Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[LondonNeil]

WARNING, DON'T watch this with young kids nearby or others easily offended by naughty words.

 

[dancan]

Lionsfan that's funny , I was thinking that to myself this morning while walking down the produce isles "What a perfect time for them to do a deep clean , no produce to move around" Lol

Public service announcement
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/co...-mask-hand-washing-sanitizer-gloves-1.5496659

 

[KiwiBro]

Dumphuckery. It's what's for breakfast.

 

[James Miller]

.404 to picco?

Gona machine the centers so they can run on small spline drums like echo and husky. There going on some 340 builds another member has.

 

[rarefish383]

Looks good, but for $130 I’d like to see if I can get it on sale or in the off season or clearance. My old beat up wheel barrow will have to suffice for now.
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I got one of those and liked it at first, then I bent the handle. Used it to cover the engine on the wood splitter for a year or two. Then got the bright idea to mount it on my Walk behind to move mulch. For that, it works great. Yes, it still dumps.

 

[dancan]

The wife just informed me that I wasn't allowed to use this new "Social Distancing" as an excuse to go scrounge more firewood Lol

 

[rarefish383]

Aussie cube is full of spiders . . .

Philbert

The past couple years I've been getting these little buggers in my wood pile. They go right on the burn pile, and I've started wearing gloves.

 

[rarefish383]

For those that think Black Widows only have red hour glasses on the belly, one search I read said there are 80 some varieties of Widows. This is a juvenile Eastern Black Widow.

 

[Philbert]

Winter cutting is the best , no dropbears , hoop snakes , piousness ants, spiders and killer lizzards to be seen for miles

It's not the ones you see that you need to worry about!

Philbert

 

[hamish]

Social distancing is good for you they say so ,,,

Seeeing as I have a fulltime helper for 3 weeks.........he asked me, "ya think that deer has carona virus?"
Then i had to explain deer dont like Carona.
Saw a plane flying overhead today though maybe they were looking for survivors, had to hide my beer.

 

[hamish]

The wife just informed me that I wasn't allowed to use this new "Social Distancing" as an excuse to go scrounge more firewood Lol

Told the first wife that in 97, i miss her sometimes.

 

[muad]

Finally split the trailer load I cut to break in the new 241. A good mix of ash, sugar maple, honey locust, and mulberry or black locust??

Then I ran the 241 for a bit to cut up some smalls. The more I use this saw, the less I want to grab anything else. Has anyone run an 18” on a 241? I’m tempted to try one.

 

[chipper1]

Finally split the trailer load I cut to break in the new 241. A good mix of ash, sugar maple, honey locust, and mulberry or black locust??

Then I ran the 241 for a bit to cut up some smalls. The more I use this saw, the less I want to grab anything else. Has anyone run an 18” on a 241? I’m tempted to try one.

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Nice load.
You can run an 18 on them, but you loose a bit of the go factor the smaller bars offer.
For a comparison the 251 has a little less ho and is sold with a 325x16 or 18(some I've seen set up with picco) and it does an okay job, you will just loose a little speed in the cut/torque to dawg it in, but that isn't what they are really made for anyway.

 

[chipper1]

I managed to split a few rounds today, cleaned the woodshed up for the 2021-22 wood as well. I have just under a cord left that I'm burning right now, whatever is left will stay where it is, this mild winter is helping that part a lot.
The rounds on top of the middle were added mostly on Friday and a few splits we added today, then cleaned the floor off and started on the front row.
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After:

 

[Cowboy254]

Should I start figuring out which child to eat first .

 

[Cowboy254]

Finally split the trailer load I cut to break in the new 241. A good mix of ash, sugar maple, honey locust, and mulberry or black locust??

Then I ran the 241 for a bit to cut up some smalls. The more I use this saw, the less I want to grab anything else. Has anyone run an 18” on a 241? I’m tempted to try one.

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I have (I mean, Cowgirl has) a ported 241 with 16 inch bar and 0.325 chain. I love it (I mean, she loves it) and it is perfect for what I (she) bought it for - lopping small stuff - but then I (she) also found that it was great for burying into dry eucalypt also. Beyond that though, I think it will start to struggle. Unported, I think an 18 inch bar would max it out in hardwood, especially dry. I bought my old man a stock 241 with a 16 inch bar and it is flat out buried in eucalypt. I'd keep the 16 inch bar on there and go for a bigger saw when 18+ inch wood comes along. If you go sticking a bigger bar on it then you start to lose some of the zip that it has in the smaller material that it was intended for.

 

[turnkey4099]

Since it's crept it's way into this thread, for whatever reason, I'm gonna throw my observation out there. I drive truck for a living, and I recently began a run that delivers to Toronto, Ontario. Some of you younger guys may not remember the mass hysteria associated with the SARS outbreak, but it was a contagious virus, quite similar to the current Coronavirus epidemic, and Toronto was pretty much the eye of the storm. The Greater Toronto Area is home to roughly 6 million people, but from what I can tell it's pretty much business as usual, no mass hysteria. What I have noticed is personal at the toll booths, customs booths and behind the cash registers wearing a simple pair of latex gloves. I keep noticing janitorial staff running around with bottles of spray cleaner and paper towels, wiping things down in high traffic areas. Also notice store employees picking up any loose trash and emptying the garbage cans before the ****'s overflowing all over the place. Simple, common sense, proactive steps will go much further than all the stupidity we've seen here. I just left my local Wal-Mart, and the bread isle is damn near empty. PERFECT time to get in there and clean those shelves, but instead you could pretty much hear the crickets chirping.

Gov Inslee (Washington) ordered all restaurants and bars to close. I can see many small businesses going bankrupt if it persists for long.

Schools are all closed as of Monday evening, churches are voluntarily closing or holding very abbreviated services.

 

[farmer steve]

Finally split the trailer load I cut to break in the new 241. A good mix of ash, sugar maple, honey locust, and mulberry or black locust??

Then I ran the 241 for a bit to cut up some smalls. The more I use this saw, the less I want to grab anything else. Has anyone run an 18” on a 241? I’m tempted to try one.

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You just need a 261 with an 18" .325 bar on it . I don't think the 241 would impress you with the 18.

 

[muad]

Thanks all. I’ll stick with the 16” on the 241. I love how she cuts, so I don’t want to compromise that.

As much as I love my 361, this Mtronic is growing on me. May have to break down and get a 261...

 

[square1]

Well, it's been a beautiful winter to get out and cash in on what mother nature provides up here in Northern Mi. Hopefully, the snow will be gone in a couple weeks and I can get the splitter back in here and clean this mess up.View attachment 807121

Better stay in the woods! The hoards have your beautiful town on their radar.
For those that don't know, there is a toilet paper factory in Lionfan's area.