Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JustJeff]

Went and knocked on the door of the sugar maple that I've been keeping an eye on. It was marked by Ontario Hydro to come down. Huge tree probably 6 cord there. But sadly someone told the guy that hard maple is very valuable. I thanked him for his time after a chat and told him that when he was stuck with the big pieces, to give me a call. Just have to keep my ear to the ground as it's starting to dry up here and I'm ready to get a saw in my hands!

 

[svk]

Busted out the work bench aka card table and got into three saws tonight. First two Poulan top handle saws are running and have the carb apart on my 6-10 for a kit although I wanted to wait till morning to put it back together with real light. Tomorrow I've got a couple stubborn Homies that I'll do battle with.

 

[tpence2177]

Finished up my 372xp to cs-590 handle conversion. Think it turned out pretty nice!


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[MustangMike]

I prefer using a rope winch instead of cable, and when working alone use the "rope stretch" to my advantage. It has never failed to pull anything I thought it would, but you have to get the good high quality rope, it is 3 X as strong as what you get elsewhere. A rope winch is also much easier to use and adjust to length. I also keep a supply of pulleys in case I have to go around corners. Sometimes you don't want to be in the direction of the pull.

Be careful Matt, ported saws are addicting!!! Although I have some unported ones that run pretty darn good also, it depends on the model & the individual saw.

In addition to the muff mod & timing advance, the 066 got some 460 bar studs (they are a bit longer and have a larger boss for the bar), so she is ready to be tested in some real wood. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[MustangMike]

Right now I feel like something the cat dragged in. Cut down 2 dead Ash trees today, cut them to length, then split it all by hand.

Then, went of my first bike ride of the year (5 of us). And in between, I worked on the 066. I'm shot, turning in! And tomorrow, I gotta split stuff!

 

[muddstopper]

Brother showed up with another load on the EZgo. I had to follow him home and take my file to his chain and we dragged out a few sourwoods to fill my pickup. He keeps this up and I might even take him a gallon of bar oil

 

[Cowboy254]

Brother showed up with another load on the EZgo.View attachment 579027 I had to follow him home and take my file to his chain and we dragged out a few sourwoods to fill my pickup. He keeps this up and I might even take him a gallon of bar oil

What sort of wood is that (other than firewood)?

 

[nomad_archer]

Backyard scrounge today. My neighbor had some Ash and mulberry trees taken down. I think I will need to get the oil changed in the splitter. A lot is done and even more left to cut. I'm going to let him chip the brush before I cut much more. The 365 with the 28" bar was the ticket. She ran great.

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[muddstopper]

What sort of wood is that (other than firewood)?

Most of the wood so far has been dogwood and sourwood, a little silver maple mixed in. Some of the wood in the pile is bradford pare and even one little walnut. Got a nice little whiteoak today and another maple. Its free wood and he is doing most of the cutting so I'll take it. Its starting to add up. I'm guessing I am close to 2 cords now.

 

[svk]

Twas a good day for scrounging saw parts. Ordered several small and a couple medium parts to get a few of my stable running and a few running better. I just need two pistons, two seals, and a case gasket and we're ready to rock.

Tomorrow I'll be testing several saws and probably dropping a few dead trees.

 

[woodchip rookie]

I havent ran a saw in months. Kinda glad. I was running pretty hard last summer and over the winter.

 

[Philbert]

Twas a good day for scrounging saw parts. Ordered several small and a couple medium parts to get a few of my stable running and a few running better. I just need two pistons, two seals, and a case gasket and we're ready to rock.

Tomorrow I'll be testing several saws and probably dropping a few dead trees.

Sounding like a full time saw freak now . . .

Philbert

 

[muddstopper]

I havent ran a saw in months. Kinda glad. I was running pretty hard last summer and over the winter.

I know the feeling, this month marks a full year of not being able to do much of anything. Finally getting back to trying without all the hurting. Cutting a small load wears me out, but it feels good to get out and do a few things.

 

[farmer steve]

Backyard scrounge today. My neighbor had some Ash and mulberry trees taken down. I think I will need to get the oil changed in the splitter. A lot is done and even more left to cut. I'm going to let him chip the brush before I cut much more. The 365 with the 28" bar was the ticket. She ran great.

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most of the rounds look pretty uniform in length. was that an easton or a beman measuring stick? looks good Trevor. nice score.

 

[svk]

Sounding like a full time saw freak now . . .

Philbert

I don't like non runners in my garage lol.

 

[nomad_archer]

most of the rounds look pretty uniform in length. was that an easton or a beman measuring stick? [emoji23] looks good Trevor. nice score.

Guilty... I think it was an Easton off brand. I took your word for it that a grinder wasn't needed to get a slightly rocked chain back in service. Well 20 passes per cutter got it back in service and wasn't really that bad even on a 28" chain. 20 passes may have been too much but it was throwing big chips and I probably removed less cutter than if I would have used the grinder and filed which is usually what I would have done. Now to get the other 3 chains back up and running.

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[JustJeff]

Going to check out a possible scrounge site tomorrow. 10 acres of old apple orchard the owner wants cut. Just cut and haul the wood. Leave the brush, cut 3 cord for me leave 1 for him. Looking forward to running a saw!

 

[woodchip rookie]

10 acres would be interesting....

 

[cantoo]

I got to run a saw tonight. I decided to try out my home built bucket truck. The thing worked perfect just needs a dog shock collar added to the tractor operator. We had about 8 trees trimmed up and my lovely wife (only because it's Mother's Day soon) who was driving the tractor decided to lean out of the cab and tell me that I missed a dead branch. Unfortunately she leaned on the loader control and dropped it 3' when she leaned out the door. I spent several minutes telling her how much I adore her and her Dutch heritage. Other than that incident it went great and was safe as could be. Keep bucket at 5' off the ground and drive into position then put it in neutral, raise bucket into position to cut, take saw out of holder and start it, make the cut, shut off saw and put it back into holder, then lower back down to 5' and drive to next tree. I didn't end up putting a safety harness on or a bracket to mount an anchor as the basket is almost 4' tall and it would be pretty hard to fall out. I think it's best to just always be close to the ground before moving. I'll be the only one in the bucket anyway. I drove around the edge of the bush tonight with my cultivator to smooth off the plowing so it would be flatter to trim the branches. Hopefully we'll get time tomorrow to get a start around the bush. We already sold the wood splitter so I had to use the loader and haul all the brush to my burn pile. I always have everything for sale and a guy came along and just had to have it so away it went.

 

[Logger nate]

Made it back out to scrounge area today , has been warm this week so river was higher with the snow melt, thankfully the trees I was going to cut were just above the water levelFirst tree leaned pretty hard over the water 90* from where I wanted it to go, was able to get it to swing around and land just right. Doesn't always work but nice when it does.Started working on getting it split up when I got home, started raining and snowing so had to put a tarp up 76 yesterday 40 and rain and snow today.