because he had a small cleanup of a wind damaged maple so he was going to scrounge up the wood for his stove , he had a newish home owner saw but no mix , I sent him to the gas station with a gas can and mixed him some fuel , he was happy and off they went , him and his employee .
Around 4:00pm he stopped back in , said it went great , they got all the small branches cut but he needed a big saw because the wood was just too big for his and it couldn't make it through .
I brought my Myerized 034 in to lend him but I really don't like to lend saws .... When he showed up it was a little quiet at the shop and since I knew it was close I said "Let's go now"
When I got there I blocked up the "Big" tree with my 241 in less than 15 minutes while him and another contractor watched .
On the way back he said that him and the contractor both said "Don't know why it is but it's fun to watch a guy that knows how to run a saw cut" .

 

[Erik B]

No i never had the blower on it, they do sell it and it mounts on the back, but its expensive

@jr27236 My Hot Shot has an axial blower in the back. I have had to replace it once already. I think I got the replacement from Grainger. I should get another one just to have on hand. I have to pull it out to replace the blower. Glad the stove isn't too heavy.

 

[cantoo]

Here is a pic of the same load of wood about 24 hours later. Heating 2 houses, 2 domestic hot water and it was -2 here today but sunny.

 

[cantoo]

King, it's just a baby tractor so it has baby tires on it. Only 35 hp. I bent the 3 pth arm playing with this on the back. Tried to pull 2 logs and turn. It's called leverage for a reason.

 

[KiwiBro]

On the way back he said that him and the contractor both said "Don't know why it is but it's fun to watch a guy that knows how to run a saw cut" .

I'm like that when watching good digger/excavator operators. It's mesmerising how 'at one' they can be with a 20t machine. The good operators are so smooth they look slow but are super-productive.

 

[zogger]

so..had a few hours to kill, drove to Miami to close a few biz deals and get the Lambo detailed..on the way back, hit the satphone button... "Sirious"? "Yes, master" "Have my minions clean up the edges of the estate's roads" "Yes, master".

 

[zogger]

so..had a few hours to kill, drove to Miami to close a few biz deals and get the Lambo detailed..on the way back, hit the satphone button... "Sirious"? "Yes, master" "Have my minions clean up the edges of the estate's roads" "Yes, master".

 

[Philbert]

. . . it was -2 here today but sunny.

Well, it would have been 28° if you hadn't switched to Centigrade!

Philbert

 

[svk]

That's funny Zogger!

 

[chucker]

them comadyians on our northern border sure do crack me up with their cool ways of handling their weird weather reading systems... lol nothing like our fine temp. reading that make sense to most people??

 

[Benjo]

King, it's just a baby tractor so it has baby tires on it. Only 35 hp. I bent the 3 pth arm playing with this on the back. Tried to pull 2 logs and turn. It's called leverage for a reason.
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I think he was referring to the tractors at the dealership View attachment 533427

 

[Cowboy254]

Here is a pic of the same load of wood about 24 hours later. Heating 2 houses, 2 domestic hot water and it was -2 here today but sunny.
View attachment 533591

That was cedar? How'd it last that long?

 

[Haywire]

 

[cantoo]

Benjo, you're right. I forgot I posted that picture. They put those little tires on them so the New Hollands and John Deeres can keep up. Or maybe to ship easier.
Cowboy 254, I put those cedar pieces in Tuesday night around 6, my wife will add more tomorrow morning maybe. If it's a little warmer she will just stoke it up and not put wood in until tomorrow night. We burn junk all summer and this time of year. That's the last of the cedar and the poplar will be going in next. Lots of rotten cedar in the bush but too busy to get more right now. That's the great thing about owb's they are outside and they can handle big pieces so can burn lots of junk. I cut limb wood 4' long, doesn't take long to make a pile.

 

[Cowboy254]

Oh man you made me laugh out loud!!!!

I have a 16-month old little girl (daddy's Angel), and she loves to ride in my truck.... well I don't like taking her out in this crazy ass world, but I do.... well sure enough we went to the store the other day and RIGHT in front of the main entry doors to meijer (huge grocery store), my damn muffler falls off of ol red, and just makes a horrible grinding noise!!!!... well I always have leather gloves in the truck, so I tell my little one, daddy be right back...now as I am cussing something serious under my breath, I get under the truck that's right infront of the store....now with people watching me I proceed to violently yank the 6-8 foot rusted off muffler out from under the truck!!!!!

I laugh about it now, but I was NOT HAPPY at the time...if the kid wasn't with me it would have been even more of a show for people to watch!!!

It always helps when you have a bunch of people staring like stunned mullets and not offering to help.

Still, those little adventures add to the character of the truck (and your own). It is a funny song, I reckon and illustrates the affection blokes develop for their favourite machines even if other people think they're only good for scrap.

 

[MustangMike]

All right Zogger, what the H*** is that thing???