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Willow is the only tree I’ll cut if the land owner agrees I don’t have to take any of it. Heavy, wet, spongy. No one around here wants to mill it and it smells like p*ss when it burns. Poplar and ash I’m amazed how fast it’ll grow from nothing, I used to clear trees out of ditches on a road...

I get $385 a cord for nice white ash, hard maple and beech split and stacked off the ground 1-1.5 years I have 2 people who get wood green off me, both keep 2-3 years ahead in ibc totes. Everyone else can’t be bothered to move it twice. Black cherry and softwoods I can’t give away so if you...

It is baffling to me the amount of deer hunters I know who will spend $1200 on a new rifle because they missed last year but refuse to shoot more than 3 rounds a year for practice. Not saying that’s your father in laws case, just something I see far too often.

4lb mini sledge is what I’ve been carrying but If you need to chop something to save the edge on your chain it’s obviously less than ideal. I’ll pick up a 24” Husqvarna to try. I still look for the norlund everytime I’m in that sugar maple bush

Do the Husqvarna axe’s have a larger poll than the fiskars? In pictures they look like a good wedge banger but I haven’t been out to dealer in awhile. I lost a 5lb norlund a couple years ago that was great. Carried a lot of different axes since but nothing so far sets a wedge like the norlund did.

Thanks fellas It sounds like I was on right track, Most of the trees I felled had the tops smashed out of them OR were still hanging off the front(in the direction I was felling) so more or less just a stem. I didn’t bore the whole middle out far just took a bar nose worth off the hinge to...

I’ve ran 461’s and a 460 the last 4 years cutting 75ish cords of hardwood a year 24” bar 8pin usually, 28 7pin sometimes Vibes aren’t bad, good torque, you’ll be used to banging out the air filter with an 044. Stock they always felt lazy to me, ported they’re great for what I do. I do...

I have yet another question for the experts. Would there be any point to gutting the hinge on a tree if you’re not bore cutting it? I was caught unprepared a couple weekends ago when a land owner said he wanted me to blast a couple hazard trees over. SO what I did was tall shallow face cut...

I go through a case or two of loops a year. Every one gets sharpened past the hash marks on one of these vices. Holds em tight, easier than bending over the saw. Great stuff

They’re not easy to find here either and when you do no one wants to sell them. It’s a from my warm dead hands kind of thing.

That’s more or less my problem now being a part time/ full time firewood guy. If you’re on a good bush you’re so busy felling, bucking and hauling a lot of stuff isn’t getting split until spring so I’m losing a fair amount of good wood like sugar maple and beech to rot.

I’m good there. Damn near all I can get is narrow kerf RS pro. It won’t see a big load, I just like to keep chains the same dl and pitch when I can

How well are 241’s regarded? Will they pull .325 and oil it? I don’t have much of any experience with the smaller saws

Most winters here prohibit processing firewood unless you’re cutting the tree down, bucking, splitting, etc that day. Talk about cabin fever. What blows my mind is how many people I know who start cutting this years firewood right about now, from truck to stove.

As I process wood through the year I stack all my firewood in Ibc cages that I use as end pieces on sale wood stacks. In the summer I empty all the totes that have been full for a year or more and put them in the wood shed. I’ve been trying to get 2 years ahead for years now but it’s hard to...