Maggie’s The Woodchuck and Firewood Hoarders Thread
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thanks, I really love that truck. It’s my wood warrior.
Here what I’ve been doing last couple weeks
If you guys want to make chainsaw life easier get a pair of these 3 point dogs I just installed mine and it makes felling and bucking much easier. The 3 point are actually functional while the 4 and 5 pt are more for looks
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I love that people take pics of their work, but I have to admit that I do chuckle inside a little when people pose their saws.
In all seriousness I do enjoy the pics, so please continue! Im just an ass.
I have one and it works great! It is rated for 8" but have not been that brave yet. We have very invasive youpon bushes and have been fighting them for years. 52 hp tractor and it has eaten every thing I have run thru it. Too small for bodies tho...
Have one of these on order for trail clearing, getting kind of old for doing it by hand.
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Not necessarily a pose, but my BIL put his 461 down right next to my 880, so I snapped a pic. Mostly for a size comparison to send to my wife
Wow that does look nice.I have one and it works great! It is rated for 8" but have not been that brave yet. We have very invasive youpon bushes and have been fighting them for years. 52 hp tractor and it has eaten every thing I have run thru it. Too small for bodies tho...
Have one of these on order for trail clearing, getting kind of old for doing it by hand.
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I'm still running an old Perkins diesel Massey I bought for $2500, but when I upgrade for a fel machine I'm gonna have to get one of those.
Now when I go all retard and stuff my bar in the dirt like a circus clown, I can recover quicker.
I hope.
I'll let you know how well it works
Nice I use one to touch up my 196dl rip chains. Works well in the field and more consistent than I am with a hand file.
I’m just trying to change it to a chainsaw thread
and it looks like it might be working hahah seriously though wood hoarders and chainsaws go together like pb&jSo far so good. I'll tell you guys at the end of the day if this contraption is worth anything
Love them Lie
Nice shop. Lie-Nielsen makes beautiful planes and saws and have a fair number of them in my shop. Nothing more pleasurable than using a finely tuned hand plane on wood. Titemark marking gauges are excellent for layout and use them all the time. Over the years put together a collection of Stanley and Record planes including bench planes from 1 to 8 with a number of them being corrugated. Had them ground flat and installed Hock blades and new chipbreakers. Its a shame that nearly all the English toolworks are no longer around. They made excellent saws and chisels. Years ago bought a couple of Tyzack brass backed saws and rolls of Henry Taylor chisels.
Looking for some help with regard to outdoor wood burners.
Our older burner is stainless steel construction, 250 gallon, and is over 20 years old. I'm thinking of replacing it. Is there a good s.s. model out there today that you guys are using? They no longer make the brand I currently have.
Our older burner is stainless steel construction, 250 gallon, and is over 20 years old. I'm thinking of replacing it. Is there a good s.s. model out there today that you guys are using? They no longer make the brand I currently have.
When people ask me what are the cheapest planes to get to start hand tool wood working, I always tell them Lie Nielsen. You pull it out the box and start working. That easy. I prefer the 1/2 series planes because the blade is the same as my no 7 jointer plane.
The days of finding ready to work condition hand tools on the cheap are gone. I’m always looking, and worthwhile deals are few and far between these days.
I even have a hard time finding good restorable condition hand tools at worthwhile prices.
It’s truly cheaper in the long run to buy high end, new. Especially if just starting out.
I like the tite-mark, but prefer the Cosman marking gauge. I also use an old Marples marking gauge.
Kobalt are my beater chisels, and Lie Nielsen are my good chisels.
Most of my panel saws are Disston or other vintage American brands. I’ve even turned a couple of 8 PPI and 11 PPI cross-cuts into rip saws by sharpening them rip.
Antique Disston 8 point filed rip at work:
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I agree with you on buy once cry once. When I first started woodworking I couldn't afford big equipment like table saws, planers, jointers, etc. so I did everything with planes, chisels and saws. I can speak from experience that chiseling large mortises in hardwoods is lots of work. Over time I acquired a 5hp Unisaw, planer, jointer and mortiser mainly to save time with rough dimensioning and doing repetitive cuts . For fit up go back to the hand tools and still cut all dovetails by hand. Need to post a picture of my wood working table I built over thirty years ago with only hand tools. For fit up shoulder and block planes are indispensable.
Everything Lie-Neilsen makes is top drawer. Bridge City made some nice tools and bought some when they were still in business.
Everything Lie-Neilsen makes is top drawer. Bridge City made some nice tools and bought some when they were still in business.
