I put 2 1/2 cords on my back porch last fall and I used up the last of that last night. I have plenty more stacked outside and I may have to bring in an arm full as I need it till it worms up. I'm not going to bring anymore then I need to finish out the season.Each row is a cord. I started with nine cord October and now March 2 I have used almost four. I'm good for next year. 10 below in the NW Kootenay, BC.
Jere, You're just a cutting machine. Good work and be safe, you and the pooch.Sunny last day of February. I've got all my cut dead Oak is split and stacked.
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Now, I have options: work up the big oak that fell taking out my utilities last week, or cut down another standing dead red oak. I doubt the oak that took out my utilities will be seasoned by next year. So, I believe I'll take down another dead oak.
I have burnt around 7 chord this winter so far.Each row is a cord. I started with nine cord October and now March 2 I have used almost four. I'm good for next year. 10 below in the NW Kootenay, BC.
I lived in Conroe for awhile way back. Do not remember it being cold enough in the winter... does it freeze where you are?I put 2 1/2 cords on my back porch last fall and I used up the last of that last night. I have plenty more stacked outside and I may have to bring in an arm full as I need it till it worms up. I'm not going to bring anymore then I need to finish out the season.
I take it you move the basket with your Kubota. Does it have any issues lifting a loaded basket full of green wood? What model is that.My woodpile.
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I started out with it, but it got too warm almost from the first split. It's hanging on a tree just out of view. Probably should have had my photographer (wife) catch in the background as proof it's me.I don’t recognize yo without your red jacket.
Probably should have had my photographer (wife) catch in the background as proof it's me.
Because I am weak of wrist and back, I cannot hand stack a heap of logs in the way you do in the US. It really looks to me like a kind of religion and I admire all the time and effort and I can see that the result brings great pride.Old grain store with ventilated floor , never tried to use the floor to dry the wood, especially with the price of electricity now, but it would be possible.
I think if I leave it as it is for a year it should be dry enough.
Damp climate here in UK so it is good to have it indoors both for storage and splitting under cover and out of the weather. Lockdown splitter has been a joy to use, quiet and steady and yet productive. But this is after modification number 101! Such is the life of an inventor!
I am not trying to make it into a contest. When I was young in the 1960s, there was only a primitive axe and a chopping block and I spent years hand balling the split logs into a shed which then had to be hand loaded out into a barrow. We had a large old fashioned fireplace in a big old draughty farmhouse. It was like feeding the boilers on a battleship! My dear old father used to sit in his chair with a rug on one side to protect him from the radiated heat of the fire, and another rug on the other side to protect him from the draught under the door!Whatever makes it easiest for you and works. It's not a contest.
I think that this is a clever use of the hydraulic power of a splitter without the complication of adding a powered conveyor. I cannot see why you could not use the ram to push to an even greater height with a little ingenuity.Sorry, I wasn't insinuating your were making it into a competition. Poor choice of words. I should have said, "You shouldn't have to feel like you have to keep up with the Jones".
I'm always looking for ways to simplify my processing work. Right now, all I want to do is add a gravity conveyor so splits go directly from my splitter into my trailer eliminating one time bending/ picking/tossing motion. I'm not as old as you, but I do feel the age.
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