Yea I know that. I thats hitting it a little every day. I cant do that so it has to be a perfect set-up form tree to road. I pay for help to so 4 hour run is where I need to be for a cord.
Different Approaches to Cutting & Hauling Firewood
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Yea I know that. I thats hitting it a little every day. I cant do that so it has to be a perfect set-up form tree to road. I pay for help to so 4 hour run is where I need to be for a cord.
JP11
Minister of Fire
I honestly don't know if I'll be at the 10. I bet I am though. Last winter was mild.. and I stopped using oil before the year was up (I put a hour meter on my boiler) I was at 1500 gallons. Now I was using home brew fuel, which is about 8% or so less punch that #2
I'm heating just over 6k sf. 1200 is my wife's photo studio. 1900 for the house, 1900 finished basement, 1200 garage/utility room that's beneath the studio. Very much liking having it 72 down here in the basement this rainy morning.
JP
Yep, I need to refine my logistics, especially now that we'll be heating my MIL's house with the Buck 91 in addition to the others we are supplying.
This Red Oak is terrible for rotting if it lies around. The heartwood will last forever but the sapwood starts rotting in weeks, it seems.
How you can get all that wood and still have the time to maintain your guitar chops is beyond me.
Let me guess; She said, "Go ahead, then at least I can get some peace and quiet around here."I too treat it as therapy. It's easier to explain it to my wife that way. I like to say.....
Would you rather I was a golfer? and disappeared every saturday and sunday?
Realstone
Lord of Fire
One of those firewood processing splitting machines must look real tempting to you mega-cord burners. After a point it would seem more like work than unwinding to me.
JP11
Minister of Fire
Are you psychic? I was eyeballing one at the fryeburg fair. I REALLY gotta get my toy barn built before I get any more STUFF that needs to be under cover.
JP
Realstone
Lord of Fire
Never. I split it all by hand with my old 6# maul. Splitting is my favorite part of the whole process.
Me too. I enjoy it even more than felling,bucking,hauling or stacking (that's boring lol).I dread the day when I'll have to stop splitting by hand for medical reasons.For supplemental heat in a 'normal' winter I burn between 3-4 cords,last year was barely 2 counting a bunch of smaller limbs,shop/milling scrap & the usual assorted odd chunks/uglies.
Ha, I have my 6 year old grandson helping me. As much as I love the little guy sometimes it would be much, much, much easier working alone
.I do most of my cutting on a friend's farm. He's been clearing land for several years so I haven't had to fell a tree on his place yet. He's dozed 'em down and piled 'em up with the bigger trees kind of off to the side a bit. On his place I'll cut it, split it, load it and haul it home. I don't even have to pile the brush much. If I get too neat with the brush he gets after me and brings his dozer or track loader out and pushes it around. Most of what I cut last year had been down for at least a year so it's partly dried already.
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