smokeywolf
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Not much! Probably between 15 and 20 hours.
No intention of muckin' up the flu with creosote.
so waht ya doin today?
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No intention of muckin' up the flu with creosote.
CZ93X62
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Oak makes WONDERFUL firewood. I always tried to "angle" my falling D-firs to take out a couple scrub oaks or acorn oaks in the local mountains. The guys that I cut with (back in the day) loved that D-fir because it caught fire so readily. Their chimney sweeps loved it, too. Once a year usually sufficed for them, with all of the oak I burned a clean-out once every 3 years was probably overkill, but I wanted that stack to vent easily. I used a little fir for kindling, to start the oak and/or eucalyptus that were mainstays of my home heating regimen during The Old Days. Even in the mild California winters, a cord of firewood doesn't last a long time. Fir and pine goes REALLY fast, oak burns longer and better (my view of it).
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Smokey is gonna buy a chainsaw and get oak off his property. That's a fine plan but I want to be there when he goes to split it. Just to watch don't ya know.
CZ93X62
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That just ain't right a'tall. The power splitter--along with the chain saw--were two of the 20th Century's greatest inventions.Smokey is gonna buy a chainsaw and get oak off his property. That's a fine plan but I want to be there when he goes to split it. Just to watch don't ya know.
smokeywolf
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Rick, part of shopping for a splitter is bringing a pickup truck load of oak over to your place and seeing how your splitter handles it. And you're right about refreshments; I'll have an Irish coffee please.
Rick, part of shopping for a splitter is bringing a pickup truck load of oak over to your place and seeing how your splitter handles it. And you're right about refreshments; I'll have an Irish coffee please.
I doubt you'll really be needing a splitter Smokey. How much do you plan on stacking up for that tiny little fireplace?
smokeywolf
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I haven't used a wedge much, but thanks to your new spitter, I won't have to learn.
Ian
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Yup, wedges and a sledgehammer, learned them well as a kid. My chores included riving cedar kindling with a froe (take THAT, "suggested words"!) and splitting all the oak firewood my Dad cut and brought home in big rounds. If he felt sorry for me he would saw the crotches halfway through in cruciform. We had a splitting maul too but I was in high school before I had the strength and height to smoothly operate one and it not just be an operation in unsticking it without breaking the handle.
I haven't used a wedge much, but thanks to your new spitter, I won't have to learn.
Hhmmm . . . You might want to if you plan on bringing a pickup load of oak over here. Let's see, cut it, load it in the truck, drive over here, unload it, split it, load it back into the truck, drive back to your place, unload it.
Your first lesson will be just how heavy oak is.
smokeywolf
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You sure are right about the fireplace. It is about half the size of what I think a good fireplace should be. But, Mom loves it and loves that it produces a little heat, a lot of ambiance and may actually shave a few Kwh off the electric bill. She went out to the woodpile with me just a few hours ago and helped load up the cart with a couple more days of wood.
We also found some fence materials; goat wire, barbed wire, T-stakes and peeler logs just up the trial from the woodpile.
We also found some fence materials; goat wire, barbed wire, T-stakes and peeler logs just up the trial from the woodpile.
fiver
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i'll just keep on picking up the pine trees here and there like I have been for the last 20 years.
cut it to length, hit it once with the axe, and throw it in the pile.
I put a TEE on the pipe years back, and I just pull the cap off the bottom to clean it out,, 5 minutes tops [after I find the brush]
what a difference a day makes.
went over to the lake again today, and had the whole place to myself as usual.
decided to try two poles today,,, and regretted that decision 10 minutes later when I was trying to reel in 2-3lb fish.
i'll save that for when there's 2 of us there, or when it's real slow.
cut it to length, hit it once with the axe, and throw it in the pile.
I put a TEE on the pipe years back, and I just pull the cap off the bottom to clean it out,, 5 minutes tops [after I find the brush]
what a difference a day makes.
went over to the lake again today, and had the whole place to myself as usual.
decided to try two poles today,,, and regretted that decision 10 minutes later when I was trying to reel in 2-3lb fish.
i'll save that for when there's 2 of us there, or when it's real slow.