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IF you think green wood smokes, you are wrong. What you are seeing is steam and in that steam is the majority of your heat. A large portion of the energy of the burning wood is forced to boil the water in the green wood which goes up the flue as wasted energy. Never confuse how long the...

Seems like whatever they make tool handles with would work well. Wouldnt that be Ash and Hickory ?

I am intrigued by the idea of wooden wedges. I wonder what the best orientation of the grain is .... My guess would be the grain is lined up from the point of the wedge to the hammered flat long ways. While OAK is a hard wood I dont think it would be best suited for wedges because the oak...

I like to keep the 5 quart plastic bottles that motor oil companies use to sell their automotive engine oils in. I have about seven or eight currently and they are mostly Mobil 1 brand and a couple Castrol. I think these bottles are reasonably thick and tough for the intended purpose but not...

Not mentioned and not particularly relevant but one mandatory requirement for synthetic grease is when your equipment operates at temps below when regular grease freezes solid. There are various greases with different and incompatible base formulas such as lithium but I forget what their...

1. Standard 8 x 8x 16 concrete blocks 2. Maybe the grapples are or are not designed as you say, the grapples are not bent or twisted. The whole boom arm assembly is. 3. So what the bucket is narrower. The whole machine is much smaller. The bucket is the same width as the grappler and...

Many people feel that seasoned wood is simply aged for a while but they leave it outdoors and allow the wood piles to get rained on. The piles dry up in between rains and then just soak up the moisture like a sponge when it rains. You have to prevent the wood from getting wet if you want good...

I believe the arms themselves are bent. I checked the mounts very closely and all other associated structures and could see nothing wrong or out of place. see pics Torsion in many other structures are controlled by "box" structures and there are no obvious cross members forming a box in the...

I should clarify, the reason I am posting here is I really like the guy I rented it from, and would like to help him with the mfgr or warranty if applicable. It has a mfgr year of 2021 on the serial number tag so it might not even be a full year old. I would be very leery of this...

I rented this machine for the afternoon to pry about a dozen concrete blocks out of the mud Later on I began to think it wasnt level any more. I was putting the edge tooth on the block and pushing forward at same time as lifting the arm and rotating the "bucket" to lift the blocks out of...

You are absolutely correct ! I had forgotten about slicing off outer chunks first. THANKS for bringing that up.

Well so far, one vote for green and one vote for seasoned. Perhaps I could do a scientific test. I could take some long rounds and cut them in half where each face would be indentical to the other. I could split a few green ones now and record the effort ( how many swings ) and save the...

I just brought home a couple truckloads of oak rounds up to 18 in in diameter. I do not have a functioning splitter other than a maul, sledge and wedges and axe. On a green round about 15inches in in diameter, It took about eight good swings with an 8 pound maul to get it to split. ( three...

Good Tactile feel for some work is necessary and requires softer and better fitting gloves with the tradeoff usually being longevity. I have found that I can take some of the more durable "low tactile" leather gloves and soften them to give a better feel if needed. The way I soften them is to...

That is about a $1500 splitter from Northern Tools. You dont really need new tires to split wood. Only move it. You have the motor so I think only replacement hydralic hoses and that is only if they prove bad. I would mount the motor first and then test the hoses. Smear five dollars of...

So I should be able to infer that no matter how many more or less times I press the rubber bulb, I will not or can not flood the engine. Right ? ? ? Somehow I thought I was warned in a manual somewhere to not press the bulb too many times or at all when the engine is hot. Are they...

I have worked on many auto, boat, lawn equipment and generator motors etc but I am not familiar with exactly how or what the primer bulb does. I know what priming means.... in the old days just squirt fuel into the system to get it ready to run when usually cold. I have one chain saw that...

I have now pulled down eleven trees in my project and seven of them were leaning in the wrong direction where I had to pull back past vertical to make sure of falling in the right direction.... The largest tree so far was about 18 inch diameter at the base. I am using the Wythe More Power...

I just wanted to follow up here and inform that I am super happy with and have been using a 3/4" shackle to create my mid line loop attachment to connect my metal hook from my Wythe More Power Puller to my pull rope connected to the tree. I take a loop midline and feed it into the shackle...

I prefer the little eleven dollar Oregon guide accessory when sharpening by hand ( Go to AMAZON and search for Oregon Chainsaw Sharpening Guide ) and I dont think you can beat it if you are only cutting wood and hit the ground every now and then. If you are hitting rocks and steel and...