Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I got the call this morning ,
"You still in bed ?"
I was up and ready lol
Last summer I had cut a few trees for a friend to open up his back yard , in the fall he had an abscess rupture in his spine that almost done him in , emergency surgery , paralyzed after surgery but regained mobility slowly after the beginning the new year .
Physio therapy since and he's getting there , no stamina yet but he's doing the best he can to regain , the biggest problem he has other than stamina is that he feels like he has a constant sunburn , inside and out and it gets worse at night when he tries to sleep so he's had a rough go and very little income .
Today he felt up to some chainsaw and cleanup therapy so I was there without hesitation .
I go to pick up my dump trailer , unbeknownst to me , another friend borrowed it FFS
So I ended up using my friends trailer , not happy , not liking or really trusting the unknown trailer so I cut a small load and drug it home , uneventful so I was good with that
Since nothing fell off I went back after a sammich and cut load .
My friend was wore out by 2:30 but he was happy , it was nice and warm , the sun just beaming in , progress was made , from what he was saying I'll polly end up with 5 cord of hardwood and 2 cord of spruce between now and over the winter from his property .
I even drug home a small load of dry spruce and shorts of the hardwoods .
BTW , I need some help to id these foreign strange looking trees
That Aspen or Popple ?
"You still in bed ?"
I was up and ready lol
Last summer I had cut a few trees for a friend to open up his back yard , in the fall he had an abscess rupture in his spine that almost done him in , emergency surgery , paralyzed after surgery but regained mobility slowly after the beginning the new year .
Physio therapy since and he's getting there , no stamina yet but he's doing the best he can to regain , the biggest problem he has other than stamina is that he feels like he has a constant sunburn , inside and out and it gets worse at night when he tries to sleep so he's had a rough go and very little income .
Today he felt up to some chainsaw and cleanup therapy so I was there without hesitation .
I go to pick up my dump trailer , unbeknownst to me , another friend borrowed it FFS
So I ended up using my friends trailer , not happy , not liking or really trusting the unknown trailer so I cut a small load and drug it home , uneventful so I was good with that
Since nothing fell off I went back after a sammich and cut load .
My friend was wore out by 2:30 but he was happy , it was nice and warm , the sun just beaming in , progress was made , from what he was saying I'll polly end up with 5 cord of hardwood and 2 cord of spruce between now and over the winter from his property .
I even drug home a small load of dry spruce and shorts of the hardwoods .
BTW , I need some help to id these foreign strange looking trees
That Aspen or Popple ?
brown = oak, red = purple ash... the second is real rare and almost well done for the seasoning?? lol
Sure am glad I drug home a load of spruce then instead of some strange mystery wood .
Did I ever tell you guys how magnetic chainsaws are ?
If they were only that good at finding gold lol
If they were only that good at finding gold lol
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Ya...I had a fence wire jump out of the dirt and stick to my t540 yesterday. The tooth drug it all the way around the clutch under the cover. Luckily I think it only got one tooth. I kept cutting and it seemed fine but I'll inspect later...
Yes, that's why I bought one of the last V8s. For the money, you can't buy a better car down here.
Manufacturing in Australia has been killed off by extravagant wages and other high input costs (such as power - we used to be the lowest in the developed world, now one of the highest). But the wages...don't get me started. If I want a 19 year old to work casual reception and answer the phone I have to pay them about $25/hr - equiv $50,000/yr. And of course, the last one spent most of her time filing her nails and mucking around on facebook.
Thanks gents
I would also like to add my congratulations!
I figured looking at how a fresh air system works on a furnace that it would help. Just use the fresh air hookup from the stove, it will draw the air to the stove and some of that air would be replaced by the warm air from the stove. What your saying would also work, but I would have to have a fan running all the time. I already have a 230cfm radon fan that I use to bring warm air to the back master bathroom area, with that going that area is around 5 degrees cooler than the rest of the house which is very good compared to when it's turned off and then it goes to 10 degrees difference than the rest of the house.
I got the call this morning ,
"You still in bed ?"
I was up and ready lol
Last summer I had cut a few trees for a friend to open up his back yard , in the fall he had an abscess rupture in his spine that almost done him in , emergency surgery , paralyzed after surgery but regained mobility slowly after the beginning the new year .
Physio therapy since and he's getting there , no stamina yet but he's doing the best he can to regain , the biggest problem he has other than stamina is that he feels like he has a constant sunburn , inside and out and it gets worse at night when he tries to sleep so he's had a rough go and very little income .
Today he felt up to some chainsaw and cleanup therapy so I was there without hesitation .
I go to pick up my dump trailer , unbeknownst to me , another friend borrowed it FFS
So I ended up using my friends trailer , not happy , not liking or really trusting the unknown trailer so I cut a small load and drug it home , uneventful so I was good with that
Since nothing fell off I went back after a sammich and cut load .
My friend was wore out by 2:30 but he was happy , it was nice and warm , the sun just beaming in , progress was made , from what he was saying I'll polly end up with 5 cord of hardwood and 2 cord of spruce between now and over the winter from his property .
