Firewood thread!!! Let's see what you got!!!!

[I saw a lot]

Can't agree more on the 35 ton. Motor does get warm, need to work on a deflector for the exhaust as it blows right on your leg. Purchased this one 2009 new and it has split a ton of wood. Try to keep it tarped but never inside. B&S still starts on the first or second pull.

 

[Nutball]

Yes, they blow heat on you, but will cross chop hedgeapple. I've only stopped the ram once on my dad's, it was in an oak crotch, and went too deep with too little of results. Friction got it. So I backed it out, took oil from my 271t to oil the wedge, then it finished the split.

 

[RI Chevy]

Noodle it and save the wear and tare on the splitter...

 

[SOS Ridgerider]

Can't agree more on the 35 ton. Motor does get warm, need to work on a deflector for the exhaust as it blows right on your leg. Purchased this one 2009 new and it has split a ton of wood. Try to keep it tarped but never inside. B&S still starts on the first or second pull.

Yours is a little newer than mine. Looks like yours has a horizontal shaft engine. Mine has a vertical shaft.
I keep mine covered too, but almost never inside.

 

[SOS Ridgerider]

Noodle it and save the wear and tare on the splitter...

On the big rounds I noodle everything into approximately 4” thick slabs. Makes lifting and splitting very easy, plus the square pieces makes the ends of the stacks easy to stack in criss cross pattern. Plus, the square pieces stack nice and tightly in the stove for those long burns.

 

[I saw a lot]

Yours is a little newer than mine. Looks like yours has a horizontal shaft engine. Mine has a vertical shaft.
I keep mine covered too, but almost never inside.

I think I got it in 2009. I want to say the next year they moved the motor to the other side. Still a great splitter and has paid for it's self several times over.

 

[bigbadbob]

All split.

 

[Wood Doctor]

All split.
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I have to ask this. Bob, did you climb up a tree or use a drone to take this aerial Pic? That's one heckuva nice shot.

 

[bigbadbob]

I have top ask this. Bob, did you climb up a tree or use a drone to take this aerial Pic? That's one heckuva nice shot.

Its off my back sun deck. About 6 ft up and 6 more ft up fer me.
And thanks.
BTW anybody building a splitter,, ran the unit for the entire job, myself on it for 2/3 and help for the last bit.
Tank has 15 gallons imperial ,, got to 120f. Cant complain as I doubt you would want to do much more in a day. I figure a cord + was a blow down fir.
GX390 22gpm 5x24

 

[Wood Doctor]

Good estimate, Bob. I usually get three+ truckloads packed tight from a tree that size after splitting. Two truckloads packed will stack to a full cord. I usually take two days to complete the job. working by myself. Two guys could do it in a day and drink six cold beers apiece afterwards.

 

[czar800]

Cut a truck load after work today.

 

[Wood Doctor]

And, the truck still runs, right? Gadfry!

 

[rogue60]

My dad still busy doing his firewood.
He said most this old nasty hard Ironbark has been dead standing for over 50 years was ring barked way back.
It still weighs over a tonne/1000kg/2200 pounds for every m3 even dry.

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow. Heck of a pile you got there!

 

[rogue60]

Wow. Heck of a pile you got there!

Not mine that's all my dad's doing he's retired old school logger think he does it just for something to do he don't need the money.
That's the start of he's firewood pile for next winter said he sold over 200 loads out of his other pile this winter.
He's old like 70 he says there are two types of men a Gonna and a Doer.
A Gunna spends more time talking about what they are gonna do than any actual doing lol.

This is his other pile of firewood from this winter it's almost all gone now.



Not the kind of man to complain about how rubber AV hurts your feelings in front of lol

 

[RI Chevy]

Wow! Awesome. God bless him...hope I can still do this at 70 years old.

 

[Hinerman]

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Not the kind of man to complain about how rubber AV hurts your feelings in front of lol
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Awesome stuff. I doubt I could keep up with him just carrying around his gas and bar oil.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

This is my Garage stash that I stack inside for my wife. I call it the, "Baby Bear Bin".
Keeps her from going in the back yard or out in the cold at night if I'm outta town or crashed like a grizzly!!

Mix of white oak, shagbark, and blk locust. Maybe our best wood mix ever!
Measures 8x3.5x5 = 140 sq ft
The "Bear Bin" is growing!

 

[Nutball]

 

[PJLink]

My dad still busy doing his firewood.
He said most this old nasty hard Ironbark has been dead standing for over 50 years was ring barked way back.
It still weighs over a tonne/1000kg/2200 pounds for every m3 even dry.
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Nice! You Aussies have some crazy species in Oz. How does that iron bark burn? Im guessing really hot and slow???