v8titan
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Thats your sign......isnt it
I do have a can of that orange florescent paint.
Thats your sign......isnt it
Earlier this year I posted about getting wood from the lady that ran our kids' daycare. Well, she's since closed and we ended up scrambling to find someone else. A family friend offered for a very low fee, which is great, but it seems like she's spending more than she's getting paid by taking the kids out, buying 'em food, etc. None of what she does is required and I certainly don't want her to sour on watching the kids. When I found out they burn Pine for heat I walked around my property and scrounged up a trailer full of standing dead White Pine and a few small Poplar trees to bring out. The trailer is a 16' long car trailer with sides at 30" tall and I filled it to the top. We lost quite a few small pines to a needle fungus this summer so I'm even considering bringing another load out there.
Is it against club rules to scrounge your own property for firewood for someone else?
I do have a can of that orange florescent paint.
Did a little splitting today. Found my grandpa's old splitting wedge and gave it a go when the Fiskars was not succeeding in some large soggy aspen. Homemade from some piece of heavy equipment steel.
A good whack as the block is opening up and it would stand the wedge right in my stump/splitting block.
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The lower few pieces of this tree were really stringy compared to the usual stuff I split.Interdasting.
For me it's hard not to find that piece to be a blow through for the Fiskars. It's Poplar.
Why do you start the wedge in the middle and not directly on the edge?
The lower few pieces of this tree were really stringy compared to the usual stuff I split.
No reason, I was experimenting and middle or side of rounds split with the same effort.
I like my wedges. Used to use them more, pre-Fiskars, and before I learned about noodling. But I still like the ring of the sledge occasionally.
they got kind of silly expensive in the past few years, so if you see some reasonably priced at a garage sale, pick them up.
Philbert
I wish he he still around to cut him loose with a Fiskars to see how much his productivity would of went up. Maybe, maybe not. The ting, ting, ting, crack, was more his style though.
Recently had to replace a mushroomed wedge, they were not cheap, and the HD only had 2 in the store (one of each style). Things have changed. Usually, if I'm using a wedge, you need more than one.
My old saw jams up quickly with noodles. Need to make a noodling side cover.I have often used 3 and like to have 4 on hand. Noodling makes a mess, but goes faster.
I bought a pair of wedges at a garage sale that were in pretty good shape aside from some heavy mushrooming at the top. Found it easier to cut off the mushroomed edges with an abrasive wheel in an angle grinder before dressing them with a bench grinder.
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