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I wanted the rancher but settled for the poulan but went with the 20 inch bar. didn't want to spend that much money just got the 19.95 extended warranty. My old saw seized up there was something broken in it for the past year but it was getting time for a new one anyway. I got an extra 6-7 cords (128cu/ft) out of it. then she died. some day I will take it apart and see if I can fix it, and use it or sell it. I don't need a skidder heck I cut it in the woods and wheel barrow it out. Man I don't use a log splitter either...don't need one use axe and maul and I am fine good work out that way.
Sorry about the rant on the other thread Danno.
I talk about this all the time with my wife..I call it the American Dream!!!
We Work to buy stuff to make our life easier, but its not good enough so we work more and buy more stuff to make our life easier so we have more time to do what we want. but its not good enough so we work more to buy more stuff to make our life easier and before you know it you have all this stuff and no time to use it or play with it because your working all the time to pay for it. So where is the enjoymnet in that. I might be the crazy one but I like to split wood by hand...
I have this friend that goes to my gym and he has a $125,000 mercedes, 2 top of the line Quads, 1 Track racing motorcyle, 1 dirt track motor cycle, a ford bronoco that he had someone else restore and lift and what ever. but you know he uses that stuff once a year and the occational weekend, why because he works about 90 hours a week!!! this way he can pay for his toys but anyway!!!
sorry getting carried away again!!!!
back to maple.
I put up a 55 gallon white poly barrel to drain into the float box. easy to unhook, putin an extra valve to clean it out. and its easy to remove just used a racheting strap and a few hooks to hold it down and a little transfer pump to fill it. ran an over flow out of it just in case:emb: just need a few more fitting and it should be ready to go.
Waitng for fire chief to inspect this thing so I can start bricking the arch. don't want to get it done then he says well you need to do this....!!! got bricks from a masonary supply warehouse $1.45 for full bricks. not bad!!!
OK back to the list...next!!!!
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wow that was a lot of typing!!! didn't know I had that much to say!!!
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ive got 2 saws a 61 huskey which has next to no power, iwas told shes got 2500 hours on it and ive put probably 150 since i bought it 2 years ago and ive got a 268xp which is my main saw and it does pretty good the oiler doesnt like to work some times which gets agrivating and some times you shut it down for a couple min go to start it again and she dont. you have to wait 10 min and try again and she usually starts, where ive got a bunch of trees down it is impossable to skid them out w/ out a winch if you saw the terrain you would know why i borrowed one and started but i gota go drive the tractor about 30 min to go get it again cut my pipe go over to the side of the woods winch it to the top of this bank go out threw sugar woods get on road drive to where i clollect sap and winch logs over the bank to the bottom and haul them home
and ive got to split and process all of it before snow flies and theres about 20 cord there just got alot to do and no time to do it
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not to mention i use a maul to split with i dont have a splitter, on the + side i found the holy grail of slab wood if i just burned slabs theres enough there to run my sugar house for 20 years
the pile is about 150 ft long by 60 wide about 8ft tall in front and 25 in back (its on a bank) and i can take as much as i want free but there again i need a truck to haul it
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I think the most useful tool is the pickup truck. It doesn't have to be fancy, but you'll use it every day. You should start to look around and see if there is one that you can get cheaply, because you might be a pickup guy.
A lot of people around here drive a pickup but never have anything in it.
You will know if you are a pickup person if every car you have turns into a pickup anyway. Is there sawdust and leaves in the back of your car all the time? Chain oil? Grease? Do you have a pair of gloves in the back in case you have to haul something? You might be a pickup man...
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[QUOTE=red maples;83089]I wanted the rancher but settled for the poulan but went with the 20 inch bar.
Brad - I've got the rancher and a poulan wild thing. I'd put the wild thing up against the rancher any day. That wild thing can cut and is half the weight. Only thing I don't like about the wild thing is the recoil. Get a little ice or snow in there and it's toast. Think I've replaced the sprocket twice already.
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Thats the one I just killed the wild thing with 18" bar. nice saw. I went with next size up. I forget the size but with 20 inch bar. and less recoil runs smooth but the spring in the handle could be a little stiffer. got it for $200 at Lowe's. I haven't used it that much yet beacuse I was almost finished with wood for this year when I got it. But when the swamp freezes over and I can get the wood across it. The then I will fire it up I left the trees standing They are dead but they dry better when still standing. I didn't want cut them yet it my deer hunting spot so I didn't want to disturb it until after the season was over. then I'll go back there with my jet sled and husky "Timber" (he'll pull just about anything great with the kids in the sled but wears me out running with them or he gets going to fast and the sled spills over)and see if we can't put that stuf with smow on the ground!!!
Movin' over to the oct journal!!
