Looks good, sure it sounds, those things are very loud, but they do bump the power a good bit.
Egan for the win
When you need to scrounge firewood in a hurry, lol.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Egan for the win
When you need to scrounge firewood in a hurry, lol.
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Bike tires are deceitful - they're so easy, they fool you into thinking you can do the same with pickup tires. Uh... no...
buckets 1 and 2, ez scrounge... some oak, some pecan. campwood. day before and yesterday...an honest firewood scrounge post!!!
the storm blew thru hard enuff around my place to drop some good, ez pickins campwood. and i helped neighbor finally cut up some pecan that we talked about last summer. small limb. widow maker potential, though. back yard. so far a good 10 cu ft of stix. hr's work or so. all within 150', well one 250. all in all within easy walking distance 1/2 cord, maybe bit more....and made contact with another neighbor who dropped some nice oak. and has a load or two of no-need-to- split campwood. i like fireplace-ready stix... saw and rackin' only....
that and a cold
2 more to go...
had buttoned up my LR fireplace... but last nite unbuttoned it. enjoyed some recorded shows in rocker... burning some of the storm dropped scrounge...
a Lumberjack's Motto:
'no wood, no fire!'
Truck wasn't picked up yesterday "I forgot, I'll get it today for sure".
So I made today the opening day of cutting using the car. Out to the willow bush, Fell a smallsize (20" DBH), brushed and piled same. Left log ready to buck and haul. I didn't want to leave abunch of nice will rounds righ next to the road. If somone wants to steal wood, let them do at least a little work for it. 2.5-3 hours and very tired but feelign good. 3 hours was about my best time last year so I guess I kept most of my 'fitness'.
If they don't pick up the truck this afternoon, I'll put the charger on it, it off tomorrow morning and they will bring it home.
I don't like openings in the front of the muffler. Saws need some back pressure. IMO, opening up the side holes is much more productive and a lot less noisy!
He said they're loud lol.
I like loud exhausts, but a certain pitch is pleasant, while others not so much.
We have had a foreign student from Sweden staying with us. Last week, spring break, her parents visited and stayed a couple nights with us. Her dad, besides being a hunter, cuts his own wood. A fellow scrounger! He was very interested in my operation, especially my splitter. Its a gas powered 25 ton that came from tractor supply. He had never seen a splitter with a gas engine on it. Said the biggest he's seen is 12 tons electric. I was really surprised that a country where forestry is huge doesn't have these, at least as far as he's seen. Maybe all their wood is straight grain and easy splitting....
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Very few know there’s more than one type, my 64 International had split ring wheels originally too.
Thanks for partially answering my question.
Lodgepole is popular here too.
you want lats/longs... map... or just the zip?
None of the above. On your place? National Forest?
Just read eleven pages to catch up. Welcome back Steve. Someone said you were carpet shopping, what color carpet did you go with?
Snow and wind today. Apparently there was a bit of rain overnight too. Heading to southern MN to get my new dog tomorrow barring anything unforseen.
I should watch a UTube video on whiskey barrels again. Been a long time ago. Maybe some trigger trippin will jumpstart a few more memories. There is something in the back of the mind of me wanting out about "Quarter splits and 32" long or ? .. You could split a Bolt or round to eliminate a knot or defect. Maybe "bolt" is the term used for a quarter split. As I said earlier I was always at the sawmill (yard) and this was heard through conversations and I never had any hands on learning. I do Know they required a fairly large Chunk of wood to utilize the quarter sawn grain in the staves. You got better pay or it was required to be split as that let the wood dry more uniformly from the heart out.
Split some of the oak I scrounged last spring still nice and wet . Have two more piles of rounds to go . Using the X27 so much easier and faster than bringing the splitter over and lifting each log not sure till I stack it but i was working it for 4 hours 
That’s some good exercise, I use that same fiskers or my plumb doublebit for everything. I keep saying I’m gonna get a hydraulic splitter but until I can’t keep up I’m going the old fashioned way. Nice work and wood.
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What do you think caused these lines? I borrowed this pic from "Arbtalk" in the UK.
I like to mix up the routine. Oak by hand and the hickory some of the oak will go on the splitter if it dont bust after 4hits it goes to the side
