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Round here we call it snaking logs and snaking logs isn't a job for a small tractor. You need to be able to lift the front of the log up with a boom pole before you drag it out or the log will be full of mud before you get 10'. Try picking a log up and then pulling it with little tractor and...

My OWB does use by far more wood than the old insert in my living room used to. However, the insert could never keep my house warm. If you are going to truly heat your house with wood and keep it warm it is going to take some serious wood. BTW, my OWB is an Earth wood furnace. It's going on...

A wood stove will never be able to adequately heat your home. I live in NC and have a similar style ranch house and even down here I couldn't heat my house with the wood insert that was being used in my living room when I bought the house. Waking up in the morning to take a shower in a 55 degree...

I am amazed at how easily someone gets banned around here. Dano was provoked into getting banned in two consecutive threads he started and both started in what I took as good intentions. I don't know what he has posted in the past and I don't much care, this is the internet and as far as I know...

After reading four pages of this thread I am confused as hell. Maybe it's due to my lack of an AS education, but I was reading along getting ready to type a smartass response about roundup vs. a weedeater and bam a dude with an avatar of a polar bear taking a **** pops up and starts picking on...

If you couldn't sip beer while you worked up firewood my dad would probably freeze next winter.

6-8 cords of wood will be enough to keep you warm over the winter. BTW I used to try and burn hardwoods like Oak and Hickory exclusively, but with an OWB pine and cedar and other softwoods will burn nearly as good. I burn an ass load of pine every year and it will keep you just as warm on a 18...

I believe you can replace just the spring but the clutch has to come off regardless. Easiest way I've found to remove the clutch is to pull the spark plug and put a piece of rope inside the cylinder to act as a piston stop. Then take a chisel and hammer and pop the clutch (left hand threads)...

Dang leon, I was going to quote you but it would take a page to do it. An OWB with a forced air draft has no need for fire brick. I bought an Earth wood boiler and opted for the model without an ash grate thinking how much better my old indoor wood stove heated when there was a good bed of coals...

I run mine on demand. The drawback is when the thermostat first calls for heat you will get a little cold air out of the vents before the hot water from the furnace reaches the coil. My father runs his OWB, exactly the same as mine, 24/7 and it does make a difference in wood consumption.

If it smells like piss then it is red oak. It will burn now just depends on how bad you need it. More than once i have cut up a green tree and burnt it a week later. All depends on how desperate you are. Next burning season would be ideal but it will burn before that.

I imagine the chimney is terracotta or something similar. I would proceed with your original idea. An insert slid back into a fireplace doesn't heat as good as a free standing stove with open air around it to radiate heat. An insert will need a blower to get the heat to off of the stove. I...

I used to call a 262xp my big saw too. But after years of pushing the biatch through big ass Oak I went and bought a 372xp. 372 is to a 262 what a log splitter is to a splitting maul.

Nobody that already has a 028 would like or find an 036 more useful, let alone more badass, than a 372xp.

It was wild the first time we found a beaver dam on the creek as beavers were brand new to my area. Then after they turn your 5' wide creek into a swampland and continue building dams further and further up the creek they become less of a novelty and more of a nuisance.

You should put that cylinder on your lawnmower forklift and then patent that.

Darn good saw. My dad has cut all his firewood for to many years to recollect with an 034. The rubber boot between the carb and the jug will rot and cause an air leak, and ,like all stihls, the muffler bolts fall out. :cool2:

I have never seen a cylinder that wasn't rebuild-able. Most welded cylinders are rebuilt by taking the fitting off the back port and then sliding a sir clip back into a groove. This allows the ram to be pulled out of the cylinder.

Why not sale one of those 262s and buy a 372. You will never make a 262 into a 372. I had a 262xp for years and then broke down and bought a brand new 372xp and dam I could never find a reason to use the 262 after that.

Yeah 3/8 pitch 72 drive lengths will be for a 20" bar. I believe that to be pretty much universal except for maybe Echo.