Winter Is Coming Anon. Are you ready? The time for Lumberjack Testosterone is upon us.How many cords will you burn? Do you buy or buck? Show us what you are working with: Splitters, Chainsaws, Axes, Mauls, & Saws. What are you cutting? What are you burning? Where & how are you sourcing? What are you burning in; make, model, year?
1 cord stacked as of yesterday. i still have about a 1/2 cord left uncut. I am about to fire up the chainsaw again. wood is mostly dry, but definitely still needs a finish. the lower photo is mulberry felled 18 months ago but left stacked in 8' logs until yesterday. the upper stack by the house is oak of unknown age given free from some old guy who just wanted it hauled off. i have lots of well aged large elm rounds that are already cut but need split. I also have a fair amount of seasoned, burn-size elm rounds that just need cut. I dont have a moisture meter at this time but I still have a few months before burn season. I keep putting off buying a splitter because im poor, but these fat rounds just keep stacking up as I pick through the smaller burnable rounds. splitting elm with an axe, maul, wedge and sledge is fucking impossible. I've got to get a splitter by next fall. it HAS to happen.
>>3004582I've got this many rounds so far and will probably need about four times as much. it's mostly white ash with a little elm. I've got my eye on a couple of large standing dead white ash trees that should produce three-quarters to a full cord each and a medium half-dead maple that I'll use for overnight logs. I won't split anything until the first good freeze when the water will expand the cracks. Before then, I'll just burn the scraps like those in the foreground and no-split-ems.
>>3004582>>3004653I've been using this CS-400 for eight years and have had to rebuild the carburetor and replace the pull start assembly. Otherwise it's been reliable and effective. I welded a steel pipe handle to the maul since I got really tired of replacing or repairing the fiberglass jobs at least once a year. The pipe handle is heavier but extremely durable.
>>3004582fuck i need to order firewood for winter! holy fuck i forgot. i need 5 cord like now fuck fuck fuck
I've been making cardboard/paper bricks to supplement my firewood
my chainsaw has a very frustrating issue. it seems to develop some sort of fuel vacuum or negative pressure after running. it will run fine up until I shut it off for refueling or chain tension adjustment. once shut down for any reason, it cannot seem to pull fuel back in to restart. there is no vent on the cap or tank to clean. even the prime bulb (seperate from the pull choke) will not fill and pump fuel when pressed after unit has run. if i pull the choke and then try, it will start for 1-2 seconds then die. I then remove choke and it will pull-start for 1-2 seconds then starve. if I leave it alone for many hours until it cools completely, I can restart it.what do anon? if i wasn't so fucking poor I would just buy a husqvarna to upgrade. but this is what I've got to work with so I have to make it work. Model number in photo caption
>>3004787>Husqvarna>to upgradeGet a Stihl sonBut to answer your question, blast the gas tank with brakleen and let it dry
>>3004787Also sharpen and tighten your shitA chains stretches from overheating, a chain overheats from having to force it to cut because it's dull as shit
>>3004802>>3004803Original Anon here.upgraded.Also scored a giant elm. Cunty McCunface threw a fit because a single 3 inch by 6 foot long branch broke off in a storm around midnight sunday evening and landed in her front yard "EnDAnGerInG mY ToDdlEr!!" so she called the city, and our communist housing resource center and claimed the tree was diseased and the property management was neglecting her. Property manager said "alright... tree is diseased and dangerous you say? fine. we'll cut it down, exposing your hovel to 100% of the unabated southern sun. Wish granted."I will, of course, be keeping the wood.I only had 6 hours to procure a lift, buy a new chainsaw & jack what i could before the 5:00pm equipment return window. I got everything high enough to require the lift. I will load the luber tomorrow. since I didnt plan on lumberjacking, I didnt have my trailer. once wood is loaded and area is clear, I will remove the rest of the standing tree.my guess: maybe a cord if im lucky.
>>3005022>I only had 6 hours to procure a lift, buy a new chainsaw & jack what i could before the 5:00pm equipment return windowOh no baby, what is you doin'?Just cut the tree down, then cut it upBut awesome that you upgraded fren
>>3005022Oh and a MASSIVE money saver when running a saw is mixing your own gas. Just get a gallon gas jug and a gallon of 2 stroke oil. 2.6fl oz in a gallon is 50:1
I'm about to build me one of these. Was camping this past year and our camping neighbor had one.....dam it splits amazing with just a sledgehammer. The logs don't bounce!
>>3005045>The logs don't bounce!What the fuck are you doing that they bounce?
>>3005045That style was invented by a 14-year-old girl that wanted to help her dad split firewood.
>>3005045I would add a slide-hammer type deal on top to slam down on the wood instead of having to use a sledgehammer
why not a fan to blow on stove?
I bought a Makita corded 120v electric saw to cut rounds in my shed/driveway, it's working great. I'm keeping my gas saws of course, but the electric one is so much more handy for work near/in the buildings.If you live near a city or similar and have to scavenge for wood or don't have a woodlot, call up tree services and tell them that you'd take logs and/or chips, and at least here in the Midwest they'll drop a dual axle dump trailer right in your driveway of whatever a nearby job produced. Not always the best wood but it always burns. I just finished splitting and stacking a cord and a half of oak and I'm working on another cord or two of maple. They dumped two huge loads of wood chips which we use to mulch heavily around our fruit trees. We planted them in orchard rows and mulch the whole row deep and wide, the free mulch works great and the top layers will be decomposing as the bottom layers a few years from now, helping with moisture and providing nutrients. If shit hits and I need to triple our garden space, I can quickly pull back the mulch and plant right in the now-compost underneath.Most tree services around here would rather not haul too far away or (God forbid) have to pay to dump it, so with a few calls and a low time preference you can get trees brought to you instead of having to get them yourself!
>>3005345I stumbled upon this silliness a year or two ago.https://getchipdrop.com/
too soon but i was supposed to build a compact oil burner forgot about that
