Moving on to Ash

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Looks like you had a lot of fun. I played with my 084 some today. Once I feel it's broken in good enough I'll get back to milling. I need to do some more cross cutting but all I have are saw logs. I even offered to cut firewood for a friend for free but we got rained out.

Are you using the bars you converted to 3/8" here?

 

[hautions11]

converting bars

Yes Aggie,

I have a 25" and a 32" bar that I converted from 404 to 3/8. They seam to work really well. I took sandard Stihl RM chain and ground it to 10 degrees, similar to bailey's. I would like to try some more exotic grinds in the future. I like the looks of the Granberg grind, haven't tried one yet. Since these logs are at my house, they offer a little more opportunity for playing with different chain types.

 

[hautions11]

Logs

Here are the logs I saved from the ash tree. Unfortunatly the bottom 8' had the entire center section rotted out. There was a hole in the side of the trunk and 6' of the 8 was bad. I still have plenty as the logs should yield 250 Bd Ft of nice lumber.

Here is the rundown:

A nice 18" stright piece with no limbs.

28" very straight and only a little taper

This section had two huge limbs coming off of it and it may have some interesting figure,

This nice littel 4" section will probably end up as a few bat blanks for Rusty Tools. It is rotten on one end, but should produce a few 3 X 3 blanks.

I hope to make a little sawdust this week-end! It sounds like across the board there are going to be a lot of mills running!

 

[Adkpk]

That should come out real good. Real nice looking logs.

 

[bookerdog]

nice

those are some nice logs