Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

But you had your chainsaw in the back of the truck didn't you ? Real men don't go anywhere without their chainsaws. Oh wait.... mine are in the garage.
Seriously, how did you get by that? Go under on the right and scrape the heck out of your paint?

I got my truck for cheap when it came in on trade because it was covered with hail damage. I just went under it. And yes, there is Orange in the bed

 

[MechanicMatt]

So the wife and kids are visiting the MIL for the week so it’s just me and my dogs. Tonight I tried beer for a marinate. Came home at lunch to feed the stove and let it sit in the brew. Yesterday was just salt and garlic powder seasoned. I think the beer tenderizer worked better

 

[Haywire]

The Grateful Sled in action! Haha

 

[Saiso]

The Grateful Sled in action! Haha
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Yooo I wanna be there with you!
I’m excited to go out tomorrow and clean the 20cm+ we got. By clean I also mean take out the sled and bike and have some fun like that picture!

 

[Haywire]

Yooo I wanna be there with you!
I’m excited to go out tomorrow and clean the 20cm+ we got. By clean I also mean take out the sled and bike and have some fun like that picture!

Your old Ski-Doo is sweet. Post up some pics of the fun!

 

[svk]

Not a pose you normally see that model of sled in!!!

 

[svk]

Well we are off! A hundred dollars worth of groceries and a short box pickup packed full of **** for 24 hours. Hopefully we didn’t forget anything of importance as we have everything but the kitchen sink along.

 

[Haywire]

Not a pose you normally see that model of sled in!!!

No sir! She lands like a ton of bricks

Have fun, man. Post up some pics of the feesh!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Good luck Steve! Post up some pictures of the catch when you get home

 

[JustJeff]

Love these gnarly stringy elm splits. They make their own kindling. Toss in on top of 14 hour old coals and away we go.

Sent from my CLT-L04 using Tapatalk

 

[rarefish383]

I don't like to judge from pics, but I believe the woodpecker I saw was a good deal larger than that.

Maybe like this one? The one hanging on the suet feeder needs to be put in perspective. That feeder is about 5 times as big as a regular suet feeder. The normal blocks of suet cost 59 cents, the block for this feeder costs 5 bucks. It's a big feeder, look at the chain on it.

 

[rarefish383]

hi MM - yesterday on tv news, this winter disaster on all day coverage most of the day, they had some snow pix slips! on couple left house. house has big set of wooden steps. they were covered in frozen rains... and had game cam on porch... first the wife hits top step... then 2nd and zoom.... down she falls and slide to bottom... bump, bump.... bump! about as bad, if u ask me, as some of those Wacked Out Sports guys on their 'boards. then, out comes someone else... takes no heed to what just happened to woman... and Bam! down the steps the bump, too! all on camera... omg.

ice n snow, the cars pass my house going to theirs... crunch, crunch... crunch!

stay warm

Back when "Snowmageddon" hit the east coast, I was with UPS. I had these giant town houses that started at $1,000,000 and went up. There were two flights of stairs up the terraces, then a flight up to the front door. The kids packed the steps with snow and then sprayed it with a house out of one of the front widows, for a sledding ramp. The parents left through the garage. I tried putting delivery notices on the garage door, but they opened it before they could see them. On the third day I was supposed to, "return to sender". I took a pic and sent it in to my manager and said I couldn't get to any door? He surprised me when he said, "Don't set one foot on those steps, I don't want you hurt. We'll send them a post card to come pick up there packages, or, they can sit in the Overgoods Locker till July". A week later I started shifting trailers in the yard. I had 25 years seniority and didn't have a chance of getting the vacant job. Then that snow storm hit and every senior guy that had his name on the list pulled it. They didn't want to train in 28" of snow. I figured what the heck, if I can make it a week the snow will be gone, and I'll have the job. It worked.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Our Dailey UPS driver is an all right guy. Big Smith fan, loves his K’s and J’s

he shoots the shot with us, we’re his last pick up for the day

 

