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a old corvette in the barn w a blown engine is still a corvette...
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Maggie’s The Woodchuck and Firewood Hoarders Thread
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a old corvette in the barn w a blown engine is still a corvette...
keep on being a stud you old crusty bastage
We took in an other 150 yards of logs the other day and have been on it constantly. And with the amount of time the saw runs, you increase the amount of finding things. That said, look what my Sawyer just ran into. Not me this time.
I made some cedar slabs today with the chainsaw mill
Well, I’m glad I came in here!
I chainsaw mill as a side gig (contractor by day). I’ve gotten into some pretty nice wood over the years. Currently run an ms880 with a 72” cannon bar and 72” chainsaw mill.
I chainsaw mill as a side gig (contractor by day). I’ve gotten into some pretty nice wood over the years. Currently run an ms880 with a 72” cannon bar and 72” chainsaw mill.
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Thats awesome.
Those are all real beauties!
72" that's probably fun to sharpen. How long does that last going through the hard wood before it does need to be sharpened?
When I had my 36" bar in hardwood on 8' cuts making slabs I got 3 cuts and the chain was needing a refresher
In the picture of the logs stacked up, I milled an ash log about the same size as that cherry on the bottom, the cherry on the bottom and the black walnut on the same chain, so I got 3 logs worth of slabs out of it. Could use a sharpen now, hit a few nails in the walnut log. I don’t know how long it takes, but my saw shop charges me $25 to do it. For $25 bucks it’s not worth my time and the hassle of doing it. I run like 9 loops of granberg chain. So I have 3 full chains, 3 getting sharpened, and 3 sharp ones.
what kind of chain do you use and what size saw? The 880 will pull a dull chain through a 50” log so the only way to really tell is to look at the sawdust coming out of it.
Now days I'm running a clone 660. It's ported with big bore kit and mostly real stihl internal parts. I love it. It probably would chew its way through hardwood with out noticing. I have a Woodlands Pro ripping chain. I have only used the 660 once for slabbing it was in cedar and didn't notice the chain getting dull. When I did hardwood I was using the real stihl 362. Wasn't really enough saw for that but it was a one time deal. I got the 660 clone just for making slabs
Help me organize what I should put in a chainsaw supply box (old milk crate). It seems I always forget or need something I didn't bring into woods.
My current woodchuck box:
1. Fuel
2. Bar Lube
3. Sharpening file + Guide
4. Stihl tool for removing cover plate
5. Eye/Ear Pro
6. Nylon Wedges to help if saw gets pinched
7. Heavy Gloves
What am I missing?
My current woodchuck box:
1. Fuel
2. Bar Lube
3. Sharpening file + Guide
4. Stihl tool for removing cover plate
5. Eye/Ear Pro
6. Nylon Wedges to help if saw gets pinched
7. Heavy Gloves
What am I missing?
Pretty good list. I would add:
A few blue shop towels
2” cheap paint brush to clean around the fuel and bar oil cap
Cutting pants
Matches
Tourniquet
At least one extra bar chain
Getting a bit too much snow for efficient tree work, but worked on the crew today. Waiting on the dump trailer to come back...
@tnichols @Flyinghunter
to add a tiny bit.
2 tourniquets - on your belt. Not in the truck.
quick clot - contact @Doc68
duct tape
to add a tiny bit.
2 tourniquets - on your belt. Not in the truck.
quick clot - contact @Doc68
duct tape
Dude, that's super cool. I've always marveled at the patience and skill that it takes to chainsaw mill. There are people who pay top dollar for "live edge" tables.
I've done a fair bit of work with a chainsaw, but never pursued chainsaw milling.
Chainsaw chaps are $120, get them... Definitely a tourniquet! Y’all wanna see what a chainsaw did to my leg?
I sell the slabs I don’t want to use/ keep for myself. It’s not a bad side gig, each of the maple slabs I posted I’ll sell for $1200-$1500. The walnut I’ll sell for $700ish. If you have the time to do it and the energy it’s a decent way to get a few extra bucks. I thoroughly enjoy it and love being outside so for me it’s worth it even if I don’t sell the slabs.
