Interesting two days! And its good to see Joe is doing just fine...statistics? What are the chances.
First thanks to Chainsawwhisperer & motomedic for doing the grunt work Saturday to get those trees on the ground and up to the camp site in the hay fields! I could not have accomplished all that in one day myself! AND after the monsoon rain had soaked us thru and thru Chainsaw built the right kind of fire & food to warm us back to life. Thanks again!
Sunday was a busy day..spent time warming saws up at the camp site, most had a chance to run saws and/or INFORMALLY race saws (Homie 925 vs. Mac 850....basically a draw, Homie 925 is prettier & the Mac had the rpm edge!)
Jason got a chance to try out his Jason Engineered & Fabricated mill...pics show the results.
I got a chance to run this big Solo (Spikes) that sounds like a 125 crosser from the 1970's! I got a real kick (the good kind) out of that thing, Thanks Spike for the education!
Off to the woods & project number one: A maple with health issues.
After a 1/4 mile walk (or ride) east across the field and thru the woods, we got to a Maple that had a furture in the firewood business...Westspartan & woodchucker dropped it perfectly in the only place it could be worked on...and then we discovered we had disturbed a honey bee nest..they swarmed and gathered on a tree to find another place to bee...while they were doing that, the crew demolished that tree in a few minutes. Now I have a pile of firewood right there in the woods to split next year!
That just wet the crew's appetite..for bigger wood. Off to another place a 1/8 mile south of that maple to tackle a rather large ash that also had a fire wood future..the picture tell that story with the exception of all the "de-stressing" required to get it safely on the ground. A good couple of hours afternoon project. Yet again the crew demolished it as if they had done that type of thing before, and this was a substantial tree...and picture were taken and I will forever have to see my sloppy tree work! BUT even thought it was ugly & messy, I got that 10-15 degree shift from its desired fall line to get it to fall along the trail and in a cleared work area instead of over the bank into the prickers.
Then back up the hill, across the hay fields back to the camp site..more food and saw jawing & beginning to clean & pack up. Some saw swapping & trading happened...good food..Willsaw finally arrived as he had a busy day in process, I'm sorry he missed all the woods work; he was just beginning to show his nice running 038 at the camp area in the field when his day turned nasty. Woodchucker told the rest of that story.
Highlights for me?
Chainsawwhisperer's cooking and camp knowledge in general.
Woodchuckers pics & patience
Westspartan's awesome 441
How well the group blended to a crew and tackled those tree's; Everyone from JS and his Dolmar 5100s to Spike & his hotrod 350.
Spike's old Solo
The horsepower award has to be split three ways..Spike with that Solo, Bloodontheice & that monster Husqvarna, J.Walker with those hotrod Huskys! I do believe J.Walker had the most actual cut distance in the wood on the day, you know the SPEED thing.
I think the slickest saw award has to be split three ways..Spikes 576, Westspartans 441, and Woodchuckers 7900.
Best back yard engineering? moto's mill...it worked quite well.
Best old saws..another threeway...that Remington (chainsawwhisperer's?), MY Homie 925, Spikes Solo.
And it was good Seeing willsaw back to normal after his ordeal sunday & again today.
