wkpoor
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Its a years around event unless its pouring down rain or 10below and blowing. Sometimes early spring I give it a rest due to the mud.
Like the smart ones, I harvest the wood only Nov - March: the ground is hard; snow ( up to +/- foot ) makes it easier to skid and get around; no bugs; fewer snakes and nosy bears; felling, bucking, and limbing is easier in the cold --no soggy armpits or crotch; and, the short summer goes for other things.umpkin2:
The butts are stacked and split and stacked off and on late spring, summer, early fall. When there was ( was ) a pulp market here in Maine, the softwood 4 footers were cut year-round.
A query: I don't find that frozen wood is any harder on chains. Good sharp chains seem to cut the same either soft or frozen. Could it be the Prozac ? :chainsawguy: Or...................
A query: I don't find that frozen wood is any harder on chains. Good sharp chains seem to cut the same either soft or frozen. Could it be the Prozac ? :chainsawguy: Or...................
I cut any time its below 70°! cant stand hot weather. give me 10° and snow anyday.
Yeah, I cut last summer into the winter last year to get my supply up and I didn't notice having to sharpen more often in frozen wood than not. Only time I notice have to sharpen a lot is in dirty wood, like from the side of the road that has road sand in the bark.
I say you are crazy if you don't think cutting frozen wood is harder on chains. I didn't say that I don't still do it I like to cut in the cold but I know from experience that I have to sharpen much more often when the wood is frozen solid, and I'm talking below zero frozen wood. Take a frozen piece of meat and try and cut it with a sharp knife and see what happens? Ice crystals are now needed to cut through plus the wood and you also get the effect of sawdust gluing (frozen sawdust attached to the cutting edges on the chain) making it take longer to cut though the same piece of wood when not frozen.
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