[chipper1]

Back when "Snowmageddon" hit the east coast, I was with UPS. I had these giant town houses that started at $1,000,000 and went up. There were two flights of stairs up the terraces, then a flight up to the front door. The kids packed the steps with snow and then sprayed it with a house out of one of the front widows, for a sledding ramp. The parents left through the garage. I tried putting delivery notices on the garage door, but they opened it before they could see them. On the third day I was supposed to, "return to sender". I took a pic and sent it in to my manager and said I couldn't get to any door? He surprised me when he said, "Don't set one foot on those steps, I don't want you hurt. We'll send them a post card to come pick up there packages, or, they can sit in the Overgoods Locker till July". A week later I started shifting trailers in the yard. I had 25 years seniority and didn't have a chance of getting the vacant job. Then that snow storm hit and every senior guy that had his name on the list pulled it. They didn't want to train in 28" of snow. I figured what the heck, if I can make it a week the snow will be gone, and I'll have the job. It worked.

I always liked driving in the snow, just don't like doing it when there's others on them lol.

No sir! She lands like a ton of bricks

Have fun, man. Post up some pics of the feesh!

I was thinking, he better stay on the throttle or slam! .
Sure looks like more fun than running the kubota today to move snow around.
My trailer is getting pretty full of scrounged snow lol. Had some nice sun and blue skies .

 

[Haywire]

 

[mountainguyed67]

So to confirm, you are wanting to convert these saws to 1/4” pitch from 3/8 LP?

Yes. They come with 3/8 chain. Strikes me as odd for such a small saw, I’ve seen videos of people who convert them before using them. One converted after finding it danced around on the wood too much with 3/8 chain.

 

[svk]

Seems to me that 3/8 LP would work great on those saws. But if you want 1/4 we can get you set up.

 

[mountainguyed67]

That’s why I don’t like doing reviews on a web search. You get some guy backing his car into the garage of beautiful house, with a spotless painted floor, spotless lawn tractor. Takes the saw out of the case, then takes five minutes to display the cool screw driver wrench thingy, blah, blah, 27 minutes later he says, and that’s my new saw. Tune into my next session where we mix the fuel. Ahhhhhhhhhh. There’s so much good advice out there, but some times you have to wade through so much junk to find it.

I messaged back and forth on YouTube this morning with a guy from the last topping/felling video, he said him and his son have used the CS-271 for two years now. He says it’s a fine little saw, but they bought an MS193 after and its a much much much better saw. I was in the comments of a video comparing the two saws, and it was half Stihl people saying Echo is poorly made, and half Echo people saying Stihl is overpriced junk. With that ratio you don’t know what to think. I’ve seen good and bad reviews on both. I finally did find a negative video on the Echo CS-271. He was up in a tree on a job, and the saw kept backfiring when he started it, and dying when he put it on his hip. He said it went back to Echo twice. Shops won’t work on them, they have to send them to the manufacturer. He said it still had the same problem both times it came back. He said he wanted to like the saw, but it was getting hard to do. Another negative I have with Echo, I posted on their Facebook page about the negative experience I had with one of their dealers who couldn’t be bothered to provide his services (like someone here suggested I do), and asking for someone who would help. Echo removed the comment, and didn’t contact me to try and help. They’re not sounding like a manufacturer whose product I’d like to have.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Seems to me that 3/8 LP would work great on those saws. But if you want 1/4 we can get you set up.

A reason others give for swapping is it takes longer to cut with the wider chain, and you’re already dealing with a low power saw. The Homelite XL I had been using is 1/4 pitch, and I liked it good for brushing.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I’ll tell you, appliance repair is a different beast.

I think companies hired engineers to figure out how to make them break down faster.

People still have these running from the early fifties, with little or no work to them. I know people, and see others in the refrigerator section of an International Harvester forum.