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I'm glad you and your kids weren't hurt. Blow-downs are nasty.

No luck with the photos. New computer and new system that I haven't figured out yet.

When the tree starts standing back up you don't have time for wedges and mauls. Sometimes you don't even have time for your brain to kick in and say, "get the hell outta there." That's why I was spotting for my little brother. His wife would have been super upset if he came home in a box. I had...

The big difference is the "pro" saws are made to run all day every day and to do so without a hiccup. The typical "farm saws" just aren't made for that kind of use. Had I known 10 years ago how limited my chainsaw time was going to be I wouldn't have spent the money on the "pro" saw. But the...

Just to clarify, it's an MS 260 Pro. Not a 250. Huge difference. I'm not sure why I called it a 250. Too much time writing political commentary?

My brother who was running the saw is a dentist. He's a very smart guy, of course, but he hasn't really done much tree work. Especially with blow-downs. They can be a bit spooky even for experienced tree guys. Very unpredictable. I told him at the start to watch out for the tree standing back...

The friend who gave me the wood just stopped by with the last 4 pieces that I couldn't get on my truck last night before I quit. I definitely owe Bill and his wife a nice dinner somewhere. Very nice and very generous people.

My friend had a two-stem black locust up-root and tip over in his yard last month. He has all the firewood he can handle right now, so he offered it to me. My brother ran the saw while the rest of us loaded the two Ranger pickups over and over and over, and drove the three miles back to my...

A friend got me straightened out. I was on the right path but pushing all the wrong buttons. Sheesh, I haven't done that in almost 50 years.:p.

I bought one a couple of months ago without an owner's manual. Does anyone know how to change the clock setting on this truck? My Dad has a 2004 and his process didn't work for me.

Fix your Dad's cant hook and be thankful for the time you had together. It just goes by so fast.

I split with a maul and wedges for one year before I had that light-bulb in my head come on. "Buy a splitter...dumb-azz" I worked in construction and spent all day swinging a hammer or running tools. Coming home to a pile of wood that needed to be tackled with a really big hammer was downright...

WOW!! I believe those are rebranded Huskees. I could be wrong, though. My 25 ton Huskee has easily handled some of the nastiest honey locust I've ever dealt with including 3 foot diameter twisted trunk pieces. I put a decent spark plug in it and filled the crankcase with full synthetic oil...

A seasoned firewood veteran friend of mine brings his second year wood into his barn before transport to the house. He runs a fan on the stacks in his barn to get rid of rain and snow moisture. It works really well for him.

You might consider splitting the oak into smaller pieces for the fire. Kinda like cutting that 32 oz steak into bite-sized pieces before tackling it. :D

Snow and rain will make the outside wet and sloppy. It sucks. The point is to get the inside dry, and that won't happen if the wood is too "protected". Sun and wind are your friends, and the outside moisture on a log, while miserable, will go away pretty quickly when brought inside.

:laughing: Laughing with you buddy, not at you.

Not much different than wood-working machinery. Table saws, planers, jointers, etc. Almost all of it is built in the same Chinese factory and directed towards different spray-paint booths before it's shipped. Lawn-n-garden stuff is much the same. Troy-Bilt put themselves out of business by...

Black Walnut burns fine, but produces a lot of ash. I wouldn't say any more than Sugar Maple though. The biggest problem is that BW takes years to dry unless split into pretty small pieces. Even a 3" round can take 3 or 4 years to be ready to burn without hissing and spitting. I don't have the...

I pulled one off my inner thigh Sunday morning, 'close to the heart', as they say. He was dead. May have been alcohol poisoning after Saturday's party. :eek: