The Boy and I lucked out and almost killed ourselves Saturday with a pile of castaway wood that fell off the neighbor's land and onto our curb. I think it's oak, but I don't know my trees. I will tell you it's hard as diamonds. I had to resharpen my MS261 after every 4 or 5 trips through it (Thanks timberline!)
Pile at the curb:
The Boy hiding in the pile
Standing by the stump to show height compared to a 9 year old boy.
As I cut chunks out of one of the fat logs it became a sort of chair looking thing.
Sister had to get in on the comparisons.
It was a tough back breaking 10 hour ordeal, but we got it all chopped up into the sizes you see in the wagon there or near to it. Moved all to the backyard for the splitter, but I'm skeerd it'll break my blade off because it's so hard. We'll see this Saturday how it turns out or if I need to break the welder out again.
Here's some pics of the beautiful grain and lines. You can see where I worked the saw back and forth trying to get it to cut through the beast.
If I had more skills and strength I would have loved to turn this into a dining room table or something with those lines. Isn't that just the best looking stuff you've ever seen? Anyway, it's going into the fireplace. It's heavy as alll get out so it should be good for the BTUs.
And my MS261 didn't miss a beat. It bogged down a couple of times and it was tough going when the chain got dullish (not whipping out spaghetti strips anymore, just dust) but I'm so glad I upgraded from that Poop-on Pro!
That's about it. Just wanted to share
Pile at the curb:
The Boy hiding in the pile
Standing by the stump to show height compared to a 9 year old boy.
As I cut chunks out of one of the fat logs it became a sort of chair looking thing.
Sister had to get in on the comparisons.
It was a tough back breaking 10 hour ordeal, but we got it all chopped up into the sizes you see in the wagon there or near to it. Moved all to the backyard for the splitter, but I'm skeerd it'll break my blade off because it's so hard. We'll see this Saturday how it turns out or if I need to break the welder out again.
Here's some pics of the beautiful grain and lines. You can see where I worked the saw back and forth trying to get it to cut through the beast.
If I had more skills and strength I would have loved to turn this into a dining room table or something with those lines. Isn't that just the best looking stuff you've ever seen? Anyway, it's going into the fireplace. It's heavy as alll get out so it should be good for the BTUs.
And my MS261 didn't miss a beat. It bogged down a couple of times and it was tough going when the chain got dullish (not whipping out spaghetti strips anymore, just dust) but I'm so glad I upgraded from that Poop-on Pro!
That's about it. Just wanted to share
