So what did you do today?

[Jungleman]

Kind of overkill but cut some cherry to make some stakes for my tomatoes and peppers. Gonna cut them with a skill saw and wittle one end to a point and bam! Ready for the garden.

 

[MustangMike]

Ouch, I think I'd find some White Oak or Locust for the stakes and use that Beautiful Black Cherry for some furniture!

The Hartwood on Cherry contrasts wonderfully with Ash!

 

[stihl_head1982]

Ouch, I think I'd find some White Oak or Locust for the stakes and use that Beautiful Black Cherry for some furniture!

The Hartwood on Cherry contrasts wonderfully with Ash!

Amen to that.

 

[Jungleman]

Yep I agree Mike. I’ve got some wider pieces I’m saving for a project.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

8:30am Dentist appointment@
Ride across town to check out fresh cut pecan rounds.
Slothfulness cost me the logs--City Sanitation boys nabbed them up at 8am!
Checked on possible ring job on wife's SUV...
Wife's SUV does NOT need a ring job!!
Picked up MS 660, 6 chains sharpened, and 2 Stihl caps.
Filled scripts from toothache tragedy.
Playing with grandkids!

 

[MustangMike]

My wife wanted another bench, smaller and lighter, I finished it today.

It is Chestnut Oak, 4'2" long, and more solid than I thought it would be from wood this thin.

 

[fearofpavement]

Bucked up some beautiful oak logs for firewood. When I have clear, straight grained wood like that and cut it into 16" rounds I always feel like I'm "wasting" beautiful wood. But, it was a big residential tree job Groundi and I are doing. We have put down 9 trees (all oak or hickory), cut up most of them, chipped up much of the brush and now we have to move the wood off the site. Buried a trailer in the mud, got the truck stuck and spent an hour winching that out. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Fun times.

 

[stihl_head1982]

Bucked up some beautiful oak logs for firewood. When I have clear, straight grained wood like that and cut it into 16" rounds I always feel like I'm "wasting" beautiful wood. But, it was a big residential tree job Groundi and I are doing. We have put down 9 trees (all oak or hickory), cut up most of them, chipped up much of the brush and now we have to move the wood off the site. Buried a trailer in the mud, got the truck stuck and spent an hour winching that out. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Fun times.

We've had so much rain here there has been no opportunity to do outside work.
Looks like another day of it as well. Rain, rain go away come again some other day!

 

[MustangMike]

It recently stopped here for several days, a welcome relief! Can walk across the lawn w/o making mud!

 

[Wilhelm]

Playing with the avatar mood thing.

 

[fearofpavement]

Got the trailer out of the mud and hauled 4 loads of wood from the tree job today. We have everything down, everything cut up and now all the wood is removed from the site. So what's left is the last of the brush chipping and clean up. That will include filling in the deep ruts we made in the mud. We have a lot of splitting and stacking in front of us. This wood will get burned about 4 years from now.

Pic of Groundi working down one of the oak trees.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

Wife and I put flowers on graves for Memorial day then went home after stopping at Pizza Hut and had some dinner, then time to start mowing the yard. Try and do more mowing tomorrow if it doesn't rain. In my spare time I'm tearing down a Homelite 360 as my next project. It was given to me and doesn't seem to need much except the intake boot and maybe the bottom bracket which I might try to weld if it's not magnesium...

 

[Wilhelm]

Sorting and labeling chains.
Laminated notes with chain specs, makes them fairly resilient to oil and other dirt.


This was not needed till a couple years back when all I used was 3/8"P .050" 52DL and 3/8" .058" 72DL.
Things get a little more blurred as I keep adding additional pitches, gauges and DL counts.

I need more Stihl chain storage boxes!

 

[Wilhelm]

After lunch yesterday I agreed to help a neighbor buck up a tree.
To my understanding of his telling it was on a property of his grandma, as such I expected the tree to be in a yard.
Well, it wasn't!
Willow and locust clearance along a local creek bed right next to a field that belongs to his grandma.
He dropped the trees and dragged them with his tractor from one creek bed side to the other - the logs were covered in fine sand.


I wasn't all to happy with the condition of the logs, I bucked them up regardless.
I had my Dolmar PS-550 & PS-6400 along, I opted to utilize my PS-6400 and she performed admirably.
The modified Oregon Vanguard chain didn't get too dull, I did not utilize the saws spikes at all.
Chain is being sharpened with the Archer FastFiler jig.

 

[Likesaws]

Worked on new pavers for the grill. Dug the dirt, cleaned the hole. Went to town got 500 lbs of sand 1500 lbs of gravel. Put that in hole and laid the pavers.
Will get three more and finish when I can. Laying here waiting for aspirin to kick in so I can go back to sleep. At 62 I’m just not able to do what I once could.

 

[homeheater]

Yesterday set up yard camping for the kids. Have all of my wood done for next year's heating but only had 4 pieces left for last night's campfire. 421 fixed that today.

 

[stihl_head1982]

Ventured out to the flea market today. Not as many people but found a few good things.
Wondering how long it will take for some people to feel and act normal??

 

[Wilhelm]

I finished sorting my chains, ended up reinforcing some chainsaw cardboard boxes for storage.


Cleaned up my chainsaw toolbox and found some protection for my files.


Sharpened my PS-9010's chains, Stihl RS in 3/8" and .325".
Took some effort to file down the factory grind to match the Archer FastFiler jigs, freaking hard to file.
Factory ground profile

Archer FastFiler jig round file profile


. . . to be continued

 

[Wilhelm]

Mowed the freakin' lawn again!

 

[justoldsaws]

Went for a walk with the wife today down behind my house to the river, river flats are full of Redgum, came across this big old tree, pic doesn't do it justice, at the base it was atleast 7ft across, very impressive.