very nice Bucks guys, and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Got any pics of what your talking about? I'll stiff probably buy or make a grapple bucket at some point, but I'm not against adding something to make the forks handy. Which they are not the greatest for moving logs.
Nice.... Opening day all I saw was bucks, not a single doe or fawn. That may sound great but they were all yearlings and with the antler restrictions only one may have been legal. I say "may" because at first all I could see in the shade of the pines was that it was a 4 pt.... would have been an easy shot with my flintlock. When it crossed the powerlines, in a depression, I could see through my binoculars that there was another small point that may or may not have been an inch. Being in the depression the body was hidden from me. When it got into the pines on the other side, with the naked eye I could barely make the deer out in the shade so there was no shot.
I didn't hunt Sunday as it was very windy and there are so many dead ash, hemlock, cedar, and pines that it was too dangerous to be in those woods. There are literally 100s of thousands of branches ranging from small to huge on the ground and hanging as widow makers. There are also thousands of standing or leaning dead trees. It's difficult to walk through there without stepping on branches and twigs so still hunting is not in the cards. I got a report last night of trees down on the rail trail that runs along the edge of that property... I do tree removal and tree maintenance for the land trust... so my concerns were validated.
I'm 99% sure I won't get to hunt at all this year. I work the 2-10 shift till next week. Then the third were having my inlaws over for Thanksgiving. I pointed this out to my wife and she just shrugged her solders and said it sucks to be me. I'm not much of a late archery guy but I'll have weekends off when that come in... well see how it goes.
Bummer...
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I actually took my camera with me cutting yesterday, so hopefully I'll get a video put together.Gotta see a video of that 566i cutting!!
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I generally don't even mill anymore with the 066, the 880 does that...I will use the 066 with the edging mill if I'm making lumber. That beats swapping having to swap milling attachments.62", I normally run it on my 660 fir milling table tops out of big Burrells. Its a slow go and hard on the head. The chains gotta be just right! The last one I milled was 52" across. I couldn't find a double ended 60". Not even used on eBay!
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1/4" is good on the 2511, I'm running narrow kerf 3/8"lp on mine. I went with the narrow-kerf pretty much because non-safety 1/4 chain seemed impossible to find earlier this year. I like the bar/chain I got...it's a lightweight 16" laminate bar that weighs less than the stock 12" set up.
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BTW, I hope everyone here has a special Thanksgiving.
Right back at ya !!
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Why not? As you can see Im running a 62"inch on mine! Its great for that hard to reach over the head pruning! No ladder necessary!But it has a turbo in it , of course 28” no problems lol
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I normally run twin 660's on a 44" double end. That set up is much faster than a single 880, but Ive been having trouble finding a double ended 60".
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Posted a couple short video clips last night on the "Felling Pics" thread.
Not firewood, but we scrounged this pile of cedar the other day....
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Beautiful! I hope your going to mill it!
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Also, as often as I need 60" felling bar. I cant justify spending $500 on a big block mount 60" fir my 880. That 62" paid for itself off the first burrel table top I milled with it. I sure could use a double ended 60" though!
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Yep, any of the bars for large mount Stihl bars are pricey...especially considering the 880 will go months without use. I pretty much only mill and low-stump large trees with it. Anything else, there isn't too much the 566 or the 066 won't do.Also, as often as I need 60" felling bar. I cant justify spending $500 on a big block mount 60" fir my 880. That 62" paid for itself off the first burrel table top I milled with it. I sure could use a double ended 60" though!
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Yeah, I really don't like felling around houses with people watching, but thats how it aIl ways seems to go. Even when I tell them to watch from a safe distance if they are going to watch.
I mean this guy shows up with these big a** saws wareing suspenders carrying an axe and has wedges in his back pockets and they think. "Wow! This guy must really know what hes doing". They don't realize that no matter how easy the cutter sees it and how it couldn't be any more of a prefect senerio . That anything can happen. Then if something does go wrong? The customer puts the word out that your a no good son of a gun, and gives you a bad rap! I haven't had any residential mishaps yet. Knock on wood! I'm hoping to keep it that way.However, s**t dose happen! In my humble opinion, nothing is guaranteed when felling trees!
I lucked out on one Black Locust clearance. Old house out in the country and I had permission to bounce trees off the house if need be. I did lodge a couple of them up against it but no damace other than a scruffed shingle edges on the eves. I've been at this sin early 1980s...as well as a kid on the farm way back when. Still have no clue on felling a tree against its lean. Most times it doesn't matter.
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I agree.
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As far as felling a tree against its lean? IMOP, I would say it all depends on how heavy the lean and type of timber. Lots of good books and videos out there on basic felling fundamentals. However, also IMOP, nothing is better than hands on experience with a good highly experienced cutter as a teacher. That's on a green cutters hip training and breaking him/her in!
