[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

[Cecil Bearden]

I bought an Echo and several bars and chains for it last year after the 
Thanksgiving Ice storm.    It works great, just wears me out to hold 
it.  you can get those lower branches out of the way then cut the truck...

Cecil in OKla


On 12/21/2016 3:38 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> You need a pole saw.  I recently bought a Stihl HT 100 (I think)
> it has a 7 foot pole.  I love the thing.  It cuts good and I can cut
> standing up and back away from what I'm cutting.  The only problem
> with it is the light gauge chains that run on them don't hold up well, but
> they don't cost a lot either.  I think I'm going to upgrade it to an Oregon
> bar and
> chain and see how it does with that.  Anyway, for what I can do with it I
> don't mind
> the cost of a chain here and there.
>
> I would think it would do a good job of cutting away the low limbs and
> thorns so you
> can get to he trunk of the trees.  Maybe not.  I'm not familiar with those
> trees.  Thankfully.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike M
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 11:52 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood
>
> I'm in a similar situation here, parts of my property are covered with
> what I believe are honey locusts. Friends tell me it's great firewood
> and that I should cut it up for that. But the thorns on these trees are
> ridiculous, they make it hard to even get close to the tree, and the
> trees are literally covered with bunches of them. I'm leaning towards
> just felling them putting them in the tractor bucket and having a big
> bon fire.
>
> Mike M
>
>
>
> On 12/21/2016 8:10 AM, Vaughn Miller wrote:
>> Bois D'Arc is know as Osage Orange here, and is great wood if you are
>> burning for heat.  Common in fence rows and field edges it can be
>> miserable
>> to saw up.  The tops are very dense and thorny.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I remember when we bought our first farm about 57 years ago, the fence
>>> posts were Bois DÁrc posts about 2-3 inches in diameter. You had to get
>>> one leg of the fence staple in a crack and hold on to the back of the
>>> post to drive it in..    Usually the staple would just bend over.  After
>>> the first winter, Dad figured out that Baling wire held better.  If you
>>> doubles the wire around the back of the post you could  tighten the
>>> fence up as you tied it up.  Over the next 10 years we replaced all of
>>> the fences with steel posts.   There is a pile of those old wooden posts
>>> still on that place.  They are just as hard now as they were back then!!
>>>
>>> Cecil in oKla
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/21/2016 6:10 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>>>> Don't know whether the pellets would still pop and spark, interesting
>>>> question.   I bet that stuff would beat the heck out of the pellet mill,
>>>> though... hard as a rock!
>>>>
>>>> Dean Vinson
>>>> Saint Paris, OH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Steve W.
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 2:59 AM
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood
>>>>
>>>> Mike M wrote:
>>>>> I agree Dean, perfectly safe in a air tight wood stove, only issue I
>>>>> can think of is when you go to reload, it could throw some poppers.
>>>> Wonder how it would do if you ran it through a pelletizer and fed it to
>>>> a
>>>> pellet stove ?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Steve W.
>>>>
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