Rebuilding The Burn Pile With My GS

Big Bob

Big Bob

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A couple days ago I had a tree break off in my backyard due to high winds. This was a decent sized hardwood tree, at least 6.5" at the base in diameter. I thought about waiting for the Dui Chirra I had ordered to arrive but reconsidered since I hadn't planned on taking this tree down in the first place.

So out came my 21" GS by Kumar. In about half an hour I had chopped the tree into manageable sections and drug them over to where the burn pile is. Fortunately I had burnt the wood already there this weekend, so I had room for my latest "trophy". ;) :rolleyes: The largest section I chopped through was about 5 1/2", which took between two and three minutes. The edge held up without any damage despite my less than perfect technique.

I took a few pics with my digital cam. If anyone's willing to post them for me, I'd appreciate it (I really need to get a Gold Membership).

Bob
 
I can't post them but I want to see. That's one model I have been wanting and I'd like to see a field report.
 
IN my little mountains we had two events that led to many downed trees. First one was 'moon of popping trees' ; Yvsa's phrase. Any hike out of town and you'd find these busted or blown apart trees, most about half way up the trunk. The second event was last week's rain, wind and snow storm, which knocked down trees everywhere.

It's going to be a Khuk Summer.
Firewood everywhere, and too bad I don't own a mill.



munk
 
munk said:
IN my little mountains we had two events that led to many downed trees. First one was 'moon of popping trees' ; Yvsa's phrase. Any hike out of town and you'd find these busted or blown apart trees, most about half way up the trunk. The second event was last week's rain, wind and snow storm, which knocked down trees everywhere.

It's going to be a Khuk Summer.
Firewood everywhere, and too bad I don't own a mill.
munk
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Munk,

I know what you mean. We had a rainstorm here like 10 years ago or so and then a freak snowstorm. I woke up and said to Ms. Hollowdweller "Who is shooting a rifle?" but it was trees snapping off. Our power was off for 2 weeks. We also had a small version of that about 2 years ago. Messed up all my hiking trails.
 
Can post your pix, Big Bob, but going offline shortly... Gold Member, but it only lets me post 100k pix- not that big.

Lots of registered users, like wwblankman yesterday, seem to post larger pix than I can... :confused: Is that thru a link?? I don't know how it's done. Somebody that knows chime in...


Ad Astra
 
I was in Yellowstone last summer - in an area where trees had been killed by fire, but left standing. A big wind came up, and hundreds of pines up to 8" were falling all around. I took a good look around to see what I was standing next to!
 
If you don't have any takers on the pics, or they're too large to fit here gracefully, feel free to email them to me and I'll link to them externally. With all this rain ruining my movies, I've got some megapopsicles to spare at the moment.
 
"You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Satori again." :rolleyes:

Thanks a bunch, Sat. If you think that "game" is big, just wait until you see the ones I've marked for my (incoming) Dui Chirra and GRS.

Bob
 
Big Bob; did you cut with a khukuri all the wood I see with exposed ends? That is amazing. My wood always looks like a Beaver had been gnawing.


Isn't it great?
There's a dirt ridge road near me and I've harvested several small Pine from the berm. One of the locals noticed it. "I haven't seen marks like that since I was a little kid," He told me. 'I wondered who was using a axe to cut wood."



munk
 
All that wood and then some, Munk. :D Since the tree was already downed by the winds, I'd start at the top side and chop all the way through, widening the wedge as I went. It was just easier that way. On the thickest section that I chopped, I gave it a few underhand whacks to help get through, but that was after going through about 98% of the trunk. A couple of people have said that my work on trees looked like it was done using a saw, it looked that clean. :D

Ditto, Nam. What all did you cut?

Bob
 
Good job. Even when I've cut green wood as in your photos, it's never been that clean.

I like wood. You get to know it while tearing it down. When I see a limb like the one in your photo, I think, "table leg, shelf, carved figerine...." Hate to see it wasted. I really do wish I had a mill. And a Lathe.



munk
 
My neighbor across the street has a mill in his backyard he made himself. He was always back there in his workshop it seemed; it was common to hear him sawing something. You'd like him, as would anyone else here. I've seen people bring him several large logs before, I might ask him if he'd be interested in any of the trees I'm going to be cutting down. He'd get more use out of them as nowadays my family and I burn wood out back just to get rid of it instead of having bonfires.

Bob
 
In high school, I spent many a merry night getting drunk around a bonfire. A decade later this is still the case. There's something to be said for bonfires.

Looks like you had some fun there, Bob. The "thin" khuks seem to handle big chores just fine.
 
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