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IMG_20170308_135417.jpg My best scrounge ever. Called a local home builder earlier in the week about this pile of logs. He called back yesterday morning and said its all mine. Lots of big ash and walnut acordding to farmer Steve.IMG_20170309_125754.jpg Got off work at 7 yesterday morning got the call on my way to bed and couldn't help but go cut a truck load. Some ash in the back and walnut? in front.
 
View attachment 563744 My best scrounge ever. Called a local home builder earlier in the week about this pile of logs. He called back yesterday morning and said its all mine. Lots of big ash and walnut acordding to farmer Steve.View attachment 563745 Got off work at 7 yesterday morning got the call on my way to bed and couldn't help but go cut a truck load. Some ash in the back and walnut? in front.

Great score! You'll be able to cut a truckload after work every day for a month.
 
View attachment 563744 My best scrounge ever. Called a local home builder earlier in the week about this pile of logs. He called back yesterday morning and said its all mine. Lots of big ash and walnut acordding to farmer Steve.View attachment 563745 Got off work at 7 yesterday morning got the call on my way to bed and couldn't help but go cut a truck load. Some ash in the back and walnut? in front.

The mother load. Very nice.
 
A sweet Slovenian scrounge machine!
http://agromehanika.si/en/products/agt_tractors/28/agt_835_forest_version/

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Nice!
 
Just south of Effingham IL on the west side of I-57 there's a chunk of land with piles of splits laying all over. Is this any of you guys?
Well it certainly isn't mine but I gotta say, svk, you sure do get around. But if I lived in northern MN I'm sure I'd be looking for somewhere else to go during the winter, too! Safe travels.
 
Well it certainly isn't mine but I gotta say, svk, you sure do get around. But if I lived in northern MN I'm sure I'd be looking for somewhere else to go during the winter, too! Safe travels.
I do a few road trips a year, just ended up that I'm doing two almost back to back.

I love MN winters but my kids sports schedules all but destroy any time I have for recreation. Only a few years in the big scheme of things though.

I may be down your way later this spring. Would love to buy you a cup if you are around.
 
I do a few road trips a year, just ended up that I'm doing two almost back to back.

I love MN winters but my kids sports schedules all but destroy any time I have for recreation. Only a few years in the big scheme of things though.

I may be down your way later this spring. Would love to buy you a cup if you are around.
Absolutely! But it'd be on me after all those miles you would have traveled. Let me know when you're coming through and if I can help out with your trip in any way.
 
Zogger strykes again , sends a mini polar vortex up here , cold yesterday , colder today at a record setting -3F with a windthrill 0f -22F :(
Oh well , yesterday and today

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Brrrr lol

At these temps I decided not to run the tractor , **** breaks so I slashed up all the small stuff and made it to the end of the swath leaving a good day's worth of cutting the bigger stuff and then a short 20 yard by 10' stretch of fence posts at the entrance to the lot .
This was about 200 yards by 20' wide .

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I did cut plenty of Zogger wood ;)

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The home owner sure has a pile of brush to burn lol
 
192t, poulan 30cc, craftsman 50cc and the big 576xp. I want the 241 to take the place of the 30cc poulan & the 50cc craftsman.

16" and down , it's my go to saw , almost 5 gallons of mix through it just on this powerline swath .
 
Just a few ramblings:

I have two top handles that don't run yet but will soon.

My little saws are my CS-352 (8.8 lbs) and PS-32 (9.1 lbs)

The 241 (9.9 lbs) is not noticeably heavier but much more powerful than the little saws.

The 550 (10.8 lbs) is not noticeably heavier than the 241 but it is noticeably heavier than the little saws. In ported form its significantly more powerful than the 241. My muffler modded 350 is also noticeably more powerful than the 241. But like I said before the 241 will get a MM soon enough.

I enjoy every one of these saws and if I had to keep just one (outside the 550) it would be a tough choice.
 
I got a new-to-me Jonsered 2152 last week so I've been looking for a chance to see how it does. My first red saw. It looks good, even when dirty. This week the tenant has been evicted and moved out of the rental house that has the downed trees I've got permission to cut, so I loaded up and went over today to get a good close up look.

There are 2-3 different groups of trees down.
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Some of the wood is really big, so the 2152 won't be doing all the work, but I started on the smaller stuff with it. It did really well. I'm glad to know I didn't buy something with hidden problems. God forbid I am ever limited to one saw, but for cutting firewood I could live with it being my only one.
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The woodchuck I got for Christmas is going to be really handy, if only as extra insurance to keep my chain out of the dirt. Glad I got it.
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There's quite a bit of rotten wood, but even at that there will be several loads of good solid firewood out of the total haul. And it's free, so I take the good with the bad to help get that "repeat customer."

Some of the stuff is too big for a 52cc saw to handle comfortably or efficiently, so I brought my 372xp. It only has a 20 inch bar, but it's interesting to see and hear the difference in performance 45 seconds after running a smaller saw.
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I only had limited time, and I was afraid if I cut more than I could haul in my one load for the day, the rest might "disappear" before I could get back over there later this week. So I got a smaller load to start with. Next time I go I'll have two trucks and a trailer, and my younger brother to help.
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It was a relaxing way to kill a little time in a Sunday afternoon.


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