KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Is that anything like the 100 year storms that happen here every few years?None here. You must be on the other 17 year cycle.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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A big triple Poplar went down. Only one of the three section went down. The first 10 feet is bigger than my 36"bar. It looks real bad so we will probably take the other 2 sections down. The pic gets to 99 percent then say file too big.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
If you are unsure how to resize the image file size can you email it to someone to do it for you? You could email it to me if that helps. There are usually file size restrictions on emails also but I suspect they'll be larger than the limits this website uses.
Thanks, Bro, just lazy. If I load them to IMGUR they load here fine, I was trying to do it off my cell. As soon as my son gets his dinner I'm going to see if he can down size the cell pics. I'm going to help him clean up tomorrow, I'll get better pics and post them with IMGUR.
I on the other hand have mostly been splitting yew for the last few days, I think of Yew as a 'Paul Bunyan wood' it makes you feel like a real lumber jack giant!. Quoting from the wood database ...
Perhaps among the hardest of all softwood species, Yew is certainly a unique wood species. Its density and working characteristics are more inline with a heavy hardwood than a softwood, yet its tight, fine grain and smooth texture give it a lustrous finish.
Yet perhaps Yew’s greatest claim to fame is that of its mechanical properties: despite its strength and density, Yew has an incredibly low and disproportionate modulus of elasticity at only 1,320,000 lbf/in2 (9,100 MPa). What this means is that the wood is extremely flexible, yet strong, making it ideally suited for use in archery bows. In fact, Yew was the wood of choice for English longbows in medieval warfare.
Now it might be flexible along the grain but its tight grained and boy its 'brittle' on the end grain. It splits easy with am x27, very easily, swing the axe and each contact gives a satisfying 'Crack!' sound and the wood shoots off to either side of the head. I love that CRACK!' its like a gun shot! CRRRAAACCK!
I have been doing a good amount of splitting lately, figure if it is not split now no way it will be good this year.
I was able to do most of the Beech with the X-27, but it does not split like the straight grained Oak!
On the other side of the coin, I was glad to have my Hydro splitter for the wavy grained Oak, no was I was going to split that by hand!
I was able to do most of the Beech with the X-27, but it does not split like the straight grained Oak!
On the other side of the coin, I was glad to have my Hydro splitter for the wavy grained Oak, no was I was going to split that by hand!
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Same here haven't heard any this year.None here. You must be on the other 17 year cycle.
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I've questioned many times if I really need a top handle but this clean up work has cemented this saws position in the line up. Grab, cut, throw is so much nicer then cut put saw down throw pick up saw to go again. There may or may not be a picture of me standing on a picnic table with a branch in one hand and cutting with the other. My wife was taking pictures of me that she shall never make public.
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I'm kind of giggly, I just participated in my first online auction. Lol. Amongst the light fixtures my wife wanted, I scored a 25" bar. I also bid on one of those 2 in 1 file thingys but got outbid. Tried to jump it up at the last moment but fumbled my phone and missed. Oh well. Need the money for a chain anyway.
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Sorry Jeff. What size of file set were you looking for I may have bought a bunch. I bought chain too but mostly small stuff.
Good news bad news fellas. Aint hit a lick cutting due to mud and rain and storms. Finally got to run a saw today. Unfortunately , it was to cut a big red oak off my own dang roof ! Bad storm last nite took it down on west side of house. Punched holes plumb through metal roof and clear into the inside through ceiling in, 4 spots. Broke several rafters as well. Took the day to clear and get metal back on for the storms tomaro. Ins adj be here Monday. No pun intended but when it rains it pours. Coulda been a lot worse, Just lost stuff, we are ok. A lot of folks much worse off. Be carful out there fellas
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This spring has been bad, glad no one got hurt.
This has been our spring.
This has been our spring.
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I was interested in the pole saws and the battery saws and figured I might as well make it a worthwhile trip. Saws went for what they were worth but old stock so I skipped them. Jutzi sale is tomorrow (460 and 660 and some new echos bunch of other stuff) but the boss says I'm milling cedar tomorrow. Need some beams for a chicken coop I'm trying to find time to build. She wants a bunch of shelving for friends. http://www.mrjutzi.ca/sales/gallery.aspx?id=3305
Yeah I thought about something like that, warn makes one that’s rated to 500 lbs I think. Would just have to take smaller pieces, but would better than packing blocks up the hill, and much less $, unless I had to buy a new drill every week, lol. Still researching and thinking, Thanks Kiwi.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
No worries. Good luck with it. Keen to read what you end up with and how it works out for you.
Sorry to hear, glad everyone’s ok.
glad you are ok. been a wicked spring everywhere. we rarely have tornados here and and i think the guessers say we have had 28 so far this year.
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Glad everyone's was ok. Still cleaning up stuff that was blown over here the other day.
My Upstate Property got hit by a Tornado about 20 years ago … took out about 40% of the trees on my 50 acres … it has never really recovered as the remainder of the trees are now more vulnerable to wind storms … just seems like an endless cycle. They used to log it every 10 years, there has not been any logging in over 20 years now, just too few trees of large enough diameter (over 14").
Now, trees seem to get blown over faster than new ones grow … very frustrating!
Now, trees seem to get blown over faster than new ones grow … very frustrating!
