Today and tomorrow's scrounge
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Z33
Burning Hunk
I'm hoping just a year. I split a couple (admittedly at the thinner end of the log) and they're already at about 25%. They said it came down in a summer storm, but maybe it was last summer not just this one past. Also, there are a few other dead standing locusts right next to where this one fell, so maybe it had been dead standing a while. Regardless, I'm happy with this scrounge, and maybe there are future opportunities once the others fall. I'm not really comfortable felling stuff on other peoples property, otherwise I would ask if they wanted the others down, too. Maybe on my next trip I'll assess the risks and see if it's worth asking if they want the others felled.
claydogg84
Minister of Fire
Good stuff. I see some of it has the center rotten - Leave those there... As soon as the round has that it just keeps getting worse. Also, I've been burning Black Locust for the past couple years with only 1 year seasoning time. Some of the barkless standing dead stuff is ready to burn as soon as you split it.
Claydogg, I think that's just shadows or the rain drizzle we've had today. These rounds are solid all the way through. Cutting these has actually reminded me I need a new chain for the saw. A little tough going on some of the bigger rounds.
claydogg84
Minister of Fire
Even better. I find dead standing Black Locust to be one of the toughest on a chain. I've seen sparks coming off the wood on numerous occasions.
I also had a few sparks. I wondered what that was about. I'll get the last of this cut and get myself a new chain. I think this one has been sharpened a couple of times, so a new one is probably in order.
2broke2ride
Burning Hunk
A couple of times? Shoot, I sharpen every other or every tankful depending on conditions.My chains are sharpened probably a dozen times in there life span. I can't stand a dull saw or even a semi dull saw for that matter lol [emoji4]
I've had it professionally sharpened about two times, but I do touch up with a hand file every 2-3 tanks of gas. After finishing up the locust this afternoon, this chain is done - not much left to sharpen, and for less than 20 bucks you can get a brand new one. Onwards and upwards.
2broke2ride
Burning Hunk
I see what you mean, I have never had a chain pro sharpened. My father would not let me touch a saw until I became proficient at hand filing free hand, he says file guides are like training wheels lol
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Should stack out to a bit more than that, I would think; Maybe a bit over a cord. But it doesn't look like BL to me...Honeylocust? I thought Honey had a scaly bark, not deep-furrowed bark like BL. I've cut a lot of Black, will be cutting my first Honey soon, a dead one at a buddy's house.
"Pro or shop" sharpened means (most of the time) they are going to take off 2 or 3 times more steel than they need to so you buy a new chain sooner rather than later.
So this "sparking chain phenomenon", I've heard of this but never experienced it myself....what is causing it? Surely the wood (any wood) is not harder than the steel teeth of a chainsaw blade......is it the blade rubbing on the bar possibly?
So this "sparking chain phenomenon", I've heard of this but never experienced it myself....what is causing it? Surely the wood (any wood) is not harder than the steel teeth of a chainsaw blade......is it the blade rubbing on the bar possibly?
2broke2ride
Burning Hunk
I have personally only ever seen that through my own error like having the saw bind in the cut and getting the chain in sort of a twist in relation to the bar, I assume it is from the friction between the bar and chain in this instance.
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