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Yea my 395 is a monster but really only good for bucking/noodling. I'm only 5'7" 150lbs so slingin a 395 over my head really isnt an option
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Sounds like you should be good depending on how much you normally use in a yr.
I'm expecting more cold and snow this yr since last yr was pretty mild as was this summer.
We don't use the furnace so we start burning early, then end up using the ac many yrs. I leave the ac its in(window units) as it helps cool it down a bit quicker in the shoulder and I can burn hotter fires. Besides who really wants to move those things around, but after doing a bunch of fall firewood chores I'm felling a bit more
and have no problem hauling them into the basement
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Top down with either paper or noodles.
Will definitely be good now because I forgot I had about 3/4 cord of oak from a dead tree that has been bucked for 2 years. Iv got about 7 cords now[emoji847]
Last year we only used about 5 1/2 so I’m definitely good
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Mill 'em, nails be damned.
The first half was the best rugby I have ever seen England play. It was a masterclass and the AB's were schooled. A thoroughly deserved win. If they play like that in the final, the world cup is theirs.
Was working on front brakes on my eff one fiddy. Caliper seized during our Florida trip so the front left was pooched. Got 2 wrong calipers from the parts store and managed to get the bad side swapped out before the store closed. Do the other side next week I guess. Really like the Cooper winter boots. 5 winters on these and still 7mm or 9/32 of tread left so good for one more I reckon. Getting cool out so probably burn some more balsam fir tonight.
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SCORE!!!! Big time!! I only have 3 or 4 trees left on the Willow projects (half mile long clear cut of a willow row for a farmer). Been looking for a new willow patch. Today with not much to do except working splitting/stacking I decided to cruise a couple place I had given up on in the past. Second one, people at home so stopped. Yay. Locust as far as on can see and they "hate locust". Bit far, 23 miles but that is only a few miles farther than the willow patch and it is real wood!
I just dried out and put away the saws for the winter but we have a least a week of good weather. Saws are coming out of slumber and I'll be off cutting BLACK LOCUST! in the morning
I just dried out and put away the saws for the winter but we have a least a week of good weather. Saws are coming out of slumber and I'll be off cutting BLACK LOCUST! in the morning
sweet!
Thats what I say too, but equipment you enjoy using and your much more likely to do the jobs, even the ones you dont like.Im tellin ya. For guys like me that cut wood for heat and personal use....... for the love of god get saws that will make you smile[emoji16]. This 385XP is so FUN!
Hope you fellas have nice weather and are enjoying our beloved shared hobby of wood cutting. [emoji1303][emoji1303] be safe and have fun!
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Thats great to hear.
Just got home about an hr ago and the house was at 60, we were gone last night and today. I got a starter fire going and once that was getting down good I put a 7" round right on the bottom and a couple white oak splits on either side and one on top, the stove is full. I let it run wide open for half hr and I just shut it down, the stove was up to about 475, just went and looked and it's up to 525 already (it literally been 5 mins). We'll see what it looks like in the morning, or when I wake up feeling it getting colder rather than warmer.
Shut down at 11:30.
Looks like it went up another 50 since I was typing, the stove was cold so once it gets going it warms up pretty fast.
Shut down at 11:30.
Looks like it went up another 50 since I was typing, the stove was cold so once it gets going it warms up pretty fast.
I like the tree going through the porch roof on your man shed.Certainly ain't a she shed, she shed, by the she shore
I been raising the grade up in front of it. I plan on raising the shed too, which will be a bit of work, hopefully I can get it done soon. It needs to be raised around a ft, I'm planning on using scrounged black locust sections to lift it from each side and for the new legs it will be standing on.
There's where the grade is before I added 10 more buckets last night, I'm over 50 buckets now.
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I agreeIm tellin ya. For guys like me that cut wood for heat and personal use....... for the love of god get saws that will make you smile[emoji16]. This 385XP is so FUN!
Hope you fellas have nice weather and are enjoying our beloved shared hobby of wood cutting. [emoji1303][emoji1303] be safe and have fun!
Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]
. Wish I would have kept the 385 I had some times, sure was a nice saw. The ported 7900 and 562 keeps a smile on my face though.
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I ran @psuiewalsh ported 7900 today, thinking I may need to get that done to mine.I like the tree going through the porch roof on your man shed.
I agree
Thanks, it wasn't that big when I built it.
I may take it out when I raise it up, or at least move the shed a bit so it's not rubbing on the rafter, I'm still debating. I need to make my mind up as it's probably all going to happen at once when I'm not really planning on it, but I get a crazy moment and just get it done, funny how that happens.
I also need to make a diverter for water as it's caused some damage to the white oak porch. I will also be cutting the 3 large support post and putting them up on the porch since the bottoms are rotting, they are soft wood, the porch front will change a little and be done with more white oak that will run continuously across the front so it rots slower. Hopefully the new grade will help slow the rating as well.
Feel pretty blessed, found some dead standing tamarack that I could drive to!
landed on an old log and top bounced up on a stump after it hit the ground so the whole tree was off the ground
cut 3 loads with same chain, getting spoiled, lol.
No block left behind 
And almost flat ground! Best find this year, maybe ever for me. Oh and hardly any limbs.
landed on an old log and top bounced up on a stump after it hit the ground so the whole tree was off the groundcut 3 loads with same chain, getting spoiled, lol. No block left behind And almost flat ground! Best find this year, maybe ever for me. Oh and hardly any limbs.Attachments
Feel pretty blessed, found some dead standing tamarack that I could drive to!
What? No cardboard down in the bed of the truck?? You've changed, man.
Great pics as always.
Great news.
For sure!! I even sharped the 361 and 441, brought the F150 around and loaded it with the tools this afternoon. Gonna feel god cutting some real fire wood. Debating whether to to tell 'Tom" about it. He is my retired dentist from the old days but looks like death warmed over, skin and bones. I'd prefer to keep this score to myself. He was here yesterday asking for a source. I shouild tell him about it but he could have found it himself just by driving around looking just like I do.
So Mike, how man of those were German and How many Chinese? I presume all the Chinese ones had upgraded P and C's and perhaps more?
