There's still so much dead ash here that I can process it and it will be ready for the next year no issues. Now when I get longer to season wood, then I process it and usually let it sit outside for 9 months to a year before getting it in the shed.
Sounds like something else to me...like a carb passage that is still not fully open, or something along those lines. I had a carb on a Honda GX340 that really fought me here a month or two back...I had the dumb thing apart 5-6 times until it stopped surging (unless the choke was left partially on) but I finally won!
It's odd because after I reinstalled the carb in Spring, it started up and ran just fine. It was funky until warmed up, because the choke is the linkage that is wonky. When trying to start it a week or so ago, it would pop over when primed, then crap out and even though the muffler got hot, it never washed to actually run more than the brief time. Pushing the primer I couldn't ever get it to catch and stay running. I pulled it over like 80-100 times. The carb was fully cleaned in a vibra tank. Parts cleaner.
Beautiful morning so did an early tree drop of that oak that I wanted down before I really start working in the woodlot. Kind of an unorthodox hinge, however the curve of the trunk and all the limbs wanted to pull the tree 90-degrees from where I wanted it to go (everything was going towards the large boulder to the right of the tree in the picture, and yes, I moved the tractor before I dropped the tree). I did the face cut, then started a back cut on the side the tree wanted to lean (I'll call it the front side), pounded in a wedge, started the back cut on the opposite side, trimmed a bit more on the front side and added another wedge, then just finished the back cut from the back side knowing I wasn't leaving much of a hinge. I was pretty much relying on the wedges to guide the tree. Worked like a charm and the tree dropped right where I wanted it (which couldn't be better because it's right at the back of my existing log pile). Don't know if it was skill or luck, but I'll take it and call it a win in the books.
Good job getting it on the ground safely. Always a plus when a plan goes the way you wanted it! And it was all skill on your part!!!
