Firewood

[jbaker]

Bill what are the dimensions of your pile, that looks NICE

 

[mgwin]

Gerry,
I also know of a H.D. service manager I'd like to introduce to Charlie's splitter. The only thing though, I went to that dealership one time and it was my last. Thankfully, I have found a custom H.D. bike mechanic that does super work just eleven miles from my home.

Charlie,
I hope you have a way to hold on to those big pieces. It looks like that thing could spin a big block around pretty easy!

Finally cut my heat on Tuesday!

 

[bjamison]

Jeff - The way I stack the woodpile is every row is a cord of wood. That way I can get a feel for how much I'm burning. I want to say each row is 23ish feet long and I don't remember the height, but it works out to 1 cord per row. I've got 8 cords on that wood pile (now under cover). My boys and I split 2/3rds of that pile of wood with a couple of these Fiskars X27 splitting axes. They are great! But it takes a lot of time to split and stack 8 cords of wood around my house with everything else going on, so I bought a Husky (Speeco) 22 ton splitter this Summer at TSC for $999 on sale and finished off the pile. I still like to use the axe for exercise.

 

[kide]

Bill:
Heated with wood in Central Michigan from '79 until '09... Your pic ALMOST makes me miss it.... Warm Florida weather makes me not.........

 

[digger]

I think I just found my perfect wood splitter! LOL

 

[dtanner]

Charlie "Digger" Proctor

That is bad A$$ splitter for sure. Looks like it would split 8 foot wood? how is the pump run ? off a big tractor PTO ? you will have to give us some more info on that baby lol.

 

[aschumacher]

OK, you showed the body of the beast, now I wanna see what makes it go !
PS, I thought you were putting whole trees <font size="-2">(in sections)</font> into your furnace,

 

[wshytle]

That is one healthy looking splitter. It looks like it would weigh a couple of tons by itself. I'd sure like to see some action pics.

 

[digger]

I haven't bought it, LOL
I'd like to though.
It runs off the tractor rear hydraulics.
The guy makes them how ever big you want'um.
It is a beast though!

And no I don't put a footers in the stove. 48's work well though.

 

[aaytay]

THAT wood splitter is fantastic! Wow...

What kind of a tractor does it take to run THAT????

We need to see a video of it in action!

 

[kmcconaughey]

Wow, I want to see it run too!

 

[jbaker]

brought home 3 pickup loads of wood some buddies and I cut up

1st and 3rd pick up loads and the final pile.

 

[thoffman]

This thing ALLWAYS come to mine when talking firewood!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EOO6W5R1O8

 

[jbaker]

Yes,
that is the most effiecnt one that I've seen

 

[wshytle]

Tom-

If I ever win a lottery that set up will be one of the first things I buy. That is so cool. I could watch it for hours.

 

[bjamison]

Time to replenishing the wood supply for next year and beyond...

 

[kmcconaughey]

This just in from Jeff Baker:

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Kraig this is a few years old but wild either way, can you shrink and share with the forum.

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This happened Wednesday, July 23rd, near the airport in Jackson, TN.

The driver was attempting to throw the logging cable over the logs to secure them & as you can see, hooked the 7.2 kv primary instead!

He said the tires began to fry within seconds…..very lucky man…he could easily have been fried himself!<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

 

[pbell]

Not only was he a very lucky man, I would say he was a very "healthy" man to throw a steel hook with several feet of steel cable/wire rope attached, that high.....

 

[kide]

Paul - I thought the same thing when I first saw this a few years ago.. I'd have pitched that cable and had it back square in the middle of my hard hat, it would never make it over the truck, let alone the power line..

 

[jbaker]

my buddy called and asked if I wanted a trailer full of wood, which turned out to be 4 dump trailer full of 90% hardwoods.
They have been cut and laying for 1 year.