farmboss45
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Looks like a lot of ash there woodsroad, good burning stuff!
Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area
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woodsroad
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Yup, lots of ash. That's good...and bad. The Emerald Ash Borer is going to make our property look quite a bit different.
We also have hickory, locust and poplar. I don't mind burning poplar, even though it goes fast. I burn it during the day when I'm around.
Tomorrow I'll get out and work on the clump of ash that Sandy dropped for me only 100 yards from this spot!
farmboss45
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I marked over 60 ash in my small 5 acre woodlot thanks to EAB, got almost half of them processed. Storm in july brought a bunch of red oak down, will mix that with ash in two years. Might have to move to my other woods to find more.
woodsroad
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Were the trees that you marked already infested?
Any chance we can get an explanation of the "re-engineered HF splitter"?
From a few hundred miles away that thing looks pretty stout!
Pic 1 is the start of this years pile. Can you find the Husky 51? It was (4) loads on pic 2. FIL and I each have a Heatmor 200 OWB and we sell the rest. Plus we are both about (3) years ahead.
Jeff
Jeff
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stihl023/5
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About a 1/3 of the way in from the right and 3 stick up from the bottom.
Good eye I had to look twice.
woodsroad
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Well, for the full story, you can start here:
My Harbor Freight 30 ton splitter experience... | Page 4 | ********** Forums Home
But the short story is that the cylinder design was faulty. The nut that holds the piston in place came loose. If it had come off completely, at the wrong time, there was great potential there for some serious injury. The rod would have been free of the piston, and under pressure...ouch. It was just a plain old nut, not a castle nut, not pinned, no locktite. I rebuilt the cylinder, fixed that problem by locktiting the nut, replaced the valve with a real Prince unit, replumbed the hydraulics with larger id hoses and fittings, and Bob was my uncle. The unit works great now.
Later today, I'll post some pix of how it looks now. There's a "Post Pix of Your Splitter" thread somewhere....
Loose nut on the piston:
Piston about to come free of the rod as the nut backs off:
Splitter when it was fairly new:
WARNING: If your Harbor Freight splitter starts leaking fluid from the seal, there is a possibility that the locking nut on the back of the cylinder piston rod is coming loose. STOP USING THE SPLITTER and investigate the cause of the leak!
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That's a really important story for A.S. members to hear (but on another site!). There are likely to be similar splitters in use by our folks.
Would you consider posting a summary of it with the key information? I think that it deserves its own thread, both for the technical specifics of your splitter problem, as well as for the experiences and approaches you and the moderator followed trying to resolve them.
Thanks.
Philbert
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woodsroad
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I don't have the time right now (or in the foreseeable future) to put together an accurate and understandable post on the failure of the cylinder on my 30 ton Harbor Freight splitter, it's solution and the trials and travails of dealing with HF on this issue. It's best if folks go to the ********** posting and read the entire original thread. There is good information there from other people, too, and I'd rather not try to summarize and paraphrase what they had to say.
There was a similar thread here on AS, however, it wanders off into a "buy American" rant:
http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/41540.htm
CountryBoy72
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The latest haul of trees, three Fir's an a Pine.
The latest haul of trees, three Fir's an a Pine.
NHlocal
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Very nice, :msp_thumbup: did you take 'em from around the house?
zogger
Tree Freak
That right there is some pretty wood. And you got a trampoline! Big fun!
CountryBoy72
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Not from my place, about 25 minutes away. Good old Grandmas's 34 acres, real trees. The trampoline is used to keep the kids out of your hair. While working with the toys 
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Wolfen
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Firs and a Pine? I was always told not to burn Pine
stihly dan
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Just because someone says it, does not mean its correct.
bert0168
ArboristSite Guru
Pine is OK to burn as long as it's seasoned properly.
Think about it, in the PNW, that's all they have to burn out there, no hardwoods in that area.
bert0168
ArboristSite Guru
In fact, I just started splitting and stacking pine this year to burn next fall from the trees Sandy brought down in my yard.
I figure, if I got to touch it with my saw, I'm gonna burn it.
Besides, it all makes an ash.
I figure, if I got to touch it with my saw, I'm gonna burn it.
Besides, it all makes an ash.
