Try some mayo on the gas cap of the 170. Im curious how good it works to take it off. Spruce sap from August.
Mayo, peanut butter, veggie oil, lard, bacon grease all work pretty well on Pine sap. Coconut oil is my favorite, less mess.
Mayo, lard, peanut butter, bacon grease, coconut oil all work pretty well on Pine sap. I prefer coconut oil myself.
Sure will get hot with air coming in under the grate. I will just loosen the latch about half way sometimes. That burns up coals fast but not with the bright yellow flames that give off the nasty gray smoke that coats the glass
The glass on my AS is literally always coated. I'm not sure if its just me, or other AS' as well? I honestly never bother to clean it because its just black again within a day. Thats with any well seasoned fuel source.
I’m slowly chewing through the larger rounds that need bucking and have about a face cord split so far. I had my first casualty, and of course I had just put the 20” bar and chain on that buZZsaw BRAD had sold me. My 029 was flying through this pine... until it wasn’t. It looks like a hook for a clothesline, although I’m not sure what kind of person wants their laundry drying under sappy trees. Rest assured, if you ever lose a piece of metal inside a tree, I will toil night and day until I find it! Par for the course with yard trees.
That $%^&$! Yup as amateur cutter said welcome to yard trees. Did you swap out chains or call it quits? I had stopped Saturday to check the site conditions at that huge pin oak log. I brushed the snow off and thought this branch was odd...until i looked closer. Romex with three wires that dont appear to be copper and dont bend like it either. Im wondering if the tree was used as a support for the utility pole in the woods behind it or even used as a utility pole at one time? I want to use the 36" bar but dont wanna hit metal with it of course. Any news on the maple Eric?
I finished that one cut with my Echo, since I haven’t started it in almost 2 months. After I got done splitting the pieces I cut I had to call it quits because the snow moved in. Nothing on the maple so at this point I’m going to assume it’s not going to happen. I guess I can’t complain about not getting the free wood I was hoping for... although I wish the driver never mentioned it to begin with! Oh well. I’m up to my eyeballs in pine so until I have that CSS’d I won’t cry about not having more LOL.
We had that issue also. But instead of closing the cat at 300 we have been doing it at 400. Seems that it still heats up to about 500 that is taking of the issue. We do have a "haze" but it is a lot better.
Lol. I almost moved to the West coast, again, but she wanted to come to Wisconsin. 17 years later and she's been assimilated. She now owns 3 sizes of crock pots. Also after a couple weeks of frigid temps, she said that 30 degrees felt really nice. Never thought I'd hear that
Sweet, I’m glad chip drop came through for you. I used them once for chips which was a lot of chips to deal with but so much cheaper than it would be to pay for them. It was tricky delivering at our house as no driveway and a power line going by on the street. Our chips were EWP too, which I would also not complain about receiving a load of logs. Do you hand split, or hydraulic? The nice thing about the lower btu woods is most dry out quicker. And stretching the high btu woods further means they get more time to dry too. I would have been on the 3 year plan if we weren’t all home for the pandemic. I’ll guess I’ll be working all the red maple I can in the meantime.
I use hydraulics for splitting 90% of the time. Especially with knotty pine or spruce. I couldn’t imagine trying to process all this by hand. Agreed, it’s good to have fast drying stuff around. I have plenty of spruce and some Hemlock in my stacks already, so after this I think I’ll have more than my share of conifers for a while LOL. Red Maple is a good one too, I have about a half cord of it for next year.
