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I’ve been getting a little bit of firewooding done. Log piles gone now, started another bush, following a processor and picking the tops/ cull logs

Figured id update this. I bought this trailer a couple weeks ago, second hand. It’s a Cerka, all welded steel, mostly full welds on the seams. Tough tough little buggy. The bush I’m working now is rough but it’s been doing a fine job.

I wish. Cheapest I’ve seen here is $17 a gallon

But what would the theory be on why oak takes so long to season if it’s similar hardness to white ash and sugar maple? We don’t have any oak’s here, I have no experience with it, just those that I’ve spoke to that did say it takes 2 years? Or does it actually not take 2 years?

I like the concept and agree with the premise. Not just because it reinforces my thoughts that a similar white ash and sugar maple are very close in btu’s. I like ash, splits nice, stacks nice, burns good and I can leave at 7am come home at 9pm, rake the coals and reload (not relight).

271 doesn’t need it in my opinion. I run an 18” .325 bar and not enough oil wasn’t a problem. Cutting/ noodling dead ash, elm, etc

I have nothing bad to say about 271’s. I bought mine new 13 years ago as my first brand new saw. Probably have in the neighbourhood of 300 cord on it, only had to replace wear parts on it. That being said I always look after my stuff religiously. Being hard on equipment costs too much.

There’s less and less guys around here who want to cut ash with a saw due to them chairing. Most of them are coming down now with a harvester or a big hoe. I have neither so I just gut the hinge and haven’t had an issue since (knock on wood). Talking to my cousin from across the pond he also...

My 88 year old grandfather still runs a pair of 170’s felling trees, cutting firewood and milling logs into posts and beams for the barn. So I have no doubt a 250 would hold up to cutting firewood for the home, hell my 271 was my only saw when I started doing wood on a big(ish) scale for 2...

Got 3 loads out of the bush this morning, in a bit of a race to get as much out as I can before the beans start to sprout. Lots of beech, hard maple and white ash.

I got loaned a 592 for a week with a 32” bar because a fella was curious of my opinion on it. I am impressed, cutting big twisted up sugar maple into firewood then noodling it down. 4 tanks in so far and really digging it. Kinda wishing I went with one of these instead of my 661. Way firmer...

Boring out the centre of your hingewood, So your hinge is now 2 posts and not the full diameter of the tree. I use it on trees I think are going to barberchair to reduce any risks. Actual loggers use it to eliminate any fibre pull out of the butt log (and I imagine safety as well).

I’ve been very fortunate this year. This is my 3rd bush lot this year, logged last summer lots of ash, sugar maple and beech. Lots of dead/ diseased tree’s still standing but I just want to get things cleaned up first One part I’ll have to come back to as the turkeys have eggs laying in the...

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How’d you run o/d and lockup on switches? I want to do the same thing to my 95 when I get it back from getting the bed welded up. 5 years of running with no o/d is getting old