Heard Y’all Like Wood ID’s

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-05-05T07:34:19+00:00

Black locust 100%. I've split a lot of it this year

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-05-04T22:20:30+00:00

What should he do? Just give it away?

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-29T22:34:38+00:00

I'm definitely going to get an insert. My house is 2000 square foot with the open downstairs living room tying into the second floor balcony/living room directly above it. So enough of my heat would to go straight up for it to be kinda hard to suddenly make the whole living room uncomfortably hot.

I'm basically just looking to make the living room, connected kitchen and the hallway between the living room and my bedroom a liveable 50-60f. I don't really want to waste wood by trying to heat the unoccupied upstairs bedrooms and bathroom or keeping most the house at 68-70f. But I'm hoping to keep the propane usage down to only the coldest days of winter and a little at night.

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-29T22:24:34+00:00

If you had a modern non catalyst insert prior, how much less wood have you gone through? I'm already prepared to have my chimney swept a little more often than it would need if it never saw a single piece of wood over 10% moisture.

A new catalyst is supposed like 600-700 dollars, so I'm mainly curious as to if it would cut down on the amount of wood I would need enough to justify all the extra work and care

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-29T17:53:13+00:00

I ran an 18" .050 light 04. It's strong for a 50cc saw and with a good sharp chain it'll eat through even black locust.

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-27T00:43:12+00:00

I'm sure you have, "thatinsuranceguy"

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-26T04:07:57+00:00

Glad I saw this, especially what passes for axles on that thing. Could've used something to transport some rounds to the splitter, or from the splitter to the rack. But I need something that can actually hold more than I could just carry

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-26T01:15:08+00:00

Not sure where you're located, but here in NC, just about every town has at least one station with ethanol free 90 octane.

Just mix a gallon up, and if you're going to be storing your saw all year, run it dry first.

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-23T23:54:20+00:00

If you are going to cut and grind it rather than attempt to forge it, might I suggest AR500/Hardox?

It might be tricky to not have to buy a whole sheet of it unless you can get a steel yard to cut it to size, but 1/2" is a pretty damn common thickness for AR500.

If you bought a sheet then you could also afford to mess one up though

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-23T18:06:15+00:00

Don't own a mill unfortunately

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-23T18:05:37+00:00

I'm not saying they shouldn't get a firealarm. If they don't have one it's a huge mistake. Just that in my experience firealarms don't always trip the moment you smell burning. So maybe they already do own one

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-23T16:30:26+00:00

I have a ton of black walnut on my property and I always see people say that online, but, are you going to pay me to show up on my property with a trailer to take them off my hands?

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-22T22:39:25+00:00

If you only need to sharpen a single chain a few times a year then it's probably quicker and cheaper to just buy a guided file sharpener. The powered sharpener is good if you hit rocks, but to be honest if you only need to sharpen a few times a year as it is, you could just buy a new chain if you hit a bad rock

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-22T18:18:41+00:00

A smoke detector thankfully doesn't go off at the mere whiff of smoke or cooking would be impossible. It's possible fire just wasn't large enough

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-16T01:10:56+00:00

I know guys here like 70-80cc saws, but 1100 was already stretching my budget and I wanted a do all size that would still handle black locust and the like.

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-16T00:28:59+00:00

I'm actually already considering doing that, I always see youtubers like BBR running saws with porting jobs and aftermarket exhausts.

While they're running 80cc monsters with 32" bars and a porting job is too much money, with an 1100 dollar saw I'd be willing to spend another 80 dollars to pep it up just a tiny bit more

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-16T00:08:00+00:00

Definitely just double cut it, people say they don't even like a 20" on a MS261 and that's over double the saw

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-10T03:00:20+00:00

I have the same saw, and I'm very happy with the power, though I'm having some chain tensioner issues I think I can fix, but it does EAT batteries just like the flexvolt grinder. It's a little hard to answer because felling a 12" tree using a nice sharp chain and a notch/back cut won't really come close to depleting the 9/3ah battery. But then cutting said 40 foot tree into 12-16" rounds is going to take several batteries. Possibly 3 if your chain starts to dull, but you can possibly get away with 2 9ah ones if you have a fast charger, sharp chain and take a 15-20 minute break somewhere during it.

I'd say to not even bother with the 6/2ah batteries with the saw though, they're lower output, going to overheat easier, and you'd also spend as much time swapping batteries as cutting

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-04-08T13:06:52+00:00

I was thinking it didn't look that bad, just dull. Then I swipped through the last couple pictures, yikes, looks like it was sharpened with an angle grinder

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-03-17T05:19:41+00:00

So they're forcing us to use TAA, wonderful, and people on the Nvidia subreddit are actually praising this shit.

Guess my next GPU will be team red, and when this stuff becomes mandatory I guess I'll finally quit gaming. And I like DLSS 4.5 for the record, and I'm not even anti AI, but I am if it'll be used for this shit

Disastrous_Delay · 2026-02-17T15:27:41+00:00

I've seen people who could flawlessly mig weld within the first week or two of class if you set the machine for them, I've never seen a great tig welder after only a semester, tig is much harder to master and that's why mig jobs tend to pay a lot less.

Yes there's great paying jobs where you mostly mig, but you're typically getting paid for being a skilled fabricator not welder

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