Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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WoodAbuser
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He may have a crush on that Russian girl at the from counter.Seems like a long way to go...
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Imagine the cut round face of a block of wood is a clock face. Lay the block lengthwise so it won't roll & cut through each (or as many as required) clock number towards the centre of the block say, 100-150mm for the full length of the block. Stand the block on end, use the splitter or axe & split around the block from cut to cut. If that isn't enough to finish it off normally, give the block another lot of radial cuts. Far fewer are required because of the reduced block diameter. Sometimes as few as two or three cuts are enough to start splitting a block.
Because of the wastage, I have mainly reserved this technique for large euc corkscrewed wood one + metre in diameter.
Good morning guys
Itās taken a month and a half, but I finally got all the crap in my yard put away last night. Snow is expected this weekend and I didnāt want to have to deal with snowy, frozen junk everywhere.
With two of my boys now driving age and living with me almost full time, a lot of motorized stuff appears at my house randomly. Plus I like to collect junk as well.
Iām not gonna show you what the inside of the other buildings look like but at least everything is inside.
Itās taken a month and a half, but I finally got all the crap in my yard put away last night. Snow is expected this weekend and I didnāt want to have to deal with snowy, frozen junk everywhere.
With two of my boys now driving age and living with me almost full time, a lot of motorized stuff appears at my house randomly. Plus I like to collect junk as well.
Iām not gonna show you what the inside of the other buildings look like but at least everything is inside.
Someone cut the two trees down? Are you allowed to keep the firewood or do you have to leave it lay?
Noodling halfway through at several points on the log?
In the back, can't you see it? Wait it's not up yep,lol. I ment man lift. There is currently plans for a small loft and or racks in the back of the shop.
Ford guys.....
No... an adjoining landowner is running an illegal dump where tree services are dumping cut up trees and chips. The debris pile, 30+ feet deep, is spilling over onto land trust property. The two live, standing, trees in question were pushed over onto land trust property by the weight of the encroached debris pile. The falling trees damaged a lot of other trees as well as the trail...
Yes, I can take the firewood. Over the years there have been so many dead ash and so much storm damage that the vast majority of the wood is left to "compost in place." A tree service chipped a bunch of the brush a couple years ago but they barely made a dent in it. This is a privately owned public access rail trail. Only a few of us are authorized to bring vehicles on the property... This to limit damage to the trail, dumping, and the risks to trail users. Four wheelers in particular were intentionally tearing up the trail... Arrests and hefty fines imposed by local magistrates slowed that down! Chainsaw volunteers are now required to have verifiable training... My cutting partner and I have Game of Logging training. Previously some of the chainsaw volunteers were not trained. The land steward manager and I were working with one of them to clear a tangled mess of, as I recall, 7 trees. I cut up most of it with my MS261 and then it was time for a bigger saw. I needed a break so we let the other guy use his Husky (don't recall the model but it was around 60-65 CC as I recall). We were horrified to watch him... no PPE and he clearly had no understanding of compression and tension resulting in the heavily stressed trunks splitting while he was cutting. The icing on the cake was when he backed over his chainsaw with his compact tractor. That was the end of untrained volunteers!
People regularly report me to the land trust and police... not a bad thing.
I do wish that they could read however... I put magnetic land trust signs on the doors and back of the vehicle. 
I'll hook you up the best I can. We always have new old motors coming through.
Who knew that cutting veneer would be so difficult... I've been tripping over this pile of red oak veneer in my shop for at least 15 years. It is past the time to get rid of it! Each sheet is about 14"-15" wide and 10' long. The pile was about 13" thick. I tried the reciprocating saw and that was a disaster... it simply ripped the veneer apart length wise. I figured I'd try the 170. It was still amazingly difficult to cut... To a lessor degree I still have the splitting problem but it will cut... slowly. It would take forever to clamp thin piles together with cauls and cut it with the circular saw so I didn't even try that... Maybe the 661 with an RS chain would do the trick?
That is now "old Moscow road" Only been down it a couple times. This whole area is fascinating, steep hills that looke like sand dunes and really are 'dirt dunes' Wind blown dirt from the Central area blown into dues after the glaciers retreated, only a few miles to the middle of channeled scablands, Deep canyons, big rivers, mouintains not far away. I love it.
Seems like a long way to go...
31 miles one way, better than the next real dealer which is right at 50 miles. That hurts considering the price of gas. I have a JKohn Deere dealer 1/4 mile down the road who also has a Stihl section. Unfortunately it is a big ag dealer ship and chainsaw work comes lasst in priority
Okay, I am a bit slow today but I finally got that.
Put a ratchet strap on it tight as can be and cut as close to it as you can would be my best guess.Who knew that cutting veneer would be so difficult... I've been tripping over this pile of red oak veneer in my shop for at least 15 years. It is past the time to get rid of it! Each sheet is about 14"-15" wide and 10' long. The pile was about 13" thick. I tried the reciprocating saw and that was a disaster... it simply ripped the veneer apart length wise. I figured I'd try the 170. It was still amazingly difficult to cut... To a lessor degree I still have the splitting problem but it will cut... slowly. It would take forever to clamp thin piles together with cauls and cut it with the circular saw so I didn't even try that... Maybe the 661 with an RS chain would do the trick?
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This was around the block from me today. All wood storage space I have is full (we only burn a fireplace insert, recreationally).
I will put my scrounging card in the āsuspendedā pile for several weeks.
Philbert
This was around the block from me today. All wood storage space I have is full (we only burn a fireplace insert, recreationally).
I will put my scrounging card in the āsuspendedā pile for several weeks.
Philbert
Quick somebody call BL and weāll make that number by tonight!
No early season %0rn allowed!
