The 2024 Firewood Thread

[WLDWUN]

if they fought...

3 ton fir log vs Stihl MS170....


and the winner is.....
the log

was cutting branches and brush to work around the log.
30" diameter x 30ft long section
saw was running and the log slowly rolled onto it mashing it into the ground.
died on contact.
cut a 32" section of the log out with my other saw so I could take the corpse home.
got it out and it fired right up. just need a new chain brake handle and saw handle and she will be fine.


3 of the 6 logs I am working on to bring home this week.
counted just over 200 cuts made

 

[u2slow]

My small saw is a ms170 also. Tough little guy. Has cut all my firewood for 10 years going - before i got a big saw.

 

[WLDWUN]

I use it all over the yard and for limbing all the trees.
I really was afraid I killed it and was mad because I cannot buy it any longer in California.

having my daughter pick one up for me in Boise this month so I have a spare.

 

[pennsylvaniaboy]

I use it all over the yard and for limbing all the trees.
I really was afraid I killed it and was mad because I cannot buy it any longer in California.

having my daughter pick one up for me in Boise this month so I have a spare.

imagine a world where you have such a crazy state that instead of bootlegging alcohol, guns, drugs, etc.....you gotta bootleg chainsaws....

oh yeh, we have california...

 

[WLDWUN]

oh yeh, we have california...

....and I moved here from Pennsylvania...

nobody said I was smart.

 

[bad zuki]

nobody said I was smart.

The saw UNDER the log did that already.

 

[Wheelerfreak]

Finished cutting the first two loads of firewood on Saturday and went out Sunday and got in with #3 and #4 loads. Will cut them sometime this week and then break out the log splitter to split all 4 loads of firewood.

 

[dave_dj1]

I still can't upload the pics from the Amish logs I bought, maybe someday
Anyway, a logger that I know called me Thursday and I met him at the landing, he said I can have all the blocks I want, nice Oak!
I couldn't do any of this without my trusty L2501 and grapple :)
First load today from the landing, about 4 miles from my house, right beside the road in a field :)
I didn't get a pic of the second load as it was pouring down rain at the time. I'm planning on going back tomorrow for more.

 

[WLDWUN]

it is back together and idling fine right now.

if at first you don't succeed...try try again.

ran a few tanks through it and it got worse and worse.
would spin freely then almost lock up.
took the cylinder off and the crank would spin easily a few turns then stop.
took the case apart and one of the bearings was shot.
the cage that holds the balls was gone.
crank and case are fine.

got new bearing and seals last week.
don't have the correct tools to put them on the crank or in the case as they are a press fit.

put the crank in the freezer and heat the bearing and drop it on. then crank and bearing into the freezer and heat the case and it drops right in.

all back together and running again.
will take it out tomorrow after I have run a tank through it again on some small logs in the yard.