A couple neighbors on the block donated some wood for the pile. One even delivered via dump truck right on the front lawn. What type of wood do you folks think this is? I was told Silver Maple, but I'm not sure. Update: The wood is White Poplar.
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Anyhow, you can't complain much about any type of wood that is delivered for free to your front door. It's all BTUs, right? Here are some pics of the loads. I bucked them where they lay, and moved them via trailer to the back yard splitting area.
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Here are the girls that took care of business bucking up all the logs. I can't complain about either saw. Both get down to business and get the work done. I'll have to say that I am especially fond of the 261C. The M-Tronic technology makes the saw a pleasure to run. Very snappy and powerful. The 362 is just pure grunt force. It likes to eat wood. Both saws could oil the bar more for my tastes however.
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Another neighbor let me have a nice trailer full of Locust. I unloaded it all in the back yard. I figured that I may as well rent a splitter for the weekend. I could pay the day rate of $71 to keep the splitter from mid day Saturday, and bring it back Monday morning. Not a bad deal. Also, my mother and father in law pitched in, so the work went smoothly, and we all had a great time.
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I kept a little round on the lever side of the splitter to stick my hatchet in. This wood was very stringy, and the hatchet did duty cutting all of the strings so I could separate the splits.
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On the other side of the splitter, I stacked two rounds up to the level of the splitters working area to act as a type of table to lay the slabs of rounds on while we split the other large chunks. This method worked very well. I'll make sure to do this in the future.
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Well, after about 8 or 9 hours over the weekend, the final result is large piles of split wood. We were very happy to be done with it all. I felt like King of the Mountain!
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A nice pile of Locust. The only hardwood I have in fact. Come the winter of 2016, we should be sitting sweet with some nice long burning wood.
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What a great weekend. Lots of good honest work. Great weather. And great time spent with family.
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Thanks Aaberg's Rentals, and thank you Mr. Power Pro 22 tone splitter! I believe that you and I shall meet again.
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Anyhow, you can't complain much about any type of wood that is delivered for free to your front door. It's all BTUs, right? Here are some pics of the loads. I bucked them where they lay, and moved them via trailer to the back yard splitting area.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-bd5C4TM%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0779-L.jpg&hash=33dbd5db9e2a95596908c1a7f4ce91d7)
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Here are the girls that took care of business bucking up all the logs. I can't complain about either saw. Both get down to business and get the work done. I'll have to say that I am especially fond of the 261C. The M-Tronic technology makes the saw a pleasure to run. Very snappy and powerful. The 362 is just pure grunt force. It likes to eat wood. Both saws could oil the bar more for my tastes however.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-7XbtLDn%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0829-L.jpg&hash=597482354365d6788e4972315f7fe105)
Another neighbor let me have a nice trailer full of Locust. I unloaded it all in the back yard. I figured that I may as well rent a splitter for the weekend. I could pay the day rate of $71 to keep the splitter from mid day Saturday, and bring it back Monday morning. Not a bad deal. Also, my mother and father in law pitched in, so the work went smoothly, and we all had a great time.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-VHhJggn%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0840-L.jpg&hash=1ed272b6dde73a33d86a13cddc3ee800)
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I kept a little round on the lever side of the splitter to stick my hatchet in. This wood was very stringy, and the hatchet did duty cutting all of the strings so I could separate the splits.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-4VRr4Z7%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0847-L.jpg&hash=55a6e4eee7dc51b3e92e1a4568be125b)
On the other side of the splitter, I stacked two rounds up to the level of the splitters working area to act as a type of table to lay the slabs of rounds on while we split the other large chunks. This method worked very well. I'll make sure to do this in the future.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-rkdD9sR%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0848-L.jpg&hash=f83a7ac771e2d0f06715569e6dc8b5eb)
Well, after about 8 or 9 hours over the weekend, the final result is large piles of split wood. We were very happy to be done with it all. I felt like King of the Mountain!
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-w5CWGtk%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0859-L.jpg&hash=fa5cbb1b2ddb6399f3fad36be77edbdc)
A nice pile of Locust. The only hardwood I have in fact. Come the winter of 2016, we should be sitting sweet with some nice long burning wood.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-hHGmrT2%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0844-L.jpg&hash=7e34cc2231a28d92ca6bcc9af43efd2b)
What a great weekend. Lots of good honest work. Great weather. And great time spent with family.
![Weekend Worker Bee a Success Weekend Worker Bee a Success](/talk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fadvblane.smugmug.com%2FTrees%2Fi-428QnsC%2F0%2FL%2FIMG_0875-L.jpg&hash=c3c3455b3c36b814ce34768ffab78889)
Thanks Aaberg's Rentals, and thank you Mr. Power Pro 22 tone splitter! I believe that you and I shall meet again.
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