IIIMMMM DDDOOOONNNNNEEEEE with another TAX SEASON! Except for a few stragglers.
Now I can return to life!
Now I can return to life!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Ding goes my phone "are you ready for some wood?" 
Here it is dumped right over my fence. I was so happy , I went back and cut two more trees. I better get busy at home or I'll run out of fence line!
nomad_archer
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Holy smokes wood nazi that is awesome.
nomad_archer
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If I find amsoil saber in the pre measured containers locally I will pick some up. I do 40:1 because it is easy to use a 50:1 pre measured container and add .8 gal of gas. Thanks for the oil info guys. Now back to wood.
I need to get reacquainted with the splitter this week after I get my new grape trellis put together. Grapes go in next week!
In the mean time I have NHL playoffs to keep me busy.
Fourced
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A Huge thanks to Brett for talking my ear off for 10 hours and making the tractor trip possible and enjoyable. I love my new Kubota, I just need to find a loader for it.Friday continued:
On the ride home from my kids tutoring I made a call on a possible scrounge that had been sitting on the side of the rd. She said no we are keeping it. She told me someone had stolen the stuff she had cut up last fall. Then she said she is 60yrs old
which are about 24" and I noodled up the flare that was on top for her as well. It ended up filling the trailer just fine for this trip. I split all this that night and had my quad off as well.View attachment 499026The pile under the tarp was meant to be for this yr and next, but I probably only used a cord out of it since it was so warm this yr and I just pulled a lot of dead storm damage out of my woods that went right to the wood stove this yr, no complaints though that pile and a little more will do the next two winters
I needed to get all that off so we could go pick up this guys( @Fourced ) new to him toy and leave early Saturday morning. Look familiar @dancan View attachment 499028
A lot cheaper to buy it by the gallon and pour your own little containers! (save the ones your using, or at least 1/2 dozen of em).
PhilMcWoody
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I hear Brett has a genie and a lamp, so be ready for the loader just in case he rubs that thing and says abracadabra.
well that didn't come out quite right
, but you know what I mean.I am curious how many people do this. I have saved a bunch of those little 2.6 oz containers, but never refilled one! Seems easier to buy new ones on sale, and I was always afraid of leaks!
Philbert
JeffGu
Antagonist/Heckler
I do. I buy oil in larger containers and I use one of the little Stihl bottles to measure it out with. The Stihl bottle has a clear strip on the side with a scale. Works for me, I have little sharpie marks on it to correspond with the various gas cans, weed eater, outboard, chainsaw...
nomad_archer
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@svk do you fill the 2.6oz stihl bottles to the top and mix with a gallon of gas to get about a 42:1 ratio?
I am only asking because I stopped at the hardware story bright and early today and found some amsoil in a qt bottle on the shelf for about $12 which is way more oil than I was getting in the stihl 6 packs. Also that hardware store was putting in a massive massive massive stihl display. I guess they are going to be a stihl dealer now.
I am only asking because I stopped at the hardware story bright and early today and found some amsoil in a qt bottle on the shelf for about $12 which is way more oil than I was getting in the stihl 6 packs. Also that hardware store was putting in a massive massive massive stihl display. I guess they are going to be a stihl dealer now.
Yes. Or just pour three oz out of a bigger bottle.
Otherwise the 2.6 oz to .8 gallon gas is easy to remember too to get 40:1
Been doing this for years. Although I will buy the single and 2.5 gallon mixers as they are on sale.
hardpan
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I have posted these a few times. Real handy for mixing various ratios for different sized gas cans.
Ratio Rite measuring cup. Amazon $6.83
Ratio Rite measuring cup. Amazon $6.83
nomad_archer
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benp
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I have posted these a few times. Real handy for mixing various ratios for different sized gas cans.
Ratio Rite measuring cup. Amazon $6.83
That's how I do it. Hard to beat a ratio rite.
Yeah that will get you real close, if not perfect.
I like the measuring cup thing too but it collects dust so needs to be covered or washed out with gas and tipped over after each use.
I have an older translucent 16 oz bottle with graduated marks that I will use for measuring if I am mixing a larger amount.
Ryan Groat
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I was able to get another great load last night. I'm thinking that there may be only 3 more scrounge loads left before I call it quits for the year. I know not likely, but I will for sure be more selective.
Picture of most of the wood I need to process yet.
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Great tips guys.
I just buy the 2.5 gal bottles(when I buy them) and use most of it in a 2 gallon can, no perfection here. I've never had a problem with a saw unless I ran it at 40:none LOL, I did that to my old 346ne
.Terry told me in a phone conversation(this month) do not run stihl ultra at anything richer than 40:1. He said the saws will have a lot of build up if you do. Even though that is what he recommends 40:1 for most saws, he said this is probably overkill, but it works for him.
I'll get some pictures later of the punishment, but your right, and I suffer greatly as I try hard to continue to do them
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