I even drug home a small load of dry spruce and shorts of the hardwoods .
BTW , I need some help to id these foreign strange looking trees
That Aspen or Popple ?
Looks like a great day, Dan, there's nothing like chainsaw therapy. You needed the UTV!
I've been schlepping around the place moving Mt Cowboy into and stacking next to the shed, along with splitting and stacking the 6 odd cubes of manna gum and mystery ironboxbark tree from the last few weeks. My sources have dismissed the messmate option and yellow box has been excluded also leaving red ironbark and red box as the most likely options in the area I was cutting. Since there are known hybrids in this area it could be a little from column A and a little from column B.
The far bay is next winter's wood, almost all peppermint.
The middle bay is 2019's wood, about equal parts peppermint and blue gum, about 9 cubes in there so far. The stuff piled in front is to be stacked in there too. By the time I've moved the rest of Mt Cowboy, the middle bay will hopefully be full. On the right is 8 cubes of a mix of candlebark, peppermint and red gum, all pretty green so that will be someotheryear wood.
Then there's this
Not sure exactly how much there is stacked here but prolly more than 10 cubes of the greenest peppermint, manna gum and mystery ironboxbark.
I don't know what I'm going to do once I'm done splitting and moving wood around.
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Who am I kidding, I'll go and cut more wood.
Lol! That is an impressive pile of piles of wood Cowboy
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Thats why its called MOUNT COWBOY
With the heat you guys get in the summer do you still need a couple of years to dry out the denser woods ?
I just looked more carefully at your last photo Dan,. He he....Oak smoke...pfff, it's not spruce I know!
Drying times, hhmm yes. Now I know our varies from species to species, it varies with local conditions, it depends what time of year the tree was felled and it depends how small you split (ickle stove me=ickle splits). But after reading Norwegian wood recently I started thinking, is this '3 years ahead' mantra really necessary? I reckon winter to spring felled, CSS by May and split to about 4", and I'd have virtually anything below 20% by burning season. I stack in the open on pallets, about 3'6" wide, 4'6" tall, moderately sunny spot, gets some wind, top cover over winter. I've noticed stuff seems to dry fast, a few weeks and it's well on the way. Maybe Oak needs longer and stuff like birch (and I'm discovering prunus) needs it's bark off, willow might be a struggle too, but split small and stuff dries very very fast. They said, my pile is 3+ years now and I'm still going, what would I do with myself if I stopped!
Drying times, hhmm yes. Now I know our varies from species to species, it varies with local conditions, it depends what time of year the tree was felled and it depends how small you split (ickle stove me=ickle splits). But after reading Norwegian wood recently I started thinking, is this '3 years ahead' mantra really necessary? I reckon winter to spring felled, CSS by May and split to about 4", and I'd have virtually anything below 20% by burning season. I stack in the open on pallets, about 3'6" wide, 4'6" tall, moderately sunny spot, gets some wind, top cover over winter. I've noticed stuff seems to dry fast, a few weeks and it's well on the way. Maybe Oak needs longer and stuff like birch (and I'm discovering prunus) needs it's bark off, willow might be a struggle too, but split small and stuff dries very very fast. They said, my pile is 3+ years now and I'm still going, what would I do with myself if I stopped!
I usually bring my wood in in 10ft poles, sometimes it lays there for a year or two before I buck and split. I have certainly noticed the drying times improving once the wood is split. Sometimes it lays in log lengths for a year and sometimes I will buck it and let it lay another year before I get around to splitting. I have some 4ft dia whiteoak that has been bucked for 4 or 5 years now and I can pretty much guarantee if I split it now, the inside will be wet, but it will dry pretty fast once split. Some of the pecker poles will be dry enough to burn just laying in log lengths all summer. To me, size is everything when it comes to drying wood. The smaller the wood, the faster it drys. I have some bradford pears and a little walnut that was cut and bucked this spring, nothing really big, and just looking at the wood, it looks dry enough to burn this year. Since Its still in a big pile and hasnt been split or stacked, I'll probably burn some of the smaller stuff this winter, and split some of the bigger stuff to stack when I feel like it. I figure what every I burn this year is wood I dont have to stack, I'm lazy that way.
nighthunter
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Not a firewood question but I came across a ms 650 for sale locally i never knew these saws existed so what's the difference between it and a ms660
Willow dries pretty fast considering how much water it holds green. I split fairly big and figure one season to be burnable. I do prefer seasons. My current backlog is around 10 cord I had ready for delivery but regular customers didn't show up this year...yet. Still hard to believer that people pay $120/cord for willow. I myself like willow and mix locust/willow in my winter supply 50-50.
I have many, many years C/S/S of locust, some 80 cord plus a bunch of willow. I am cleaning out willow groves, clear cut, for a couple farmers and bring home a lot more than I can sell/use just to have something to do and keep active.
650 is about 85 cc. 660 is about 92 cc.
Piston diameter and hence cc. I think the 660 is 52mm and 92cc, 650 is either 48 or 50mm
