Hi Chris this is my first ever comment on RU-vid as fairly new to it. Watch and love all your videos and your comments. Well done you for so much hard work. I see you use wedges to stop a pinched bar. I try to slip a small log under any lifted log creating a fulcrum that can save a lot of wedging but I know it doesn’t always work out that way! Keep up the great content.
Welcome aboard TIM! Yes, I too have used another chunk of wood to hold up the log to prevent bar pinching too. I just got a WOODCHUCK cant hook and it is great, I just shot a video about it and you will see it soon.
Hey Chris! This video was super informative an I really picked up some great tips and tricks that you showed here! A big thanks for that! 🔥💯👍. See you soon! Andrew from NB :)
Chris, do your self a favor and get a pick-a-roon. They are well worth the money. I cut and load in a trailer as well and man it saves the back. Free wood is the best wood, even for the work. Lol. Who needs a gym membership when you cut wood? 😎
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 Free wood is definitely great. I can get so much free wood if I had the time and my body wasn't so shot. LOL!! And what I couldn't get for free I probably wouldn't have to pay more than 20 dollars per dump trailer load. Glad to hear that you are finally getting to feeling better. It's been a long time to get over it. Take care my friend!! TTYL!!! Logger Al
Thanks Al, I'm leaving tomorrow to go deer hunting out in South Dakota for a week, I'll still have videos every day so if you want, I'd trust you to answer any questions for me on the channel! You don't have to but if you feel like it go ahead! Thanks!
@@InTheWoodyard Cool!! Good luck hunting. Hope you have a good time!! Glad to hear you are feeling better!! I'll try and do my best to take care of the channel for you. 😀😀👍👍 Talk to you when you get back.
I had a few logs dirty like that this summer too. One I used a power washer and the other I marked my cuts. That one was a cotton wood like yours. I used an axe to pop the bark. Was pretty quick and easy.
I cut a lot of wood in an area a river flooded, and I use a carbide chain. It doesn't cut as fast, and you will need to tighten your chain more often. Its definitely worth it because it doesn't dull much. They are expensive, but worth the money.
Thanks for the info, when I know I'm going to cut in poor conditions I'll put on some old chains. I have dozens of old chains that are good enough for jobs like that!
1)I found that if you keep these nose up a bit , the saw bite into the grain , with the grain and the noodle are shorter so it doesn't plug up near as much. 2) cut from the top side of block toward the bottom. The shavings bur up less cutting easier. 3) when splitting on splitter or an axe split from the butte of the block, splitting with the grain, if split top to bottom it is against the grain burring up tearing instrad of splitting.
Chris, instead of cutting thru all that dirt and rock, there's a better way. First cut 3/4 of the way thru the log then roll it over so that the bottom is facing up. Take your axe and cut the bark off only where you want to finish the cut. Also Big Al mentioned getting a Log Ox, that'll get you logs off the ground so you don't dull your chain. These methods might take a minute of your time, but doesn't sharpening your chain also take time? I'm thinking you'd rather be cutting logs than sharpening those chains, however I might be wrong. OH and I other thing , when you're working hard and sweating a lot, drink something like Gatorade that's made to replace the electrolytes lost thru sweating. Maybe that'll help with he cramps, or try Midol, I heard that's good for cramps too. Be safe.
That day I drank 7 big 32oz power aids plus another 64 oz of ice water it was not enough, plus most people like to watch others suffer, I did it for you guys!
I either buck the tree into rounds and let it sit for a few months then use a maul or wedge to bust them into moveable chucks or if I can’t let them sit I cut them into 32-36 inch logs and skid them into the trailer with a drill winch I prefer letting them dry then busting them up it saves work later
In The Woodyard yeah little rounds I’ll split green the big ones I prefer to cut them and leave them in the woods or fields until I need them it seems to not rot as fast if you don’t split it plus I like to pull the splitter up next to them at my own time. But you sell it you got to work faster at it then me. What’s the smallest diameter you cut into firewood? the past few trees I’ve been saving branches down to around and inch diameter and I’m liking how that burns because I can really pack the fireplace at night and they make good coal
I ran into some free Craigslist wood monday evening and talked to the guy and he said white oak all cut up and piled by the road, so no need for a saw. (yup, I left my saw at home) He said all the pieces are small enough to pick up or roll. I have a toyota pickup with a wood flatbed and a utility trailer with a ramp, so this should be in and out. There was a posted picture, but there is never anything for size reference. Well I get there yesterday and all of the wood is by the road, but on the other side of the ditch. The limb wood was 6-8" in pieces about 3 foot long. After I fight all but the biggest pieces in the truck, I attempt to get my trailer in a position where I can roll some of the 24-30" rounds up the ramp into my trailer. I got two of them and will get the rest later, if I decided to go back. So I message the guy back and ask him why he didn't tell me it needed cut. Turns out he's the landlord and has never seen the wood, he was going by what the tree people said. The upside is that although still green, it is very nice, easy to split, white oak. There are better ways to spend a fall day, but not a lot.
I build steps up to the trailer floor with other large rounds so I can just flop the huge rounds up to the next step and into the trailer. I also grind my chains and change chains instead of filing so I always have 3 or 4 extra with me.
The 572 is a nice saw. I was looking at one today. It was lighter than I thought it would be. I bought a new echo not too long ago so I don't need a new saw now. I'm saving for an ultra. That is on my must have list.
You know with the correct tooling cutting bowling balls is fun.. I did get laugh out of that tho as I did a job a fee months back where the wood was in the dirt.. So most of us know the feeling..
Chris did you ever think about using a ramp to roll them in your trailer and using the same ramp to roll them on your splitter. I'm sure something could be fabricated to do that. For about another $1000 you could have gotten a splitter with a log lift. You are one hard working guy, keep up the good work and good content. O and do you know if Husky is coming out with a fuel injected saw any time soon, I like my Huskies but that Stihl 500i is very tempting, I'm gonna need another saw about spring time
Hey Chris! I'm new to your channel withing the past 2 weeks or so and have watched most of your videos but haven't read any comments so not sure if it has been brought up yet but ha e you contacted local tree services I your area to have free block wood delivered to your site? I work for a tree service and we give away anywhere from 3 to 5 contracter dump truck loads a day. Don't worry I take as much of it home as I can lol.
Get a log splitter that has a hydraulic log lift. Bring the splitter to the site and ram it into a 4 or 7 way wedge and right into the truck. Less time. Less work. Splitting has started.
Good idea. I have done that in the past but on this job I only had a day or two to get the wood out before it was going to be filled in so I cut loaded and ran!
Howdy sir. My name is Brandon Grueser and I'm from southeast Ohio. My question is why do you rip the big rounds down instead of using a splitting maul? Thank you!
I cut this year, about 600 face cords or wood, that would be a lot of maul work, I rip down the 20"+ 200+ LB rounds so that I don't get another hernia lifting too much. When I cut on location I just want to get in and out as fast as possible.
A face cord is one row of 16" pieces stacked 4'x8'. A full cord is three of them - 4'x4'x8' It is a good and common question because in some places everyone refers only to full cords or ricks or bush cords or pulp cords or truck loads, etc.
Chris I know Husqvarna saws are top quality but I have a steel Ms 440 it is 70.7 CC's I've had it for almost 20 years I can rip any wood and even if it does clog it never bogs down it just keeps powering through with massive low end torque
You are making a mistake when cutting wood that is full of dirt. You need to cut so the dirt is next to the power head. That way you are not pulling the dirt through the log. Cutting any dirt is not good but it does help. I say the only thing worse than dirt is frozen dirt.
