Clever use of the ramps and making gravity into your friend. It certainly does look like sugar maple.
Yes, looks like sugar to me as well. Which, is really a better wood than oak in that it seasons quicker, and had the same btu's as oak. Both split pretty easily. Great score! Let us know how that 590 runs the 24" bar. Are you going to run a skip chain?
Wow Rowerwet this one really worked out nicely for you and you had some help with you too along with helping someone else. And yes, that is maple so one sweet find. fishingpol this is amazing that you saw the tree being trimmed and then also saw the wood being loaded. It is a small world indeed. I'm betting had you knew who it was you would have stopped and offered some help.
I sure would have stopped if I knew. I was thinking of stopping and telling him about FHC when I saw him loading.
I couldn't find how to get skip Chain using Baileys, I ended up with semi chisel. If anybody knows the part number I'm all ears. If I end up needing the 27", I think I'll have to find skip chain
The gravity feature is nice, I've had many where it was uphill the whole way, and some I had to drag it all out on a wagon to save the grass. the ramps become the sides of the trailer when not needed
After a month of winter in march, I finally got to try my muffler modded 590 and the 24" Bar on the trunk. I absolutely love this saw! It had the power to keep on pulling through the big maple, and made quick work of the trunk. 24" is about as long as I think the 590 can handle, if you get the 27" bar, I would only try it with a skip toothed chain
Planning on dragging my splitter over and hauling it all back as splits. Moving those massive chunks is a back breaker. Happy Easter!
so Saturday morning I hear the distinctive sound of a large chipper in action. Take a walk down the street, and find a crew taking down a tree next door. I offer to take their trunk wood, and ended up with 4 trailer loads of wood.
they ran me off my feet keeping the trailer empty, even though I only had to go about 50 feet back and forth. Once I finished up with them, I headed back to my killer scrounge and cleared the last of the useful wood off. Now he can rake it off and have a lawn again, at least until I tackle the remaining trunk