A really nice big dining table sized black walnut/cherry/maple slab is high on my bucket list. Just not easily available in southeast.
All I cut is firewood. I use a tapemeasure and upside-down marking paint to keep it all the same length. My wood stove only takes wood up to 18" long so I settled on 16" to allow for long cuts to still fit in the stove.
YesChainsaw chaps are $120, get them... Definitely a tourniquet! Y’all wanna see what a chainsaw did to my leg?
I was looking at a house the other day and the owner had an Echo saw. He said after getting it he will not own anything else.
I would think they are like most, you get the 'homeowner' class, that is what you have, but if you move into the 'pro' models they are good.
52 stitches, 2 layers, and an ER copay of $150 all because I didn’t want to look goofy wearing chainsaw chaps. Took my belt off instantly, so I hardly lost any blood. I waddled over to my brother and he saw what happened. We jumped in my truck and went to go pull out but I noticed my vision was funny, so I rolled over to the passenger side and let him drive. Lost vision about a mile and a half down the road, think it’s called “graying out”. Got my vision back 15 minutes later. It was an experience for sure. Nurse in the ER said an inch lower and I would have been getting a titanium knee cap and 6 months of rehab. Only missed work for 2 days.
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You got it good
. Glad it wasn’t worse, but that’s nasty.Bar vise. You drive it into a log or block of wood. Then it holds your bar while filing.
I too will second-the-motion for "Buckers Chaps" as well as having a tourniquet handy. (or two)
Trust me when I tell you, that 'track-pants' are NOT considered PPE when up a tree and hanging on with one hand, whilst running a chainsaw with the other hand.
Loads shift, Center-of-Gravity moves, and shit-happens.
Yes, I have the scars on my leg to prove it. And yeah, at the time I just 'let it bleed out' to ensure that all the chain-oil was flushed from the wounds as best I could. Thank Christ I didn't hit the main-pipeline, eh?
Learn vicariously!
Trust me when I tell you, that 'track-pants' are NOT considered PPE when up a tree and hanging on with one hand, whilst running a chainsaw with the other hand.
Loads shift, Center-of-Gravity moves, and shit-happens.
Yes, I have the scars on my leg to prove it. And yeah, at the time I just 'let it bleed out' to ensure that all the chain-oil was flushed from the wounds as best I could. Thank Christ I didn't hit the main-pipeline, eh?
Learn vicariously!
Thats a nice cut.
good news you didnt do anything serious.
And good they washed it out well.
Seen the effects of places that dont. Its uncool.
Nice legs by the way. Can we get a pic with some of those red bottomed heels ole Clark Kent (@clcustom1911) is always going on about???
good news you didnt do anything serious.
And good they washed it out well.
Seen the effects of places that dont. Its uncool.
Nice legs by the way. Can we get a pic with some of those red bottomed heels ole Clark Kent (@clcustom1911) is always going on about???
The scrubbed that fucker out with the rough side of a sponge, it was awful and awesome to watch haha.
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Yep. Scrub and hose down.
most people pass out from watching.
Once irrigated a nasty leg injury with 12L of saline (under pressure) after the buckshot and wad was dug out.
Dont get shot in the thigh at close range with 00 buck.
Sure makes getting the metal out easy though.
Way nicer than 8 shot.
most people pass out from watching.
Once irrigated a nasty leg injury with 12L of saline (under pressure) after the buckshot and wad was dug out.
Dont get shot in the thigh at close range with 00 buck.
Sure makes getting the metal out easy though.
Way nicer than 8 shot.
