Who is cutting wood?

[XXX-er]

IME when my cut veers to one side I have sharpened the chain unevenly which doesnt happen sinceI started using a jig

I've only wanked up a bar when the oiler quit working and I kept working cuz we were getting paid and I could either just sit there for 6 hrs with my thumb up my ass making no $$$ or keep cutting

[Meadow Skipper]

IME when my cut veers to one side I have sharpened the chain unevenly which doesnt happen sinceI started using a jig

I've only wanked up a bar when the oiler quit working and I kept working cuz we were getting paid and I could either just sit there for 6 hrs with my thumb up my ass making no $$$ or keep cutting

This.

[donutlynx]

Yes always topped off the bar oil. Im just bucking trees and keep the blade sharp. My cuts started to dip to one direction and despite optimal chain tension and sharp chain, I’ve had two of them bow. I suppose it may be user error or maintenance but certainly weird. Never in a vice. I must be doing something wrong.

That is strange. What direction is the bar warping? Lengthwise, like wanged-out to one side? I wonder if it is heat-related...are you getting good bar oil consumption?

I've been using 32" and 36" Stihl light bars since they came out and I've bent a few due to operator error, but a normal bar would have bent in those situations as well.

I'd never go back to a regular bar in the 32/36" lengths. Makes for a better-balanced setup and seems so much lighter when using a saw 6 hours a day.

[XXX-er]

the cut will skew to the side you favored when you sharpened the chain it could be as easy as being left handed or however you hold the file, its easy to do and it ust gets worse the more you sharpen otoh its easy to fix just favor the other side to pull the cut over the other way when you sharpen

I did it early on in my saw running gig, thats why instead of sitting in a snow bank i like to do the 3 chains I will swap in the comfort of my shop with a beverage and a sharpening jig i like to make the great chains always

https://www.amazon.ca/Granberg-Bar-M...=SNCe6ih1qFqyn

i like an Oregon version of this ^^ jig which has a lot of metal, Oregon alos make a version with more plastic and it flexes, not recommended

in any case how ever you make good chains is up to you

[skisurfmirth]

Ahh I see. Check that your depth gauge aka raker tooth in front of the cutting tooth is the correct height using a guide. I think one side is cutting more than the other and it’s really showing up on those bucking cuts.

[mattig]

Have a 28 and 36 Stihl light bar. Both get used quite a bit and no warp. Considering people bend these bars to re-seat thrown chains, I would wager this is highly atypical.

Also, what most consider optimal chain tension is too tight, especially if you're just bucking.

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[whipski]

backyard gym

[XXX-er]

That looks like a 6 ton electric splitter ?

[whipski]

That looks like a 6 ton electric splitter ?

5 ton from Murdoch's been splitting for over a dozen years and 0 maintenance.
I pay ski patrollers well to buck for me. That wood came out of the new runs cut on the back side of Monarch and thinning by the upper lot

[XXX-er]

yeah zero maintenance ^^ they always go on sale once a year at a couple of places

5 or 6 ton is great for anything up to maybe 16 " great if you got 115V or run them off a generator

to defeat the safety I cut a piece of wood to hold the hydraulic pump button on all the time and just pull the lever and its good to get the unit off the ground

but some people like to split by hand

[whipski]

That looks like a 6 ton electric splitter ?

My Honda 2000 didn't have enough watts to drive it a 11,700 feet

[Woodsy]

Burnin wood I split myself during the summer makes fires in the house even more enjoyable.

[bodywhomper]

Six ton e-splitter working for up to sixteen inch rounds. You’re talking about soft wood, right? Not hardwoods?


