That would be a good idea but I dont own either. I spend so much time hauling wood when the roads are snow free that its good for me to take a break over the winter to concentrate on other things. The problem for me is that my addiction takes a beating! I like your set up! Looks like a good system. By the way Ive been meaning to tell you I like your version of wording of the popular apocalypse now phrase, very fitting for a fhc member
Mine came out at .023. Yup open port 44. I did re-ring the piston. Check decomp valve? Maybe it's letting some air by?
Helped my friend take down a poplar that was shading an oak on my trip to Wisconsin this weekend. Chopped it down with my Gransfor axe. Took time to teach his nephew how to fell a tree. Let him do some chopping on the front cut. Smart guy, but he needs a tad more work on his swings. He had never done it before so it was fun. I was a bit rusty myself. We nailed the fall perfectly though. Then I bucked it up into 16" long rounds, ready for splitting. Got to use his brand new 311. Holy snikeys that's a sweet machine!
I'm sure the 311 is a great saw. My parents got an Ms 211 with the quick start, and quick chain tensioner, and it really eats wood, even with the stock safety chain, and that was a 16". I cut pines, even up to 15+ inches and it flew threw that. They had red oak up to 10-12" and it flew through that too. For as good as stihl's have been to my family, I have a hard time straying. My 029super was bought and built in 99, and had needed nothing beyond a bar, a couple chains and that's it. It's cut at least 3 cords a year, and never skipped a beat. Though the 2172 jonsered has me thinking....
Saturday was skidding day - I pulled out this pile of logs that my Dad and I had cut several weeks ago. I had been waiting for snow, and decided this weekend was as close as I was going to get. The trail was worn bare in many places by the time I finished, but the ground was still well frozen, and the logs are pretty clean. I figure there are 6 to 7 cord here. Out of curiosity I measured the Red Maple log on the right - it was 30' with very little taper (average about 14") - I figure that one log is a quarter of a cord with no air, so once split it should expand to more. It will get CSS right there, hopefully before the black flies come out. Then today I dropped some more trees, and skidded them into a pile so they will be easier to find if it ever really snows...
Yup, and I'm not as speedy as I used to be. I like to peck away at it - keeps it more like fun and less like work, but I seem to finish a bit later into the Spring each year.
The deer just stand and watch the tractor. Saw another 5 that were a bit more jumpy later on. The big widow maker is about 8" diameter. There are two of three others hanging up in this cluster. I'd like to remove a couple of those trees, but not with them up there. I could spend all day up here. The spot I was cutting is in the center, about 200' downhill. Many of these trees will go, too, as they will never amount to much. I'm trying to open a small clearing to get a lot of new growth all at once in hopes that some trees make it up above the deer browsing range intact.
I used like to "run a tank through the splitter". Then I went and bought one that has a larger gas tank. I don't think it will ever run out of fuel off a full tank!
Looks like the deer are chewing it up pretty good there. Is a sign of over population if they are eating everything they can reach. There is a tasty solution.
Deer seem to like tractors for some reason until you stop and/or get off the seat then it's beat feet and run
I have a couple truck loads cut and split I need to get in the shed. Brought a load of butt offs home last weekend I need to noodle up and get ready to split. I've got quite a bit of logs to work up tomorrow. They'll be another load of rounds coming home tomorrow night. But, I'm ready. Got 5 gallons of fuel tonight and mixed it for the saws. Set a gallon of bar oil in the truck too. Those big logs take a lot of fuel and oil. Got a couple files and the saw wrench in the door skirt of the truck. Tomorrow at daylight I'll be throwing chips. They'll be plenty of log butt offs coming home in the next couple months Lord willing. Now, if I can ever get a day off from work, I'll put the 5 gallons of straight gas to work in the splitter. Life is good. But, I got to get this done before spring. It isn't fouling up my fishing and gardening time. God Bless
Did you see this article in the Press Herald today? Log driving's demise ended a Maine way of life - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
I didn't get to cut anything today. Got to the shop, thought I'd cut up a large limb that fell off an old ash tree, and split it with the new 35-ton splitter. Well, forgot the damm keys to the shop, so just brought the splitter home with me and get it fueled up and all that. It's new and has probably sat at the dealer's for awhile, plus a couple months here, so it didn't want to start right up. Sprayed a squirt of starter fluid in the carb and it took right off. Grabbed a couple of logs and split them. This thing is a beast compared to my 22-ton splitter. I like it. Maybe tomorrow I can drag it back to the shop and give it a workout. Keeping it at about 2/3 throttle until the engine breaks in a little.
Here's the results of my indoor cutting. Walnut + maple end grain cutting board - made from the cut offs of the ones I made for Christmas gifts. Plus I finally got around to building some clamp racks.
Great work Shawn Curry Clamp racks will free up a lot of valuable space, keep them from being laid down when you need your space....
