A neighbor saw us go by with the tractor a few weeks ago, he called and wanted to know if we could clean up a dead, rotten elm trunk that had fallen in their yard. Sure we can. Since they are both school teachers, spring break this week was the best time to "Git'ter done". Had the dump trailer almost full from the elm tree. They had a nice tulip poplar that lightning hit probably 2 years ago. It blew the top out, split the trunk. He had wanted it down too. Had just enough room on the neighbor's property for a drop zone, since the fence was still down... The MS461, 28" bar got the call for felling... It was a nice size stem. Bobby weighs 305 lbs. I bucked 2 logs with the MS461 Square ground chain still throwing nice chips and chunks Of course, the new XS4910 wanted some attention too. Boy, does that saw love to eat some wood...can't enough to huskihl for the job he did on it. Kubota had a grapple full, but handled it fine... Got it all on the trailer, we didn't save any of it. Then he helped us by welding some bump stops on the loader arms. The QA stops didn't meet the original stops on the arms. Now the cylinder rods dont hit the arms...
Another big one knocked down by you , apparently they were wrong when they say size matters. In your case size makes no difference. Nice job.
You never cease to amaze me with your hard work ethic and your willingness to help others my friend. You're a good man!
If it's bigger than the 32" bar can drop, the tractor can't pick it up...lol... Thanks for the encouragement.
Size of that Poplar would have milled up nice. Even with a split in it. I built my house with the junk logs on the property here. With a small mill and a non production goal you can get a lot of good material out of lessor quality logs. Good day of work you had.
And sometimes, you're on the receiving end of blessings. We have a good friend that we have been doing yard work and odd jobs for several years, they pay us. Well yesterday, we were there cutting the grass on the ditch banks, trimmed some limbs and cut a couple dead dogwoods... He told me he had put something on our trailer... Even had a nice goodie inside... I don't think he cut very much with it... 50cc, 20" .050 bar, 3/8 chain He said he hadn't cranked it in at least 4 yrs. He said with the meds he takes, if he got cut, he would leak really bad... Put in some fresh mix, a few pulls and a few false starts... Seems to run pretty good. I'll try it in some wood later today. This is the same friends that gave us the Husky 55 a couple yrs ago that was his FIL... Thank GOD for HIS many blessings.
Always nice to be recognized for ones efforts. You gonna get some xtra sausage in it? How about it huskihl you ever port a Craftsman saw?
Those aren't terrible, for what they are. I still have several (that I haven't used for a bit now) over the years they've cut a metric chit ton of wood for me, for very little $ invested. I bought them all used for low money...most of them supposedly had something wrong with them...some were user error issues, some a very quick/easy repair. (one was "locked up"...by the chain brake! I had a hunch that was what was wrong with it, so I asked the guy if he looked at it, might be something simple...he said nope, just wanna sell it...ok then buddy! )
Good on you Jeff. HelpinG out the neighbor and got some stops welded on. Your new splitter should speed up production.
My fingers get in the way sometimes too. But your fingers sure know what to do with a saw engine, for sure...
