Archive through July 31, 2009

[aaytay]

Jeff-
We have a Kozy Heat fireplace insert.

It will almost heat the entire house. (back bedrooms get a bit chilly..)

 

[jbaker]

nice Art I use a central boiler to heat everything including h20 well i just wanted to show some of my wood that needs to be cut to fit thru the 23x25 inch door this is mostly black walnut,hackberry,and black locust all high btu wood

 

[fcurrier]

Well, we did it:

This is the 33ton model. The 27ton would have been more than enough, but I procrastinated and it got sold (Maine Potato Growers, our closest CC dealer). After shopping around I decided most of the splitters on the market are made by the same company with different decals and engines. This one has an 8.5hp Kohler. Craftsman uses Briggs, TroyBilt uses Honda. In-Use pics must surely follow!

 

[lhinds]

Nice machine Frank. You will love using it.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Wow, that looks like a nice splitter.

 

[jbaker]

well here is the start of cutting splitting and stacking for by boy and me about 12 hours.

 

[dtanner]

Frank C , its even Cub yellow lol. Well i thought i would show you a shot of my wood splitter. The thing will stand up so large wood don`t have to be lifted off the ground. I love that . bought it about 4 years ago now. later Don T

 

[digger]

I've got a few cords to burn this winter myself.

 

[fcurrier]

Post pics?

Don T.: I tried to do this after talking to you this afternoon but confuser wouldn't accept my browsing for pics. This has happened before - that time I blamed Kraig for posting pics at the same time I wanted to. Patience is the watchword. Anyway, I like the placement of your engine, but I sure am impressed with this machine. Almost 7 cords of wood now on less than 5 gallons of gas and it's just the right height for me in the horizontal position. Not a machine to be moved around by hand - it needs a tractor to hook it to -- and I'm not looking for an excuse to get another Cub!

 

[fcurrier]

Darn, Charlie, a couple questions: That was cut with a processor? How many cords? (128 cu. ft./cord) Plan to burn it all this winter? Need some help? Boy, could THAT jack your price per cord up!! What kind of wood and how much per cord as it's pictured? Rock (Sugar) Maple, Yellow Birch, and Beech are my favorite (BTUwise) firewoods around here. Haven't checked on current prices, but $200/cord is ballpark. I think a rule of thumb is 1 cord should be about what 100 gallons of fuel oil costs. Winter's coming, ain't it?

 

[digger]

Frank,
It's oak, white pine, jack pine.
26 cords total.
I had 2 semi loads dropped off for $60.00 a cord.

One good thing about living up here where wood is still cheap and loggers are willing to sell it cheap before winter hits.

I'm having a wood boiler built by one of our forum sponsors that should heat 3 50x80 areas quite nicely this winter.

 

[aschumacher]

Charlie, come this winter when you have 3 or 4 ft. of snow on the ground, how you gonna get da wood into da furnace? Some sort of a roof over the area, or maybe your putting the furnace in an unused(?) building?? <font size="-2">(A Cub Cadet sponsor is building it for you!??)</font>

 

[kmcconaughey]

Allen, Charlie has so many buildings on that property that he can use one for firewood storage, it was after all a building center/lumberyard at one time.

 

[aschumacher]

Ah yes,...now all Charlie needs is one of those rear-claw things that Aaron just built, or a hydraulic jack assy like another member built and use it for a skidder!

 

[digger]

Allen,
I think we've got the room.
http://moose-r-us.com/newhome.html

The snow is not an issue anymore, LOL

I'm gonna put the wood boiler inside after I move the semi around a little.

Then I have the forklift to move logs with. No sense in standing outside to cut the logs up or fire the boiler.

Cause it does get a little chilly up my way ya know!

But the old Cub still likes 26 below.

 

[dross]

charlie, talk about increasing the kingdom. Thats some nice digs.

 

[dtanner]

gee Charlie do you realy have to post the bbbbrrrr shots lol

It gets cold here in N.S

 

[aschumacher]

Charlie, you going to update part of that site that shows what you have done with the living quarters? Its been a year, so I suspect you finally have a real kitchen, living room, etc.
Also, do you/wife have an on-site display area for the Moose products, or road traffic too low to make that practical.

 

[aschumacher]

Please see if you can fix the CinamaScope problem here. I gotta go into the next room to read the whole messages.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Allen, did that fix it for you?