Firewood?
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Hojack
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Finally got around to cutting up my Cedar and Doug Fir stumps with the Stihl MS461 today.
Just another year of stacking firewood to the ceiling… it’s definitely getting tougher with age but it’s nice with my 10’ step ladder. I used to do it with only my 6’er
Just another year of stacking firewood to the ceiling… it’s definitely getting tougher with age but it’s nice with my 10’ step ladder. I used to do it with only my 6’er
It’s not like Jenga, where you get to pull pieces out of the middle. So you literally go back up the ladder during the burning season for your weekly requirements?Finally got around to cutting up my Cedar and Doug Fir stumps with the Stihl MS461 today.
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Just another year of stacking firewood to the ceiling… it’s definitely getting tougher with age but it’s nice with my 10’ step ladder. I used to do it with only my 6’er
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Yeah, firewood is generally a lot of labor, no way around it.
Typically you have to:
- Cut the tree down
- Cut the tree into manageable pieces to haul (buck it up)
- Load those pieces on a trailer/truck and haul to where you will split it. (some folks split on site)
- Unload the pieces to split them
- Depending on where you split them or store them RE-LOAD the split wood and transport it
- Unload the split wood where you store and stack it
- Bring in firewood as you need it...to burn
- Clean out the ashes produced and dispose of it
It's less appealing the older I get. But my Wife and our Dachshunds like a fire in the fireplace, so what are you going to do?
461 made some nice 'noodles' there where you trimmed the stump.
I run 404 chain on my Solo 603 because it will pull it just fine and I don't have to sharpen as often, it just holds up better but it hogs out a lot of wood. Chips are typically bigger than your fingernails and they pile up quickly.
Hojack
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My son is really into survival. We are going to make some egg carton fire starter with the noodles used from quartering up the big rounds.
Perfect use for them.
I have sealed 'baggies' of Noodles in some survival packs I have to use as 'tinder' same as you have done. I made them from 'rich pine' (pine laden with resin). It lights easily and burns very hot. Smells good too.
Good work there......
Hojack
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Cut and split more of the Douglas Fir stumps
Went and cut up Lodgepole Pine from my property near Crater Lake.
This tree fell from the neighbors lot onto my lot.
Left side of pic is my lot, right side is the neighbor who lives in Hawaii.
Unloading with my son. There’s nothing like teaching a son hard work.
Went and cut up Lodgepole Pine from my property near Crater Lake.
This tree fell from the neighbors lot onto my lot.
Left side of pic is my lot, right side is the neighbor who lives in Hawaii.
Unloading with my son. There’s nothing like teaching a son hard work.
In your State is it legal to collect firewood from public/state lands? Deadfalls or Standing Dead Wood?
Hojack
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You bet, just need to get a wood permit.
Good deal.
Here....we don't burn anything but hardwoods....but I can see the conifers as being a good (and ready) source for heating. And MUCH easier to deal with.
Hat is off to you for teaching your Son the value of hard work and its rewards. THAT is good parenting.
We haven’t needed a permit this year or last, because of Covid. You just need the map showing off limits areas.
This big oak fell a few weeks ago in a wind storm. The boy's been working on it. We're making progress.
A lot of good firewood in there.
Did some splitting a couple weeks ago.
It was a fun morning with my dad and kids.
Wood was; silver maple, sweet gum, mulberry, spruce and maybe a little hedge apple. It’s all used in our outdoor firepit.
It was a fun morning with my dad and kids.
Wood was; silver maple, sweet gum, mulberry, spruce and maybe a little hedge apple. It’s all used in our outdoor firepit.
Man...that thing was 'Limby' wasn't it? Was expecting to see more trunk. But that's good for firewood. Bet those rounds are heavy.
Good job.
Don't know if that was the case above but in general, it is such a luxury to have a tree fall by itself away from houses and end up nicely and safely on the ground where it is readily accessible for chopping. (Do they make any noises when they fall like that? 
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With me, they generally end up being sketchy, close to a house, or hard to fell safely... geez... what's with that? Gotta get myself some nice woods...
) With me, they generally end up being sketchy, close to a house, or hard to fell safely... geez... what's with that? Gotta get myself some nice woods...
^^^^
Never happens to me.
The last one that blew over was big Bull Pine (40" diameter trunk). Blew down and took out two fence lines, a double gate, my H-Post and corner post at the end of the fence. To make matters worse, I was clearing some privet hedge off of a fence line that tees into the other two....when it happened.
I happened to be on the opposite side of the fence and the tree fell across the only way in and out. So I had to cut the barb wire fence (5 strands) that I had just re-stretched two days earlier, wiggle a t-post out of the ground by hand....to make room to get my truck out.
Spent over two weeks cutting that one up and hauling it off.
Yeah, it could have been a lot worse. I've had other big trees fall that were more technical b/c of tension on the branches and whatnot. This one is pretty simple which is why I've let the boy work on it some on his own. He has still gotten the bar pinched/stuck a few times but that's how you learn.Don't know if that was the case above but in general, it is such a luxury to have a tree fall by itself away from houses and end up nicely and safely on the ground where it is readily accessible for chopping. (Do they make any noises when they fall like that?
With me, they generally end up being sketchy, close to a house, or hard to fell safely... geez... what's with that? Gotta get myself some nice woods...
Exactly right.
An observant person will learn to watch for your 'kerf' beginning to close (and know to get out of the cut). Learn to look at each cut for tension or compression. Sometimes a limb jammed in the dirt will have backward pressure as well.
At times you might benefit from the use a wedge. You learn all these things by doing it (and having a second saw handy to cut your way out).
Most folks will pick it up pretty quickly. My Brother in Law being the exception. He is good on a tractor and most other farm equipment, but has NO business wielding a chainsaw. After 40 years he can not get it through his head that not EVERY cut will be made from the top down. You can't bring enough saws to keep him 'cut out' of saw pinches. You bring 5 saws....he will manage to stick all 5 of them....I kid you not.
But yes, that tree looks like an excellent one for a beginner to get some experience on and I applaud you getting the Lad involved and learning a useful skill. I have a couple of nephews on my Wife's side that could do it (if it was a video game), but would be worthless in the real world.