Silverhooker
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Bought a bow saw when i was 17 and started doing cash in hand firewood to the neighbours till I could buy a second hand McCulloch, sorry but i can't remember what it was, which i cut firewood with to funded me thru university, it ran like a dream. I gave it to my ex-wifes brother who dropped it in the river 2 days after I gave it to him, not sure that it was directly responsible for the divorce but it didn't help !!! Lol.
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I have a pair of x2 £ shop specs I use just for sharpening, I didn't realise how far out i was till i started using them, always just thought i was a poor sharpener but it turns out it was because i couldn't see what i was doing !! Doh....
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Thanks for all the advice, my own research was directing me towards the 365 and I think that is what I'll go for. Looked on the FR Jones site and they are doing a great deal so will order one tonight when i've finished work.
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Hi all, I do quite a bit of firewood for myself and old folks next door, about 30 cube/year, most of it is wind blown larch with some sycamore. The larch is usually 20 -24 inch trunks the syc about a foot. I'm needing a new saw to ring up as old stihl 391, which the elderly neighbour gave me after her husband died, is knackered and the local repair shop said was passed fixing. Husky 365 and stihl 391 look very similar, although the 441 would be a bit of a step up in price. I'm really looking for the advice of the seasoned veterans as I just don't know what to get. Guy in local shop said he preferred Stihl, although he is a dealer for both ! My mate, who is a local farmer said that there wasn't any great difference, so I'm totally confused now. Help !!
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Make up 2 little wooden wedges to jam the bar in the tail gate door on my old defender and away I go. Like a few others I'm too old and stiff to sit on the deck and the floor of a defender is the perfect work height for me. I'm a short arise !!
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I've got the husky and the fiskar, I like axes, and use them both usually on small stuff and they are both as good as each other and its just a matter of which one is nearest to hand as to the one I use. Although the Fiskar cover is better as it hangs better (flatter) from the nail on the back of the shed door !!
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Thanks for the advice, I've got my eye on the Portek splitter as it is electric and I can use it indoors. I'm just finding that old age is catching up with me !!
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Looking for some advice, as I'm thinking its time to invest in a splitter for home use. Had a look a various fly wheel kinetic splitters that seem to be really fast and few bits to go wrong has anyone got any experience of them. I would only be doing my own and the elderly nehbours domestic fire wood.
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I suffered from "log rustlers/fairies" recently. I had built a rather attractive Holtz Hausen to dry off some larch in at the top of a hill so it could get the wind from all directions thru it and 2 days later half of it had been snaffled. Robbing b*$%ards!!
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I bought a couple of the piranha chains a while back and wasn't impressed by the amount they stretched. However that aside they cut ok and have been sharpened at least 4 times by me, who is a less than average sharpener, and they are still doing the business on some wind blown Larch at the weekend. Previously said I wouldn't use them again but once they have been "stretched in" they do ok and perhaps the new rotatech improvements will stop the stretching issue I had. So will eat humble pie and say that they are pretty good for the money and will give them another go.
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What are you charging for your logs this season
Silverhooker replied to D.M.Taylor Firewood Supp's topic in Firewood forum
I mostly burn Larch and pine, and the odd bit of sycamore and they all burn fine if seasoned . -
Piranha Chainsaw Chain - Press Release
Silverhooker replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Got a couple of these for my husky 440e, I usually run Oregon semi chisel chains on this saw, but after a bit of reading saw that full chisel is best for the Larch and Scots pine that I cut. Used one today and it stretched like a rubber band I think I had to tighten it 12 to 15 times, thank god the 440 has a tooless tensioner it was a pain. As for cutting didn't think they were as good as my regular semi chain. They were cheap but I won't buy them again I'll stick to Oregon or Stihl chains in future. -
I burn almost 100% Larch and Scot's pine in stoves and leave them both about 12 months before burning, although thats stacked as logs under cover, and they burn just great. Only issue is Scots pine can be a bit knotty as I hand split it all, but more than makes up for it by being FREE !!
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Best log splitter for around the £400-£500 mark?
Silverhooker replied to Devs's topic in Firewood forum
I nearly bought one of the electric plitters myself a couple of months ago but got a wetterlings large splitting axe instead, as the maul and wedges were killing my back and neck. I've no regrets, the new axe cut like a knife thru butter and is light and doesn't do me in. DON'T GET A SPLTTER FOR DOMESTIC USE JUST GET THE BEST AXE !! Its the puppy's parts. -
Hi I have had a similar miss hap and the Husky saved me too, although I wasn't doing logs at the time. Some one dropped a stilson spanner out of the bathroom window whislt I was coming up the ladder outside, managed not to fall off and the helmet was totalled but I wasn't !! As a full time doctor and part time logger can I make a plea that safety gear 99% of the time is a drag, but that 1 time your bloody glad you put the helmet on !! Often see local domestic useer cutting stuff with no helmet and usually no clue either !!
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Did a whole day splitting and stacking using the Wetterlings splitting axe and my home made pickeroon. No aches or pains and I could easily do it again today, although my "real" employer would be a bit peed off !! Only used the maul and log grenade on one particularily knotty bit all the rest done with the new axe, and what a joy it is to use. Can see me investing in the GB small splitting hatchet for doing the little bits and bobs, just won't tell her in doors the price!! The old ways some times are the best .
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Just got myself a new wetterlings splitting axe, till now I've used a 6.5 lb maul and wedges. This new axe is the dogs danggly bits ! I can split all day and not feel like I've been in a car wreck the next day. Where has this tool been all my life. I only do enough for myself and 2 neighbours but that still mounts up and its all by hand. Was thinking about a mechanical splitter but with this new axe I'm defo going to continue as a manual splitter.
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I would agree with that.
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Any idea how much usable wood is in these?
Silverhooker replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
Think you dodged a bullet there by not getting that job, to my eye that is an accident waiting to hapen. The first picture is a nightmare and the second one not a great deal better. better to miss a bad opportunity and fight another day than get yourself killed or maimed for a few bags. -
Big problem round here to, "log rustlers" I call them, well that and a few other things too ! Recently found a "gentleman" helping himself to wood from quite a pretty little Holtz Hausen I had built. He said he thought it was just for anyone to help themselves to !!
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I use my Drexel to sharpen and do the rakers, mine came with a little gauge so you can grind the rakers to the correct height. I'm rubbish with the hand files and have ruined loads of chains in the past but have used the little dremel with no probs for about 6 months now. The little angle guide comes with the pack too.
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I started out with a little mittox 4118 for firewood and clearing the shrubbery and over the years its paid for itself 20 times over and never put a foot wrong, it even started after I dropped it in the river. I just drained the fuel and oil, dried the case and bar with a towel and left it in the airing cupboard for a week then re-fueled it and it started first time. I've still got it and use it for odd little jobs now as I've a husky now but cheap doesn't always mean rubbish, and i really haven't lavished any attention on it at all, I guess you just have to be lucky and not get one that was put together on a Friday !!
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I know this is slightly off the thread but I've just cut and split a load of wind blown birch and have stacked it to dry. I seems really wet and green, how long does it take to dry till its fit to burn, I'm not an expert and usually only get my paws on larch, so birch is a bit new to me.???
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went over mine last night with a fine tooth comb and even found all the original packaging it came in and am sure its the real deal, but its the last time I'll buy off ebay, not worth the paranoia !!
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I bought a Husky 440 off e-bay tail end of last year, I'm pleased with it, but all this talk of copies has made me paranoid. It came in a husky box with all the papers from the US and seems to be the real deal, although was quite cheap off e-bay.....oh dear have i bought a dud, I'll check it tonight when i get home and report back.
