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I'm in a different situation than most .I've got approx 7.5 acres of woods land and only need to go 500 feet in any direction to get firewood and it's level ground .A shed full of chainsaws and a home built heavy duty Judy of a splitter that will split anything .When I start cutting it might be...

This weather is a little tricky how to fire the stove .It might get down to the 20's at night then rise to 45 day time .As such it's load it up at night ,get it roaring then choke it down .In the following morning I'll have 4 inches of coals .From then on until dusk it's just a chunk or so about...

That cotton wood is a split with two mains that are maybe 60-65 feet and 36" in diameter .That's the possibility of a lot of lumber .Not to mention in addition a lot of firewood .Weather I do anything with it over the winter remains to be seen . I wish I had access to a bandsaw mill .I can't...

I've heard cotton wood which is a poplar is often sold as poplar trim .I will say this though what few of the top limbs I cut up so far ,nearly dry seem as hard as sugar maple .If it's fit I'll probably carve down some more .If not I'll look at it out the east window .

I've got a big one on the ground,100 foot cotton wood that died and would have became a hazard . My bud Tom who owns a tree service came out and rigged the rope and I was 200 feet away on the dozer to give it a little tug .I'll save some logs which would make better outrigger pads than oak .Oak...

I think I've only got one downed ash left to clean up .This one is rather plump ,a 3 footer .It's up on the branches off the ground so it isn't a rush plus I've got around 9 cords now under tarps .I might not even light the fire until the end of the month . I spent most of the summer as I had...

Decades ago I sold the stuff for $40 a pick up load which is about 1/2 cord .I once told a customer the wood was free he was just paying for the labor .As a young journey man electrician I made about 10 bucks an hour and about the same selling firewood .The later was much harder work . That was...

I think it's just where you are of what they call it .A cord is a cord but then you have face cords, rick, rack etc . Boils down to "tight cord " being one a mouse can get through .Then comes "loose cords " a cat can chase the mouse .Then finally a real loose cord where a dog can chase the cat...

Now then fire rings .I have the rear rim of a 1940 John-Deere model A buried with a fire brick floor surrounded by land scaping block on my back patio .That's where all those damned self pruner silver maple branches go that I have an abundance of every time the wind blows . That plus the scrap...

Some of that soft hardwood it just takes more volume to get the same amount of heat . Fact I've got a couple of wind blown basswoods I just have not had time to block up ,split and stack .That's the stuff you burn during the day then load up the good stuff to make it through the night .You about...

I've got around 2 cords of black cherry ,all wind blown .Otherwise I would not bother with it but like all wood it does produce heat .The oak I'm working on is tear offs of big limbs of white oak and it is not only gnarly stuff but heavy as lead .I'll likely have one and a half-two cords of it...

Sycamore around here seems to grow in groups .You either see a lot or nearly none at all ..I've got just one and it needs cut because it's half dead .It burns like any wood just takes a lot of it .

At one time I would splurge on occasion and buy ,only one lottery ticket .Of course I never won .My only "gambling " is the stock market and quite frankly I've done just fine for a dumb azzed old country boy red neck . I buy and hold not day trade or speculate .

That company was Stoz Sotz or something like that .During the hey day of wood stoves they made a lot of things .I think one of them was a screw splitter you bolted on the rear wheel of a car .I have one but it's been decades since I 've used it and have no plans of ever using it again .I used...

Those so called monster mauls will split just about anything ---if you can swing them .If memory serves the first ones weighed 18 pounds . Now 40 years ago I could give it half dozen mighty swings but those days are long gone ..The same company made barrel stove kits . I made several .One was...

In other news I got everything ready for the snow .Around 3/4 of a cord on the trailer and the Ranger which might get me through Feb .I have pile of logs though if I run out I just don't want to dig them out under a foot of snow ..Between what I have in another stack plus the 1/2 cord I keep on...

It's always something that has me chasing my tail .Hydraulics on the Jeep froze up ,Had to raise the blade with a cable come along .Will thaw out in the garage then replace the fluid with the kind with anti freeze in it .Starter went funky on the tractor .used parts of three starters to fix...

It wasn't that because I could not even get a little fart out of it on a prime .Besides that it wasn't cold enough to freeze just cold enough to make me miserable .

I'm not sure but it might have something to do with not starting it for two years .I'll get it, it's too damned cold to work on it right now .

I didn't get to the firewood today What I started out to do was prune the limbs of the over hang on my 600 foot drive way .Then the damned pole saw refused to start .Next came the cheap azz pole clipper which did good on the maples but not so good on the oaks .There's a lot of difference you...