nittany_tim
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First post here.... what a great site.
I've been burning about 3 cords per winter in our woodstove since we bought our house 7 years ago. Among others, we've burned lots of sweet gum, which is a nightmare to split, but burns just fine and is plentiful in our area. So when my wife called me yesterday to ask me if I wanted another sweet gum tree that a tree service was felling 2 doors down, of course I said yes. But when I got home, I found that this wasn't the typical 15"-18" diameter sweet gum I was used to... this was a monster, with logs having a diameter up to 27" (and all of them dumped in my backyard). My 7-year old, 16" Poulan isn't going to cut it.
Can anyone offer advice on the minimum size chainsaw I need to upgrade to (in terms of both power and bar length), and also advice on how to buck up logs of this size (safely!)?
Thanks a lot!
Tim
I've been burning about 3 cords per winter in our woodstove since we bought our house 7 years ago. Among others, we've burned lots of sweet gum, which is a nightmare to split, but burns just fine and is plentiful in our area. So when my wife called me yesterday to ask me if I wanted another sweet gum tree that a tree service was felling 2 doors down, of course I said yes. But when I got home, I found that this wasn't the typical 15"-18" diameter sweet gum I was used to... this was a monster, with logs having a diameter up to 27" (and all of them dumped in my backyard). My 7-year old, 16" Poulan isn't going to cut it.
Can anyone offer advice on the minimum size chainsaw I need to upgrade to (in terms of both power and bar length), and also advice on how to buck up logs of this size (safely!)?
Thanks a lot!
Tim