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vtsteam:
Pete it's surprisingly moderate in sound. Nothing like a chainsaw or leaf blower, which neighbors all have, though the nearest one is about 1000 feet away. The engine is a Subaru Robin 4 cycle. Might even be quieter than a lawnmower. I run it at 2750 RPM for long life, too. I have a tach on it.

The band itself isn't very noisy, though the guide bearings can be if they're getting old. I should replace them now, since one at least is starting to protest. They are just stock cheap ball bearings. Two on a bolt fit the side of the blade and one a little larger in OD contacts the back of the blade as a stop.

There are bears here but they're black bears, not grizzlies, which live out west. Black bears are smaller. If you call 200 pounds small. Still, when I'm alone in the woods logging, I like to make lots of noise. Grizzlies attack for territorial reasons, black bears because they want to eat you. Thus, pointless to "play dead" in the east! Well bear attacks are extremely rare here, but I'm cautious. Hate to be the exception that proves the rule.

One rounded the corner of the house in broad daylight a few years ago, luckily I had just come inside to plug in an extension cord, or we would have probably met each other face to face. You aren't supposed to yell or run, or look them in the eye, but back slowly away, looking noncahlant in some other direction, I suppose. Yeah right!!!! I'd a probaby yelled and took off for the front door!

awemawson:
Oh Heck - Steve's going into mass bow production ... is there going to be an uprising in Vermont  :lol:

Steve nice logging saw - do I remember it from a long time ago, and it was what you used for the timbers for your house ?

vtsteam:
Yes sir, Andrew, built my house with lumber from that saw (and an earlier Alaskan chainsaw mill -- ugh that was hard!).

I am thinking about trying my hand at a possible commercial wood product, but not bows. But beyond that, I still haven't got hardwood floors yet in all rooms of the house, so I'm just building up a stash of wood to dry for any purposes that might come up. They say air drying takes an year/inch thickness. I think it's a little faster than that, though, here. I'm going to cut a variety to have on hand. Next hardwoods will be red oak and white ash.

The hemlock and white pine softwoods are for construction projects. Plus they were trees that needed to come down. The pine was standing deadwood.

awemawson:
Steve I do envy your ready source of woods - they would cost an absolute bomb over here  :bugeye:

vtsteam:
Wish I could share it, too, Andrew with you guys. There's plenty for everybody. Darned Atlantic! I could use some coals from Newcastle, too. Or coke for the furnace I mean.

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