Loaded truck pics.

This is how the saw came home today.
How it looks now. I can't put a saw up dirty. Chain gets touched up, bar groves blown out, air filter blown out. Pulled the starter cover off this one cause I over filled the oil tank and ended up with grime in there. 2095 is next. It will get the same treatment.

 

Buncha PSP’s up in here.

 

Don't know when I'll use them again. When there used every day I'll just touch the chain up and throw them back in the truck

 

I do all the above plus use mineral spirits with a siphon sprayer to get all the oily residue and oil soaked dust off, then hit it with camp fuel with the same siphon to remove the mineral spirits. Lastly I wipe them down with Amsoil Mudslinger.

I do this if a saw will set longer than a week. If I'm going to use it again the next day or same week, I skip the siphon sprayer / Mudslinger routine and do that at the very end before it gets put up. When I need / want to cut again I usually grab a different saw. I like to rotate them. Once done it gets the same treatment. Now, I have 15-17 saws currently and I only reserve this full treatment for....


which is 5 saws. The rest get a good compressed air bath, chain tuned up, bar cleaned and flipped. Air filter blown off. They might get the siphon sprayer once a year. I've got issues lol.

 

Do they reside in a vacuum? Thats some treatment they get!

 

Lol, not yet....

I'm the guy you want a used saw from if you like them low hours and purdy. huskihl said "you haven't even ran these" when I brought him my two Stihls a couple weeks back. 10 tanks through one, 6 through the udder.

 

It's a curse more than a blessing.

 

I have the OCD curse but it's selective.

 

I got 3 main saws and a few older counter vibes. I need to pick up another 7900/7910 to fill the gap between the 590 and 2095.
You got me beat when it comes to the saw cleaning.

 

I'm not the winner here lol.

My main saws are the soon to be ported ms241, ms201 rear handle, ported echo 2511P. They were purchased new and for my special needs. My other two were used but they flip my switch. One is a Dolmar made Makita DCS 401 wearing a velocity stack with an air filter off a 1/5 scale rc car on it and Kevin ported it too. Last is a ripping little Remington Mighty Mite saw from the early 70's. I have a few of them in various states. I really like running that one. I may even port it myself. I have everything to completely rebuilt one now. All NOS parts. Cylinder, piston ect.

 

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That Dolkita pulling a 16" .325 full chisel in one year seasoned beech.
I've since put it back to 3/8 LP. Cuts faster and smoother with it.

 

Stopped by the green waste site after work today and someone dropped off a truckload of cut ash. It was killed by EAB and appears to have been cut up at least a month because all ends are checking. No rain and hot for a month now.

 

Load of black birch with some red maple from last weekend. Some birch was unloaded prior to pics

 

It was almost 20 degrees cooler today after a morning rain shower....first one in 5 weeks that was more than enough to settle the dust. So my 17 year old boy and I went to load logs that I had squirreled away.

Built some parbuckle ramps to get them up on the car trailer. Biggest log was 26" diameter and 10 ft. Next one was 20" and 8-10 ft. The big one was 3 sections 18" longer. We cut them off to save the fenders. Used 2 chains and my choker chain to get enough length to pull the big log up.

Pictures don't do it justice. The 20" log is in front. The bigger one is on the far side holding up the long log. All oak so I figured the 2 biggest logs were around 2000# and 1000#. A couple more logs were 18"-20" and 8 ft long. We cut them in half and rolled them up the ramps and dove tail ramp to get more weight on the axles.


Big logs in front were ties down and the shorter ones are wedges in fender to fender. I'm guessing 6000# of oak loaded this afternoon. The truck has 10 ply LT tires and airbags...that needed about 15 psi to level the truck out. Only needed to go 8 miles. Boy and I ran out of water.. stupid mistake..and we're paying for it by the end. We stopped and got a couple drinks on the way home.

All the pictures are after 1 rain. Still dry and dusty. We got 2 more rains with a bit of sleep and hail but the potholes are puddles now.

The tractor will be used to unload.

 

Impressive!

 

X2

 

Am Hornbeam, white oak lumber scrap with a cherry on top

 

Another view of the big for a Hornbeam log

 

Any plans for the WO lumber other than firewood? Nice haul!

 

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