OT - DIY Firewood Drying Facility

[msinc]

I just put those strips on. Have only run it twice since. To be honest I was only looking for high temp not where, I don't recall what cooled first or both. I will pay closer attention. Any other locations for strips? I ordered some barrel strips from McMaster Carr and while I was at it got some 140F to 194F range strips. I have more. Thanks

Well, I think you would want to watch the temp on the return hose from the ram because that will probably be the hottest, just after it has done the work. Also, you want to monitor the tank. If you start to see heat build up there that definitely could denote a problem.
Still, the numbers you are seeing aren't bad at all. Typical hydraulics, automatic transmission for example is cooled along with the radiator, so it operates above 200 degrees. On extreme applications they add a separate cooling unit and get it out of the radiator, so it might run 220 or so. As you get up around 250 or more the oil will shear {break down} that's when you need more cooling capacity and synthetic oil. You're well below all that at this time.
Usually, the way they control the heat in a machine like that is to simply have a bigger reservoir. More fluid takes longer to heat up.

 

[MikeT49]

@msinc, thanks for the info. Like most of us when I get stuff that works great, I take care of it. Except for wives, perhaps. Thanks for providing the info to trouble shoot and Maritain it. I suspect I don't have a problem. I'll find out now that I have a method to do so.

@ronsatspokane, It wasn't me. I was going to make some comments on the quality of the hunting there, but nobody knows, maybe that's why it's a secret.

Dale, You do know that the audacious display of wealth by using camo tarpage is frowned upon?

 

[MikeT49]

Special starting instructions for STIHL chainsaws that have not been started for a while: 1. About 25 minutes before you want to start cutting. Vigorously pull to start a minimum of 20 times. Whether you have the choke etc set correctly really like doesn't matter, it's not gonna start. Breathe deep, relax. Rid your mind of all those nasty thoughts. 2. Go inside, have a beer or whatever. 3. After 20 minutes go back outside. 4. It will start first pull and for once you won't be pissed. This also works with Honda suitcase generators.

 

[dolek]

@msinc, thanks for the info. Like most of us when I get stuff that works great, I take care of it. Except for wives, perhaps. Thanks for providing the info to trouble shoot and Maritain it. I suspect I don't have a problem. I'll find out now that I have a method to do so.

@ronsatspokane, It wasn't me. I was going to make some comments on the quality of the hunting there, but nobody knows, maybe that's why it's a secret.

Dale, You do know that the audacious display of wealth by using camo tarpage is frowned upon?

Camo tarp ? Now that would be cool,but I am too cheap to step up to that level .

Your thread reminded me I needed to call my wood folks Bonnie and Clyde...they brought a couple cord over to start the dance. Sure enough I woke up to rain . My wife really likes your drying kiln, so that's a go.

 

[hogpatrol]

Special starting instructions for STIHL chainsaws that have not been started for a while: 1. About 25 minutes before you want to start cutting. Vigorously pull to start a minimum of 20 times. Whether you have the choke etc set correctly really like doesn't matter, it's not gonna start. Breathe deep, relax. Rid your mind of all those nasty thoughts. 2. Go inside, have a beer or whatever. 3. After 20 minutes go back outside. 4. It will start first pull and for once you won't be pissed. This also works with Honda suitcase generators.

I had a weak coil right from the factory on an MS362, always had to use the compression release to get it started. It eventually died and with a new coil, it starts on the first pull without the release. MS200T starts on the second pull. If you don't use avgas, use fresh Sunoco 94 with synthetic. That may help the starting issues. In the winter, I let them sit in the house for a couple hours. That helps too.

 

[rjtfroggy]

Hog sounds like my Stihl an MS270 bad coil from the get go and a bad carb, it spent more time being serviced under warranty than in use. The Stihl rep would not do a thing even a polite letter to the factory got no results. A $400 saw and I had to borrow a friends to cut the 6 cords I had laying in the yard.
I finally after 6 years of it sitting in the garage found an old timer who took a look at it found the problems and the quest for parts started, found a coil at a shop in Florida ( only one they had) and he put a different carb on it. Total with labor over $350 (for a saw that never ran enough to even dull the chain).
Needless to say I have swore at and off Stihl products, I will buy the cheap throw a ways from now on.

 

[snert]

View attachment 1175609 Here in the Pacific Northwest we have a myriad of ways to use tarps, not just covering fire wood. Pictured is what's known as "The Blue Tarp of Neglect" Acts like a Klingon cloaking device. Actually can be deployed anywhere in the country.

To live in Central NY as a resident, not tourist, you must have: A blue tarp over your woodpile, a blue tarp over your truck windshield, a blue tarp over your snomobile, your boat and your hole in your roof. You must also abide by the 2/3 rule. meaning your garage must be 2/3 larger than your house, but must be filled will velvet elvis canvases, beer can collections, a ripped trampoline, and numerous battery operated child riding toys, defunct.
This behavior allows you to use tarps on all that stuff.

 

[brokeasajoke]

Run a ms460 with a big bore kit and the dual port rescue muffler cover. I run stihl every thing in my mowing service. I did pitch a set of stihl hedge trimmers in the metal recycle dumpster at the local recycling center once. One Shindiawa weedeater did get slung off a hill once too but my other Shindiawa was great. Got one cherry, a locust, and a maple I need to work up. Got them bucked up but a friend of mine borrowed my wood splitter for a couple of days back in November and I've been doing it with a maul. Slow going.

 

[hogpatrol]

Run a ms460 with a big bore kit and the dual port rescue muffler cover. I run stihl every thing in my mowing service. I did pitch a set of stihl hedge trimmers in the metal recycle dumpster at the local recycling center once. One Shindiawa weedeater did get slung off a hill once too but my other Shindiawa was great. Got one cherry, a locust, and a maple I need to work up. Got them bucked up but a friend of mine borrowed my wood splitter for a couple of days back in November and I've been doing it with a maul. Slow going.

