Firewood

[RaZ]

I need to get a couple of chimney pieces so I can finish installing my wood stove. Darn those pieces are expensive!
I need to finish it up in a hurry before it gets too cold to cut the hole through the roof.

I use 2 Stihls and a 27 ton log-splitter. Cutting and splitting are fun activities to me. People think I'm nuts.

 

[Crazy4mypeeps]

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We had a wood stacking party once. LOL Our city friends thought it was a blast.

Of course they were treated with some nice juicy steaks and other good fixens to go with them.

 

[darkmatter]

Here I am cutting wood last winter for this year. This was a huge hackberry tree. It wasn't splitting very well with just a maul, so I had to use wedges.

 

[Ole and Lena]

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These look funny and newfangled but I'm a convert. Swing like a double bit axe, split like an 8lb maul. Worth every cent. Much better than the old back breaker spliiting mauls or monster mauls. Wood that needs wedges gets another cut into shorter logs or tossed in the bonfire pile at my house.

Old woodsmans tip. Learned it from a real old woodman. Don't hit the center of the log. Hit in the sapwood far side to start a crack, Hit sapwood short side where your starter crack is aimed for. Some logs will split straight across (oak, maple, conifers) some split best in thirds (birch, ash and box-elder) Even nasty ones usually split on the second strike. On really big logs, shank off a slice of sapwood first to break the integrity of the log before you try to piece it up. Take off slabs of sapwood around the log, then split the center section.

 

[Capvin]

Well, I agree with your choice of chainsaws as far as it goes, but at my home in Upstate NY I use an Echo CS8000 and it is a horse. As far as splitting wood, just can't do it anymore so we strictly use a gas splitter and it sure does work fine for us. We have a woodlot with a bit over 100 acres in the Tug Hill section of Upstate NY and we will cut down almost anything there to use for firewood with the exception of the maple. Over the many years we have replaced trees that are cut down with maple seedlings and quite a few of them have taken off real well and some are quite large. Nothing beats a real wood fire, but they can be a pain because of the ashes and with the exception of our guest house we have replaced all of them with gas. Figure the guests can have fun playing with the fire.

 

[oesdog]

I don;t have this problem anymore - DH took out the Wood burner and put in a FAKE GAS ONE INSTEAD!!!!!!

Oesdog

- guess he got fed up of the wood cutting!!!!!

 

[Ole and Lena]

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Heard good things about the echos. They've made a great arborist's saw for years. The big 3 have em beat on price last I looked though. Don't see many around here but I'd like to demo one someday just to try it out. Happy with my Jonsered, if I need something bigger will probably have to be a Husky due to price. Burned up a Husky 272 over 4 years logging BIG yellowbirch, White pine, Hemlock, cherry and sugar maple in WI some years ago. Just ran out of compression. Sold it for 50 bucks as a parts saw to another logger. Never any other failure beyond the normal wear stuff you get using a saw for work. Great old saw.

 

[Capvin]

The Echo is really great and also has a very good and long warranty, BUT it does come with a hefty price tag. The 8000 goes for about $800.00 but it is worth it if you give it a lot of use.

 

[Carols Clucks]

My guy better not see this thread! He loves splitting fire wood for his up north cabin. (has 2 different saws-one stihl limber and a bigger one too...for the real trees, plus his electric splitter.....)

His new "toy", a Woodmizer saw mill

 

[RaZ]

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I am officially jealous.