Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[LondonNeil]

Cannot believe im still burning wood in October, Gone through 12m squared this year. How many cords is that?

about 3.5 cord. This imperial/American wood volume is 4'x4'x8' stack, about 3.5m3

 

[muad]

Picked up the 262xp today. Wow, is it clean. Will get pics tomorrow after work. Was originally purchased from this dealer, and as far as the owner can tell, it's still wearing it's original bar. Need to look up how to decode the serial to get the born on date. It has the storage in the handle/tank, so I'm guessing it's an early 90s? Has the 87 carb on it, but I need to check online to see where to look for the cylinder manufacturer markings. Edit: Looks like a 91 made in the 12 week? Serial is 1120183.

He also sold me a parts 262xp for a good price. Has a lot of good parts on it, like decent plastic (although dirty), a carb, good pull start assembly/cover, good top covers, handle bar, flywheel, etc. Jug and piston might be recoverable; he said it was wore out.

All in all, stoked!! Now to see which is better, the MS361 or the 262XP.

Pretty soon, I may only have two stihls left (241/461)...

 

[sean donato]

Well, helped the neighbor out today. I cut he picked up the rounds with his kubota, and took them down to the house to be split. Started at 10am finished up around 4pm. His wife made us deer cheese steaks! All in all we got about 4 cords cut up amd moved, another cord or two and he should be good for this winters heating needs. I did get good news. The loggers left all the tops, 10" and smaller. He said I was free to have as much of it as I wanted as payment. Theres about 20 odd tops left, that he didnt want to deal with. Get my pile for this year cleaned up, then I can start trucking in wood from his house. This was great news as I lost my gravy spot. God provides

 

[cantoo]

On the way home tonight I picked up the hydraulic power pack that I bought at auction last week. No wonder I guessed wrong on the size of the thing. They had it sitting on 2 skids that were 3x6' long, I assume it was a 40x 48" skid. Turns out it's a 60 Horsepower one, yup 60 HP. The tank I wanted to use is made of 1/4" thick plate, about 5' long and 20" square so way over kill for what I had planned. There is dirty sawdust on it so we're assuming it ran some big in a mill. It kind of skid mounted to decent sized I beams. My black glove is sitting on the motor for scale. I'm guessing over 2000 lbs. My tractor wouldn't even budge it. We also assume the tank has some oil in it. I wish I had it before I built my big splitter as I could have used a bunch of it. Shame to cut it apart so we're likely going to put it up for sale complete then see what happens. Grand kids were practicing on out track also. 5 year old Grand daughter on her 4 wheeler and 6 year old grandson on his KTM. Also some of my wife's treasures in the back ground. She appears to be a hoarder.

 

[Be Stihl]

I was able to unload and split (down to a size suitable for my parents' stove) right next to the stacking spot.

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The heartwood was not bad splitting but the sapwood was a bit stringy. Not as bad as some of the elm I've seen you guys trying to split but sure needed full blooded swings to make progress. Having not swung the axe for several months the accuracy wasn't as good as usual either which didn't help.

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All done, 2.5 cubes or so I guess.

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As you can see I was wearing the new abdominal guard PPE under my shirt to protect against gut strikes when splitting. And wiping sweat from my face with the gloves blackened by some of the charcoal makes it look like I've got a dirty Sanchez.

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This amount would be enough to get my parents through a normal winter as they typically spend much of it on a boat in the tropics but with the state borders closed they stayed in The People's State of Viktoria and had to burn all the way through.

Now that’s a manly way to take care of your parents. Feels good doing something right, huh?


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[MustangMike]

Had Venison Backstrap for dinner tonight … rare … GREAT!!!

I'm spoiling myself this year, hope I can get 2 deer every year!!! (but it rarely happens for me).

Also delivered a cord of wood today, and have to cut a dead Red Maple down for the same guy tomorrow. There is a lot of metal in it, as the previous owner had a conduit and light on it. I will have to be careful!

 

[Be Stihl]

On the way home tonight I picked up the hydraulic power pack that I bought at auction last week. No wonder I guessed wrong on the size of the thing. They had it sitting on 2 skids that were 3x6' long, I assume it was a 40x 48" skid. Turns out it's a 60 Horsepower one, yup 60 HP. The tank I wanted to use is made of 1/4" thick plate, about 5' long and 20" square so way over kill for what I had planned. There is dirty sawdust on it so we're assuming it ran some big in a mill. It kind of skid mounted to decent sized I beams. My black glove is sitting on the motor for scale. I'm guessing over 2000 lbs. My tractor wouldn't even budge it. We also assume the tank has some oil in it. I wish I had it before I built my big splitter as I could have used a bunch of it. Shame to cut it apart so we're likely going to put it up for sale complete then see what happens. Grand kids were practicing on out track also. 5 year old Grand daughter on her 4 wheeler and 6 year old grandson on his KTM. Also some of my wife's treasures in the back ground. She appears to be a hoarder.

