I've been cutting firewood for some time now. I started if I'm doing it wrong. I see stack of wood so neat, same length, and split to almost the same size pieces. My question here is do y'all measure you log cuts to get the same size pieces?
The other question is just something I was wondering the other day. I spent almost 4 hours splitting fat lighter. That put me to wondering just how many folks ever use fat lighter any more. On a cold morning I use it as my major starter from the nights coals. am I the only one? :msp_smile:
I use fat lighter sometimes, I knock them out of old rotten stumps once in awhile around here. Ya good stuff. Guys up north don't have it to get. It's more a southern thing. Almost a shame to burn it as you can sell it cut to small pretty pieces. Do you dig yours out with like a pick or something? I only get what I can kick out and yank out by hand. I know there's some big ones in the woods here though, from when they logged like 40 years ago.
As to length, I try to eyeball around 16 inches. A three row wide stack with those size pieces fits my scrap broiler house curtain wall plastic I use on the top just about perfect, with a little overhang. My eyeballs seem to work OK. My stacks aren't quite as pretty as some guys here, but they work. The stove will take up to a 20", so if I get close, that's good enough. GF does most of the stacking and she likes some of the puzzle pieces I give her...ha!
The quickest way to get more uniform pieces without using a log marker or tape is just use your bar, flick it sideways, know where you want to cut in relation to bar length, keep your eye on that chunk of the wood, cut there.
That's too slow for me though, just eyeballs and away ya go! You can buy one of those marker wheel things but I cut so many small branches it would be ridiculous to use that on them. If all you cut is perfect what should be saw logs instead of firewood logs I guess they would work OK. I can't see them working on normal goofy wood though when you are milking out a tree, and I just can't waste branch wood, hate brush piles and waste. If I have to cut it, I want it in the stack, small medium or large.