Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[sean donato]

A question for you guys. Is this too much hook?
View attachment 1035568It is not binding, the saw pulls it even with the rakers close to .040”, the problem is that it dulls quickly and then I hear my saw hitting a rev limiter while not self feeding into the wood as I am used to.
For clarification I am using the MS400 for felling, bucking hardwood sometimes dead dry hardwood. Maybe semi chisel is the answer but I like full chisel RS chain.

Looks pretty close to how I sharpen my chains. Dirty wood is dirty wood. Doesn't matter is you have rm or not. Slow is slow, then it's time to hit them with the file.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Told ya I didn't want you guys laughing and pointing at the newbie!

 

[Sawdust Man]

I used to cut with my uncle. He loved those piles because you could get a whole load in one place, I didn’t like them because they were dangerous to climb on and would ruin chains.

Yup, the whole dang thing is all tangled and bound up......got the saw stuck pretty well cutting one of the stumps off.....
There's prolly 10 cords worth of nice oak ash and hickory in there but, it's a horrible slimy hillside with no level place to get off the highway...had to load what we got right in the road.

May go back sometime when the mud's frozen and try to get a couple more loads.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Yup, the whole dang thing is all tangled and bound up......got the saw stuck pretty well cutting one of the stumps off.....

Sometimes we would pull logs out of the pile, then cut them.

 

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[Sawdust Man]

Sometimes we would pull logs out of the pile, then cut them.

Yes, I would do it that way if my tractor was bigger......but there was no way it was moving these things.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Throw some rocks and clay on the logs for good measure.......
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I’ll use a wire brush on stuff like this if I have one. I have one kinda like this, but not as big. This size might be better.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Anyone familiar with the 2013 Kubota MX5100?

 

[Sawdust Man]

Nope.
I think the M series are a step up from the L series...more heavy duty, and more $ when new anyways....

 

[sean donato]

Anyone familiar with the 2013 Kubota MX5100?

It's an inbetweener sized tractor. Bigger then an L series smaller then a M series. Never ran one personally ran plenty of L and M series.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I’ll use a wire brush on stuff like this if I have one. I have one kinda like this, but not as big. This size might be better.

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Yep, that works pretty well.
On that log, I had already sawed some barbed wire with the chain.... so I just went for broke!
I did bore through from the cleaner side, then under bucked so I wasn't dragging rocks n mud through the cut.

 

[Cowboy254]

I’ll use a wire brush on stuff like this if I have one. I have one kinda like this, but not as big. This size might be better.

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I normally just chip off the bark and dirt where I'm going to make a cut with the fiskars.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

I'm looking fir something that can pick up at least a 1 ton log. Any suggestions?

 

[mountainguyed67]

I normally just chip off the bark and dirt where I'm going to make a cut with the fiskars.

I was working on oak already minus the bark, and caked with dirt.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Seems to good to be true if you ask me? Something suspicious about that price tag!

 

[mountainguyed67]

What model tractor is it, and how much would it be new?

 

[sean donato]

I'm looking fir something that can pick up at least a 1 ton log. Any suggestions?

Specs claim it will pick up enough, but I'll tell you near max capacity they arnt fun to run.
https://tractortechspecs.com/kubota_la844_loader.html

 

[Kodiak Kid]

What model tractor is it, and how much would it be new?

I don't know what new price is, but a friend of mine just bought a used MX5200 with about the same amount of hours in excellent condition and he paid almost twice that. He said there wasn't even a MX5100 on his different models spec sheet.

 

[Brufab]

Seems to good to be true if you ask me? Something suspicious about that price tag! View attachment 1035633

@chipper1

 

[Brufab]

Probably need wheel weights for 2000# log