And a picture of a load of limbs. Firewood yield out of these trees was poor but much of it will be nice rounds. Probably about 8 loads like...
Picture, or it didn’t happen, right? This was the brush pile of about half the trees, taken from a dirt pile about 20 feet high. [ATTACH]
Just finished removing 79 green ash trees at a neighboring farm, dead from EAB. I cut them down, got them to an area where we could safely burn...
Husqvarna 372 to go with my two 450s. It would get a 24” bar and be reserved for felling and bucking where the 18” bars on the 450s are too...
Replacing the handle on the neighbor’s Stihl MS180. Made the mistake of removing the handle grommets from the motor side and got a hard lesson on...
A while back I mentioned on a different forum that I would like to find a second Husqvarna 450. Recently a local guy posted that he had been given...
It’s a head scratcher to me that wood can lose energy by being over dry. I learned that wood burning is a 3 stage process: 1) moisture is driven...
I’ve seen some of that stringy elm around here too. That stuff would best be reduced to stove size with a sharp sawmill.
Interesting! I have been wondering about the wisdom of using a mill to reduce some of the logs I have to firewood. We tend have gnarly trees in...
I use two different grease products. A calcium sulfonate/moly product for slow moving high load points like loader pins or front axle pivots and a...
Sometime plug performance comes down to the particular application. I had zero success with NGK plugs in the Honda 200 ATVs. They ran a little...
As mentioned they degrade in constant sunlight. Can’t say they get all that brittle in cold. They’re pretty tough plastic. They aren’t as...
Agree with the poster that says wood pallets rot fast. Possibly plastic pallets could be incorporated into the design? But they have their own...
Day started as upper 50s and raining outside but wind is picking up and temp is dropping. So I lit the shop stove on a couple pieces of maple and...
Truth. First mower wife and I bought 14 years ago was a low use JD box store model lawn tractor. It still works but it did not hold up like a...
Looking at just splitter pumps for sale I see some are rated for up to 4000 PSI. That somewhat explains how these commercially built splitters get...
My thought is to make a splitter that attaches to the mini in place of the bucket and use the auxiliary hydraulics to run it. Run the splitter...
I should ask also what the typical splitter cylinder size is and also the peak pump pressure? Seems splitter companies are not forth coming about...
Crunching a few numbers on the concept of using my mini excavator to split wood. Hydraulic system is capable of 2600 PSI. Plugging that number...
My two cents worth on zero turn mowers — we bought a decent low use Husqvarna maybe 5 years ago, 25 hp 54” deck. First couple years it wasn’t too...
