Slpitting wood the hard way

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PMLKnives

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ME and my brother inlaw. The hardess part of this type of work is find a sucker..ah..hum.. volunteer. Good fun let me tell you.:barf:
 
Someone going to do it and I see two sucker doing it in the photo's. It is hard work, I did mine back in Sept. 11.1/2 ricks. :thumbup:
 
I beg to differ. Someone brought a power splitter to the party. The old fashioned way barely allows wedges and splitting mauls. :eek:
 
I did all 9 cords piled up the old fasioned way, axe and a pickaroon, but then I didn't have anything bigger than 12 inches in diameter and only 18 inches long. Takes me a whole year abit at a time. White birch splits easier than just about anything else that grows around here.
 
The site of my repaired hernia started aching just looking at those pictures. :eek:

The hardest work I'm going to do today is change the strings on my Martin D18, and go jam with some friends,,,,,oh yeah, and pop the top off a few Sammy Winter Lagers :D
 
This powersplitter is homemade. My father is ambitious. why buy a small one when you can make a bigger one, I think he was watching alot of tool man tim at the time. We used to clean lots and bring the wood home ( in the backhoe) when I lived at home. Now he gets tree lengths delivered, then I get to cut to 4' lengths, split, stack, and cut to stove lengths when needed. It's usually about 8 cord. Its good work when its around 25*.:)
Paul
 
I expect to see more of this sort of activity with the heating fuel costs being what they are. My lifestyle has changed this year due to the fuel oil barrel that costs at least $800 to fill in order to heat my shop. To combat it I made a woodstove for my shop in early November after a friend offered me all the dead wood in his forrest.

I now start every day with around 45 minutes of using a monster maul to split my heat for the day. It is good for me, I could use the exercise and it feels very primeval to start the day like this, kind of getting in touch with the basics. I always did enjoy cutting wood, being out in the forest and getting a healthy workout, it takes me back many years.

But what feels best about it all is we also have a stove add on in the house and we have reviewed our energy bills and see that if anything the power company will owe us money in the spring:D That really feels good.
 
Try getting married to a gal whose most cherised childhood memory is curling up in front of the hearth. She's the youngest of six and I guess it was her little safe haven. Now to figure out it it really has to be out in the middle of everything or if it can be on a wall.
 
Under those circumstances it could act like an aphrodisiac, many women get a charge out of that whole "in front of the fire thing", if that were the case at my house I would wear out the chainsaw and have the wood stacked the rafters;).
 
I was going to treat myself to something nice as a 'self christmas' present this year , but the oil truck pulled up and filled my oil tank, and the 780$ for 2/3 of a tank wiped out my rainy day fund. It's costing me a full 1.50 more per gallon this winter than it did last winter... almost a 75% increase over last year (was paying 2.10 last year, 3.60 this year)
 
Furnace oil is sold at 90 cents a liter here. That's 90 good reasons to feed the wood furnace. That works out to $3.40 a US gallon.
 
Just filled the tank in new bedord only $690 for 222 gallons. Its a wonder these oils companies can make a living.
Paul
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
Under those circumstances it could act like an aphrodisiac, many women get a charge out of that whole "in front of the fire thing", if that were the case at my house I would wear out the chainsaw and have the wood stacked the rafters;).
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How much is one of those splitters? :D
 
J.Marsillo said:
That's a nice splitter, now all you need is an old tractor with a grapple to load it :p
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We normally use the JCB with some wood tongs! Most of the stuff is smaller that just happened to be the big daddy.

In my opinion forgetthe fire place to inefficent, and a wood stove is alright but in a cold winter around here you burn 7 cord easy. Thats alot of work, Use coal its like that over set it and forget it(. A hod should last through the night with no fuss. My father inlaw uses a coal stove to heat the house, no boiler. He also has a beautiful fireplace that is for when youd like to sit in front of the fire, it is nice. Did I mention that I'm a mason, so is dad and my father inlaw.
paul
 
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