If a fella has the spot to do it a long row north to south top covered is the best. Baked by the sun in the morning baked by the sun on the other side in the afternoon. Not done it myself but I certainly see where it would be great. Full ventilation, full sun. I hear you can take green wood to burnable in around 8 months stacked like that.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Made it home in time tonight to get a few loads in.
Got to see this earlier today too. It's a Duesey!
Got to see this earlier today too. It's a Duesey!
Still retrieving more of the oak that took out my power last week. These are two of the bigger branches. I'm not at all sure I can pull any of the trunk sections up this hill:
If a wood shack has gaps between the boards for air to come in and a nice gap between the roof and walls for moisture to escape it should dry wood just fine, especially if he stacks on pallets letting air come up from underneath.
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I see transmission repairs in your future. I plan on doing this type of stuff too, but using my loader to pull with.
duckman
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a skidder cone makes it so much better. the big yellow one's are worth the money.
Good evening Bob
.Was thinking about the chicken stories lol.
Brought them a nice round and split it in front of them, it took them a while as they seemed a bit timid with me having the axe in hand lol.
One they figured out that the frozen black ants were all over the ground it was like a bunch of sharks devouring a seal
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Got a little more wood split today than that round too. It was so nice working out in the sun, even though the wind was blowing pretty good. Had my bibs on and a hoodie, works for me
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All I could find are these small yellow ones, it only takes a log up to 20”.
https://sregear.com/products/skidding-cone-for-logs?currency=USD&variant=38111952896173
Maybe, it's only held up to this for 12 years so far.
That's pretty awesome.
Do you know what axle it has.
The transmission is the Tuff Torq K92, pumping full time 4wd with independent front wheel motors, and in my tractor it whines. Here is a snow plowing video from about 12 years ago, pushing snow and making noise.
Wow! I thought it wouldn’t handle much of that.
I got my loader tilt cylinder back together today, it had been leaking. I’ll put it back on when I get a chance.
I had to squeeze the piston seal back in to get the cylinder back together. It got stretched during installation, and was sticking out enough that it would hang up and wouldn't go in any further.
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That's how we do it. The middle rack in the back and the two short racks on the right are hickory and oak cut and split in January. If someone remembers I'll test a few pieces in October and see where there at. I won't burn that stuff till winter 23/24 either way.
I can't tell, is that packing Nut round or does it have a hex shape like an actual nut?
I snowblowed mine the other night and ran over and did the neighbor's after that. Pretty sure it's time to tap trees, so hopefully I'll see a bottle of syrup in return.
Would sure be interesting to know!
We hated wood. Our truck/equipment/wood lot was 5 acres. We didn't have room to store it. What little we did bring home, Dad would have the guys split on rainy days. He guaranteed them half a days pay for bad weather days. But, you had to show up, and if it was clear enough to put in two hours on the pile, you got paid. As a company we lost money on wood, but you had to get rid of it. We had people on file most everywhere we worked to dump. We had one farmers Market that was on the way home. He gave us $50 a load and had a paved pad we could back and dump, in and out in 5 minutes. That was in the 70's-to mid 80's. Our chipper truck was an F600 with a 12' bed with 6' high sides. It would take 3 cords, but we seldom put that much on it. The Market took everything we had.My "scrounge" of the day (year!)
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A close friends nephew owns a tree trimming business. Apparently, he runs ALOT of perfectly good firewood through the chipper just to get rid of it. I think I have a new honey hole
It means a drive into the city, 40 miles each way, a small inconvenience for the return. He is so eager to give it away he happily loaded me with a smile
I took my dump trailer my buddy brought his utility and we filled em up. I got some work to do now.
Welcome. I think one of our stalwarts is from Perth. BobL. I was visiting Arbtalk in the UK. They had a whole forum called something like, " Clueless Americans". I got kind of pizzed with them bashing us, so I posted, "Next time you need some one to give a couple mullion of their young boys to cover your back, call the Chinese." Next time I logged on, that particular forum was blocked to anyone that didn't live in the UK. Funny thing is, all the guys there treated me like family, still do. The USA bashing seemed like "Local Legend" gone wild. Some one would say something, and it would grow and grow. Sure hope you don't find that here. Now, this particular forum is the most open forum here. We joke, don't take life overly serious, and have fun. We do crack on each other from time to time. I always say, if I can't laugh at myself, I can't laugh at you. So, if I do something that makes you laugh, feel free to call me on it. Another one of my beliefs is if I make one person laugh today, it was a day well lived. Even if I have to do something stupid to make them laugh.
