[AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Dec 22 11:15:36 PST 2016


Mike mine has a 12" bar and I've cut some poplar with it that was bigger
than I could cut in one pass.  It works great except for that somewhat
fragile chain.   If you let it hit anything but wood for even a second it's 
dull.

Charlie



-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike M
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 5:36 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic -- burning wood

That's a good idea Charlie, a buddy of mine has one, I'll give it a
shot. Winter is the best time for me, the area these trees are in is
thick as thieves with the bugs and poison ivy to match.

Have a Merry Christmas,

Mike M


On 12/21/2016 4:38 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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