Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Deleted member 149229]

Feel pretty blessed, found some dead standing tamarack that I could drive to!View attachment 768768landed on an old log and top bounced up on a stump after it hit the ground so the whole tree was off the groundView attachment 768767cut 3 loads with same chain, getting spoiled, lol.View attachment 768771 No block left behind View attachment 768774View attachment 768775 And almost flat ground! Best find this year, maybe ever for me. Oh and hardly any limbs.

A certified scrounge, even fills the cab.

 

[MustangMike]

So Mike, how man of those were German and How many Chinese? I presume all the Chinese ones had upgraded P and C's and perhaps more?

The two MS 660s were all Asian (except for the Piston Pin Bearings). They both have ported Cross cylinders on them. One of the 440/460 Hybrids also has Asain cases, etc (OEM crank, P+C).

The rest were all real German, don't own any of the American made ones. I only brought 10 saws, but that was enough! (One 50, 2-60, 2-70, 3-77, and 2-92cc saws).

 

[MustangMike]

Was a great time Steve, thanks for having me. Lots of great people, some who I knew, some who I had only met once a few years ago, and some who were new to me.

A lot of great running saws, including Echo, Husky and Dolmar. I even got to run a great running 361, and I don't think I've run one of them before.

The Beer was excellent, and the food was great also. I especially liked the pulled pork and the macaroni salad.

Was a long trip for me, but worth it.

 

[svk]

Just drinking some coffee and going to do a little cutting today. Also need to clean out my outdoor kitchen as potential for snow this week means it could turn into a big mess by next weekend. The last time it caught me unprepared we had sideways snow that covered every inch of the kitchen and I had to clean and dry a lot of stuff.

The three older saws needed some light repairs and I’ll be returning the 630 to its owner. Still undecided if I’ll be keeping the other saws. I do have a matching recoil for the SXL but it’s on another saw that I’m working on.

 

[MustangMike]

@MustangMike I mean F150 Mike showed up at our GTG yesterday with some great saws.
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Between getting to your place, then my Aunt's, then getting home from my Aunt's … having the navigation in that vehicle was invaluable!

It also averaged 24 MPG (on the meter), which is about 23 MPG in real life … not bad for a full size truck with 4WD … and that bi-turbo scoots when you push the pedal down.

 

[svk]

@MustangMike I mean F150 Mike showed up at our GTG yesterday with some great saws.
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Looks like you guys had an awesome time.

Unfortunately for me, everyone here is so damn far away. Hoskey’s place is the closest reputable GTG for me and that’s still 8 hours away.

 

[Levi of the North]

Got out with the upgraded MS 461 yesterday to buck up some ash logs I'd felled. Nice scenic fall day to be in the woods. I really like the large felling spikes, they take a lot of weight off my arms when dug in. A little awkward when bucking close to the ground, but that's okay. I find I use my MS 261 more for bucking.

 

[svk]

Got out with the upgraded MS 461 yesterday to buck up some ash logs I'd felled. Nice scenic fall day to be in the woods. I really like the large felling spikes, they take a lot of weight off my arms when dug in. A little awkward when bucking close to the ground, but that's okay. I find I use my MS 261 more for bucking.
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Jeez you have a lot of leaves left.

Then I googled your location to see that despite being in Canada, you are about 300 miles south of me in latitude.

 

[TheDane]

For scrounging wood here in the west of Nevada, I go out with a coworker and he always hits old wildfire sites. Only brings the pinyon back and it typically is dry and ready to burn. I wish I had a wood burner in this house, maybe next year, so I go out with him to help cut and load. He sells it in town to the senior citizens and then uses the profits for his kids in college. I know the forest service or BLM will sell firewood permits, not sure prices and such. Dad is lucky and has neighbors give him wood from fallen trees and tree removals, he just calls me to come buck and split it for him. For owning a nice wood burning stove, he doesn't own a chainsaw anymore. Guess he figures I'll come to the rescue now I'm working in forestry and have the tools to process firewood.

 

[steved]

Got a partial load of cherry just now, looked over about an acre and probably two dozen dead standing white oak...talked to the adjacent property owner (also a Forester) who was out cutting firewood, and he said a root disease.

