Man I'm speechless.You definitely deserve that wood.You earned it.Will your stove take those splits as is or what ?
Heck of a lot of wood!! Next updates will be when I split it. Like mentioned earlier, I’m guessing 3.5-4 cords.
Yes sir! I'm a special kinda sore this morning. I'm going to take a break from it for a while after this one. I'd love to know a total wet wood weight, it has to be well over 20,000 for that entire tree. @50" for 22', an online calculator says 19k just for the big end.
Lol! Yesterday I rolled over a 3/4 rotten branch and there was a garder snake. I picked him up and was going to take a pic, but he got all grumpy and was biting my glove then started peeing all over so before it got on me, I let him slither away. I hate the smell of it.
Do your truck tires, Goodyear Wrangler, get squishy sidewalls with a full load? I'm running Hancook Dynapros on my Tacoma. I'm definitely getting some squish over 1500lbs.
This set is squishy for sure. I’ve had about 2-3 sets prior and they were “E” rated. Very stiff and not much flex at all w/ 70lbs in them.
Great pictures!! and that's a good lookin saw/ tundra, and wood you've got there! Is that about a 2000 yr mod Tundra? I've got its twin,right down to the exterior color and the upholstery color, its a 2000 but the sr5 model.Sure have hauled a lot of wood with it, just over 39,000 miles on it now. When i bought it, i told my wife this is the last pickup i'll ever buy, so far, so good.
Wow, that’s pretty good. Mine is an ‘03 with 188K on it. I can’t even begin to imagine the total weight this truck has hauled for me. It’s been crazy reliable too (knock on wood). Only thing I’ve really done to it is timing belt, water pump, front brake calipers and rotors, eight coil packs and plugs.
Wow, that’s a lotta tree, lotta wood, lotta work. Great sense of accomplishment,,,,maybe a little nostalgia knowing your burning wood with that much history,,and relief your done or close to it. Gotta ask. Did you ever consider noodling horizontal while the wood is on the stick too? The blocks would all be done as you buck them off. Something that large you could even stop the saw before getting all the way through and carry the top blocks to the truck. Not lift them all the way up from the ground.
My better half snapped a pic in the process. So to anyone that does a lot of noodling probably realizes, it’s easier when the tip is not buried. When the clutch cover becomes clogged, the noodles proceed to fly forward off the tip. If it is buried and there is no ground clearance, you have to clear out the saw and the pile frequently. Doing the full length 42” noodle cut is work. Saw is belching full throttle fumes right into the flat log and doesn’t disperse great plus it does require effort to keep the saw loaded and cutting. Getting to the bottom is the deal breaker though. I'd not risk hitting dirt if the log is down in the ground a little. If it's up off the ground, I'll typically do it that way. The previous monster I got you can see my vertical cuts but there really isn't an easy way to noodle horizontal to make a row of blocks that could be carried off the log. They wood also need wedged up so as not to pinch the chain.
Great pic. Gives a much better idea of how big that saw and bar is with you using it. Much better sense of scale. Any behemoth logs in your noodling future?
Hate to disagree but I’ve done it quite a bit. My spine has told me easier is always better Though I wouldn’t noodle with a 42” bar. 18” would be preferable. Need two saws for that monster. You can even noodle cross sections ona 45 degree if you want. Limits the amount of ground hugging noodle clogging action. One of the reasons I started noodling horizontally was to avoid ground contact and Piles of noodles on the bottom. All the chunks are held by the log until you crosscut. Then they just drop down the width of the kerf. No binding. Your right about burying the tip. On a smaller bar it’s not hard to hold the dogs a little off the face. A couple inches of clearance stops the clogging associated with the tip being buried.
Nope. I’m all but out of staging room. But if a nice straight oak log became available, I would have a very hard time passing it by, LOL. If I had a shorter bar it would be a different story. But with a heavy rig, gravity is your friend. I’ve done 45s making Swedish torches on the stick. It all comes down to personal preference, do what works for you.
Thanks for the info. Will your next set be similar to what have now or will you go back to "E" rated tires? I only put 4,000 miles on a year so my tires need replacement from dry rot before I get to an unsafe tread level. Some deal with the frame. My truck will rust out long before my the engine gives up. 12 year old truck with 66K miles.
I found a set of 5, 4 had just a couple thousand miles on them and the 5th never mounted. Friend of a friend sold them to me for $500 so I couldn’t pass up the deal. If I had my choice, definitely the “E” rated for hauling wood.
