Chainsaws and those who use them

[Tubby’s Canteen]

What do you cut for posts? Around here it’s hard to find a post that isn’t hedge, unless someone had a pile of old telephone poles or railroad ties.
Hedge doesn’t grow nearly that strait, but I don’t think there is a more rot proof wood.

A week in a cut off barrel full of diesel and used oil does wonders for longevity as long as you don’t tell environmentalists.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

I guess my next question is what do you normally cut for logs? Here we have no soft wood to speak of. We cut mostly walnut and white, black, and red oak.
A soak in used oil sure does help any wood last better. Hedge doesn’t need it however, all you have to do to hedge post to prepare it is cut it to length. They will last more than fifty years.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I guess my next question is what do you normally cut for logs? Here we have no soft wood to speak of. We cut mostly walnut and white, black, and red oak.
A soak in used oil sure does help any wood last better. Hedge doesn’t need it however, all you have to do to hedge post to prepare it is cut it to length. They will last more than fifty years.

For a basic load of logs spruce , pine hemlock or hardwoods wood be a specialty load and be sold by the board foot. Spruce is by the ton.

 

[CM McKenzie]

What do fence posts run you there? I get 3$ a piece for them here 6’6” not peeled and 5$ peeled.View attachment 679800View attachment 679801

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

 

[.300RUM]

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

Same here in NC, all fencing supplies are gold. We have a few patches of Locust trees that we will select cut for posts, once dry, better have some oil to dip ya nails in before hammering them in...

 

[CM McKenzie]

Same here in NC, all fencing supplies are gold. We have a few patches of Locust trees that we will select cut for posts, once dry, better have some oil to dip ya nails in before hammering them in...

I wish we had an option like that around here. All that we have are pine poles.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m sitting on a fortune worth of posts if it were logistically possible to get them to you gentleman. I’ve got to argue to get 3.00$ for them here. I won’t sell them for less than that I’ll split them out in kindling and sell bundles of that first.

 

[Ravensview]

We use a lot of cedar here, not sure what current price is to buy, last time I got some I think that they were around 5.00 a post, If I need any I can just take the saw and atv and cut some from the back forty.

 

[Basscat19]

Stihl 044 a saw by which all others are measured. Does anyone out there know of someone willing to part with one?

 

[GuttormG]

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

 

[Wyatt Smith]

Stihl 044 a saw by which all others are measured. Does anyone out there know of someone willing to part with one?

I hate 044s. Give me an 046 any day.

 

[CM McKenzie]

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

I mostly use those on corner braces, H braces, my livestock working corrals. I use 6 1/2 foot 1.33 steel T posts for all of my line posts. I could get away with less but ideally the next time it needs done; I will be dead and it will be my kids problem.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I mostly use those on corner braces, H braces, my livestock working corrals. I use 6 1/2 foot 1.33 steel T posts for all of my line posts. I could get away with less but ideally the next time it needs done; I will be dead and it will be my kids problem.

@CM McKenzie for the win in fencing plans , only thing worse then fencing is fencing a fence you’ve already fenced. We’re lucky to get 3 years out of a post here with the wet climate so I’ve fenced the same fences 5-6 times

 

[Wyatt Smith]

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

It’s hard to get a gate post too big. I like 10 or 12”
@Tubby’s Canteen I wish I could send you some hedge posts. They just don’t rot.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

It’s hard to get a gate post too big. I like 10 or 12”
@Tubby’s Canteen I wish I could send you some hedge posts. They just don’t rot.

I’d try anything , father and I buried railroad ties 11-12 years ago for corner posts with an excavator and I broke one last fall leaning acrossed it with a .22 to shoot a coon.

 

[ZG47]

I’d try anything , father and I buried railroad ties 11-12 years ago for corner posts with an excavator and I broke one last fall leaning acrossed it with a .22 to shoot a coon.

Here in NZ there is a company recycling soft plastics into fence posts. I understand that kiwi fruit growers have started buying this product, instead of the usual CCA treated pinus radiata—or occasional black pine—posts. I suggest that you investigate the availability of such product in your country.

 

[One Day...]

So... I know that it is not a chainsaw per se, but if you have a woodshop these personal sawmills are just amazing...

This is a Woodland HM122 with one extension rail. It can saw 22" logs 16' long.

I mounted mine on a welded steel base that I put together so that it is at proper standing height.

The complete sawmill (cutting head & track) cost $3,000. It paid for itself really fast...

 

[WAB]

So... I know that it is not a chainsaw per se, but if you have a woodshop these personal sawmills are just amazing...

This is a Woodland HM122 with one extension rail. It can saw 22" logs 16' long.

I mounted mine on a welded steel base that I put together so that it is at proper standing height.

The complete sawmill (cutting head & track) cost $3,000. It paid for itself really fast...

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Fantastic. I haul wood to local mills for exactly this. I’ve got some amazing heart pine planks I build furniture with.

 

[flying sailor]

Did tree work part time in the '70's. Had a light weight Mac which I used to take aloft. Some older Homelites, red ones. And a Homelite Super Wiz 80, 6 cubic inch, bucking spikes were cast bronzes about 3". Weight was humongus, the small bar was 27" and the big bar was 36" with a bolt on aluminum handle for the man on the other end. It was a beast, never stalled it. Finally wound up with a Stihl 024 in the late '70's and got out of the biz as my new wife did not care for me doing that. Got scars from spurs digging out and hugging trees. I used pole spurs instead of tree spurs since we did a lot of topping and trim jobs. Great experience at the time, not doing it again though!

 

[barry1974w]

I’ll check out the one seventy!

My next Stihl purchase is probably going to be a “farm” grade brush cutter… I’m thinking an FS ninety one is in my near future

Not sure of the current model numbers. But I got an FS 110, wish I would have gotten the FS 130 for a bit more oomph…