Been a while sense I have been on here, been way to busy and way to hot for me to do any fire wood. I did have to brake out the big saw the other day to cut some brush, with supervision of course. Okay, so maybe it a wild thing and not a big saw but it was a chainsaw nun the less! Then we went to one of the misses friends the other day and they had something for sale at the end of there driveway... So we left that night and I couldn't take it so I messaged them the next day and we made a deal, I just turned 30 this month going on 80, so I'm getting old and figured I needed to buy my self a gift. I went last night and picked it up. It's ran off a tractor pto right now, he did have it set up for a gas engine but put the pro back on before he sold it, I will most likely be putting a engine back on it. Hydro pump and cylinder was rebuilt last year. Got it for $200 bucks
It's very heavy built, I actually just got off the phone with the guy that owned it before, he said they had a 5 hp on it and it wasn't enough he was thinking it needs a 10hp, but the guy that set it up for him has a 10hp Wisconsin engine for sale for $50 bucks and he is going to send me measurements of the pulleys he used. So for about $100 bucks more I may have it all set up with a gas motor!
Excellent purchase, I'd say. A guy doesn't get much for $200 these days, and you got a lot of "easier work". Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
The predator for $100 is 6.5 hp, and may be under rated. I put one on to replace the old a$$ Briggs 5hp, and the predator ( chonda) was a serious upgrade.
I’m still trying to figure out the thread title... “...+ getting old”... At 48, and a mere 30 years younger than Backwoods Savage, I feel old- and the chronic lower back issues I have justifies part of this.
I hear ya on the back pain, I have not been nice to my body sense a young age. My back goes out a few times a year, seems to be a time or two more every year, I'm thinking I tore more of my rotator cuff this year, was very painfully for a few days, it use to pop if I rotated my arm, now it grinds and pops, along with my bad carpel tunnel. But I don't let it slow me down as much as I can. 65plus hours a week at work and then everything at home, keeps me limber
Young whipper snapper... My body has been badly giving out on me the past several years. Seems pushing 80 is very hard work...
Careful with that beast! Great brush saw however. Good luck getting the splitter assembled. They are a lifesaver even though I still like to swing the X27 now and then!
A log lift and a tray for the splits to slide to a destination and that splitter will really be a back saver. Good job on rescuing it from going to the scrap yard.
This thread has me thinking.Will the art of wood hoarding be dead after this generation of hoarders past on.Many of us are aging out.Where are the young ones to replace us.Are we the last of the Mohegans.
It does make a nice brush saw. It's actually the miss rednecks saw, she wanted one mostly as it's green and purple lol. And I was cleaning up 2 tin garden sheds on a place for scrap and I found it in the one shed, asked how much for it was told a 12 pack of Dr, pepper and it was mine. She has never used it yet but I take it out a few times a year and use it for miscellaneous projects.
I often wonder that too Rich L. Here’s a great example. At work, we CONSTANTLY run 911 calls on “smoke in the area.” We will weave a million dollars worth of fire engine and equipment through a neighborhood until we find the source. 98% of the time we will find a peaceful little wisp of smoke coming from someone’s chimney. I always tell people, a well kept fire used to be a way of life. Now it’s an emergency Granted - I work in the city. Where I live in the mountains, most people still burn in wood stoves. The younger generation in the hills though, doesn’t burn. They’d rather pay the gas and propane companies to heat their houses, even with all this free heat around them, that literally grows on trees!! Sorry for the rant Redneckchevy! And nice grab! That splitter is a beast!
I remember thinking that back in the late 50's and early 60's. So many were putting in oil furnaces so they didn't have to do all that labor of putting up wood. Of course I am talking about rural people and mostly farmers. I also remember so many talking they could heat their homes for less than a dollar a day. #2 oil was $.10 per gallon at that time... Then came the 70's when the prices went soaring and it was amazing how many folks put wood burning stoves in to save dollars. But also so many women hollered about the mess... For many it was short lived with wood burning. Will it happen again and again? I have noticed over the years that more and more have gone to pellets, mainly due to the fact of less labor and equipment and also this ridiculous idea that wood piles are a terrible sight and rats and snakes and bees, etc, etc. So keep complaining about cost... What are you willing to do and/or put up with to keep comfortable in your home during the winter months? As for me/ I want to be able to relax in my home without having to dress for the outdoors...unless I'm going outdoors. I also want a warm bathroom for when I am taking a shower.
They're (splitter) a time saver unless you have some of that wood that splits just giving it a cross look. You don't have to be old to own one, just wiser and willing to possess one more thing that needs looking after. Nothing wrong with a simpler life either. Too many of the young 'uns don't want to live off the land living in the land of gov't handouts. There are a few though. I hope the ones monetizing their alternate living style(s) on youtube are a representative sample of a much larger group that are interested in more than the monetizing. .
