Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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I've heard it said, in the hallways of Congress there are no aisles.
Lots of big business happens there, they do well for themselves with our money.
Interesting that even the ones who aren't rich when elected pretty much all end up rich before they're done. Even the avowed socialist Bernie is a wealthy man.
 
Dang Huskys :laugh: .
Gotta check that stuff as Steve was saying, lots of vibrations on saws and they can all loose bolts/nuts and have problems in general.
A little blue loctite goes a long way on anything you find is a known problem, if that doesn't work a little red loctite should do.
The biggest problem is people over torque then. They go thru a heading and cooling cycle constantly, snug is good.
 
The biggest problem is people over torque then. They go thru a heading and cooling cycle constantly, snug is good.
I agree, some of it happens right from the factory too.
If I have exhaust bolts backing out before I use loctite I get the engine warm and then tighten them a bit.
I think stihl uses better fasteners than husky, husky has been improving on them.
One I've seen loosen over time or after work being done is the brake handle pivot on the starter side more than the clutch side. On the huskys you can loose/strip the threads in a hurry if you over or under tighten them. I use loctite on them most times.
If I can avoid working on them without loosing money that's the way I try to go, but sometimes its quicker or a better option to just fix something, even though I'd much rather be cutting :chainsaw:.
 
Took down a large dead Ash tree for a friend of mine today, and cut the trunk to rounds. The whole top was rotten, but the bottom was mostly solid.

Tree was leaning the wrong way, so we roped it and made it fall in the preferred direction!

He needed more firewood for this winter, and I get to hunt there!
 

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I'm also in the process of making a new handle for this Cant (says Oshkosh Wis).

I believe my new handle will be more robust than the original, as it is pretty thick, 6' long, and Hop Hornbeam!

Got the metal hardware on today, but still need to sand the rest of it down and thin the top of the handle to allow an easier grip.

The easiest way I found to work with it was to C clamp it to my wood trailer, makes for a good workbench!

A tree company my Niece's Husband works for was throwing it out because of the broken handle.
 

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Took down a large dead Ash tree for a friend of mine today, and cut the trunk to rounds. The whole top was rotten, but the bottom was mostly solid.

Tree was leaning the wrong way, so we roped it and made it fall in the preferred direction!

He needed more firewood for this winter, and I get to hunt there!
That's a great deal, its not always easy to find a good place to hunt and he gets some great wood.
Surprised the top held for you. I've had to walk away from a couple cash removal jobs because they were too far gone, and there were no other trees to climb close enough or room to get a trailer lift in. Bummer when you have one real nice tree in the back yard and it dies, lots of that with the EAB.
 
Our annual farmers fair is this week. One of the activities is the crosscut saw contest. I got to help with it last evening . Perfect weather in the 60's made for a good turnout of participants and spectators. Obligatory sawing by the teenage fair queen and runner up. Female, mixed and men's divisions.
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Finally used up the original chain on the 241. I think I got my money's worth.

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Edit: The pic looks like there is a dramatic difference in the height of the rakers but it looks worse than it is. I noticed about 10 filings ago that I had been taking more off the left side cutters than the right, with the 2-in-1 taking more off the rakers as well. Must have been leaning harder on that side. I started doing filing 3-to-2 right vs left which started to even them up a bit but never got them back to equal. Interestingly it didn't affect the performance of the chain as far as I could tell and it wasn't cutting around corners at all.
 
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