Marc
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Hey all, been a little while. I've been busy on the house and life in general. About six weeks ago, all my friends had a scare as one of our best friends was in a car accident on his way to work. Combined impact speed of about 80 mph. He suffered a broken humerus and some pretty serious brain trauma. He's recovering well, and supposed to make a full recovery. Of course this news came at the same time that we find out his young wife is pregnant with their first, due in October. After a while of feeling kind of helpless, I suggest we all pitch in and get some firewood for him; they burn steady and they'll want the house warm this winter with a new born for sure!
As it happened, the parents of one of our circle of friends had a large oak and some ash taken down near their yard and driveway by a tree service, so I told em to leave the wood, we'd work it up and haul it down for our friend. We ended up working two long days this weekend, but had a good crew both days and got a ton done. It ended up being close to 8 cords of great quality firewood. Ash for this year, red oak for next.
Here's my WRX loaded up with my gear including my 372 (24" b/c), my 290 (18" b/c), maul, wedges, ax, PPE, tools, etc.
Start of the day- one of us had the Huskee 36 ton, and my 22 ton was also there. The red oak was about 36" on the stump.
About mid-day on Saturday- all the ash was across the yard that was too wet to drive a truck on, so the little wheel horse and trailer moved all of it over to the driveway. Fortunately the three ash were all about 18" on the stump, so we carted over most of the rounds whole and split em up at the driveway.
The crew. The one who was in the crash is in the sling. I'm the one with the 372 and the chaps on the shoulder.
Believe it or not, the 22 ton split everything we put on it, including a couple of those oak rounds, whole. Very impressed with that machine.
TBC...
As it happened, the parents of one of our circle of friends had a large oak and some ash taken down near their yard and driveway by a tree service, so I told em to leave the wood, we'd work it up and haul it down for our friend. We ended up working two long days this weekend, but had a good crew both days and got a ton done. It ended up being close to 8 cords of great quality firewood. Ash for this year, red oak for next.
Here's my WRX loaded up with my gear including my 372 (24" b/c), my 290 (18" b/c), maul, wedges, ax, PPE, tools, etc.
Start of the day- one of us had the Huskee 36 ton, and my 22 ton was also there. The red oak was about 36" on the stump.
About mid-day on Saturday- all the ash was across the yard that was too wet to drive a truck on, so the little wheel horse and trailer moved all of it over to the driveway. Fortunately the three ash were all about 18" on the stump, so we carted over most of the rounds whole and split em up at the driveway.
The crew. The one who was in the crash is in the sling. I'm the one with the 372 and the chaps on the shoulder.
Believe it or not, the 22 ton split everything we put on it, including a couple of those oak rounds, whole. Very impressed with that machine.
TBC...
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