Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

We’ve got the pickup box a little higher than level with splits so far. Taking a water break.

I have the 130 dialed in at last. It finally cuts like I expected it to cut. Not quite the revver that my 142 was (or isn’t yet, it only has 2 tanks though it) but has more torque in the cut. Without dogs it’s hard to bog it. Was able to find some clear aspen which when frozen cuts more like oak with small matchstick chips rather than the big square chips it throws when thawed.

 

[U&A]

Got the 2166 converted to a 2172 and she is running good! Was a tad tricky with the coil having the time advancing feature.
Put it to work and it is running great. This cherry had very few buds and leaves on it two summers ago and last summer it produce basically none. The bottom 2 feet of the trunk is a pretty terrible shape with ants mold and you can tell it’s starting to rot good.

If trees are coming out of my woods I try and only get the ones that are on the ground, dying or in my way of future plans (trails).

cut it a bit high in the good wood. I plan on getting 12 cord stacked by the end of 2020. We will see if it happens. With the X27 doing all the splitting.

 

[svk]

Got the 5020 dialed in for winter cutting as well. I think it was about 80 degrees the last time I ran it so I needed to open up the high key significantly to four stroke in single digits.

 

[U&A]

Got the 5020 dialed in for winter cutting as well. I think it was about 80 degrees the last time I ran it so I needed to open up the high key significantly to four stroke in single digits.

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A rainbow of saws... i love it!

You just need a jred and a blue makita!!

Not sure how to get the “indigo and Violet” colors though ....

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[svk]

A rainbow of saws... i love it!

You just need a jred and a blue makita!!

Not sure how to get the “indigo and Violet” colors though ....

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Well those early 90's Poulans are purple and green. And Bluemax saws are deep blue LOL.

 

[Philbert]

Any color you want with a can of Krylon.

Philbert

 

[MechanicMatt]

Three things for me to add this afternoon, well maybe 4, 1 go Houston - love when underdogs win, 2 I landed an absolute gold mind of wood!
Neighbor recognizes my truck from the other day when I had it stacked with wood, I was driving to “the spot” to show my BIL and he flags me down. Asks me if I’d be interested in all the wood that’s around his property. He had a guy drop all these trees and nobody to take it!!! I soooo wish it wasn’t freaking tax season, it is literally 1/8 mile from my door. Uncle Mike could be busy for days!
3- my nephew and BIL and I mowed through my pile of rounds, worked that old blue splitter HARD today! 4- my little one, she has been working hard on her RUBIX cube and amazes me!!! I can jumble it up and she can solve a single side in less than two minutes easy peasy as she says.

 

[SS396driver]

Three things for me to add this afternoon, well maybe 4, 1 go Houston - love when underdogs win, 2 I landed an absolute gold mind of wood!
Neighbor recognizes my truck from the other day when I had it stacked with wood, I was driving to “the spot” to show my BIL and he flags me down. Asks me if I’d be interested in all the wood that’s around his property. He had a guy drop all these trees and nobody to take it!!! I soooo wish it wasn’t freaking tax season, it is literally 1/8 mile from my door. Uncle Mike could be busy for days!
3- my nephew and BIL and I mowed through my pile of rounds, worked that old blue splitter HARD today! 4- my little one, she has been working hard on her RUBIX cube and amazes me!!! I can jumble it up and she can solve a single side in less than two minutes easy peasy as she says.

The little house on the left heading towards bloomingburg? I was going to stop but it looked like a logger was doing it. Since the logs were stacked behind the house

 

[H-Ranch]

One of my other new best friends emailed me last week; I had picked up 7 loads of wood from his property 2 years ago. He is due south of me by exactly 1 mile. I left him my contact info and he kept it and actually used it! He said, "I have about 10 or 12 logs about 4 ft long and maybe a foot in diameter. Do you want them?" Yes, of course I do.

So I showed up with the free for nothing trailer expecting to get it in one trip. Not a chance. The big ones are much more than a foot in diameter and most of them are much longer than 4 feet.

So I loaded the small stuff while he cut up everything else short enough to fit in the narrow trailer and load with his tractor.




Mostly cherry with a couple other pieces mixed in including a fairly big chunk of apple in the last pic. He said he would call me again next year - that's what you get when you say what you do and do what you say.

 

[James Miller]

66 today decided it was a good day to change the block heater cord on the truck. Wife went out to start the truck tuesday morning and said the cord sparked at her when she unplugged it.

 

[U&A]

Any color you want with a can of Krylon.

Philbert

Thats no fun. You stop it[emoji1787]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[U&A]

Well those early 90's Poulans are purple and green. And Bluemax saws are deep blue LOL.

Forgot about blue max.

Well you know what you need to do now[emoji16][emoji1303][emoji41]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[MechanicMatt]

The little house on the left heading towards bloomingburg? I was going to stop but it looked like a logger was doing it. Since the logs were stacked behind the house

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if you’re headed toward Bloomingburg, the next road on the right. It is a horse shoe road. But once you turn right into that road, first house on the left. He had oak, ash, hickory and LOCUST all’s dropped. Dude even has cherry all bucked into rounds and just sitting for someone to come and take it. Said “everyone else promised to come take it and never came back”. When he first started talking he asked if I’d be interested in buying, I kinda stalled.... then he asked where do you live, I said see those kids riding that quad over there, that’s me. He said, well for a neighbor, it’s FREE! Super stoked! It’s gotta be 10 cords easy!

 

[SS396driver]

Nice score.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Thanks, I am beyond pumped about it!

Kansas City decided to show up and start playing, so much for Houston

 

[hamish]

Got the 5020 dialed in for winter cutting as well. I think it was about 80 degrees the last time I ran it so I needed to open up the high key significantly to four stroke in single digits.

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I have never retuned a carb on a known well running saw due to temperature change. I run em in a full 100C temperature range, just treat em nicer at the end of either spectrum. Let them warm up and cool either way. My biggest problem is having my chain freeze in the bar.

 

[MechanicMatt]

SS396, that house you are talking about is my old neighbor Mikes moms house. He burns wood in a Out Door Wood Boiler. I tried and he told me it’s all spoken for. This is a TON closer. I’ve been brainstorming non stop about the most efficient ways to get the wood onto my property. Gonna have to grab my BIL dump trailer for sure. My single axle isn’t built for the abuse that these rounds are gonna put it through.

 

[MechanicMatt]

First step is grab all the pallets I have stacked at work! Second is grab the boy I gave my 305sbc to. I LS swapped my older Camaro and gave a 16 year old boy the 305. Third grab my nephew and the dump trailer. 4th grab the brother in-law. My BIL cutting, me filling in between cutting and loading. 16yo boy loading, nephew loading and driving/dumping. Best I can think of. DANG I wish it wasn’t Tax Season!! Mustang Mike would turn them into firewood rounds in NO TIME!

 

[Haywire]

Giving the old girl some maintenance. Ran her hard this weekend, but she never complained.

 

[MechanicMatt]

What is she Haywire?