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- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Morso 1440 B. This is in my cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which is just over 600 square feet. The Morso is more than enough to keep us warm and cozy, and being a convection stove it spreads the heat around in an amazing and gentle way.. Really lovely little stove.
Walls are T&G pine, hearth is concrete, and the stove pipe is double wall. Morso’s specs for corner installation is 7” inches to combustibles on the corners, and I am just shy of 10”. The pine boards remain cool when the stove is cranking, so I am more than good. That being said, I am waiting on new stove pipe, and then it will be centered on the hearth, which will give me about 14” on the corners.
I had a Morso free standing fireplace stove about 40 years ago. We lived in a 2 BR duplex and had it set up in the basement. The thing would cook us out. My first child was conceived by the firelight of that stove.
Fivepoints
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- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
I bought a stump grinder. We have been grinding with my shop made head on our mini ex. It keeps killing hydraulic motors. They just dont hold up to the hammering action. I had originally intended it for smaller stumps and it's been pushed into service grinding 4 ft oak stumps. I hope this 2550 serves us well. It has a wireless remote so it should be nice to use.
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Congratulations
Fivepoints
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
This is an upgrade over using a stump grinder attachment on our mini ex. For now, it's big enough for us. I wanted a new sg75 but didn't want to go into debt over it.
Matias
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Butte County
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Serf Life
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- Location
- Maine Island
Why was it climbed vs felled?
Matias
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Butte County
It was over a class 1 waterway and you can't let anything go into it. CA regs. The only other ways it could go down would take out the main phone lines, or a house, or the only road through that little town.
I usually post the fun and scenic stuff, but today was the second day at a job I'm pretty sick of and might not return to. Customer has a skinny property on a serious slope with a view easement and wants to thin out the "smaller" trees on the hillside for a filtered view of the water, which honestly I understand. That said, the hill is so steep in places I'm having to toss my saw up above me and crawl up the loose slope, and with what I've taken down so far, limbing and bucking as I go, often I'm not even walking on the ground, or even know where it is. Given the property lines, I'm having to wedge many things over up-slope instead of side-hilling, which lead to getting like 1/3 of todays trees hung up and having to fight to get them on the ground. It's hard and honestly dangerous work, I just feel like I have better things to do with my time and jobs I feel better about doing.
Bendroctanus
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- Location
- Springfield
Love a Willow. Just not that close to my house!
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Correct way to close it was destroying landscaping, deck, and patio!
What a mess
southsoundtree
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- Location
- Olympia, WA
In case it's new to anyone, rather than slicing through hung trees, "walking them down", I may cut a facecut/ backcut facing sideways or sideways and slightly upward, which can move the butt sideways---either triggered by pushing with a strong limb/ pole or pulling with a rope, or in the latter way, triggered by gravity.
I worked butts quite a long way sideways to lay them where I want them, maybe 90 degrees to the original hungup direction. This can cause them to roll free, sometimes, or stay away from falling into a fork when "walking them down".
