Yeah I'm not sure I follow the math - how do you sell 10 rounds and buy a cord? Round these parts the CHEAPEST (in quality and price) is $300 delivered for a cord.
LOL, I did think of that. The money stigma is crazy. If you pull up in a showroom new $70K truck, and I pull up in my $19K Caddi, I get the must be nice judgment. $20 per round, $50 delivery charge. If they buy 15 or more, $15 per round. I'm not selling them as firewood, these are going to a preschool as an accessory piece to a previous sale for use as seats for kids. Literally everything that is sold for schools is CRAZY expensive, so they don't bat an eye.
Not a car hoard, it was so close, I just used the hand truck to get it home. A cherry trunk fell on the basketball court around the corner from me, and the Parks Dept. left it chunked up in the woods. I took everything that was on the ground. I'll cut the butt back at some opportune time, maybe the middle of the day when it's hot and no one else will be around. Then I'll retrieve it early the next morning. I needed some logs to use the 250 on, these turned up at a good time!
With that trunk to be added in the future it will all add up to a respectable haul. Scores like these are a nice unexpected bonus ...not a great amount of wood, but also not a great amount of time and effort to get it.
9 logs and 9 trips with the hand truck, it was a good workout! But easy in the sense that I didn't have to talk to anyone and could get it on my own schedule.
Didn't realize every log needed its own trip..still I bet that was nothing for a girl in your shape...Probably even shot a few hoops while you were at it... broke a little sweat
Success with the 250! I gave it a few pulls and it didn't start, so I left it for 10 minutes, then it started right up. I think that's the way it's going to be with this saw. Once I got it running, it cut like a dream, not wanting to stall like it did before. My cherry from the park, all cut up.
Yep some saws you just gotta accept their personality. I had a Stihl 044 I bought in the early 90s that developed a personality like that. It was the carbs always getting some microscopic gumming and needed to be cleaned and overhauled bi-yearly. I didn't use it as much as a logger would so it was always a headache getting it running after sitting, but once started it would run fine....until it would get worse and need another carb cleaning. Once I even needed to replace the recoil spring mechanism when it broke after what must've been 300 frustrating pulls . This saw often tired me before I even got working with it ...I was mostly mostly using it for chainsaw milling the occasional log when a long trunk became available and I had time. Stihl's can be very temperamental if they're not run regularly and the ethanol gas made it that much worse. I finally lost the saw when it sat under 3 feet of salt water during Hurricane Sandy, but honestly it was sitting unused for 8 years before that. I then decided to give it to my landscaping brother-in-law to tinker with or use for parts. Anyway Midwinter I don't think you will have that issue because you'll use it more regularly, but I agree it will probably always have that behavioral glitch. Just call it your "Coffee Saw"....A few pulls then take a coffee break then return again for the start! By the way the cherry wood looks good and it's not too knotty
I can't even imagine 300 pulls! I have a short wingspan. My husband can start a saw with one arm pulling up, the saw held steady. I need to throw the saw downwards with one arm, while pulling the cord up with the other. I'm not good for too many pulls.
I used my 170 for the maybe the 5th or 6th time yesterday since i bought it in April. I ran it for a while and shut it off to talk to the guy. Ten minutes later i had trouble starting it. This is my only beef with it as my other saws dont do this. IMO for a new saw it shouldnt do that.
Listen It was a long time ago, I may be off by 100 pulls or so buZZsaw BRAD seems you have the opposite of Molly's problem, but yeah for Stihl I'm not surprised. When running they are a dream, but IMO they are more likely to have hard starting issues that take on many forms...the company needs to address this, but like I said before the gas we have now in the US is also a problematic combo. I had this same issue with my Yamaha outboard, great engine, but very finely engineered making it temperamental. It did not like the slightest gumming caused by ethanol heavy gas. Let the engine sit gassed up longer than a month and you were asking for problems. JCMC it's obvious you're a fan of Huskies and I cant argue with you, they're great saws, but they seem to run a bit rich for me. It's a small and insignificant peeve of mine, but their higher pitch scream is a bit up there in the decibel zone for my liking. Like I said it's a stupid complaint, but I did see one in Tractor Supply the other day and was thinking that's probably the saw I should buy next. Perhaps when I buy a new home with some land, not this sand box size property I'm currently working with
Started splitting and just kept going. Just need to cut a couple of rounds off the butt in the park, to top off this little rack.