I have a Stihl weed eater that is the most ignorant, spiteful, gasoline driven engine unit that I have ever owned. If it doesn't feel like working, it will not start. I'll pitch it eventually.

 

[brokeasajoke]

I have a Stihl weed eater that is the most ignorant, spiteful, gasoline driven engine unit that I have ever owned. If it doesn't feel like working, it will not start. I'll pitch it eventually.

I don't care what brand it is. If its troublesome it goes. But keep in mind, a new carb can be had these days for $15. Put a $30 chinese carb on my neighbor's Honda 400 forman and it runs great. Got a stihl aftermarket carb, air filter, fuel filter, primer bubble, and a spark plug for less than $20. I'm a big fan of the stihl 4mix engines. 4stroke principle but takes mixed fuel and no oil in crankcase.

 

[MikeT49]

To live in Central NY as a resident, not tourist, you must have: A blue tarp over your woodpile, a blue tarp over your truck windshield, a blue tarp over your snomobile, your boat and your hole in your roof. You must also abide by the 2/3 rule. meaning your garage must be 2/3 larger than your house, but must be filled will velvet elvis canvases, beer can collections, a ripped trampoline, and numerous battery operated child riding toys, defunct.
This behavior allows you to use tarps on all that stuff.

See there unnamed camo tarp person, a man who knows his place in society not going for sleazy one upmanship. You should pay attention. Next you're gonna tell us you got blue suede mink leather seats in your UTV.

All of my crowd that are running Stihls have older 0 series saws. The Stihl I am currently running is an 026, my buds run 028, 029, 031, 032, 036 and one 048. They start easy as long as you don't let em sit for over 2 months. If you do that, with one exception, you will get your exercise. We all want to choke the guy with the easy starter. We think he's cheating.
Stabil is not what it's hyped up to be. Especially with ethanol gas. We find colloidal crap forming in the carb bowl. Bad chit if you know how carbs work. We have recently switched over to ethanol free premium. IIRC about 97 Octane. I'm trying Seafoam as a stabilizer. So for so good.

 

[MikeT49]

Run a ms460 with a big bore kit and the dual port rescue muffler cover. I run stihl every thing in my mowing service. I did pitch a set of stihl hedge trimmers in the metal recycle dumpster at the local recycling center once. One Shindiawa weedeater did get slung off a hill once too but my other Shindiawa was great. Got one cherry, a locust, and a maple I need to work up. Got them bucked up but a friend of mine borrowed my wood splitter for a couple of days back in November and I've been doing it with a maul. Slow going.

Couple of days? Seen that. Probably thinks it belongs to him?

 

[snert]

Hey! I don't own a camo tarp! I don't own a utv. I owned a Gravely walk behind and a snowblower designed to launch small children a football field. I drove a 1990 Buick that used to have a passenger side door handle, till it froze and I chopped it out with a hammer and chisel. Taped a cereal box over it with duct tape to fill the hole. Had a Stihl once. A little bitty one. Never got it to run.
When it comes to rednecking, I fail. But then it's fun to try. I used tarps to line my trunk. Kept water out from the rust hole.

 

[MikeT49]

I had a 67 Cutlass S. In the service, wife, kid. There was this sticky fiberglass tape chit. You wrapped it around exhaust pipes, etc. to seal leaks. Start the rig up let it idle and heat up the exhaust. Do not rev during this time! Shut the rig down. Let it cool down and viola! Solid as a rock and no more exhaust leaks. Rumor has it that it lasts for a long time. Of course I wouldn't know anything about that..

 

[snert]

I remember that stuff!

 

[MikeT49]

I had a Stihl 028WB with a 20", .325 pitch chain, I'm currently running a 026 with a 20", 3/8 pitch chain. To me the .325 pitch seemed to cut faster. With the narrower kerf, less wood to remove. The 026 came with the 3/8. Doesn't seem to cut as fast. Same size motor. Would going to .325 improve my cutting speed? Or go with 18" bar vs 20"? The shorter bar doesn't require a sprocket change. I do use full skip chains.

 

[Bill K]

Used a maul for years, but old age and hurting back, made me go to a wood splitter. I start laying in wood as early as I can get into the woods, mostly lodge pole and as dry as I can find. Cut, split and stack it into the 3 sided sheds (3) and by fall when I go too use it, it is all ready to burn through the winter. I put in around 10-12 cords each year, and some is carried over into the following year.
As for the blue tarps, we call them "FEMA roofing" that the government hands out, like they are doing people in need a favor.

 

[brokeasajoke]

Got this built this past summer. Scrapped, scrounged and traded some labor. I got about $100 cash in it.

 

[Louisiana Shooter]

After those last few hurricanes here in Louisiana the whole southern end of the state is covered in blue tarps!

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

In 83' I was in college,dating a nursing student. She was 19 myself 23. She wanted to go home one weekend, before baseball season and I was on the road. After I was introduced to most of her family, I also realized they heat the house with a wood stove in the kitchen. Her mom also made bread and sold/delivered it in the township. The girlfriends dad showed me around after supper, chainsaws, tools, splitter, small wood pile. I asked where the tractor, trucks were. Said he didn't have any, just the Duster. I had a 1980 Toyota 4x4 I bought new(worked for 4+ yrs before college). Spent most of the next day, late February, hauling cut wood out the neighbors woods. Two of the brothers(my age, made things interesting since I was dating their little sister) split wood as fast as her dad and I could load and haul it. Later the girlfriend told me, her dad figured he could relax the next weekend and take her mom out. Ya there were benefits after returning to college.