Tornado Cleanup // Making Firewood & How to Pull a Fence Post

Mayfield, KY – cleaning up debris from the December EF4 tornado at my friend Travis @Trav & J Outdoors house. Turning a downed tree into firewood with Dad’s Stihl 041 Farm Boss chainsaw, then pulling fence posts set in concrete with a Hi-Lift jack. Doing things the old school way with old school tools.

I have a lot of fond memories of times spent around this chainsaw. If I remember the story correctly Dad bought it as a graduation gift to himself and used it for many, many years. We heated our home with a wood-burning stove and so much of childhood was spent with the sound of this saw running in my periphery. Dad has gone home but the Stihl is still here, still making firewood, running as good as ever. I just sharpened the chain (first time I’ve ever done so) and I’m very pleased with how it turned out.

Travis and his wife are getting a new fence installed after the tornado relocated half of it to another zip code and a Hi-Lift jack made short work of pulling the remaining posts, even the ones set in concrete. Wrap a chain around the base of the post, set the jack on a block of wood so it doesn’t sink into the soft ground, and start cranking. If it comes up at a bad angle you may have to reset but it beats the heck out of digging the post out by hand.

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0:00 Plan for the day
0:56 Chainsaw
5:11 How to Pull a Post
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