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[plugboots]

I haven’t kept up with this thread. Have you all decided what the best kindling maker is? Right now I stand a log up in a cinder block, and hit it with a hatchet. Sounds dumb, but the blocks were right there and it keeps the pieces standing up. I never hit the block, so…

[toast2266]

I haven’t kept up with this thread. Have you all decided what the best kindling maker is? Right now I stand a log up in a cinder block, and hit it with a hatchet. Sounds dumb, but the blocks were right there and it keeps the pieces standing up. I never hit the block, so…

I get more than enough kindling from scraps off the hydraulic splitter. But back in my manual splitting days, I would use a car tire (for bigger pieces) or a ring of chicken wire (easily sized to whatever) to accomplish the same thing you're doing. Both of those are easier on the hatchet if you get overzealous.

[neufox47]

In the market for a splitter, would like to go electric. I’ll be splitting pine and oak, pine pretty big thirty”, oak maybe up to twenty”. Will an electric split it? Any recommendations?


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[XXX-er]

My Honda 2000 didn't have enough watts to drive it a 11,700 feet

6 ton seems to split 12-16 ok, it was running off a medium size gen set in the ski lodge wood shed at 5-6000 ft splitting dead standing pine/ maybe some balsam,

all there is localy is 12-16" softwood so thats what gets burnt

I've also run a 6 ton electric off 115 volt in town, most of the splitters I see for sale locally are 6 ton electrics for about 400 $ the wood is all mostly 12"

I think if you got 30 " rounds of hard wood you need a 25 ton but there is no point around here

IME spliting by hand just hurts back/ shoulders/ hands but i do feel like Daniel Boone

there alwasy seems to be enough scrap off of splitting the wood for kindling, my favorite way to light a fire is with a bernzomatic torch with a spark lighter, just hit the spark button & aim the flame up the vent to get a draft going

[toast2266]

In the market for a splitter, would like to go electric. I’ll be splitting pine and oak, pine pretty big thirty”, oak maybe up to twenty”. Will an electric split it? Any recommendations?


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I've got a 28 ton (gas) and it'll bog a bit in big rounds. And I'm not splitting hardwoods. I haven't used an electric, but I'm skeptical of those little 6 ton things (I also think a large heavy round might literally crush some of them).

Also keep an eye on the cycle speeds. Most of the electrics I've seen are considerably slower than the gas options. When you're splitting a few cords, that extra 5-10 seconds per split is gonna add up.

[XXX-er]

I hacked an electric to keep the hydralic pump running for 2 days straight, we would have a cook 2 fallers 2 stackers and a sled/ driver with a skimmer, fill the wood shed for the 10 weeks of heat and cooking the next ski season

we did this season after season, with the same 6 ton Yardworks electric splitter, zero maintenance

the choke point was always the sled/ skimmer trying to keep

[bodywhomper]

I’m skeptical of the electric splitters, too, for bigger rounds of soft wood and hard wood. Also needs to be able to have vertical orientation. neufox and I live in the same forest (unless he moved?!) and have very similar need.


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[XXX-er]

2 of us have told you lectric splitters work, whipski even posted splitting porn

you probably shouldn't believe us then, so spend mo money

and split it all by hand

[toast2266]

2 of us have told you lectric splitters work, whipski even posted splitting porn

you probably shouldn't believe us then, so spend mo money

and split it all by hand

You said they work with 16" rounds. 16" soft wood rounds split if you look at them hard. 30" rounds are a different story, especially if they're a bit green.

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[XXX-er]

well I did specify < 16" I did say if you want to split 30 " rounds you need something bigger,

while you are telling me you don't think electric splitters work period but you have never actulay used one

be a man split by hand

[bodywhomper]

I used an electric splitter. It was new about ten years ago and belonged to a friend. I don’t know the model or capacity. It didn’t work well for hard woods. He sold it, and like me, started renting big gas splitters when needed. Idk what’s changed/new with e-splitters. If I could afford one, I would love to have one around and not have to rent, but only if it’d work out with the type of wood available to me.

[Cruiser]

I enjoy splitting wood but my cheap ebay electric splitter is still tits. All we split is pine but I'll be damned if it gives me a bit of trouble even with big ole rounds.