Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I mentioned I'm looking for tires for my trailer. Currently have 185/70R14 on it. I can't go any wider than 185s or else they will rub the frame. I have a stupid question that I've searched the internet for but can't find an answer for. Will a narrower tire (say 165) hold more weight than a wider one or less weight?
Didnāt like the cut . Touched it up in the field and then it cut well . Guess I need to fine tune it
Nice buck you got there. Very smart move indeed using your logging winch. I'll have to remember that one. Plus it saves your back.I used my skidding winch this evening to skid my buck out of the woods/brush,
It was so thick in there I could barely walk in there, to hook the wire rope up!
SR
Go online to a place that sells trailer tires and look. I would think the weight is based on the load range ply ratings.
Did you check for different load ranges of the tires possibly ?
Generally, the load carrying capacity is related to the volume of air a tire holds. So narrow or low profile tires usually have less load carrying capacity than a similar wider or taller sidewall given everything else is equal. The only way to know for sure is the rating/marking on the tire, so you may find something to suit your needs.
That's kind of what I thought. Just got it in my head (lot of empty space there) that narrower would hold more. Yet it's square inches on the ground distributing the weight.
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The darn thing was so heavy and out in the thick brush so far, I couldn't drag him, so I went home for the tractor! lol I've used my winch before for the same thing and you are right, it's a huge back saver!
The antlers get hung up in my hunting blind.
SR
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Roger that!
My 661 isn't modified to the max. The jug hasn't been dropped and the piston shaved that Im aware of. Not sure on the timing either, but its opened up more than just a port job fir sure! The guy that hopped it up is a very reputable modifier.
From my experience. When it comes to racing saws of comparable power. The saw with the chain tuned best for the wood being bucked will always win! 90% of a saws performance is in it's chain!Even if one head has, lets say 10% more power than the other. The faster chain will probably STIHL win.
My 661 is pretty quick with my chains in the wood I cut.
I hear you on chain, all the port and machine work is kind of the icing on the cake. Once I learned how to build a decent work saw, it's been hard not to modify them.
Another thing, is just knowing how to build a saw that matches the intended cutting it will see. If I had a spare 066/660, I could build some hotrod saw that could just shred cookies...but it would be a terrible work saw and would be stalling/grabbing the whole time when you're doing your undercut in a big fir. Even a firewood saw can have a little bit different powerband than a falling saw IMO. Firewood saw can be a little "spicier." To borrow a saying from the gen z kids, in a falling saw, "I want all the torks."
Usually the smaller the tire, the less it will hold. However, dedicated trailer tires usually are built much better than a passenger car tire of the same size.
Good dry oak burns hot even on low . Really very satisfied with the stove I would highly recommend it to anyone .
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Lowest setting and itās at 500 degrees . The stove works so well at removing the heat the flue temp is 250 this is the way it burns all winter. And there is hardly anything in the flue come spring cleaning
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Lowest setting and itās at 500 degrees . The stove works so well at removing the heat the flue temp is 250 this is the way it burns all winter. And there is hardly anything in the flue come spring cleaning
Wow! That is a nice deer. What do you think it field dressed at?The darn thing was so heavy and out in the thick brush so far, I couldn't drag him, so I went home for the tractor! lol I've used my winch before for the same thing and you are right, it's a huge back saver!
The antlers get hung up in my hunting blind.
SR
What part of the 'Midwest' are you in?
I have an Osburn woodstove that burns just like yours. There are air pipes that go thru the stove with little holes in them. Once the fire is up and running good they ignite and start reburning the gases. I think I have had this one for 20 years now. My only wish is that it was a bigger unit. We have a Jotul woodstove that works the same way over at the farm.
Rims are rims in my book. I've run car rims on trailers in the past for years without any problems. Even my old 5 lug car trailer had 4 car rims on it. The tires were load range C.
To be clear- I'm in Florida and not relying on wood for heat, we dont even use the HVAC heat pump at home, ever. But I do enjoy chainsaw therapy. I have a ASV RC-30 with a grapple, and I have a small Mitsubishi tractor I pull a bushog with. I've got many acres aof Oak and Hickory plus others such as Gum and Poplar, even Ironwood. I have a 25 ton splitter, and I set it up in front of my firewood building where I have a 16' long table of plywood top over 55gallon plastic barrels to cut on. I take the blowdown out of the woods to the table (10x20 carport over all of it) with the grapple, and block them up until the table is full of rounds, then roll them onto the splitter beam one at a time. On the opposite side of the splitter is a small table to put splits or re-splits. No mud on the logs, not a bunch of "specific" equipment, just laziness making me more efficent. The tablle and tent stay up year round, the splitter lives in the pole barn, with the skiddybopped and the tractor, the splits get tossed six feet or less and are easy to stack. I cut 16" and 10", for my Atlanta Stove Works #27 Box wwode stove (lives on the deck of the cabin and my wife cooks ALOT of meals on that thing- its tiny but still way to big to put in my cabin for heat, we snuggle with a sleepiong bag and are comrtable). I split everything thats hard and wet or dry- punky stuff is lucky to get to the table, but gets ran off to the brush (garbage) fire pile. I split kindling size with the splitter when I get a nice square out of a round and suffer ridicule, but I'm far too lazy to swing a fiskars camp axe any length of time...... I have a gazillion 25 and 45 gallon nursery tubs I put my stove wood and kindling in, and my wife can handle those with a hand truck to restock the deck/stove.
I'm about to build an addition, or another 8x10 firewood room under roof, beacuse I do have three hickory and a couple of Oaks real close to the cabin blown down in the last year (two) that I want to harvest, and heck, my DIL is up my ass to let her get some saw time. At 110 pounds, she enjoys the 590, and cutting rounds standing at the bucking table is safe. She does get to cut some in the bush, and she has run my 440 magnum, but I prefer she works at the table. If I took pics, yall would call me a perv....... But my own Daughter is only 100 pounds and she can run the Skidder.
And she smells better than some of my other helpers. If you want some wood for your Chimenea, you gotta put some time in at the harvest...... I got a nephew who is pretty needy and yet so stingy with helping, shows up in flip flops, so he doesn't have to help- other than himself, loading up from my supply (I got his ass this year- I have a pair of boots, and long pants and PPE for him, sitting on a shelf, and his Aunty about to telll him where to go in a few days when we get ready to do some therapy, and he tries to weasle out of helping ) ( My wife aint having it anymore)
My advice is to get a simple splitter, get it close, bring the logs to it, if you are doing so much you want to convey splits into towering loose piles, find a hay elevator or something- cheap, and simple, improvise. Spending big bucks on a one trick pony doesn't excite me. I have a huge stack of 5v Crimp Roofing sheet metal I am on a third recycling effort with, to enclose my storage, my drying is way different than yours, I have to keep the rain off of it and off the ground or its punky in no time flat, I see many here who have to leave it in the open and let the wind through it. I can't.
Any device to pick a log off the ground, transport it to the table is going to be a work saver, most i have to do is wrestle the big rounds onto and into the splitter, I aint picking anything off the ground, ever, unless its with my grapple.
I've got them all over down here in East central Florida
I knew they were in warmer/more humid environments, just didn't about Alaska.
I have whatever tires Subaru put on my car. When itās time to replace, it will be whichever brand Costco has on sale that month ( usually Michelin or Bridgestone).
Philbert
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