So what did you do today?

[Yukon Stihl]

Moved a building to its final location
Part of my new shop

 

[Bill G]

Nice looking truck!

 

[Yukon Stihl]

It’s a working truck, looks better from a distance
Has a winch on it, which is very handy
Have to add a 70 gallon oil tank somewhere for the end dump I bought.

 

[Bill G]

The end dumps definitely have their place but they seem a bit spooky to me. About 30 years there was farmer here that had one he hauled dirt, gravel, etc with. One day it was sitting the driveway as a twisted mess. The last thing it did was get hauled to Feinburg's metals. I think Mark must have tried dumping in bad spot.

 

[furb]

Did a 250 mile cannonball run in the $550 Element for civic parts. Bad traffic, storms, shot wiper linkage, junk motor mounts, two year old oil filter, and energy drinks the whole way. Got an intact bumper on in time for a 50th birthday party

 

[jacktheripper]

Loaded up and hauled some giant Russian Olive mill logs to my house, with the help of a friend’s liftgate-equipped truck. Looking forward to getting some cool slabs out of these.

 

[Bill G]

I just cut stuff

 

[Wilhelm]

Prepping equipment to go ballistic on some weeds & saplings.

Orange bump button head is OEM and loaded with true square 3.3mm/.130" nylon (yellow).
First time trying this gauge, curious to see how it does.
This head has no problems running 3.0mm/.118" true square line and that line gauge is tough like a dozer.

Green bump button head is a Temu AM head I got gifted.
It is flimsy, came apart with next to no force applied - I have a feeling it will just explode hitting its first sapling.
I loaded this head with true square 2.7mm/.106" nylon (orange), though I doubt this head will survive this gauge line.



I have new OEM heads in my spare stash!
Line of thought is to weed out the undesirables, either the AM head dies today or it lives to see another day.

 

[Wilhelm]

Though it places a huge load on my generic 1.5kW supermarket weedeater, the 3.3mm/.130" gauge line destroys everything in its way!
Will have to go get more spare spools.

 

[jacktheripper]

Pausing for a water break and to let the saw cool down a bit. Here are the results so far of my first time milling.

 

[jacktheripper]

The .404 Oregon chain that I was running barely dulled at all after all the cutting. And it barely stretched, too. This is how little it sags after not being adjusted the whole time. Very happy running .404.

 

[Fleethirte]

Pausing for a water break and to let the saw cool down a bit. Here are the results so far of my first time milling.
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What type of wood?

 

[jacktheripper]

What type of wood?

Russian Olive - one of the few “hard” hardwoods that we have here in Wyoming.

 

[Fleethirte]

Russian Olive - one of the few “hard” hardwoods that we have here in Wyoming.

Interesting, never interacted with that kind of wood!

 

[bigbadbob]

Help a fellow who ship had sunk overnite,, it was just serviced,, think the shaft seal was fubar,, 5 others came to help also,,,it went well considering,, a boat full of water is heavy,,

 

[Partner]

Well, service will now burp And it has an advertisement

 

[oper8r_error]

Cutting red cedars like they're the plague

 

[Bill G]

Russian Olive - one of the few “hard” hardwoods that we have here in Wyoming.

That is one we do not have here. This is hardwood country, The only truly native softwood we have is sheit Cedar. There is Pine in the parks and state forests but it is planted Pine. We have Willow and Cottonwood in the bottoms but those are still hardwoods.

 

[jacktheripper]

That is one we do not have here. This is hardwood country, The only truly native softwood we have is sheit Cedar. There is Pine in the parks and sate forests but it is planted Pine. We have Willow and Cottonwood in the bottoms but those are still hardwoods.

We pretty much just have cottonwoods, willows, poplars, a few elms, burr oaks, aspens, birch, apples, and some other various fruit trees for hardwoods. But the mountains are loaded with softwoods, and everyone here burns pine for heat.

 

[Bill G]

I wish we had Pine here