Duramax hd
ArboristSite Member
Hey AS. Been on here a while, wanted to say hey, and show off some pics of my journey of becoming a firewood hoarder, and a chainsaw addict. All thanks to this site by the way....so thanks a lot guys. My girlfriend has seen the transformation and thinks I've gone off the deep end!
Anyways, here is the short story:
Bought my first house last year in Newtown CT. Did not have one thought about how I was going to afford to heat the house, as it was July, and heat was not even a consideration. Well after moving in, and painting the place, it dawned on me! Fast forward a few months I fortunatly had a good friend in the chimney bussiness. I realized it was time to grow up, soI sold my sportbike for a brand new wood stove. After installing a new SS liner, and stove, I thought I was all set....boy was I wrong. I was lucky to have an uncle that whad been working on clearing some land 10 miles from my new house, so we spent the late summer splitting and stacking. I made out with 4 cords out of the deal, and he got 12+ cords of stacked wood and labot out of me. Wood burned OK but I didnt know any better. Now fast forward to the spring, after spending all winter reading up on chainsaws and wood burning practices on AS, is when I started to spiral out of control! bought an 038 Mag, and a 562xp saw from a friend that was getting out of tree work, and had an 023 that was my main saw that I bartered for. I started my scrounging HARD. After realizing how much it sucked to move wood in a dodge dakota, I went out and bought myself a K3500 dump. Figured any serious home owner needs one of those, so I could justify the purchase. Man is that one of the best investments I've ever made. All summer, I scored some awesome free firewood craigslist finds. I mean some seriosuly awesome ones. Met some great people giving the wood away, and some not so good people, but I had a blast doing it all. I cant even tell you how many full dump truck loads of rounds I bought in. To the point of developing a whole wood splitting/dumoing area with its own driveway I made, and still ran out of room. I just wanted to share a few pics along the way, and my equipment for getting it all done. I greatly enjoy the site, and frequent it multiple times a day. Im getting real serious with firewood now, and have a few log trucks coming in to drop off full logs to process. Going to sell a little to friends and family next year to help offset my chainsaw addiction purchases nad maybe buy me a nice TW 6 way splitter. Hope you guys enjoy the pics. I'll try to put them in the order of when things happened, but not sure it it'll work out. First time uploading pics to the site.
Kris
Fireplace after some moving in and some paint
New Naploen 1402 stove. Dogs new favorite spot
My first free craigslist score using my dads brand new truck...he wasnt to thrilled
Anyways, here is the short story:
Bought my first house last year in Newtown CT. Did not have one thought about how I was going to afford to heat the house, as it was July, and heat was not even a consideration. Well after moving in, and painting the place, it dawned on me! Fast forward a few months I fortunatly had a good friend in the chimney bussiness. I realized it was time to grow up, soI sold my sportbike for a brand new wood stove. After installing a new SS liner, and stove, I thought I was all set....boy was I wrong. I was lucky to have an uncle that whad been working on clearing some land 10 miles from my new house, so we spent the late summer splitting and stacking. I made out with 4 cords out of the deal, and he got 12+ cords of stacked wood and labot out of me. Wood burned OK but I didnt know any better. Now fast forward to the spring, after spending all winter reading up on chainsaws and wood burning practices on AS, is when I started to spiral out of control! bought an 038 Mag, and a 562xp saw from a friend that was getting out of tree work, and had an 023 that was my main saw that I bartered for. I started my scrounging HARD. After realizing how much it sucked to move wood in a dodge dakota, I went out and bought myself a K3500 dump. Figured any serious home owner needs one of those, so I could justify the purchase. Man is that one of the best investments I've ever made. All summer, I scored some awesome free firewood craigslist finds. I mean some seriosuly awesome ones. Met some great people giving the wood away, and some not so good people, but I had a blast doing it all. I cant even tell you how many full dump truck loads of rounds I bought in. To the point of developing a whole wood splitting/dumoing area with its own driveway I made, and still ran out of room. I just wanted to share a few pics along the way, and my equipment for getting it all done. I greatly enjoy the site, and frequent it multiple times a day. Im getting real serious with firewood now, and have a few log trucks coming in to drop off full logs to process. Going to sell a little to friends and family next year to help offset my chainsaw addiction purchases nad maybe buy me a nice TW 6 way splitter. Hope you guys enjoy the pics. I'll try to put them in the order of when things happened, but not sure it it'll work out. First time uploading pics to the site.
Kris
Fireplace after some moving in and some paint New Naploen 1402 stove. Dogs new favorite spotMy first free craigslist score using my dads brand new truck...he wasnt to thrilled
