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Thread: Who is cutting wood?
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10-10-2022, 05:20 PM #1401
The vast majority of the wood I cut for the winter is dry and ready to burn. I try to have all the wood I cut for the winter split by Thanksgiving so the wood that still has some moisture will have the winter to dry and if I am still burning wood in May it would be close to ready.
Personally I like splitting wood by hand. It can be a pretty good workout especially if the wood is hard to split. I do see myself getting a gas powered wood splitter at some point, but right now I'm not ready.
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10-10-2022, 05:29 PM #1402
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10-11-2022, 10:09 PM #1403
Just finished splitting and stacking 2026. Now on to 2025, the front wood in the right bay of the wood shed. About 90% doug fir so good heating value , best around here other than birch which is very hard to find. Two years of not cutting wood ahead.
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10-24-2022, 09:01 AM #1404
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10-24-2022, 09:47 AM #1405
I use a small electric splitter for aspen and pine and it works great. Better with two people as it’s slow and requires 2 points of contact (lever and button) to run. With 2 people one person can operate the controls and only retract the hydraulic as much as needed for the length of the logs. Saves a ton of time w this type of splitter. Thing has been going strong for 8 years now.
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10-24-2022, 11:08 AM #1406Registered User
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What I did is cut a stick and wedge it in between the splitter frame and the button so the hydraulic pump runs all the time and then you just have to work the handle, to turn it off pull the plug
the splitter i used was up off the ground so the splitter bed is waist level screwed to a main support in a shed, much easier on the back
those work great if you got a 115V handy, if the rounds arent too big a 6 ton electric works fine, they are cheap no maintenance, don't take up much room and fit in the trunk of a car or a chopper basketLast edited by XXX-er; 10-24-2022 at 11:30 AM.
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10-24-2022, 11:29 AM #1407
Curious about this, too.
I had a friend in my area with a small hydraulic splitter (horizontal and used standing up) that he purchased before realizing the size of wood that he’d be handling. It took him a long time to sell it because most people near me need something that splits vertically without lifting the rounds. I’ll share a photo later of the biggest round I have at the moment.
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10-24-2022, 12:07 PM #1408
Local newsrag had an article that kiln dried hardwood is going for almost 500 a cord here on the NH/VT border, which is fucking bananas.
Live Free or Die
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10-24-2022, 12:43 PM #1409
this is not even kiln dried but is in Can$ ( fir is Doug fir not balsam )
ALL DELIVERIES ARE SOLD BY THE CORD
GST not included*
FIR:
Full Cord $350
Truckload( 2cord) $680
PINE:
Full Cord $325
truckload( 2 cord) $620
PINE/FIR MIX:
Full Cord $335
Truckload(2 cord) $650
BIRCH:
limited supply
$575 acord
truckload (2 cord) $1050
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10-24-2022, 03:29 PM #1410
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10-24-2022, 03:32 PM #1411
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10-24-2022, 03:34 PM #1412
I was over thinking it as picked up the big birch I had bucked a couple of days ago from standing and compared to doug fir it splits like ... well easy . A 16" round of DF I would use a sled and wedge and hit at least 10 times and would only split when the wedge was flush with to top . With the birch only the first swing of the maul didn't split , every swing after that got separation.
edit to add - rained over night and was significantly harder to split this morning . A lot more water spurt when the maul hit, not in the eye but a lot more than yesterday.Last edited by DougW; 10-25-2022 at 03:00 PM.
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10-24-2022, 04:48 PM #1413
I really dislike splitting seasoned paper birch as it tends to break up. Splitting it when its green is much easier.
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10-30-2022, 11:27 PM #1414
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10-31-2022, 07:00 AM #1415
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10-31-2022, 07:17 AM #1416
I’ve found that nothing comes close to a Fiskars splitting maul for rounds. A clean split on first strike almost every time, even on drier wood.
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10-31-2022, 08:10 AM #1417
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11-02-2022, 03:47 PM #1418
Last Load of Season
Last trailer load that will pretty fill up bay so 2025 and 2026 are done. Should be close to 1.5 cords of pine to finish. No more cutting wood for 2 years
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11-02-2022, 04:44 PM #1419Registered User
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a lota people I see on FB buy their wood so they start looking for wood to burn now-ish or september if they they were really on the ball but the time to look for wood is in spring after the burning season when the wood guy isnt busy and then its got the summer to dry out some more
all they worry about is price but more important is the guy actulay shows up when he said he wood with good woodLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-02-2022, 05:02 PM #1420Registered User
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11-02-2022, 05:29 PM #1421Registered User
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11-02-2022, 05:32 PM #1422Registered User
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11-02-2022, 05:55 PM #1423
Yeah but if you are heating your house with wood, not using it for atmosphere you have a plan and aren’t buying kiln dried. Price this past spring was up to $265/cord from my guy. Wood is always even size and clean and he tries to save out yellow birch for me which is my favorite
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11-02-2022, 06:03 PM #1424
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11-02-2022, 07:26 PM #1425"... Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards." – Edward Abbey
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