Thread: show us your chainsaws

Little Stihl 211C getting a work out on She-oak (casuarina) put about 6 tanks through it over the last few days and hand split close to 4 utes loads. Its my gym workout I go and do a tank/load in the morning then work the office job in the afternoon.

Filling mums wood shed up for her, I dont even have a fireplace.. The big butt sections of the casuarina seem too good to cut up for fire wood.

That stuff is good, although when it gets a few years and rings on it the density! Splitter axe bounces. End up having to rip it to chunk it down with some of it. I got some avo the other day, usually it's pretty hohum firewood not a lot of heat and fast burning to boot. This last batch was solid like small blocks of concrete. Been cut and air drying for two years, old 30yr trees that got removed apparently.

Really enjoying this 881, cuts these 1300 wide slabs like butter.


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Originally Posted by MSL

Really enjoying this 881, cuts these 1300 wide slabs like butter.


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Very nice.

There have been some bloody fantastic fotos in these posts.

@MSL that's some absolutely gorgeous timber there

Cut a few little 10”x10” beams today, aswell as a stack of 10”x4”.


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MSL is that western red cedar, beautiful looking timber. Looks like a good portable mill set up you have to.

Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog

MSL is that western red cedar, beautiful looking timber. Looks like a good portable mill set up you have to.

Redwood. Got a stack of jap cedar to do, but only small ones.


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What you can do when you have the right gear! But the local timber we have access to is probably only good for 5 foot long timber before it turns corners, bit of a limiting factor!

Loverly firewood at that. Those branches are a firewooders dream cut, one split done I'd almost leave the barrel. Do you leave them down a while for the leaves to pump out a lot of the moisture before cutting them up.?

Yes, gotta get rid of as much water as possible. That tree in the picture came from that stump. So has sledged down the hill a ways. They were all growing on a fenceline on a 30 degree hillside: hence all the faffing around to get me up high enough on the downhill side to put in the cuts where necessary.

the chainsaw bech set up Ive got is just about perfect for trees like that,I cut 8 foot lengths from 1" round upwards to about 4" and stack in trailer and take home to use the bench saw...dead easy on the back as no bending over.... means the slash pile is bugger all. and small stuff doesnt even need splitting.

...And bending over gets more problematic with the advancing years

I try to employ mechanical means wherever possible: Tractor with grab holding 3 x 250 dia logs @ 6-8m long. Chainsaw with 28 inch bar. Do a dozen rings one side, walk over and do other side. Then crank up the hydraulic double end splitter and biff rings into IBC pods to dry. Rear mounted orchard forks to transport pods up to the rear of the house. So handled rings once onto the splitter, twice thrown into pod, and third from pod to log basket and into house. I am sure I worked out when I was young fit and dumb I handled them eight times

"Hydraulic double end splitter". I dunno, the internet appears to have badly damaged my mind...