Garage Gazette
General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: stokester on March 20, 2024, 04:42:42 AM
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My neighbor just had a large white oak removed from her property. Because she is VERY particular about her lawn it was taken down by a service that used climbers rather than a crane. They did cut it up so I could haul it the few hundred feet in my trailer (with a drop gate) to the house.
Now the log splitter fun begins ???
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That looks like a lot of really good firewood!
Best Wishes and be careful with that splitter.
Lou Manglass
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Hope you have a good splitter Nick. Manual splitting is for the birds -- LOL
Sorry Nick, I mixed you up with Clay in my post -- tough getting old. :))
Good luck!!!
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Yes to both the above comments ;)
Nice gift though
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Free is good! And I bet dried oak burns well, too!
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Free is good! And I bet dried oak burns well, too!
Oak is the preferred firewood out here as it is plentiful and burns long. I believe other regions have their own preferred wood.
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I will check back in 1 hr. I sure that should be split and stacked by then..... :))
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Nice loading pile of wood, but I don't envy you the splitting that lays ahead!
Took the "kids" (young adults) out to my bro-in-law's woodlot last weekend and filled his dump trailer with just over 2 cords of fir. I let the young bucks do the splitting and now all I have to do is pack it all into the wood shed.
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Oak...my fav firewood.
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My apologies to Nick and Clay, I mixed up their names when I originally posted.
Sorry guys -- just got confused this morning; didn't have enough coffee in the system to jump start the old brain.
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Do you need me to send you some Goodie?
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Watch your fingers in that log splitter.
Words from the experienced......
Sent from my twisted mind of the mudman
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My apologies to Nick and Clay, I mixed up their names when I originally posted.
Sorry guys -- just got confused this morning; didn't have enough coffee in the system to jump start the old brain.
And here I was thinking "cool, another Clay here..." :-D
The wood to have around my area is Arbutus, an evergreen deciduous hardwood. Hard to get though as the species is protected, so when some's available it costs considerably more than regular wood.
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Pretty well set and should finish it up this week. It's a lot of wood, currently about 1/3d the way through.
Stihl chainsaw, Woodchuck timber jack and a 25 ton splitter should take care of it.
The chainsaw and timber jack are made in the USA and I have had ZERO issues with either. The saw always starts and the timber jack is sooooo much better than the imports. Used one at a friend's place and spent more time wrestling with it than cutting. Check out https://woodchucktool.com/timberjack (https://woodchucktool.com/timberjack) it's worth it.
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Excellent Nick, you're definitely prepared for this task. Very nice equipment. That reminds me I need a new timber jack myself.
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Well I'm about 2/3 done with my firewood project. It's looking like it will be about 2 cord of split wood, maybe more.
Some of you have read my rant about leather gloves and how I have yet to find a pair that will stand up to something beside gardening or light lawn work. Well... after wearing the fingers out of my Milwaukee branded pair I ordered Wells Lamont Premium Leather work gloves from Amazon.
This is what they looked like after three days of cutting and splitting. :91:
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Good job Nick! I haven't split wood in a few years, but I do recall going through several pairs of split leather work gloves over the course of a day-long chopping and splitting session. Don't know if any leather glove will stand up to that kind of punishment for any extended period of time.
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https://jtillman.com/product/1420/
This is what I buy for everyday use. Great until you get them wet. For rain or wet conditions I have some of those coated rubber type gloves.
https://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-16882R-M/Latex-Coated-Gloves/Uline-Gription-Flex-Latex-Coated-Gloves-Red-Medium?pricode=WB1040&gadtype=pla&id=S-16882R-M&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5cOwBhCiARIsAJ5njuZE0Cg56BVRWl2Fql_DY9xKUpG8Qf01Nh0shwx9Vy7dH3s2YoE01DYaAohJEALw_wcB