Same here. When I first started it was all hand tools. Even after I bought all power tools, I still prefer hand tools. A scrub, jack, and Jointer plane will get a board square and flat in good order. Well, at least one side, and then run it through the planet, lol.
I mainly use power tools for major milling or large amounts of repetitive cuts. Majority of what I make is still all done by hand.
Studying antique furniture is a favorite of mine. You can see the effort put into all of the show faces, but internal joinery was not done to the same precision, lol.
I’ve been using the same bench design since the early 2000’s. It’s scalable to whatever length you want, and built with lag bolts and construction lumber. Easy and fast to put together so you can get to work!
Well, I see we have veered off course of the firewood thread. Maybe it’s time for a wood worker’s thread.
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years and years
ive had mine for a few years now and i havent noticed an loss of edge
i use mine almost every time i take the saw out
its nice to always have a fresh edge
Very cool.
Some one better call the cops...
Cause someone is murdering my log pile...
Cause someone is murdering my log pile...
This is what I’ve been using the last couple years. At the end of the day put the saw in a bench vise A couple of swipes and voilà Good as new. One thing I really like about it it hits the rakers with each pass.
It’s cheap too I think I paid less than $40 bucks for it.
It’s cheap too I think I paid less than $40 bucks for it.
Last couple of nights temps have dropped into the high 30’s. Cleaned the chimney, cap, and stove yesterday morning. First burn of the season last night.
Dead standing Poplar type in our yard today. Posing saws 
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...I hauled large limbs and the main stem across the road to the burn pile with the loader. Miss Lori raked and used the wheelbarrow to haul twigs to the fire pit. I wasn’t paying attention to what she was doing. She got it a little bigger than normal ...
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Its better to pose the other way or say what saw it is. The saw is the banana for scale cause we know how big the saws are (even though Stihl doesn't publish lengths of the power heads).
Btw it funny to do an image search of Bana for scale. Not all bananas are the same size at all.
Trying hard to keep up with @MontanaMarine . Split and stacked yesterday and this morning with the little time I had between other tasks. Just got started on the final course in bin 2 when the lawn mowing started. First frost here last night. This entire bay is Cherry, Shagbark, and Oak.
. Split and stacked yesterday and this morning with the little time I had between other tasks. Just got started on the final course in bin 2 when the lawn mowing started. First frost here last night. This entire bay is Cherry, Shagbark, and Oak. Well fellas, I’m done processing for the year. Bay 2 is now full. Bay 1 is not in the picture. It’s short 10” stuff that loads in the stove the short way. I don’t recall both 2 & 3 being full at the same time in the 15-20 years we’ve been here. Still have 3/4 of a cord under roof that can wait until next spring. Time to get back into the timber and run a saw. Tired of splitting.
RightousI hauled large limbs and the main stem across the road to the burn pile with the loader. Miss Lori raked and used the wheelbarrow to haul twigs to the fire pit. I wasn’t paying attention to what she was doing. She got it a little bigger than normal
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Something tells me you are not done for the year, it's to deep in your blood.
Your not going to be able to turn a good looking log down.
50 bucks says Tom is stacking more wood before Thanksgiving
Hard to change the stripes on a Tiger ...Something tells me you are not done for the year, it's to deep in your blood.
Your not going to be able to turn a good looking log down.
50 bucks says Tom is stacking more wood before Thanksgiving
Even worse to keep a busy man in a seatHard to change the stripes on a Tiger ...
Your 'woodshed' is just amazing I can't help but stop and have a good look every year. Is that bug spray in the spray bottles?
Thanks. The sprayers are Round Up, Forefront (broadleaf herbicide), XLR8 (Crabgrass herbicide), and a general insecticide made by Bayer. I can’t remember the name of it. They need to be flushed and moved to the basement as we’re down in the low 20’s at night now.
Helko Werk Traditional Splitting Maul
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hultsbruk1697.se Really liking the Gransfor offering.......
Yeah. A lot of the euro offerings are all pretty comparable. If it is really rough work one of those synthetic Fiskars mauls or a cheap generic maul from the local store will work ok.
Be prepared to use your grinder to reprofile a cheap one.
Be prepared to use your grinder to reprofile a cheap one.
It has some hard use coming with those three trees coming down.....
Than.....
It will hibernate in a dry basement getting the handle hit with linseed oil every now and than as I feed my rubbing linseed oil habit.
The GFB seems to have the heaviest head.
Have similar from Sears Craftsman about 30 years old.....
It's a brute and does the job....mine needs to be rehandled.
I typically buy American but it's a matter of great steel vs good steel.
Figure to prep the Stihl with a bar flip and hit the chain with the files.....
