Happy B-Day Mike and enjoy the family celebration at the cabin over the weekend!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Got three loads done this evening before it started to rain. It was a light sprinkle so I probably could have continued but I've had enough today anyway. Almost forgot to take the obligatory cowboy254 pic on the first load - and you know how he gets all mopey and doesn't talk to you for three days if you post about wood without photos.
And fishing talk without pictures? Let's just say don't go there.
Happy birthday Mike!!!!!!
Sorry guys, no-one met the qualifications so...
I will have more tomorrow, please submit your credentials and maybe you'll be the lucky winner of the next trailer load lol.
I will have more tomorrow, please submit your credentials and maybe you'll be the lucky winner of the next trailer load lol.
Grrr. Weather man was right and it's raining (again). I've not had a chance to play with my new 'saw yet, this is mildly very annoying!
Got to meet fellow scrounger @SS396driver at the Carlisle truck show and see his Cheby's. Of course we chatted about firewood. 
Nice meeting up with you yesterdayGot to meet fellow scrounger @SS396driver at the Carlisle truck show and see his Cheby's. Of course we chatted about firewood.
Finally got to use my saw for the first time this year. I waited a month for $5 worth of parts and then I had lost my two places to cut. I went back to one of those places to get free mulch and met the arborist there. He was starting to use the yard again and had a small pile of W. Oak he was going to push onto the burn pile. He said I could have it and hw was going to drop off some low grade Cherry. I got both. About 1-1/3 loads. I was whipped after that. Did I say how much I hate St. Louis Summers heat?
Last count over 2400 trucks registered for the show . I’m sure some didn’t show but it’s impressive 
Finally made a little progress on firewood, split up some red fir, spruce, and pine rounds at moms that I dropped off last summer 
Boss did some urban logging in the big city yesterday, big maple
said he had to bring his 880 and 5’ bar out of retirement 
Boss did some urban logging in the big city yesterday, big maplesaid he had to bring his 880 and 5’ bar out of retirement 
Looks pretty solid, Nate. What's he doing with the wood? It would be nice to mix in with your red fir and wonder wood.
I keep picking at the three trailer pile and it doesn't seem to be getting any smaller. 2 more tonight.
I do have to save a few pieces for project wood before I get it all cut up.
I do have to save a few pieces for project wood before I get it all cut up.
It’ll be firewood, some maybe milled. Firewood is his main business, last few weeks they’ve been selling 8-10 cords a day. I would like to try some and I’m sure he would let me take some but would require going to the big city, not sure I want it that bad, lol.
Bet he needed a chain over that heavy saw to be legal
. That is a huge tree though.I wouldn't be chasing that maple in the city, it's like oak, way overrated, now if it was locust
.I got another load of mulberry brush off today, it sure felt nasty out, can't wait for the 90 degrees predicted for tomorrow
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Evidently he doesn’t need mud flaps to be legal either, lol.Bet he needed a chain over that heavy saw to be legal
I wouldn't be chasing that maple in the city, it's like oak, way overrated, now if it was locust
I got another load of mulberry brush off today, it sure felt nasty out, can't wait for the 90 degrees predicted for tomorrow
There’s a show on Netflix called Big Timber, guy kinda reminds me of my boss. Was funny I was going to tell him about it and he actually started watching it same day I did, he liked the show and said there was some similarities, lol.The big maple was actually a tree removal job he did, he does a little bit of everything. Works good because he can sell the wood to, but yeah not as good as locust, or spruce
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Finally got my pile completely off the mountain and only have a pile roughly a third of this one to bring home and pile with it. I'm pretty sure I already have enough for this year, maybe more. I might let my son sell some.
Shea
I started working on the REPLACEMENT engine to my log splitter over the week end. I ordered a new intake manifold, put new pop rivets in the pull cord assembly and restrung the pull cord. Then I addressed the broken carb mounting bolt that had been missing ever since I got it. I had to order easy out set, which turned out to be a piece of junk. It was suppose to be made out of hardened steel (like taps-I assumed). When I went to tap it into the hole to seat it, the threads of the tool just smashed over. Couldn't get it out despite heating the hole and treating with Mouse Milk and letting set overnight.
So I decided to drill and tap a new 1/4" x 20 hole. I used a 1/16" drill for the pilot hole and it was difficult despite using cutting fluid. Then OH SH!T! it went in. Too deep. I had drilled int the wall of the cylinder. I will clean up all the metal shavings first, then clean the hole as well as the threaded hole with hexane and then acetone. Supposedly they make a JB Weld Extreme Heat that will work to patch the hole. May have to order it. I'll pack it into the hole on the cylinder side until it flares a little on the threaded side of the hole. Once cured, it should act as a plug even if it fails to adhere to the hole walls on the cylinder side. The flair should keep it from drifting into the cylinder.
Anyone have other ideas or products?
So I decided to drill and tap a new 1/4" x 20 hole. I used a 1/16" drill for the pilot hole and it was difficult despite using cutting fluid. Then OH SH!T! it went in. Too deep. I had drilled int the wall of the cylinder. I will clean up all the metal shavings first, then clean the hole as well as the threaded hole with hexane and then acetone. Supposedly they make a JB Weld Extreme Heat that will work to patch the hole. May have to order it. I'll pack it into the hole on the cylinder side until it flares a little on the threaded side of the hole. Once cured, it should act as a plug even if it fails to adhere to the hole walls on the cylinder side. The flair should keep it from drifting into the cylinder.
Anyone have other ideas or products?
Are saying is that you drilled a hole through the cylinder wall? That my good man is a first that I have seen or heard of!
Yep! I'm here for your amusement. When I first bought the used engine, I only found out later that the carb was held on by one bolt. That's what cause multiple failures of the intake manifold when the bolt became loose. So I thought I'd fix it. Tried easy out, no luck. Then on to drill and tapping. Just went a little too deep.
