The firewood thread

[GGV8Cruza]

Just purchased a Timberline  sharpener from the states, will be interesting just how much better and longer the chains will last. Report to follow once it arrives.

GG

Turned up today, will report how it goes. First impression is that it is a quality engineered piece of billet aluminium. Get back to you all after the long weekend



GG

[lino6]

Damn cold!!!!

Freeze the walls off a bark humpy!

Might have to see about cutting another tandem load soon. The guys that sharpened my saw bench blade had set the teeth properly. I took it back and they fixed and resharpened it as well as a new centre bush and sharpened a chainsaw chain for nothing for me. Good bunch of blokes in there.

[lino6]

Just cleaned up the last of the stuff at my mate's place. Time for lunch then to try out the blade on the saw bench again.

Nice day for wood cutting too.

[markg66]

No affiliation..........just saw it on guntree
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/macgregor/other-home-garden/free-firewood-in-macgregor-first-come-first-served/1080707616

[Traveller]

Turned up today, will report how it goes. First impression is that it is a quality engineered piece of billet aluminium. Get back to you all after the long weekend



GG

Any updates? Just finished sharpening the saw with the old held in a vice and use a file method, and I like the look of this jigger. It seems a great way to keep the angles true.

Thanks for any info.

[GGV8Cruza]

Any updates? Just finished sharpening the saw with the old held in a vice and use a file method, and I like the look of this jigger. It seems a great way to keep the angles true.

Thanks for any info.

Was away for the weekend, will have a go on one of my saws this week if I get a chance

GG

[Traveller]

Was away for the weekend, will have a go on one of my saws this week if I get a chance

GG

Great stuff, thanks

[prodigyrf]

"There is no safe level of wood fire smoke in urban areas"

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/wood-fire-heaters-the-hidden-killer-20140628-zsop8.html

and they always pay homage to world Gummint-
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/

First they came for the urban areas and then....?

Been off the smokes and taken up up vaping since Xmas so I know how it is guys. They want to strangle that too and can you imagine what these Green nanny staters think of chainsaws and their owners? Welcome to being slightly above peddos on the social scale too 

[prodigyrf]

'Impacts on health

4.3 million people a year die prematurely from illness attributable to the household air pollution caused by the inefficient use of solid fuels (2012 data). Among these deaths:

12% are due to pneumonia
34% from stroke
26% from ischaemic heart disease
22% from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and
6% from lung cancer.'

Don't you love those stats? Makes you wonder how they separate out the tobacco related deaths from that lot now doesn't it? Or is it all really one and the same with particulate matter and soot and our masters should be thankful for the harm minimization of vaping? Somehow I doubt it with all that lost excise.
Time to sharpen the chainsaw while I Stihl can   

[Kangaron]

I can just see Dr. Gunther von Hagens ripping in and pulling out a handful exclaiming "This bloke had an open fire"
Please spare me, some people actually earn a quid producing these stats.

[scarpsD40]

So maybe it was the caveman cooking fires that caused the decimation of the dinosaur era and not some giant meteor striking earth?

[lino6]

These stats look like its only people in NSW, us tough Victorians can handle it 

I can just see Dr. Gunther von Hagens ripping in and pulling out a handful exclaiming "This bloke had an open fire"
Please spare me, some people actually earn a quid producing these stats.

Isn't 85% of statistics made up anyway 

Honestly, we would all be better off with electric heaters powered by coal burning generators wouldn't we?? 

[fuji]

Hope andrew and Scott ahs fire going tonight. I believe it will be 1 degree in Kilmore?

[scarpsD40]

Hope andrew and Scott ahs fire going tonight. I believe it will be 1 degree in Kilmore?

ours has been burning non stop since Easter. Heats the concrete slab  floor up and radiates......

[Nay-DMAX]

Hope andrew and Scott ahs fire going tonight. I believe it will be 1 degree in Kilmore?

Yep cannot remember ours being out for quite awhile brrr have to be in town for a breakfast tomoz at 7am I don't like mornings especially cold.

[prodigyrf]

Dunno about you lot but I've got one of them real Green chainsaws like these guys 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113908/How-world-s-biggest-green-power-plant-actually-INCREASING-greenhouse-gas-emissions-Britain-s-energy-bill.html#ixzz3cOfC1uYP

and what's more I've taken up vaping so I don't get its air cleaner all full of tobacco soot when I'm visiting NSW National Parks 

[lino6]

My chainsaw runs on a fuel that there is readily available and renewable in this country, greenies! You can get barrels of them in Snowtown cheap 

[GGV8Cruza]

Turned up today, will report how it goes. First impression is that it is a quality engineered piece of billet aluminium. Get back to you all after the long weekend



GG

See product review here

http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=43670.0

GG

[Traveller]

Sorry wrong thread, meant to post in your revue thread.

[Hawk2014]

[Kangaron]

Redgum kindling ?

[kylarama]

So my firewood source had a motorbike accident (okay, but out of action for a bit) and the Coonara hasn't been lit in a month.
With no spare time, or no real other choice I got the local garden supplies to deliver a ton of redgum. 

$300 later!!!!!

Far out its expensive these days.

[lino6]

[suspicious][/suspicious]

So my firewood source had a motorbike accident (okay, but out of action for a bit) and the Coonara hasn't been lit in a month.
With no spare time, or no real other choice I got the local garden supplies to deliver a ton of redgum. 

$300 later!!!!!

Far out its expensive these days.

WOW...... Locals here sell for between $90-$130 for a 6x4 load.

Not always red gum though sometimes box wood.

[kylarama]

[suspicious][/suspicious]
WOW...... Locals here sell for between $90-$130 for a 6x4 load.

Not always red gum though sometimes box wood.

I think 120 to 150 is the going rate for 1 cubic metre of redgum, which is probably about a 6x4 load? A ton is just over 2 cubic metres.

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[lino6]

I suppose that just seems like a lot of money when we were able to find some and cut it. We are lucky that we have mates around that let us clean up the fallen stuff off the farm.

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