My buddy snagged a 32" roller nose for me at a yard sale. I need to build a couple chains for it yet. With a shorter bar this saw will see some more work. My 42" wouldnt clear some of those drops. Nice to have a long bar when needed.
No. It had red heartwood through the middle of the whole tree, except where it was rotten or hollow. This tree was in declining health and was beginning to drop bigger and bigger branches at random times. It just looks purplish now because it's been sitting in the rain for 3 months. The guy that bought some figured wood off my other tree talked about the red color. I think he said it was just age/poor health. I know he said this tree woulda had some decent $$$ in it for figured wood if the red coloring hadn't set in.
Heres a pic after I cut into it and split some blocks off. You can see the dark color is only near the top where it's been rained on.
Went out back and grabbed a few logs today. We've had a ton of rain so it's really wet. We only grabbed a few. This is my log transportation setup. 2000 Yamaha Big Bear 400 4x4. I built the green log carrier. Saw a few at the Woodsman's Field Day's in Boonville a few years back so I had to make me one. Sure beats dragging logs through dirt and mud. Can buck the logs off the end too! Old Homelite on the left. Left to right, Husky NE 346XP, 365XT and Johnny Red 2258. Hopefully it'll stop raining so much and dry up. We'll be able to get more regularly. NYH1.
Yep that log carrier is very cool. Good job on building it. I like to see things from people who make their own stuff.
A few of them.....Some heavy hitters mixed with a few smaller-mid sized ones - Left to right top row - 797,795,Power Mac 6,1-85 gear drive,CP125,restored stock Super Pro 125C,125C with 101B racing kart engine 2nd row - Super Pro 105,Pro Mac 850,restored 2100 Special,3100G gear drive 3rd row - Super 1050 Automatic,scarce Canadian XL-76 (same size as common XL-101,102,103 etc American models),750,XP1000,XP1020,Poulan Super Micro Deluxe XXV top handle 4th row - Super 1130G gear drive,Super EZ Automatic,2000 Automatic,707G,909G
That is some serious power you have there Thistle. I had one Mac a gear drive but I really never did anything with it so I gave it to Mark Heimannm. I do not have any big Homelites but I would not mind having one someday.
