Hey guys. For those who don’t follow the off topic forum, there is a post over there letting folks know that Alleyyooper passed away on Christmas Eve. He had been suffering from cancer for several months.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Im a Remington guy but I’m thoroughly impressed with the model 70 action. Of the standard rifles it’s so much smoother than the other makers. I’ll definitely look for more model 70’s as I add rifles to my collection.
I gave my SIL a model 64 in 30-06 for a wedding present. From what I understand it's a variant of the model 70. I bought it from a friend that said it kicked too hard. He was shooting the Hornady Light Magnums in it, when he got it years ago. They claimed 300 Win Mag velocities out of an 06. Shooting standard ammo it's not bad to shoot.
Any one gonna try the new Savage Impulse with the straight pull? You can take the bolt out and switch it to left hand. Looks interesting? Much too new for me.
Spruce scrounge today.
Big Sky Day
As someone that has never felled a tree, as all I do is buck wood scrounged from tree services, I look at stuff like @Haywire 's blow down and think, 'where the f do you start?!'. At the top and work towards the root ball being ready for the shortened trunk to stand up, then fell the trunk as normal would probably be my approach, but that doesn't look like what you've done?
I cut up about halfway on the underside and in a few inches on each side. Then stand back and cut down from the top. Tree dropped straight down. It had wedged itself between other trees on both sides so I wasn't to worried about it swinging one way or another. Usually the root base will sit back down but the ground is pretty frozen so it only moved back a bit. When the ground thaws I'd expect it to go the rest of the way back down into that little stream.
Hope that makes sense.
It takes a bit of experience to be able to "read" a blowdown. I have cut many that were pushed over with excavators. There can be a fair bit of tension. I have learned this the hard way through pinched bars and watching my running saw go for a ride as the stump and trunk stands back up!
I also like to start at the base and make a relief cut from the bottom then come from the top and use a wedge to avoid a pinch if the tree is big enough to allow.
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Nice job! Looks good.
Sad news about alleyooper..
Thanks to Haywire and JustJeff for their techniques on cutting blowdowns>
Joe, I love that chair and the story. Good work.
Thanks to Haywire and JustJeff for their techniques on cutting blowdowns>
Joe, I love that chair and the story. Good work.
Hey @MustangMike , I was thinking of you yesterday.
Needed a bar to run on a dolmar 7910, it had an adapter plate on it to run a stihl bar so I went to the "stihl bar section" and saw a nice one with a newer chain in a sheath. Pulled it out and to my surprise it was a 24" E bar. I'm pretty sure I told you I had never seen one before, I guess I was wrong since I own one
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This wood was pretty nasty, the center had a bunch of dirt in it, I didn't realize until I brought it in the house and thawed the cookies out. So I'll need to touch that chain up again
. I may hit the one that was getting real low that I was running on the 365 special again too, but I may toss it if it takes too much time as it's on it's last leg.
Hope you're all having a great weekend.
Needed a bar to run on a dolmar 7910, it had an adapter plate on it to run a stihl bar so I went to the "stihl bar section" and saw a nice one with a newer chain in a sheath. Pulled it out and to my surprise it was a 24" E bar. I'm pretty sure I told you I had never seen one before, I guess I was wrong since I own one
.This wood was pretty nasty, the center had a bunch of dirt in it, I didn't realize until I brought it in the house and thawed the cookies out. So I'll need to touch that chain up again
. I may hit the one that was getting real low that I was running on the 365 special again too, but I may toss it if it takes too much time as it's on it's last leg.Hope you're all having a great weekend.
Sunday morning ash scrounge from my one customer. 1 tree. Not real big he said. Going back for the limb wood in the morning. Used his FEL and he stacked it front to back. 
Ran the last round of the seasons harvest through the splitter and sstacked. You might know that it had to be the most knotyk cross grained round I had done in three days. Basically just splintered it and added to the uglies. Raked up the area and added to the fire pile, parked and tarped the splitter.
Next job is to haul a big rick, around 1.5 - 2 cord, from where it is to anohter area. Need to move it to get at around 8 or more cord of Black locust rounds. I cut that pile around 2001. If the weather keeps cooperating I will split/pile that 'somewhere'. I don't have any open space around the fence anymore and piling away from the fence complicates teh mowing.
Next job is to haul a big rick, around 1.5 - 2 cord, from where it is to anohter area. Need to move it to get at around 8 or more cord of Black locust rounds. I cut that pile around 2001. If the weather keeps cooperating I will split/pile that 'somewhere'. I don't have any open space around the fence anymore and piling away from the fence complicates teh mowing.
Might be a collector item, lol. I could be wrong but I don't think they make the e in bigger than a 20 anymore. Assuming it's the standard e with no replaceable tip.Hey @MustangMike , I was thinking of you yesterday.
Needed a bar to run on a dolmar 7910, it had an adapter plate on it to run a stihl bar so I went to the "stihl bar section" and saw a nice one with a newer chain in a sheath. Pulled it out and to my surprise it was a 24" E bar. I'm pretty sure I told you I had never seen one before, I guess I was wrong since I own one [emoji23].
This wood was pretty nasty, the center had a bunch of dirt in it, I didn't realize until I brought it in the house and thawed the cookies out. So I'll need to touch that chain up again
Hope you're all having a great weekend.
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I had a red one like that . 1985 sold it in 94 to buy a 87 2500 Suburban .
Always refer to wood in quarters. I Never say 1inch and half or 2 inch slabs@chipper1 - see, now someone is talkin' like me. My 40-40-4 year old uncle is so proud...
