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My daughter and I went scrounging in the woods today and came home with a shopping bag full of wild leeks, or ramps as some people call them. Either way, I'll be looking forward to some potato leek soup!
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That's great! I hope my daughter stihl wants to do stuff like that with me when she's a teenager. She's all sweetness and light now at age 10 but who knows what will happen when hormones and things start happening.
 
Started with this today.
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Then took down the rest of the broken maple - ended up with enough tools in the woods that I only got this half load on the way out because...
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I don't normally show my stumps, but in the interest of letting the youngsters see it for educational purposes, here it is. This is the rarely used but completely ineffectual double reverse high Hollander dumbolt coop bay sloping method. (OK, I made that up.) I had to cut high to avoid the fence that was grown in. I started to cut the notch on the side with the 20° lean and went a little too deep. Turns out that was most of the solid wood and it sat down on my chain, leaving a visible imprint in the pic. I took the powerhead and bar off and hit the back a few times with the Fiskars. It didn't go over as easy I thought it might but I found out how punky it was. I ended up using a proper ax to finish it off.
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The top side of the cut shows there is only a tiny part beyond the notch near the center that is still solid.
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By the third round the tree was fairly solid so off to the firewood stacks.
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I do believe that experience is what you gain when everything turns to sh!t. In this case, I would have recommended the inverted reverse dumboldt in the pike position followed by :crazy2:
 
Ah, sweet memories. This big chunk of blue gum was from Limby's first tree. It was about the first tree that I ran into difficulty splitting by hand and shortly before I heard of this thing you people call 'noodling'.

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Obviously I half milled the round and then bashed it. Looks like I was engaged in a war of attrition then gave up and called in the artillery. I think that shallow cut mark might have been from another round next to it that I might have partially milled.

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This was the tree, post Limbification, (back when I was a lesbian, obviously).

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Sweet, sweet memories from May 2016. The wood should be dry after 4 Aussie summers.

I'm going to enjoy burning you tonight, you stubborn f*cker . :laugh:
 
Fisco. It used to be a farm and ranch supply store, with their own equipment brand. I find zero information in searches, the filter has no numbers. A lot of splitter brands use this same filter, so I think it ought to work. I don’t know what else to do.
Very possible made by Speeco. Seems they make/made for everybody. When I had my Troybilt everyone wanted $30 for the filter. Took me a while to figure out their numbering system and cross reference it to a $10 NAPA filter.
 
I do believe that experience is what you gain when everything turns to sh!t. In this case, I would have recommended the inverted reverse dumboldt in the pike position followed by :crazy2:
Interesting. I would have expected you to suggest the down under over triple Heimlich fisherman line cut. I assure you there was :crazy2: involved.

I did get one more load in before dark last night. All that is left to do now on the stump is destroy the evidence and swear you guys to secrecy.
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That's great! I hope my daughter stihl wants to do stuff like that with me when she's a teenager. She's all sweetness and light now at age 10 but who knows what will happen when hormones and things start happening.
Get all you can, while you can. My girl will be 15 this summer and if it wasn't for covid, she would be working part time and hanging with friends in her free time.

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I think the stuff I have is called Root Tone". Same thing, dip the cutting in it. It's so simple and common sense, but I never thought of it. Putting a pot under the branch and holding it under potting soil. We just planted a dozen plants yesterday. I'm going to go out right now with some of the smaller containers and try that. Remind me to update the trial in a few weeks!
Root Tone may of been what my buddy used. He/s been gone for about 15 years I don't really remember. As for the vines in the bucket. Grape vines grow fast, but I don't know how long it actually takes for them to grow roots in the bucket. We usually place the vine in the container and don't even look at it again until the next year. I would try the bag method on new azaleas growth. I suspect you would get more than enough rooted plants off just one bunch. I have 6 azaleas I plant to dig up in the next few days. They where planted under a big oak tree and don't get enough sun to really put out blooms. Mom wants them for her new place. No landscapeing has been done there yet. She also wants a bunch of my over grown daylilies and other things I have growing here. I just bought this place and everything is over grown and needs thinning, just in time for her to make use of the excess.
 
Very possible made by Speeco. Seems they make/made for everybody. When I had my Troybilt everyone wanted $30 for the filter. Took me a while to figure out their numbering system and cross reference it to a $10 NAPA filter.
I was going to say, most of them hyd filters are made by the same company, just rebranded. (think WIX),To the best of my knowledge, pretty much all wood splitter return filters are 10micron. I found a long time ago, that most auto parts store will carry a hyd filter that matches the specs of the factor branded filer and at a fraction of the cost. Same thing for air filters. My Ventrac air filter didn't have any numbers and wasn't in any book to cross reference. I had to buy air filters from the dealer and they where costing me about $80 for filter and shipping everytime I needed one. I was in the local outdoor power dealer one day and happened to notice a filter setting on his counter and it looked an awful lot like my Ventrac filter. I asked the dealer what it was off of and he said a Snapper mower. I asked how much and I forget the price, but it was a lot cheaper than what I had been paying. I went home and got my ventrac filter and went back to the dealer to compare. It was the same filter and it had numbers on it to cross reference. I bought one from the shop and from then on I buy them at Carquest and Napa. Its a standard Donaldson filter. I think the price is around $10 or $15 and I don't have to pay shipping.
 
Kinda does but maybe a really old one. Never saw one with the motor on the same side as the operator handle.
My Huskee was made by Speeco and it looks like an old version of mine. yours has a modified I beam. Mine has the pre rolled steel beem. My engine is on the same side as the controls.
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Multiple warm starts on the 362 today. Had to learn what he wanted. Used to be a one pull start warm in the high idle position. Today most reliable warm start was one pull on choke then 2 on high idle. The last time I was out it was the compression release stuck open causing the no-go. That was the way the day started, no fire at all until I rememberedf to pull that CR back out and by then the saw was flooded. Only took about 6 pulls to clear and start.

Put in 4 hours but lots of sit downs and general screw arounds. Stuck two bars in adjoining rounds. Rebarred as last resort to the 16" bar to whittle the stuck ones free but then thought to hammer on the wedge. Sunk it to the hilt befoe the round broke free. Was fun bucking, Started with 20" bar to do some good sized limbs starting at about 8" and
workign up to a bit over 20". Changed to 25" to continue down that stem ending up with it almost 24" diameter.

That was the stem where I stuck the 2 bars. Once I freed them and cut two more rounds the stem was clear of the ground - almost 20' of big stem held waist high - what more could a guy want:).

Legs held up better so they must be getting a bit stronger. I did take more breaks though.
 
It has a tag on it saying Special Products Co Golden Colo.

That “is” Speeco isn’t it?
Yes.
Kinda does but maybe a really old one. Never saw one with the motor on the same side as the operator handle.
I've had a few of those thru the yrs.
The one I currently have is the one like @rarefish383 showed above, that was the last of the huskee labeled ones as far as I know, they have the handle on the tongue that's pretty useless, I like @MustangMike handle setup :rock:.
Obviously these were taken a while ago lol.
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Locusts :sweet:.

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