Yep, lots of people forget that first aid is just that, the first series of things that you do to render aid so that the casualty doesn't die before they get to definitive care. The real work happens once you reach definitive care, and it's merciless, fascinating, and horrifying to participate in and watch, all in one. If you're lucky, you aren't conscious (or very well-medicated) for most of it.The scrubbed that fucker out with the rough side of a sponge, it was awful and awesome to watch haha.
if you want more leg pics you gotta subscribe to my onlyfans, $400/ month this tikka/night force combo ain’t gonna buy itself
For all of you guys who have a sick fascination with the medical world, there's always Figure One https://www.figure1.com/, although it's not going to help @300zx_tt get any closer to his Tikka/NF
Tell me about it. Years ago, I was working under a car and the wrench slipped and a bolt impaled my middle finger at the knuckle. I pulled my finger off the bolt and headed to the hospital. They put me in a room and I waited. In comes someone who starts to rinse it with betadine. Then she takes this scrubber and starts shoving it in and out of my wound. I jump off my chair and fall back against the wall. She looks at me and THEN asks me, didn't someone come in an numb the finger???
She apologized and got someone to numb it and then it didn't hurt as bad.
She apologized and got someone to numb it and then it didn't hurt as bad.
Some of y’all’s posts remind me of my dad and his “accident”...
Was running the log splitter one day while my brother was running a saw. From what I was able to piece the story together, my dad was in the middle of splitting a log when he turned to yell at my brother for something. His thumb was somehow in the direct path of that splitter head and the few seconds he looked away was all it took.
I showed up at the hospital after the fact to see my dad high as a kite on morphine with his hand all bandaged. They tried to reattach his thump but it was mangled/crushed. He has a stub know on the exact hand he used to reel his fishing pole lmao. So yeah. Pay attention to what you’re doing with saws/axes/splitters.
Was running the log splitter one day while my brother was running a saw. From what I was able to piece the story together, my dad was in the middle of splitting a log when he turned to yell at my brother for something. His thumb was somehow in the direct path of that splitter head and the few seconds he looked away was all it took.
I showed up at the hospital after the fact to see my dad high as a kite on morphine with his hand all bandaged. They tried to reattach his thump but it was mangled/crushed. He has a stub know on the exact hand he used to reel his fishing pole lmao. So yeah. Pay attention to what you’re doing with saws/axes/splitters.
Here's one, circa 1970-71.
I'm 8 or 9 years old and our old carnie (Wisconsin carnie too) neighbor Carl decided to cut a tree limb.
Dad helps Carl get the ladder out and then Carl comes out with an extension cord and a circular saw.
(IIRC, old circular saws didn't have blade guards)
At this point I said to Carl that it looked pretty stupid to use that saw. (Kids have shitty filters)
He pretty much told me to shut up.
Well, Carl plugs the saw into the cord, tests it, adjusts the cut depth (with the saw plugged in) to max and heads up the ladder.
He's above the limb and cutting upward.
A few seconds into the cut, the saw kicks back. Since Carl had upward pressure on the saw, it hit him across the throat.
Down came the saw. Down came Carl.
Dad had his booger covered hanky in his hand as Carl hit the ground. He pressed it to Carl's neck and told his wife (Loawanna, Luanna something like that)
to get the car and to get him to the hospital.
30 minutes later he's getting stitched up.
Carl ended up surviving a jugular cut and has (had?) a 6+" scar across his neck to prove that he chose the wrong tool for the job.
Dad finished cutting the limb later that day with his chainsaw.
I'm 8 or 9 years old and our old carnie (Wisconsin carnie too) neighbor Carl decided to cut a tree limb.
Dad helps Carl get the ladder out and then Carl comes out with an extension cord and a circular saw.
(IIRC, old circular saws didn't have blade guards)
At this point I said to Carl that it looked pretty stupid to use that saw. (Kids have shitty filters)
He pretty much told me to shut up.
Well, Carl plugs the saw into the cord, tests it, adjusts the cut depth (with the saw plugged in) to max and heads up the ladder.
He's above the limb and cutting upward.
A few seconds into the cut, the saw kicks back. Since Carl had upward pressure on the saw, it hit him across the throat.