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[mdavlee]

@mdavlee ported it for me. I think that was a saw I got from @luckydad. Mike (t4driller); had a 7910 that he did that was probaly turning close to 15k also yesterday.

Was that the second one I did for you? That one was a real good runner

 

[farmer steve]

Was a great time Steve, thanks for having me. Lots of great people, some who I knew, some who I had only met once a few years ago, and some who were new to me.

A lot of great running saws, including Echo, Husky and Dolmar. I even got to run a great running 361, and I don't think I've run one of them before.

The Beer was excellent, and the food was great also. I especially liked the pulled pork and the macaroni salad.

Was a long trip for me, but worth it.

Was glad you could make it Mike and glad you made it back home safe. You have my buddy thinking about one of those Chisaws.

 

[MustangMike]

Yea, I thought they both ran pretty darn well for what they are, and the Asian 660s seem to be pretty durable, even for milling (but I always replace the piston pin bearing, and flush all the other bearings). If you spin them with grit in there, they will be ruined!

 

[svk]

I haven’t bucked firewood in weeks due to the rain. Granted I ran 5 tanks through the saws last week in trail maintenance but that’s hard work. This is fun.

130 first cuts. It was boggy at first in the wood despite 4 striking at wot. Cleared up nicely after a few though.

The Homestihl ran great.

 

[dancan]

Hey Nate , tell them you'll cut all them trees with the yellow needles , tell them they're sick and on the way out
Mike , there was a girl in my highschool , she had a Pinto like yours , she was known as the Pinto Chick , she spent a lot of time in the back of her Pinto Lol

Big Sky day here but the honeydo list was long
I had to remind the wife that she had asked a while ago to make some birch reindeer for the kids


Here's a nice Black Spruce blowdown , I'll get him later

Future maple and birch to cut .

On the way back to the undisclosed location I spotted a broken small maple so ,,,
So I threw the green wood in next years pile and drug home some for burning this week .

Looks like them porcupine like birch

 

[svk]

How about this. The high side of a beaver pond I often hunt.

This pond has been active for almost 100 years except for a couple of years in the early 90’s so the beavers have exhausted the aspen. They’ve turned to black ash and elm.



Skeleton of a wood duck house I built many years ago.


The pond above the big one. The dam washed out but you can see how high it was earlier in the year.

 

[svk]

Here’s the foundation from an old trappers cabin back behind my cabin.

The son of original owner of much of the land up here was born in 1912 and he said even as a kid this foundation was nothing but mossy rocks. So estimating civil war era or earlier. So the original settler had a LONG walk from somewhere.

 

[Logger nate]

Hey Nate , tell them you'll cut all them trees with the yellow needles , tell them they're sick and on the way out

Lol, yeah sounds good to me. I was cutting early one spring and cut one down that I was sure was dead the previous fall, after it hit the ground I could see a bunch of little green needles starting to grow , sure was heavy, lol.

Was surprised no one had cut these so close to the road and town, wondered if it was private sense there was a house about 200 yds away. So I down loaded free trial of onX maps and it was forest service so free game.

looks like your getting some nice colors up there.

 

[Jeffkrib]

How about this. The high side of a beaver pond I often hunt.

This pond has been active for almost 100 years except for a couple of years in the early 90’s so the beavers have exhausted the aspen. They’ve turned to black ash and elm.

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Skeleton of a wood duck house I built many years ago.
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The pond above the big one. The dam washed out but you can see how high it was earlier in the year.
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Just curious to know once a beaver chops down a tree how heavy of a log can they actually drag? Surly they have to chop them into fairly small pieces.

 

[svk]

Just curious to know once a beaver chops down a tree how heavy of a log can they actually drag? Surly they have to chop them into fairly small pieces.

Depends

On aspen (their preferred food) they’ll either chunk the trunk up into pieces or eat the bark up to where it transitions from smooth grey bark to rough black bark. I suppose 6” diameter or smaller they’ll try to transport, but anything 4” diameter or smaller is definitely transported to the pond.

On other trees like those elm and ash they’ll only remove the limbs. It’s especially low yield on the black ash as they don’t have much of a crown.