Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

Good source for inexpensive parts: Chainsawr.com They have a huge supply of used but serviceable parts for a wide variety of saws. If I recall, they are up in your neck of the woods as well.

Yes - he is over in Greensboro Bend at the bottom of Stannard Mtn Rd. Close to an hr for me - 45 min if the mtn rd is good. A good place for used saws and parts for sure.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Should be an easy fix. I like PartsTree.com - good diagrams, good stocking level, price as good or better than most, easy and quick. New handle in stock $32.

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I see from your video you are good with precision work. That slid over nicely for you. Should have left the lumber on it so it would have been more of a challenge.

gg

I like PartsTree, I bought a couple thing off them before, yes good diagrams. Thats the same 446xp saw I had ten years ago, how old is this one? I can offer one bit of technical advice, Gorilla Glue wont work!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah that deck slid easier than I thought it would, an example of over estimating, that dont happen very often....

 

[goeduck]

Exactly right. What causes creosote formation is burning a cold smoldery fire. That can be cause by burning wood that is too green (vaporizing that moisture sucks a LOT of heat out of the combustion chamber). It can also be caused by starving the fire for oxygen - choking off the air supply or closing a damper to restrict the air feed. As wood burns, it releases gasses. The gasses will not ignite below a certain temperature. They go up your chimney unburnt, wasting a significant about of BTUs. Some of it just exits the top of your chimney, some of it condenses on the sides of your flue, forming creosote. That cold, smoldery fire (whether from wet wood or from choking off the air supply) wastes BTUs, causes more pollution, and is the cause of creosote formation.

Modern wood stoves generally limit the ability to choke off the air, so there is less chance of causing this by simply choking things down (though it is still possible).

I figure if I cannot see any smoke from my chimney I must be doing something right. Smoke should only be at startup. I am planning on starting burning wood 2 weeks later and stopping 2 weeks earlier to limit the need to choke down to avoid overheating the house. Those tail end days are where I seem to get the little creosote that I do get. Middle season, not much at all.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I figure if I cannot see any smoke from my chimney I must be doing something right. Smoke should only be at startup. I am planning on starting burning wood 2 weeks later and stopping 2 weeks earlier to limit the need to choke down to avoid overheating the house. Those tail end days are where I seem to get the little creosote that I do get. Middle season, not much at all.

Those are the days we have a fire going and the doors and windows all open :laughing: Especially at the end of the season when you are used to winter and you want to make sure you don't get cold when you start the fire.

gg

 

[aeblank]

I figure if I cannot see any smoke from my chimney I must be doing something right. Smoke should only be at startup. I am planning on starting burning wood 2 weeks later and stopping 2 weeks earlier to limit the need to choke down to avoid overheating the house. Those tail end days are where I seem to get the little creosote that I do get. Middle season, not much at all.

I figure if I cannot see any smoke from my chimney I must be doing something right. Smoke should only be at startup.

X2.
Mine is a gassification "boiler", so I don't see smoke. If I do, something is wrong and it needs tending. Usually the wood didn't fall down for proper burning/air flow/heat. Hot burning is clean burning.

 

[heavy hammer]

I agree dry wood is a must but if you dial a stove down to far or have cool flue temps you will get some buildup. It almost seems easier to have a smaller hot fire to take the chill out anymore than having a large fire and trying to choke it down. I do end up sometimes having to crack a window at the beginning and the end of the season for getting the house a little to warm. The last year or so we have been using the furnace to start the year out and keep the house warm over burning.

 

[Jstpssng]

I often burn hemlock this time of year, to put some heat in the house without cooking myself out. It also makes a nice hot fire when I come home after being out in the snow all day... I only run my thermostat at 50'.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had a very busy day yesterday on a paying job!

I loaded up my loader tractor, and headed for the job site, 50 miles away,

Once there, there were a LOT of different jobs that needed to be done, including cutting more tree's and moving them, and all the brush to the woods to be piled,

It's amazing how well pallet forks with a matching grapple works for those jobs!!

In-between those jobs, carts of lime were being delivered,

10 to 11,000 pound loads,

SO, the groves of tree's and open fields got "limed"...

There was a LOT to do over there, so I'll be going back over there several more times!

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

I had a very busy day yesterday on a paying job!

I loaded up my loader tractor, and headed for the job site, 50 miles away,

Once there, there were a LOT of different jobs that needed to be done, including cutting more tree's and moving them, and all the brush to the woods to be piled,

It's amazing how well pallet forks with a matching grapple works for those jobs!!


There was a LOT to do over there, so I'll be going back over there several more times!

SR

Alot to do but you posted this at 10am, AKA bankers hours, whats up with that......
I see those oak limbs like to grow downward to, they start 25' up the tree and the tips still almost touch the ground. I would think a landscape rake would work good for gathering up brush and a pole saw to cut the limbs, time and a half tomorrow, yee hah......

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Alot to do but you posted this at 10am, AKA bankers hours, whats up with that......

What's up with that is, I took the day off to do things for ME, and enjoyed it very much! lol

SR