Another CL Score

[Circle B MN]

Posted a want ad last week after the storm for downed trees, etc. Got the normal amount of CL silliness, but out of it all I got this gem.

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It measured 39 feet long and 36 inches at the base. The owner had already cleared away the top and brush. I took the 088 and 660 over there yesterday and blocked it up. That stuff sure is heavy when it's green. After a whole lot of noodling, I put as much on the truck as I thought she'd safely carry, and headed home. Looks like I'll have two more trips to get it all done.

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[redoakneck]

Bummer that it is so close to the driveway and not down a hill far away:hmm3grin2orange:

I know you like thick brush and weeds to work in and usually have to carry logs up a mile long hill, was that no good for milling??? What kind of tree is that?

 

[goosegunner]

Black oak?

gg

 

[Circle B MN]

Bummer that it is so close to the driveway and not down a hill far away:hmm3grin2orange:

I know you like thick brush and weeds to work in and usually have to carry logs up a mile long hill, was that no good for milling??? What kind of tree is that?

Yes, I was lucky that I could back the truck right up to it, else I may have had to pass. Surprising how people want you to move something like that for free, and not disturb a blade of grass on the lawn. I do believe that to be a red oak. Very commom in these parts. The thought of milling it or perhaps selling it as a saw log had crossed my mind, but I'm not sure how I would have moved it off the lawn without making one heckuva mess.

 

[STLfirewood]

Milling could have worked on site. Hauling the log to a mill would have cost more then it was worth. You got the most value out of that tree turning it into firewood. How do you like the 88 over the 66. I sold my MS880 this year. I bought a brand new MS660 to replace my older 066. I cut a 50" Ash with it last week. It was the first time I had used the 660 with a 36" bar. My 880 pulled the 36'' very easy but the 660 did a fine job. I did have skip chain on it. Nice work and nice saws.

Scott

 

[redoakneck]

Redoak!!! I heated my house with some redoak last year, only the tree was only 28" diameter. I could split 1 round into about 40 firewood pieces and that would last about a day.



Nice haul, that stuff burns nice, takes a year or more to season if it is green.

 

[zogger]

Perfect

That's about number two in perfect scores. The only way better is a tree service block it up for you and dump it in your driveway for free.

 

[Circle B MN]

Milling could have worked on site. Hauling the log to a mill would have cost more then it was worth. You got the most value out of that tree turning it into firewood. How do you like the 88 over the 66. I sold my MS880 this year. I bought a brand new MS660 to replace my older 066. I cut a 50" Ash with it last week. It was the first time I had used the 660 with a 36" bar. My 880 pulled the 36'' very easy but the 660 did a fine job. I did have skip chain on it. Nice work and nice saws.

Scott

I got a pretty darn good deal on the 088, and I had to try it. It does pull the 36 with authority, but it weighs in at 42 lbs with the bar. The 660 feels feather-lite after running the 088 for a while. Having run 32's on the 660, I believe it holds it's own. Cuts everything I ask it to. It's not that often that I get wood bigger than 36". When I do, the 088 is a nice tool to have, but if somebody made me an offer on it, I would let it go...

 

[zogger]

42 lbs

I got a pretty darn good deal on the 088, and I had to try it. It does pull the 36 with authority, but it weighs in at 42 lbs with the bar. The 660 feels feather-lite after running the 088 for a while. Having run 32's on the 660, I believe it holds it's own. Cuts everything I ask it to. It's not that often that I get wood bigger than 36". When I do, the 088 is a nice tool to have, but if somebody made me an offer on it, I would let it go...

dang, that is beefy! I bet I could go all the way up to and including *one* cut with that bad boy! HAHAHAHA! I'd try it though! I picked up a husky 3120 in town at the shop with some whopper PNW bar on it, like five feet long or something, huge to me, (that's where it was going after being serviced, I asked), but I don't think it weighed that much. Still pretty heavy for me though.

I keep wanting a bigger saw, but if that is what they weigh...what comes in around say maybe 25-30 lbs? That's probably my limit of what I could use to be realistic with my scrawny neogeezer self. My echo I think weighs 14? lbs then the bar, that's OK, I could go a little more. Not THREE times that though! What should I look for? The echo is 60 CCs, 20 inch bar, I want a large enougy difference in power to make the extra weight worthwhile, to work larger tree trunks, but it can't be ridiculous, that's why I don't even consider any of them old cast iron collector saws.

Three saw plan, got a 36cc husky, eventually get my 60 cc echo running again, then??? 90CCs too much, too heavy, look for something 80? 70 doesn't seem worthwhile enough for a whole nuther saw, but maybe...

old engineering maxim, a variant - "light, powerful, cheap...pick two"

 

[woodbooga]

Wow. The CL stuff I scout are all hangups etc. That's as buck-ready as you get without a grapple drop.

Good for you!

 

[Circle B MN]

Wow. The CL stuff I scout are all hangups etc. That's as buck-ready as you get without a grapple drop.

Good for you!

You would not believe the silliness that I have seen in person from CL ads. I try to screen them as best I can on the phone, and have even asked for a pic via email. Anything to keep from driving to somebodies house and finding a dead river birch clump.

 

[kodiak]

Nice score indeed. I'd gladly trade you three of my silver maples for one of those oaks!!

old engineering maxim, a variant - "light, powerful, cheap...pick two"

In our office it goes "low cost, high quality, short lead time... pick two"