Here's some more pics. You can see how a long wrench won't fit, but the shorter one works just fine. A few pics showing the different views with...
Well, I went ahead and got the Pro-Safety Full Wrap handle and 4 point felling dogs for the 461. I installed them this morning. It was easy to...
Yep, I saw you had a fiberglass handle. However, like you said, you can break them. I know the snow made it more difficult and you were trying to...
That's interesting, waiting to see what the experts on here call it out to be.
Yep, hard work, but good exercise. I love splitting wood by hand, but I hate exercise for the sake of exercising, but I can split wood, and I look...
And it's not a bad idea at all. I have never tried a tire as I always do my initial splitting in the woods at the falling site, but I am...
Yep, that makes sense.
The only thing is his wood seemed to be easy to split and he got away with striking the wood farthest away from him, taking a chance on breaking...
You could hammer in Y-shaped limb under it and then cut the trunk, but you are adding more complications to it, and might cause it to shift...
In my mind this tree is easy. And of course there are always several ways to skin a cat. But if I was going to cut it into firewood, I would...
I have a two story house and I installed an air register in the ceiling above the stove, to let air into the upstairs and and also cut some down...
Thanks, Guys I finished it today, finally. It went well. Good exercise, dragging those boards out of the woods, and I learned a little bit about...
The ground is sandy loam soil with lots of sand stones but no flint rocks. And the timing was good. We have had this freeze but the ground was...
I was needing to build a bigger dog pen, for my growing litter of pups. I have been blowing a lot of money lately on chainsaws and stuff, so I...
Well, if it wasn't scary before, it sure as heck should be now! My suggestion is stop, now, and go find someone who is very experienced at felling...
Yep, those original Red Plum handles were really in there.
I am familiar with the bore cut, and cutting out to the trigger, and wrapping chain around the trunk, etc., but I have not heard of the low cut...
I broke down and went ahead and ordered a Pro-Safety full wrap handle bar for it and some Pro-Safety 4 point felling dogs from Bailey's. I really...
I ran the 461 some more today, cutting and sharpening cedar fence posts for driving in the ground with my post maul. Snow was still on the ground...
Been doing that since I was a kid. I grew up in the chicken business and we had to feed by hand back in the 60's and finally got automatic feeders...
