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View attachment 590503 End of this Spring. I also have that much in the dry. Will start cutting again in Oct.

Also a test photo post without using photobucket.

Don, tell me you didn't cut those big beautiful White Oak rounds with a 50 cc saw with semi chisel???
 
My farm access is rapidly running out, with the keys being handed over on Tuesday. I feel that I have enough wood for now and other people might benefit more from my wood cutting fetish. Rosscoe is still likely to be a bit short this season so I went out to the Lady Farm today to have a scout around. I went to the area where I had the threefer a couple of weeks ago and dropped 7 or 8 smallish to mediumish peppermints. My early photos are taking their sweet time to come through so instead I'm going to post what I did next once I'd stopped dropping dead standers. I saw a log that I have looked at and dissed previously. It clearly had been down for a fair while and I had assumed that it would be rotten. However, when I had a closer look today I saw that it was one trunk of a double trunked peppermint and was held off the ground by the other trunk. I also reckon there's going to be one PO'd wombat once I start the saw.

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It was good all the way through.

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It wasn't a full trailer load, maybe 2/3 of a cube. I need to have something to show for the trip.

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The first rounds are going in the fire tonight.

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:)
 
I didn't cut up the trees I dropped, I just knocked them over so I can cut them up tomorrow and Rosscoe can shuttle the rounds to the trailers without getting sconed by a falling tree. I hope he is wearing his big boy pants tomorrow since he's going to be packing wood all day :surprised3:. (in the trailers).

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:)
 
Do wombats try to kill you too?

Drop wombats will kill you....

O yeah, they're deadly. Just look at this savage individual wrapped up in his blanky (if you dare)

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Hey cow boy why do even bother with a small saw like an ms460;).

Dunno why I bother keeping it to be honest, Jeff. Must be getting sentimental.

Actually, Limby is a better option when dropping these even though they would have been 10-18 inches mostly and the 460 could have done it with the 20 inch bar. But the bark near the base of these trees is pretty shaggy and the bigger dawgs get better bite. The 460 might get some love today :happybanana: .
 
Mike is right.

In my indoor boiler (when I use it), the size of splits and species of wood makes a big difference.

On a cold day, a full load of balsam splits (fireplace sized splits) lasts 45 minutes. A full load of fireplace sized aspen splits lasts 90 minutes. Aspen in larger rounds or blocks lasts 3.5 hours, birch and maple lasts 6 and oak lasts 8-12 hours. Red oak is about double the density of balsam yet it provides heat for ten times longer.
I'd love to see how long some osage orange & black locust would last in your boiler!:yes:
 
Got the where and what this morning , it's in there .

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Lots of black spruce , a bit of red , some fir and 4 sticks of maple .
Here's 2 of the 4 lol

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I got about 35' x 125' done today , 6 tanks of mix through the 241 , got about 2 hours left of cutting tomorrow and it's finished :)
The developer was happy , he liked the way I stacked the poles so easy for him to find , I didn't go for much Zoggerwood on this one , pretty much 4" and up so not much time spent delimbing ;)
Polly be 5 cord total on this one .
 
Not a snowball's chance of that anytime soon lol
What I don't have in quality I'll make up in shear quantity ;)

You're a scrounge machine. But imagine how much faster you would have been if you were using a bigger saw :innocent:. All that cutting and trimming, I dips me lid to you.

Roscoe and I hit the Lady Farm today and did some serious damage. I'm knackered. We met at 8.30am, started my saws at 9am after some fartarsing around fueling up and talking about wives and stuff and finished the unloading at his place at 4pm. Most of the wood needed to be carried or thrown up to 50m, albeit downhill. Might have taken a couple of throws for the bigger stuff. I dropped a couple more dead peppermints and cut them up for good measure and my initial estimates of 3 cubes was very, very conservative. Under promise and over deliver, as they say. I'll start posting pics tomorrow but now it's dinner time and I skipped lunch due to scrounging (fair enough, I reckon). Food o'clock.
 
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