Who here cuts your own fire wood? What's your prefered type of wood? I got this 1970s Pioneer Holiday and love it, and I've cut down a couple larch trees. Post your chainsaws/cutting gear
I got some 100+ yr old urban black walnut that was hanging over a garage- its so dense it wont burn
>>799664
How heavy is that?
Got a 454 STIHL Magnum
Its a meeean som bich
>>799664
I have a nice Husqy that I use for mostly everything. I cut a lot of ash because the ash borers killed them all off
>>799673
I'd say around 10 pounds or so.
I cut down cedars and pines. 1921 Crosscut saw because I am to lazy to buy a decent chainsaw and chainsawing gear. Takes me under 30 minutes to get my firewoods split and stacked/cut for 1 days worth in -40 below.
>>799684
Check garage sales once in a while. I bought my saw from my Grandfather who got it from a garage sale for a whopping 25 bucks with a case, extra chain, and some tools
>>799664
Back when I lived with my folks, my dad would have landscapers dump their tree cuttings in our driveway and I would cut them into rounds using his old 70's Stihl chainsaw. Then I split it into firewood using an old Tru-Temper axe my dad got years ago. I turned an entire black locust tree into firewood one summer. Made my arms strong as fuck.
>>799664
>What's your prefered type of wood?
Whitegum/Wandoo, Jam, Salmon gum.
I don't have any pictures but the saws I use are Huskies and Oleomacs, not alowed to fell on crown land here but we can take deadfall, so all the chainsaw work is on old, dry and generally horizontal timber. Splitting work is done with my pops old Kelly. Used to use an 80's vintage Stihl for a while but it was forever blocking it's airfilter because it took it's air from near the chain throwoff so it got replaced with the current Husky.
>>799670
>Urban black
>Too dense to do something
This shouldnt be a surprise to you
>favorite
i have none. i cut what i have. which is ponderosa pine. i live in the mountains in CA and bark beetles are like the fucking plague. PGE is cutting down 11 trees in my yard, then about 6 more dies since they marked the ones to down. Everything here is done with my husky 450 and split by hand. this was brand new at the end of winter.
>>799674
I got the 044 and that's a wonderful work horse of a saw.
Can't find any information on the 454, what are it's specs?
>>799664
I use a Husqy 135 for smaller stuff like felling small pines in my woods and a Husqy 359 for larger stuff like ash, oak and just thicker stuff
>>799664
I like hemlock
>>799664
Yes. Dry pine is my favorite for firewood.
>>799664
brand new a couple years ago. she's a lot less shiny now.
>What's your prefered type of wood?
free
>>800812
Nice safety gear you got there, see you in a few years when you're deaf
>>800838
Jesus Christ. Obviously just horsing around at the lake not running the saw at the time you daft twit. When cutting: steeltoes, safety glasses, earplugs, hardhat, kevlar chaps. I don't fuck around.
>>800972
you got all that fantsy safety gear for your doggo too i hope, anon
>>800974
This is one activity doggo doesn't participate in. He stays at camp or in the truck until it's time to carry and stack the wood.
>>800976
I don't even like him nearby when I'm chopping with the axe as he has no concept of where's safe to hang out and avoid flying pieces of wood.
Besides, he hates all loud noises except for shotguns :)
> using power gear
> Year of our Lord 2016
This is all I need
>>800812
Your doggo looks stabil AF
>>800990
Oops I can't into
>>801196
Not the guy, but I've been told that good wood warms you up twice.
The place I work buys a lot of Swedish pine logs to build a particular kind of fish drying rack.
Every year, some logs have to get replaced with new ones, so I just offer to take them off their hands, cut them up on a dirt cheap circular saw and split them by hand.
In that it's old and dead wood, it burns pretty fast, but since I have actual tons of it available, it's not a big deal, other than the work it takes to cut it up.
>>799670
Black walnut is really nice, just play with your damper.
I also recommend shooting for at least 1 locust tree when you go cut, if you can find it.
Two of the best.
My chainsaw runs on diesel
>>799664
I only use dead fall. I own 40ish acres of forest. There's a never ending supply of limbs coming down and the occasional tree falling over every year. Everything is hardwoods here, no pines or tulip poplars for instance. I don't even need a hatchet most of the time, just pull and break it with hands and feet. When a tree does come down I use a crosscut saw to turn it into manageable logs. Though, large stuff gets use for wood working material if it isn't punky.
>>800972
Sorry, my bad. Just saw you weren't wearing any safety gear so i assumed you're one of those retards that spend $800 on a chainsaw and $0 for safety gear
