Wanted to cut some Asplundh wood today but the two areas were too muddy to work safely. Decided to go to my friends to split the rest of the silver maple from the other day. I had noticed some smalls fresh cut roadside recently on the way there. Decided to stop and check it out. Mustve snapped off in recent wind/ice storm and town cleared it. Had the saw with me so i was able clean them up and load. Not much but a quick ten minutes worth of work. Just up the street i had passed more ash so checked that out too. Covered in massive amounts of vines mostly poison ivy. Almost got in the truck, then said hey im a hoarder and cant leave this. Wood had good meat. Had the machete as crappy as it is. I felt like Indiana Jones hacking my way through it. I was gonna leave the two bigger chunks as the vine was almost 2" diameter, but hacked away and bucked em up. Mustve blown over and when they cut sections off the trunk popped back up. Maybe 20 minutes of work for this tree. Decent little load.
They're still calling for 3/4" here, but it's all rain for now and holding at 32. I'm puttering in the garage after running the burn barrel, we'll park the family car in here and see what happens. I hope it sticks to rain - I have lots of green popping up, it would be nice if the snow would melt so the ground can get real hard once winter finally sets in. Hatches are battened.
You just never stop do you?Did you hoard this much before you joined this club?? I have a tool box just like that one on your tailgate, never thought about using it for saw stuff, but it’s not big enough to pack all my chains anyway nowadays
My hoarding has gotten worse since ive joined, but im having too much fun. The wood is available to me and i have time. That toolbox works our perfect. I have a quart of gas and oil (rarely does a cutting session use more than two tanks of gas), a few felling wedges, rags, files, extra chains, scrench etc. Luckily only three bar sizes/gauges used. How many saws & bar lengths do you normally use Sandhillbilly ?
Brad, that first picture brought back some memories. One thing I don't like about out east is the narrow roads with no shoulder. I'll not forget the first time I went to visit my son after he moved to PA and that is how the state highway looked. And with the hills, I wondered what would happen if someone had to change a flat tire there? Or any breakdown would be bad. An accident waiting to happen for sure.
The road pictured is a town road. State highways have wider shoulders for the most part. It isnt that heavy with traffic luckily. Id say a car every thirty seconds. I am mind full of traffic as i work and will direct vehicles if it is a blind spot and i can at the moment. The second area had a blind hill for oncoming cars so i did so more there. I almost always have a "high visibility" yellow safety shirt/sweatshirt on too. My orange Stihl cap or ski cap helps too im sure. My stepson calls me "high visibility Brad" when i wear them. There is wood on the other side farther up from this score. Problem is i have to park (almost no shoulder), work it for an extended period and its on a blind curve. I should get a couple cones maybe even a "buZZsaw working" sign! Safety is my main concern when roadside scrounging. I'll pass on a score if its in a busy/and or dangerous spot.
Around here a car every 30 seconds is heavy traffic!!! Sometimes we might go an hour between cars. And believe it or not, this is heavy traffic compared with what we had in the UP of MI.
I usually have all 3 of my saws with me when I’m out (actually they are almost always in the pickup). They are mounted with 18” 20” 28” currently, plus have a 24” in the box just in case I wanna swap one. I got 4 chains for each bar. Never file chains in the field, just swap them out when dull. When most of them get dull I sit down at the grinder at work and get ready for the next round
Great work as always Brad! Sad to see the Ash disappearing from these parts. But happy you are utilizing it for heat! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
