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SeanKroll
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I'll look into modern ones.
I bet they have been refined quite well.
My Husqvarna's are just ok.
I bet they have been refined quite well.
My Husqvarna's are just ok.
Burnham
Woods walker
Quite old school, these days. Much better products available today, Sean.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Good thing we moved the chipper up 4' farther
5 yards of chips from prepping, dropped of at a friend's house.
5 yards from yesterday.
2 yards of chips to make from the top.
Almost all the firewood is cut.
I'm taking all the millable logs below the split.
Taking the Alaskan mill to make more manageable pieces for transport and band-saw milling.
Have to decide what style cedar fence to build.
Pretty sure between what logs I have and what this job provides, I can build my fence 5 times over again.
Might go for long horizontal boards...I wonder what it would take to span 10'. I'd like access through it, easily, later, for septic service and what not.
MasterBlaster
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No stubs! Excellent!!! 
SeanKroll
Treehouser
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Sean. It'll take 10' boards to span 10'. 
Nice work!
Nice work!
MasterBlaster
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I'd have a Raptor by now if I was still climbing - for sure!!!
Nutball
TreeHouser
What's up with that deep cut under your face notch? I thought it would help get the top leaning, but then the hinge wood would snap off way early
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How can you tell it's deep?
Mellow
BCMA
I suspect he sniped both sides to keep it from peeling.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
I had assumed those were just nips to prevent tear out.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Ha. I knew you were smart guy Brett. 
Great minds and all that. Lol.
Great minds and all that. Lol.
BlackSmith
Uncivil
“Sean. It'll take 10' boards to span 10'.“
Thanks, I may have just ruined my phone...
Thanks, I may have just ruined my phone...
Raj
TreeHouser
Milling job, 28" by 9ft white oak in Kitchener. Fuckin' 088 dies under load. I usually bring the 066 as backup. Had to use it. Damn slow! 088 carb rebuild tomorrow. Custy worked with my Dad years ago!
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Stumpshot
General Purpose
And now a word from Too Much Coffee Man!
With regards to PPE, I have the memory of the story of David vs. Goliath in the back of my mind. In the story, the king tried to send David out to battle in his own armor. But it was so big, heavy, and unwieldy that it did nothing but make David unable to move, let alone fight a giant. He was much better off shedding all that cumbersome gear and relying on speed and agility to win the day. So I think there's a balance there as to what's common sense and what's unnecessary or OSHA-dictatorial, somewhere in the middle ground of it all.
I don't think any on our crew has ever had a chainsaw cut. Silky wounds, yes.
With regards to PPE, I have the memory of the story of David vs. Goliath in the back of my mind. In the story, the king tried to send David out to battle in his own armor. But it was so big, heavy, and unwieldy that it did nothing but make David unable to move, let alone fight a giant. He was much better off shedding all that cumbersome gear and relying on speed and agility to win the day. So I think there's a balance there as to what's common sense and what's unnecessary or OSHA-dictatorial, somewhere in the middle ground of it all.
I don't think any on our crew has ever had a chainsaw cut. Silky wounds, yes.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
4 logs to pick up tomorrow.
Cut the butt log off to 12' plus trim. 3 other logs cut to 12'-16' plus trim.
Going to be kboom loading tomorrow- friend's truck for hire that I've always used. Hope to fit 3 if not all 4 logs on his bed. I'll probably haul his grapples home, so he can fold up the boom, cutting his rear axle weight dramatically.
At the start
We pulled these logs off. Gutted the hinge from the rear. Humboldt with a bit of stump shot.
Easiest way was a 60%-65% depth, full-gap face. I added a straight-on snipe, top and bottom.
Stump cut fell apart into two pieces. One half is on the round from one ring higher, and the other half on the trailer bed. 5'x10' trailer, for scale. Didn't ask it to hold any more...almost did, but thought better of it. My lightest duty trailer. Need go put new brakes on my tandem axle in the AM. Didn't quite get to it.
Cut the butt log off to 12' plus trim. 3 other logs cut to 12'-16' plus trim.
Going to be kboom loading tomorrow- friend's truck for hire that I've always used. Hope to fit 3 if not all 4 logs on his bed. I'll probably haul his grapples home, so he can fold up the boom, cutting his rear axle weight dramatically.
At the start
We pulled these logs off. Gutted the hinge from the rear. Humboldt with a bit of stump shot.
Easiest way was a 60%-65% depth, full-gap face. I added a straight-on snipe, top and bottom.
Stump cut fell apart into two pieces. One half is on the round from one ring higher, and the other half on the trailer bed. 5'x10' trailer, for scale. Didn't ask it to hold any more...almost did, but thought better of it. My lightest duty trailer. Need go put new brakes on my tandem axle in the AM. Didn't quite get to it.
MasterBlaster
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Collect the check!
Why the dramatic underbed?
Why the dramatic underbed?
Nutball
TreeHouser
For perfect accuracy by minimizing the chance for misaligned face cut angles. Also saves time by not having to fix a misaligned face cut
SeanKroll
Treehouser
I got back to my keyboard on the laptop, off my phone, to edit.
I only have a 36" bar, well, two.
I've wanted to get a bigger bar, but haven't yet. They are Spendy, and sharpening one, F!. I hit a nail on the back-cut, luckily, I was cutting with a 20" bar on my MS261. I left a back strip in the middle(not strap, like a bore-cut). 20" was plenty, independent of the hollow core.
This job made me realize, I don't want to wave a bigger bar around on the ground,particularly, but rather, a couple extra inches (like a 41" bar) to avoid double-cutting aloft, would help me. It would eliminate almost all double-cutting aloft.
I brought the alaskan mill and 'the stairs' (ladder). Used the ladder twice, got me past the big climbing. My 15' flipline was too tight to flip up it, even I wanted to. Could have added an extension, but why not take the stairs?
I'll need to cut the logs down for the bandsaw mill, or hire a guy with a Lucas Slabber, if he's still around.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Oregon 42" bar is pretty cheap. It cuts amazingly with Stihl square ground skip chain, only about $40 per loop from the PILTZ guy on ebay. Kind of a pain to round file the first time around if you do hit metal. You just need an oiler that can keep up with 42".
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Wow, only $85 bucks online for Oregon. I didn't realize they would be so much cheaper.
Thanks!
Stihl bars are expensive.
Thanks!
Stihl bars are expensive.
MasterBlaster
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Just like all the good hookers.
Nutball
TreeHouser
Chain: https://www.ebay.com/itm/STIHL-3-8-...rstClass!37122!US!-1:rk:1:pf:1&frcectupt=true
I wouldn't expect Oregon to out last a top quality (as they have different levels of hardness) Stihl bar, but the amount that the 42" would get used should make it last a very long time. I have only ever felled 2 trees with mine in the year and a half I've had it, maybe a buck cut or two. I'd like to have a clamp on handle to put on the end for help aligning cuts.
42" felling second tree
I wouldn't expect Oregon to out last a top quality (as they have different levels of hardness) Stihl bar, but the amount that the 42" would get used should make it last a very long time. I have only ever felled 2 trees with mine in the year and a half I've had it, maybe a buck cut or two. I'd like to have a clamp on handle to put on the end for help aligning cuts.
42" felling second tree
