Al Smith
Mac Daddy
That praticular saw is the most powerfull puller of an 084 I've ever seen .Mr Combs done good on that one .
How many of you are running ported saws
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HolmenTree
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Speaking of ripping some of the toughest wood in the world, I never get tired reading this story.
Willard.
Willard.
Burnham
Woods walker
A relative of Graeme's?
Cut4fun
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Post rip racing is still a tradition over in Australia
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Burnham
Woods walker
Some guys get a log section with better grain for splitting than others, I'd bet. Pretty cool.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Are those some special types of logs?
HolmenTree
Banned
That is an amazing photo Stig. Looks like a 2 foot square by 100 foot long timber. Would last forever as a bridge beam. There are very few today who can handle a broad axe like that or have the will to do it.
1000 years before that photo was taken Craftsmen from Norway, Denmark and Sweden could do that with their axe skills.
Willard.
As I write this, all I have to do is look upwards and right there are my old handhewn beams that hold the ceiling in my house.
They are from 1846 and still in fine shape.
Treat yourself to a really good bok:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...s&field-keywords=logging+the+redwoods&x=0&y=0
You'll really enjoy this one, it has some of the most amazing oldtime logging pictures I've ever come across.
They are from 1846 and still in fine shape.
Treat yourself to a really good bok:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...s&field-keywords=logging+the+redwoods&x=0&y=0
You'll really enjoy this one, it has some of the most amazing oldtime logging pictures I've ever come across.
HolmenTree
Banned
I'm showing a photo here of my Husqvarna 395XP and Stihl 090AV.
Notice the difference in the two clutches. 3" diameter on the 395 and 4" on the 090. The 090's is twice as wide too along with clutch shoes that have a automotive brake pad type of material on them. I should have put the 346's and 338's clutches in there too.
That outboard 090 clutch is next to indestructable. Another important note about outboard clutches is in severe usage they don't heat up the saw's crankcase causing overheating like the inboard clutches do.
Like the 090's aluminum cast muffler the heavy duty outboard clutch is there for a reason.
Willard.
Notice the difference in the two clutches. 3" diameter on the 395 and 4" on the 090. The 090's is twice as wide too along with clutch shoes that have a automotive brake pad type of material on them. I should have put the 346's and 338's clutches in there too.
That outboard 090 clutch is next to indestructable. Another important note about outboard clutches is in severe usage they don't heat up the saw's crankcase causing overheating like the inboard clutches do.
Like the 090's aluminum cast muffler the heavy duty outboard clutch is there for a reason.
Willard.
HolmenTree
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Thanks for the link Stig, it will be a fine book to own.
Here is 3 photos from Norway I took in 2002. First is my grandfather's house built by his grandfather in 1845, all wood and great shape, beams cut with a broad axe.
Second photo is my grandfather's brother's grandson [my cousin] Anders Florholmen at 80 yrs old, I'm 44 there. Anders lives there today. My grandfather shortened our last name to Holmen when he came to New York harbour in 1905.
Third photo is the Hegra Fortress [built around 1910 to keep out the Swedes] just a couple of kilometers down the road from my grandfather's farm. Many of my relatives and other volunteers held off the Nazis there for 25 days in 1940, longest seige during the Nazi invasion.
Willard.
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HolmenTree
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My grandfathers farm is on the banks of the Stjordal River [40 lb salmon caught regularly] and between the house and river is the railway line from Trondheim to Stockholm, Sweden.
Here is a photo of a Norwegian gernade stuck in a wall of a farm house down in the valley that was occupied by the Germans in 1940. It was fired from the Hegra Fortress up in the mountain a couple of kilometers away. The gernade was never removed for fear of losing the house.
The other photo is local rock carvings some as old as 5,000+ years. Interesting note is I have seen exact similar carvings in Canada [Peterborough, Ontario] that are claimed to be as old as 5,000 years but Parks Canada claims they are local aboriginal carvings. Google up Peterborough rock carvings and judge for yourself.
Willard.
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HolmenTree
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As mentioned on the Peterborough sites "solar boats" a stylized shaman vessel with long mast surrounded by the sun is typical of petroglphs found in northern Russia and Scandanavia.
Books have been written that these boats resemble ancient Swedish viking ships that may have traded for copper with the Canadian Indians as long as 5,000 years ago.
Willard.
"Helleristninger" not carvings
We have those as well.
The first forest district I worked at had a gazillion of them and those were not painted red.
Sometimes when one passed by a rock in yearly morning or late evening when the sunlight comes in sideways, they would show up. They are hard to see in the day, because they cast no shadow in direct light.
Funny feeling, standing in the woods and looking at a Helleristning, that nobody had seen for maybe 3 thousand years.
Is this a super derail, or what?
We have those as well.
The first forest district I worked at had a gazillion of them and those were not painted red.
Sometimes when one passed by a rock in yearly morning or late evening when the sunlight comes in sideways, they would show up. They are hard to see in the day, because they cast no shadow in direct light.
Funny feeling, standing in the woods and looking at a Helleristning, that nobody had seen for maybe 3 thousand years.
Is this a super derail, or what?
HolmenTree
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Derail yes but always good for a change.
Here is another photo of the Stjordal "Helleristningers" unpainted [thousands of them]
Willard.
HolmenTree
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dastevoe
Wood Hacker
I live 30min. from the Petroglyphs park. Quite impressive, one of my favourite hiking areas. Very sacred aboriginal land.
Oh yeah......I'm currently working on a Husky 266xp,gonna "PEP" her up a tad for a "zippy" work saw. Gotsta keep the post legit
Steve
SkwerI
Treehouser
Amazing how most derailed threads seem to come full circle around here.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Another derail...
Willard's gramp's Salmon... Salmon roe is delicious, are the Nips and myself the only ones that eat it? You pop those little balls between your teeth and the rich oil flows out.....very yummy! Good for you too. Maybe if you don't eat over rice it is a problem to figure out how to eat them?
Willard's gramp's Salmon... Salmon roe is delicious, are the Nips and myself the only ones that eat it? You pop those little balls between your teeth and the rich oil flows out.....very yummy! Good for you too. Maybe if you don't eat over rice it is a problem to figure out how to eat them?
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Well salmon eggs make pretty good bait for fish ,never thought about eating them myself .
Jed
TreeHouser
Hey Stig and Mr. Holmen: You Danes and Knucks are amazingly educationally/culturally privileged to even know what the deuce a Helleristninger is! Imagine being such a stupid American that after reading about a thousand pages of this thread, I still can't even figure out how to port my 440!
Pretty cool derail guys--keep it up. Maybe I'll be able to get some kind of a second-hand education off of you guys--or at least eventually figure out how to port my saw!
Pretty cool derail guys--keep it up. Maybe I'll be able to get some kind of a second-hand education off of you guys--or at least eventually figure out how to port my saw!
I may know about Helleristninger, but I've never even run a ported saw.
On second thought...............I cut a redwood down with a borrowed saw once, that may have been ported.
I remeber thinking it cut faster than any other 066 I've come across.
On second thought...............I cut a redwood down with a borrowed saw once, that may have been ported.
I remeber thinking it cut faster than any other 066 I've come across.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
What do you want it to do ,be a good worker or a cookie cutter ?
