I was supposed to go visit a friend and his wife yesterday. That fell through so I stayed at home nursing my sore thumb. I was bored enough to day that I HAD to do something. I decided that the firewood I have here at the house may last 1 1/2 weeks and it's supposed to get cold Tuesday night so I decided to get some more from behind my garage. Of course since I was going there anyway, I decided to cut down a smaller tree that didn't survive the drought that we've been in for about the last 1 1/2 years. That didn't get much wood, but I made up for it. The tree gave me what's on the driver's side in the picture without much wood in the bed. What was on the passenger's side was some branches that I had cut off of my oak and walnut trees by my garage.
The last time I was cutting wood at a friend's house, he was cutting some 3"-4" branches at about 1/2 throttle with my smaller saw. I have no idea how long he'd been doing it, but when I noticed, he had some smoke coming off of the chain. I was afraid that it was probably no good so I had to use that saw first to see. Unfortunately, it was pretty dull. I'm going to take it off and throw it away because I'm assuming that he took all of the temper out of the chain. I guess I get to go buy another chain tomorrow.