Winter Wood

Got home from work with my load of timber so threw on the new bar and got to work, the stock Ms 362 made short work of it 6 cubic metres,cut in 2 hours, tomorrow I do some chopping and stacking and I’m done. 🙂

You got a hell of a wood pile

Jimbo

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Wow. That was an industrious 2 hours!

JimboS1ice wrote:

1 hour ago, JimboS1ice said:

You got a hell of a wood pile

Jimbo

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Plus a stick for the dog.

ChrisK wrote:

1 hour ago, ChrisK said:

Wow. That was an industrious 2 hours!

If only it was chopped already. :rolleyes:

Gotta love some Stihl!

About how much wood do you burn over a typical winter?

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JimboS1ice wrote:

6 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:

You got a hell of a wood pile

Jimbo

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nah that’s just a teaspoon lol, growing up i think my Dad had three years worth of wood piled up in neat rows, 7′ tall 20′ or so long, 5′ wide (which was how long of pieces the boiler could take) you could put a roof between two rows and have a storm shelter lol it’s a beautiful sight.

Thanks for showing us @StrippedScrew I do wonder too, how your winters are and what you burn through each year?

kruton wrote:

1 hour ago, kruton said:

About how much wood do you burn over a typical winter?

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To be honest It depends on the winter sometimes in Ireland we get a wet but a mild winter of a dry and cold winter, I use a small stove so the wood in the photos will last me about 3 winters maybe more.

KnarlyCarl wrote:

9 minutes ago, KnarlyCarl said:

nah that’s just a teaspoon lol, growing up i think my Dad had three years worth of wood piled up in neat rows, 7′ tall 20′ or so long, 5′ wide (which was how long of pieces the boiler could take) you could put a roof between two rows and have a storm shelter lol it’s a beautiful sight.

 

Thanks for showing us @StrippedScrew I do wonder too, how your winters are and what you burn through each year?

Yeah my haul is only small compared to some people iv a very well insulated house so I run a small stove noting major Il get 3 or 4 winters out of it.

Having said that I remember last year an elderly man rang me up to do a job for him, to process some firewood I said sure, went out to look at his logs and my jaw dropped he had about 6 articulated truck loads of logs sitting there for about 4 years! it took days and days to cut through them. 

We just got a log splitter attachment for our bobcat. That thing is the cats pajamas. No more swinging the splitting maul or man handling huge chunks of wood onto the old splitter.

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kruton wrote:

15 hours ago, kruton said:

We just got a log splitter attachment for our bobcat. That thing is the cats pajamas. No more swinging the splitting maul or man handling huge chunks of wood onto the old splitter.

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Nice I await your arrival with the splitter 🙂

kruton wrote:

On 5/6/2016 at 10:48 PM, kruton said:

We just got a log splitter attachment for our bobcat. That thing is the cats pajamas. No more swinging the splitting maul or man handling huge chunks of wood onto the old splitter.

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 is it like this

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 is like this

 

I wish man. That thing is crazy. It’s more like this. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]

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I wish my dad would take it more easy by using a splitter like that. So far he does it all by axe and chainsaw. However, he almost never has to split the logs because he can load them up right into his outdoor wood boiler.

I took the opportunity this past weekend when we went up there to get this shot. I think he’s been slacking, theres a whole empty spot to the right that needs filled haha. It’s right up to the soffit of the garage, about 8′ tall.

I always like checking it out, I installed the boiler after all. 

I dug by hand the 120′ long trench up to the house, then another trench up to the shop from the house, another 130′ long. It’s softer soil, with quite a bit of sand mixed in, so not exactly a hard thing to do, just monotonous.

It will be ten years ago this fall i did that. What memories!

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It’s always cool seeing all the wood he accumulated from all over the place

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We did it all by hand until my brother and I moved out. We still go out and help, but dad has definitely started working smarter and not harder!

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