Let’s talk about firewood

[Robert N]

 

[IDFireLass]

Did someone say something about firewood?

 

[Jack Ryan]

I don't even heat with wood. My daughter does next door and she burnt about 5 IBC totes full of wood to heat all last winter.

I've got about 20 IBC totes of cut and split firewood stored up.

 

[IDFireLass]

Went and got another load of lodge pole this morning. You could see your breath first thing at 8500 feet. So afraid once fire season really gets going it'll be over for a while cutting firewood and even riding UTV's in the forest.

 

[ButchA]

Here in Virginia (if it really gets cold), my wife and I will light a fire in the fireplace. We have about a 1/2 cord outside right now, and that's enough. We also turn the two far back bedroom ceiling fans on "reverse" - so they draw in the fireplace warmth down the hallway and help keeping the gas furnace bill down.

 

[Wildabeest]

For all of you who “enjoy” cutting and splitting firewood, I’m getting a bit low…

 

[TheTone]

My dad and brother both lost multiple large pines in wind storms since last winter. This years firewood will be ridiculously easy to collect

 

[Jack Ryan]

For all of you who “enjoy” cutting and splitting firewood, I’m getting a bit low…

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You wouldn't like the way I stacked it.

 

[Hem]

No need for a hydraulic with lodgepole.
Splitting by hand great for the mind and soul.
I have a small collection, one ax a birthday gift when I turned 19. Missing from the picture is a splitting maul from the the 70's/ 80's ....a heavy wedge for busting hardwood.
I now use this splitter for normal duty.
Its almost too efficient.

 

[adoc65]

The men in our family were all woodsman. From splitting redwood for grape stakes, fence post or shingles. But we cut a lot more oak and madrone for fire wood, with Doug fir in the mix. My Dad would not leave a massive Doug fir knot in the woods. He cut it with the chainsaw if he couldn’t split it. Always said it will burn all night. I miss those days….

 

[Jack Ryan]

I split all mine with a maul, an axe or just cut it with the saw.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

My dad and brother both lost multiple large pines in wind storms since last winter. This years firewood will be ridiculously easy to collect

Same in my area. Lots of blowdowns.

 

[IDFireLass]

Well, Brittan Chuckarman unless you wait too long and someone else snags it or the forests are closed due to closures or fires.
But a lot of blow down all over Idaho this year. Just wish people would learn how to clear roads and cut the trees back off of the edge of roads and trails.

 

[ButchA]

Speaking of firewood... Anyone else have one of those 10-ton hydraulic log splitters? They really work well!

 

[44hunter45]

Just got the hay in the barn. Now I'm ready to think about firewood.

I rebuilt the insert in this spring and it backdrafts bad and smokes. The liner cap in the brick chimney blew off in the December windstorms. I'm going to have to get up there and seal the gap around the liner to stop it. MRS ain't happy about me being on the roof these days. It will happen when she is not here. As the good book says, "If I perish, I perish."

My MS361 finally gave up after many years of 44hunter45 hard use. Still runs strong but the opening in the crankcase for the bar oil cap is run out and it leaks too much bar oil. (Insert rant about how much better the old Stihl screw in caps were...)
I'm headed to CDA to look at a used MS362 tomorrow.

 

[mtmuley]

Just got the hay in the barn. Now I'm ready to think about firewood.

I rebuilt the insert in this spring and it backdrafts bad and smokes. The liner cap in the brick chimney blew off in the December windstorms. I'm going to have to get up there and seal the gap around the liner to stop it. MRS ain't happy about me being on the roof these days. It will happen when she is not here. As the good book says, "If I perish, I perish."

My MS361 finally gave up after many years of 44hunter45 hard use. Still runs strong but the opening in the crankcase for the bar oil cap is run out and it leaks too much bar oil. (Insert rant about how much better the old Stihl screw in caps were...)
I'm headed to CDA to look at a used MS362 tomorrow.

Find a 038. Good ones few and far between but one Hell of a saw. mtmuley

 

[44hunter45]

Find a 038. Good ones few and far between but one Hell of a saw. mtmuley

I have a 076 that is still a good runner. I'm just tired of the weight for the small trees I deal with.
Have a Husky 3120 also. I only start it to impress logger chicks.

 

[mtmuley]

076? Monster saw. mtmuley

 

[44hunter45]

076? Monster saw. mtmuley

It is set up with .404 rip chain now for an Alaskan Mill.