Keeping Oppo Free Chainsaw

"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
07/15/2015 at 18:52 • Filed to: None

Now just to get it running so I can get some decent firewood and mill my own lumber!

DISCUSSION (16)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 18:59

What cc and bar size is that? It looks a bit big for home use...

petebmwm > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 19:08

thats a nice one! pull the black cover off and take the air filter out, clean it up and put some mix gas down the carb, should fire up... do that a couple of times, if it doesnt take on its own you might need a carb kit.

Pearson Hurst > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 20:05

Nice! I picked up a free one last fall that the previous owner couldn’t start. Fresh gas/oil, cleaned the air filter and blew out the carb with cleaner and it’s been working like a champ ever since. Good thing too, since a few weeks after I got it, a neighbor’s tree made an unauthorized excursion into my back yard and tore up my fence. They’re typically very simple devices, so I’m sure you can get it up and running with very little trouble.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 20:13

Nice.

I’m currently working on a dining room table with lumber that was milled on a chainsaw mill. I wish I could get more wood like that!

coelacanthist > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 21:01

Sweet find! Would totally be worth your time to rebuild the carb, replace the fuel lines and filters. Make sure the spark arrester isn't all plugged up, if it even has one, new plug. All super easy and super affordable, you will have a badass end of the world tool. Off to craigslist to look for chainsaws... Thanks.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > BaconSandwich is tasty.
07/15/2015 at 22:04

I’ll keep you in the loop if I do start milling!

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/15/2015 at 22:28

Here’s a few pics of the work in progress:

Kinja'd!!!

I had to cut them reasonably thin (e.g.: 7”-8”), as it would have been too much for the planer otherwise. I still need to weld up some brackets for the legs.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > BaconSandwich is tasty.
07/16/2015 at 11:05

Awesome! Definitely something I want to get into is milling my own lumber, will need a planer at some point though I guess. This looks awesome! Made a couple of slab end tables in high school that I sold for $100.

Where did you get the wood?

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/16/2015 at 11:10

I totally lucked out. An acquaintance of mine is a tree pruner. He had them drying in his shed for a year and a half, and didn’t want to take them when he moved.

As for the planer - the one we used was a DeWalt 15”. It seemed pretty decent, but we did trip the breaker a few times. I’ve heard they have a newer model with helix shaped blades that’s not too expensive ($700?) that I’ve heard is pretty good.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > BaconSandwich is tasty.
07/16/2015 at 11:32

Thinking of trying to find a landscaper friend to get some long pieces or even horizontal slabs from the big trees around town.

Considering the City just has the trees chipped, you would think they be happy for someone to take sections.

I keep an eye on Kijiji for planers but they are either too cheap to be any good or too expensive/too big for me to justify. The floating router table Nick Offerman made (search it on Youtube) looks like something I could build and would be a lot cheaper.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/16/2015 at 13:29

No kidding. There were some folks who lived just a few houses away that had some huge trees cut down. I was so very tempted to ask them about the segments of log that were sitting there, but I wouldn’t have had any way of milling it down myself.

That Nick Offerman router thing is pretty cool. I don’t have a huge work surface to work on, but at least it’s something that could get me 80% of the way there.

It’s really a bit of a shame there aren’t more tools listed on Kijiji around here - at least anything more than Black & Decker cordless drills and the occasional beat to heck jigsaw.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > BaconSandwich is tasty.
07/16/2015 at 13:35

Ya, I live along a street on the north with 100 year old trees and expect there to be some trees coming down at some point, all the maple!

It is, must be a huge amount of work to router a whole slab though. Having to wait a year to do anything with it would be my struggle. I need a storage unit with power to hold all this stuff haha! I need to get on Kijiji and start selling a bunch of crap I never use.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/17/2015 at 14:03

Be careful with the kind of maple it is. Manitoba maple is quite different than something like a sugar maple. From the reading I did a while back, about the only thing it seemed suitable for was burning. Elm isn’t great either, but it can be used. It tends to have an odd grain, making it hard to machine.

As for routering a whole slab - I don’t think it’d be all that bad, depending on the bit size. If you do want to make a routering setup, let me know - I’d be more than happy to help.

As for waiting for things to dry - I know the feeling!

Also, if you want a huge piece of wood to play with, let me know. I’ve got a slice of a tree that’s probably three feet across and 3” or 4” thick. Despite looking fairly pithy, it’s quite solid. I’ve got to get rid of it before I move.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > BaconSandwich is tasty.
07/17/2015 at 14:48

I will have to learn some more about wood. I know sugar maple can be pretty crappy to work with though.

I have a 3/4 inch bit but need a usable table that I can build a router jig onto. Anytime you have extra slabs or have the ability to get some let me know! I’ll chip in if you have to pay for them. I’ll take that one though!

CalzoneGolem > Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
07/21/2015 at 11:13

That’s a sexy saw!

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > CalzoneGolem
07/21/2015 at 11:40

Thanks! Its getting no spark though, got a new plug and still nothing. Time to check the magneto!