Down came the saw. Down came Carl.
Dad had his booger covered hanky in his hand as Carl hit the ground. He pressed it to Carl's neck and told his wife (Loawanna, Luanna something like that)
to get the car and to get him to the hospital.
30 minutes later he's getting stitched up.
Carl ended up surviving a jugular cut and has (had?) a 6+" scar across his neck to prove that he chose the wrong tool for the job.
Dad finished cutting the limb later that day with his chainsaw.
Something's got to be really fucking stupid for a 9yr old to say, "hey, that doesn't look safe."
This is the one I have
www.baileysonline.com
Granberg Alaskan Sawmills, Parts & Accessories - Portable Sawmills - Sawmills & Planers
The cut itself didn’t hurt, just felt like a burning sensation. I’d say I have a higher than normal pain tolerance, and also I have a slight tolerance to whatever numbing agents they use. I felt them scrubbing it out and rinsing it, and I felt every single stitch. I think I actually lost more blood in the hospital than I did on the way because I was so quick with the Tourniquet. I haven’t run a saw without a belt on since, I keep a grab bag in my truck with another one in it, along with a clotting agent, bandages, gauze, tape, and burn cream. Life is wild, you never know what’s around the corner...Yep, lots of people forget that first aid is just that, the first series of things that you do to render aid so that the casualty doesn't die before they get to definitive care. The real work happens once you reach definitive care, and it's merciless, fascinating, and horrifying to participate in and watch, all in one. If you're lucky, you aren't conscious (or very well-medicated) for most of it.
For all of you guys who have a sick fascination with the medical world, there's always Figure One https://www.figure1.com/, although it's not going to help @300zx_tt get any closer to his Tikka/NF
I run a panther pro mill, it was cheaper than the granberg so I went with it. I regret it. Buy once, cry once... get a granberg
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I cut off the top of my thumb with a mandolin slicer. The PA did that debriding to open (and very tender) wound and the anesthetic hadn‘t kicked in yet. I dog cussed her out the room.
Any of you guys have experience with this Husky:
I’m thinking about replacing my old 290 Stihl Farmboss with this. A buddy of mine who does tree service swears by it. Says it has less torque but faster RPM. Therefore cutting faster.
he also told me to grow testicles and use square ground chain.
any insight?
I’m thinking about replacing my old 290 Stihl Farmboss with this. A buddy of mine who does tree service swears by it. Says it has less torque but faster RPM. Therefore cutting faster.
he also told me to grow testicles and use square ground chain.
any insight?
Looks like their counterpunch to the 261. I’d love to try one. In our area, Husky dealers that carry the prograde saws are few a far between.
We need a Hide shootout! 550 vs 261. 18” bar and a new stock chain (yellow link). 3 timed passes through 16” DBA dead standing Oak. Leaning on the dogs not allowed. Winner takes home a half grown kitten. I’ll provide the 261, Oak, and kitten (hope you like grey cats as it’s all I have right now). 
Handling my buddys 550xp it was crazy how light weight it was compared to my farmboss. Going to check one out tomorrow. May try square grinding some old chains
The pro grade saws bring that to the table. Light and powerful. Vibration is another consideration (chain induced not included). Comparing your Farmboss to the 550 isn’t apples to apples.
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Square grind is nice and fast cutting, but the edge doesn't last as long as a round file chain. They are also a bit tricky to hand file correctly. So unless you are planning on paying to sharpen or investing a grand a simington grinder, id just run sthil rsf chain.
This is the one I have
Granberg Alaskan Sawmills, Parts & Accessories - Portable Sawmills - Sawmills & Planers
Thanks for the replies guys! This is the information I expected. I’ve been looking at a Granberg and then ran across some cheaper versions. The cheaper ones made me pause and look, but in the back of my head I expected to get what I paid for too.
Do you guys run a ripping chain while milling?
My saw shop sells granberg rip chain. It’s all I use. I’ve tried it all, it’s the best combo of speed and cut finish imho.