What size is that electric motor?
25hp 3phase?


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[cantoo]

It's a 60 hp, 3 phase.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Picked up the 262xp today. Wow, is it clean. Will get pics tomorrow after work. Was originally purchased from this dealer, and as far as the owner can tell, it's still wearing it's original bar. Need to look up how to decode the serial to get the born on date. It has the storage in the handle/tank, so I'm guessing it's an early 90s? Has the 87 carb on it, but I need to check online to see where to look for the cylinder manufacturer markings. Edit: Looks like a 91 made in the 12 week? Serial is 1120183.

He also sold me a parts 262xp for a good price. Has a lot of good parts on it, like decent plastic (although dirty), a carb, good pull start assembly/cover, good top covers, handle bar, flywheel, etc. Jug and piston might be recoverable; he said it was wore out.

All in all, stoked!! Now to see which is better, the MS361 or the 262XP.

Pretty soon, I may only have two stihls left (241/461)...

Your decoding of serial number is correct. KS will be stamped on flywheel side of cylinder base casting, no decompression. That 87 carb is a give away also. Nice score. Pretty sure I got that right.

 

[muad]

Your decoding of serial number is correct. KS will be stamped on flywheel side of cylinder base casting, no decompression. That 87 carb is a give away also. Nice score. Pretty sure I got that right.

Thanks for the details! I'm super excited to test her in some wood after work today.

 

[LondonNeil]

spent another 40 minutes rooting oak rounds out my neighbours' undergrowth....reminding myself how oak seems to get heavier, round on round, quickly. The undergrowth is a bit thicker than i'd thought, which means I'm now findingmore rounds....i think there may be more thn I first thought after all. I will only know when I'v got it all fetched and stacked i round form, but I'm not half way yet.

 

[svk]

Well I got the deer processed last night. Went pretty well for my first time and doing it by myself.

I more or less deboned the meat and sealed in zip locks. I will be doing roasts with everything except for the backstraps and tenderloins so I just bagged up the muscle masses.

 

[muad]

Well I got the deer processed last night. Went pretty well for my first time and doing it by myself.

I more or less deboned the meat and sealed in zip locks. I will be doing roasts with everything except for the backstraps and tenderloins so I just bagged up the muscle masses.

Score!!

We've been doing our own for the past five-six years. Three seasons ago I got my wife to finally start dressing and skinning them for me. All I have to do now is shoot them, LOL. Well, and help grind and bag.

At some point I'm gonna get into bow hunting.

 

[muad]

Got a few pics of the 262! She's clean for sure, but not cleaned up. So, looks like a well cared for saw, versus one someone dolled up to sell.



I need an old style gas cap, or maybe change the oil cap to match?? I like the look of the old style better. I haven't use the new style ones very much, actually at all. I will saw, initial thoughts are they're easier to open.

I was hoping to get her in some wood today, but my buddy stopped over to check our bees. This weekend I plan to fell a few trees, so she'll get a workout.

 

[svk]

Wow, nice!

Who else in here recently bought a minty 262?

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Got a few pics of the 262! She's clean for sure, but not cleaned up. So, looks like a well cared for saw, versus one someone dolled up to sell.

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I need an old style gas cap, or maybe change the oil cap to match?? I like the look of the old style better. I haven't use the new style ones very much, actually at all. I will saw, initial thoughts are they're easier to open.

I was hoping to get her in some wood today, but my buddy stopped over to check our bees. This weekend I plan to fell a few trees, so she'll get a workout.

Like this?two are chipped, middle one is good. O-ring is better on chipped one.

 

[cantoo]

I paid big money for new 3 pth arms and I turn one into a pretzel. I had a long tree on the grapple and was backing up to grab another one and it must have hit another tree or a stump and pretzel time. Going to spent some time in a press tomorrow so should be back in business soon.

 

[muddstopper]

I paid big money for new 3 pth arms and I turn one into a pretzel. I had a long tree on the grapple and was backing up to grab another one and it must have hit another tree or a stump and pretzel time. Going to spent some time in a press tomorrow so should be back in business soon.

Wait until you spend $400 on a plastic fuel tank and then run over a piece of rebar in the ground and puncture the new tank.

 

[Ryan A]

@ Maud

That’s a 1991 model year. If all original, it should have the Klobenschmidt(KS) jug and the HDA-87 carb. This is the most sought after cylinder/carb combo. Factory hotrod of a saw......

 

[muad]

@ Maud

That’s a 1991 model year. If all original, it should have the Klobenschmidt(KS) jug and the HDA-87 carb. This is the most sought after cylinder/carb combo. Factory hotrod of a saw......

Thanks! I'm stoked!!

It has the HDA-87 carb, will check the jug asap. It was bought new from my dealer and they did all service on it, etc. Guy traded it in on a new Husqvarna.

I'm so glad he did, and that the owner sent me a text about it.