The OFFICIAL Firewood Hoarder's Club thread!!!

Maybe he's here for the saws??!!

 

Campfire drinkin

 

Hello TripleF , nice to meet ya.

 

Welcome TripleF and Blacksmith. Blacksmith it was nice to meet you and talk with you last weekend.

 

Well what do you do after putting in 10 hours at your real job..... You go cut shagbark hickory in 80 degree sunshine..... My ol wood truck is dead, so I took the shell off my 91 2 wheel drive chevy, and I back in business!!!!'
Here is my play ground, these hickories may look small in pic, but at the base some are bigger than a 25" bar.... Anyway on to pics!!!

 

Sorry don't know what happened to pics... Here they is.... Lol

 

Much gooder!

 

Amazing how all those trees uprooted and fell the same direction!!

 

Ah 80 is cool! I like to wait till its about 95!!! We were close todat, so wood cutting season is just around the corner

 

It's the domino theory.

 

Ya I tell ya guys I really got hooked up on this job.... Really close to home, and guy pulled everything out were I can easily get to it.... And to top it off he got all the hardwood out of the mix.... Now I am sure there is more good wood in the big mess of a pile, but I will work on the stuff that's laid out them move to the pile.... I will whittle away until I get it all, one thing I hate is to see a pile just burned!!!

 

Wow I tell ya this shagbark hickory will dull even the best filed chain in a hurry.... For me I like to either switch saws or switch chains every tank of gas.... Usually I just use my limb saw, followed by the ms362, and then the ms461 when I get to the big stuff!!!!!

And I also have a question for you guys that cut hickory and other really hard woods.....I use RM chain all the time, but I have 3 loops of RS 20" chain I just recently bought.....now do any of you guys use the RS chain on oak or hickory???......

I do know that the chisel chain cuts faster, but dulls faster, but I didn't know if it would even be worth trying the RS on this shagbark.....The RM chain is working just fine, I have just been anxious to try out the RS chain since I have never used it.....

 

They say that RS will dull even faster.

 

Ya I have heard that also.....Maybe the RS is better in softer woods, that are clean..... If nothing else I have a job were there is a lot of walnut tops and I can try the RS chain out there....

 

Yea RS is smokin fast in pine and soft hardwood like maple and poplar. It literally cuts ribbons out.

I haven't used and semi chisel on my big saws but on my small limbing saws I can promise you it lasts longer.

I don't cut a lot of hickory but the little I do I can't remember it dulling that much faster than say white oak?

Since those trees were pushed and maybe in a pile they probably have some dirt on the bark. That makes a huge difference if there is. It doesn't even have to be caked in the bark or anything to dull it fast.

 

Ya there is some dirt, I believe the bark it the main battle when cutting shagbark..... Yes white oak is some hard stuff too, but I would say shagbark dulls a chain alittle quicker....

I completely agree with ya on the RM chain on smaller saws.... It lasts a long time.... I actually use the RM chain on all my saws..... I got 3 loops of the RS 20" on eBay for a price I couldn't pass up.....so I will be experimenting with the RS chain soon...... Come to think of it I actually had a guy drop off some elm that needs cut to a shorter length, may be good time to try it...

 

The dirt will dull chains in a hurry

 

Mmmmm, pizza.

 

Here is my pile been trying to keep up on the splitting, but it's a never ending battle....I have cut, loaded, and split all this wood myself......the big pieces in first pic a guy dropped off yesterday, it's is elm......