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I'm pretty sure I'm immune to poison ivy. I know how to identify it, and am usually the first one to spot it. That said, I've spotted it dozens, if not hundreds of times. I've never had a symptom, an have never headed to the shower with a bottle of simple green after I knew I was exposed...

Pure nonsense. I pump out old furnace oil tanks all the time. In many cases the oil is 10 to 20 years old. I burn the fuel in my excavating equipment and have NEVER had a problem. I wouldn't put a drop of additive in the oil tanks. Your fuel will be just fine. Even IF you got vast...

Poplar is a very low density wood. It also produces a lot of ash, and it stinks like crazy while drying. Stack up your hearth with a load of less then perfectly dry poplar and it will stink you out of the house. Pete

Check out the Splitfire product. Well worth your while. Comes with a 4-way wedge and splits on both sides of a cycle. It quarters two logs per cycle. I have one. Two operators and a kid running the leaver can't keep up with the machine. Pete

75 bucks an hour here for a skid steer. A JD 240 is a pretty small machine, however, and if you are doing it on the side, chances are you are not an exceptional operator, no offence intended. That said, for 30 bucks an hour I would want a decently hard working dude on the log splitter. Then...

Spruce (or pine for that matter) splits much better when dry. When splitting, position the log so you don't split through the knots if possible. The knots usually go all the way to the center, so split the wood in wedges with each knot completely contained in one wedge. Far less stringy mess...