Yesterdays score

[stircrazy]

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

 

[pen]

Healthy truck load there!

New saw must have done alright.

pen

 

[stircrazy]

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

 

[katwillny]

That is a sweet truck. Love those F trucks.

 

[stircrazy]

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

 

[mecreature]

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.

 

[stircrazy]

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

 

[Thistle]

Great looking truckload there,nice truck too.

 

[bogydave]

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.

 

[stircrazy]

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

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

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

 

[onetracker]

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 tool 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

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

 

[stircrazy]

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

your telling me !!

Steve

 

[stircrazy]

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

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

Steve

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

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 . . .