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Hi, looks like black walnut to me. Was the tree around an old home or former homesite?

Thank you gentlemen, all your replies are useful to me. CC

Youngish senior citizen here. Will be getting arthroscopic surgery on a torn rotator cuff. Even assuming I follow all the recovery and rehab guidance, I imagine I'll be differently-abled afterwards. I harvest 10-15 medium and large trees per winter, to put up 6-7 cord. No heavy equipment...

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I am considering putting a wood stove in our vacation home. Seems the best spot for it, from the standpoint of foot traffic, floor & furniture layout is in the center of the main room. Would be good for heat efficiency too I think. But wondering about other issues or challenges. Cathedral...

As luck would have it, I am getting a stove installed at the same time I appear to have developed a small leak around my chimney. Not much of a leak, a drop every 30 seconds or so, only during torrential rain and accompanied by strong winds. Roofer has tried to fix with no luck and will be...

I have been thinking about getting one of those electric starters for use in starting the fire in my Jotul Oslo. The gentleman that sold me my stove a few years ago told me he used an electric starter or heat gun or something like that to start his fires in his stove. But aside from that, I...

You sure you need to go that big? My large peaveys and Logrites will move a log 48” diameter. A kick or tool whack may be needed to get bite. Roll it onto something that gives you a couple inches off the ground. If blocked from rolling I use a farm jack (carefully, treat it like a grenade...

I too use the log rate calculators you can find on the net. However, I know that there are variables that can make my real world log lighter or heavier. So I do a crude field check on the weight of the tree using the first block I am loading into my truck. I will take one of the blocks that I...

Yes, fresh cut. Tree blew down 18 months ago, but was connected to the root ball, and off the ground. So like cutting green. Not worried about the ripples, but always like to understand what I’m seeing.

Variances that come with manufacture? Or must have come from a ding? Chain is fairly new, was cutting great.

Welcome any comments on these ripple-marks in the bucking cuts of this northern red oak. They are not very pronounced. I only noticed them when the setting sun was shining right across the ends of the pieces of wood in this stack.

Thank you for these replies. Don’t know if my 271’s muffler is catalytic or not. I’ll have to research. What is “opening” a muffler?

Yesterday used my MS 271 with 20 inch bar to buck a ~50 foot red oak stem. About 12 inches diameter at the small end, 16” or so at the stump. It was in a great position for bucking. It was a blow down, so the root plate held one end a foot or so off the ground. The other end was laying on a...

I would caution against cutting the vines with a chainsaw. It fills the air around you with a cloud of the urushiol. My advice would be, skip these trees. Easy for me to say, I am blessed with lots to pick from. If you must have this wood, I would use a hatchet or hand saw to sever the vine...

Thanks again for all the replies and advice. I am dealing with another large log in the shape of a Y that has been laying on the ground for a year and has settled into the earth. This time what I did is mount log tongs on a highlift jack. Easily raised one arm of a 18” dia 20’ Y a few inches...

My apologies if this has been covered already and I simply wasn’t finding it by browsing the site and using the search engine. I have several splitting mauls of different weights and profiles. I try to keep the striking edges neat so that they bite sufficiently. Nothing close to sharp. I...

I split them with a maul into sections weighing no more than 60 or 70 pounds. Then use a pair of pickaroons to tote two pieces at a time 30 yards up to a forest road. On the forest road I split them into firewood and load them in my pick up truck. Got this job done today. Unfortunately still...

Welcome any comments about what kind of wood this is. Young tree cut from the edge of a field in Virginia piedmont where the woods had been encroaching. It was living when cut, and it has been drying undercover for about three years. Thanks.

Thank you all, the comments were helpful.