Well i put my "new to me" saw to it first use today. Dead hickory score i procured last fall. Victim of May 2018 tornado here. Gave the lady a call and spent nearly three hours clearing, cutting, halfing and loading. Tree had been badly overgrown with weeds, vines, prickers etc. Looked at it early last Fall and i told her in the Winter when they were dormant. Some of the bark loosened up. No punk. Couldnt wait to use the 028. Havent cut with one in nearly 30 years. Great saw, didnt flinch. New chain came with it. Always fun cutting with a new chain. First couple pics before i started. Trunk section still to cut. Need longer bar on 460 to finish up. Probably couldve cut it with 028 but not enough room on truck anyhow. I didnt want to overload it! Good "buZZsaw" load. 460 along for the ride! My friend gets the hickory. One bay in his shed waiting for it. Holds about two face cords. (Left bay full of Norway maple i processed for him last June) Processed about half of it. Easy splitting fresh cut with Isocore and X27. Even the gnarlies not too bad. Ill split this when i bring the rest of the trunk.
Wow, very nice post buZZsaw BRAD .. lots of eye candy and that load in the pickup looks so freakin beautiful!! It should come with a sign... "Warning- Highly combustible load keep back 100ft"
I like that. Where can i get an oversized magnetic bumper sticker of that? How are you faring in these tough times Urban Woods ? Been working on firewood?
i was too. Most of the rootballed blow overs from that storm stayed alive that Summer then died the following from whet ive seen. This one was mostly off the ground and maybe half the bark came off. Hickory bark is some TOUGH stuff!
SHORT ANSWER: A little Yard work, but not out hunting.... thanks for asking! LONG ANSWER: I'm admittedly a little burnt out from getting adjusted to all the remote classroom teaching processes. I could use a little BuZZsaw BRAD energy right about now haha. The constant data surveys and directives requests from the Board of Ed along with dealing with every students questions and issues one on one by email and document sharing is very time consuming and tedious..... Especially since I haven't had enough experience to develop a quicker more organized system. Habits from 30 years of classroom teaching are hard to break and adjust to virtual classrooms. As far as Board of Ed administration I think they are trying hard and overall I appreciate their efforts, but the system is not all there yet. The good news is it's getting there little by little as student issues with online access are being addressed and they're starting to spark up and hand in the work. One issue that was not accounted for when we went remote was that many students don't have computers at home, and doing classwork using a cell phone is damm near impossible. They are now working to get them lap tops and hot spots which helped. I always say Priorities priorities. They all have $500 to $1000 phones to text, send memes, play with silly picture and game apps often distracting them in school, but they never thought to purchase even a basic $100 Chrome book to help them with school work??? Sorry, you got more there than you asked for, but just trying to give you an idea of whats going on with education as I'm sure your area is experiencing the same challenges. Anyway, It's still very weird around here and as you know getting more restricted everywhere. If the weather wasn't so dank and drab today after work I was planning on visiting a secluded location behind some industrial buildings. They back right up into almost defunct freight tracks. I saw a while back they did some track clearing cutting away some small stuff which has been lying there for years next to tracks. (5"to 10" diameter stuff) It will take parking the car and then toting my shopping cart and cordless chainsaw a bit down the tracks. I would be pretty invisible. Maybe its tomorrows weekend fun if weather permits
Id be burnt out from that too. You have my permission to go hoarding! Find a nice secluded woods and enjoy the sounds of nature. Want lots of pics though.
Will do buZZsaw BRAD... If I remember correctly there was some black locust there. I will take pictures for ya'll to drool over so don't look at them while wearing a mask
Hit the score today and bucked the rest of the spar. 28" bar on the 460. Quartered with the Isocore and noodled a couple to load. Had to move some concrete chunks to buck the last round. Thought i was being extra careful but managed to hit it. Brought it to my friends and finished SS. Mound of noodled logs in front didnt fit. Maybe 80-90% of a cord.
Gorgeous big wood Brad! One thing I rarely see around my parts is hickory. When I do It always seems to be in dense growth woods where it grows smaller and much thinner than the other hardwood trees which seem to out thrive it in a race to the canopy. Looks like it splits pretty easy. I hate when that happens- hitting rock bottom! I've done that too, clearing the mine field only to bulls-eye a lone stone. Murphy's law, and it seems to instantly turn your chain into a buffing tool. luckily a couple passes with the file and good as new!
