Yesterdays score

Got a new saw last week, so had to go test it out yesterday.

I went to my normal spot and found this.



So a little while later it looked like this



Steve

new saw worked awsome. night and day from my old one.

I had to go out and buy an X-27 splitting axe, the rounds stalled out my 4 ton splitter.

The X-27 took me an average of 30 swings to break up the 18" dia rounds ( and I am not a little guy) .... its just pine but I think 4 of the rounds are pretty much fatwood, the axe would just bounce off it the first 3 or 4 swings. so I am going to have to make sure I keep that stuff in mind so I don't load the insert with itand have a melt down.

Steve

That is a sweet truck. Love those F trucks.

thanks, ya she is a good truck, only use it now for getting wood and hauling my travel trailer, the hopped up 7.3 will tow a house if you need to.

Steve

Nice Job. With a hill like that I would be chasing rounds all over the place.

Didn't you get a 455 Rancher? Looks like it did a fine job.

ya it was a close battle between the 455 rancher and the 290 stihl, both were the same price, but the rancher came with the free case and a 3/8 chain so I went with it, even though the still showed higher HP numbers by a bit. I think I need to get a 20" bar as I had to take the bark off thoes big rounds so I could cut all the way through them with the 18"

Steve

Great looking truckload there,nice truck too.

Nice load.
Looks like the woods is pretty dry already, made the big rounds allot lighter to get on the truck
455 works OK with a 20" just don't file the raker to far down.
Looks like a successful & fun wood cutting trip.

ya, most of the time the wood is at 15% when I cut it down, haven't checked any of this stuff yet though, and now we have had 3 days of rain.....

I figured the 455 would be a heck of a lot better than that ryobi I had with a 20" bar..

Steve

A day in the woods is better than a week in a stuffy office. And when the woods are in BC So much the sweeta'

Bu this 30 strikes to a split . . . that's gotta' stop Dude

i just started scrounging pine this year. never burned it before in 35+ years of burning. never split it before 'cept maybe for campwood or kindling. so i told my son that his chore for the day was to go out and plit up somma-dat pine over there. he split NONE of it and i accused him of slacking. i went over there to try and split it and it was as difficult as any elm or stringy green hickory i ever encountered. hmmmm....maybe i need to rethink this pine thing. all irrelevant now with a hydraulic splitter.

OT

your telling me !!

Steve

normaly pine splits no problem, just a lot of resin in some of the bigger older stumps.

Steve

Sell it to some Yuppies for 'FatWood', buy your self a triax load of that nasty ole Oak no one wants Well, not sure if Oak is available in BC though . . .