This is part of the 100 plus tons of oak I got and split.
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gregbesia
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Holy cow ! I see that you got a blaze King. What's this ,like 10 years worth of wood in those pictures? 
I really don't honestly know,there is a two way split,so half is mine the other to the friend who got the trees cut and hauled to my house.I'llpost a pic of the rounds that were delivered after being cut where you see them stacked. This was a challenge and a job few would be willing to tackle.Holy cow ! I see that you got a blaze King. What's this ,like 10 years worth of wood in those pictures?
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
This is the pile of rounds from the above pics,about 100 feet long,20 wide and averaging 3 to 6 feet in height.I started splitting in June this year and finished one week ago. Will show splits later.Many of these were 3 to 4 hundred pound pieces.These pieces came from rounds that had to be busted up with a link belt excavator,to manage.
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This Log rite tool was worth its weight in gold. Part of another pile of logs that did not come with the oak logs,check out the weathered hard maple,will show a few rounds cut later.
A little more of the pile everything here is mine ,my friend had his hauled out 9 dumps ,12 foot bed ,7 feet wide,4 feet high.
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Long pile aboot 40 feet,long,6-7 feet tall top center,about 12 feet wide,top view,side view,small pile about 12 feet long,6 high,10 wide,and the ugly pile about 2 cords.All knotty mismatched pieces.
Everything you see split, double it that's what I split in a couple months on days off.
Very impressive.
How were you busting the rounds with an excavator? Just driving the bucket down using the teeth like wedges?
How were you busting the rounds with an excavator? Just driving the bucket down using the teeth like wedges?
That is exactly right.I'llpost a pic of the machine,couldn't do it any other way ,again wood is work.
With this?
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"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth"...
Sorry - couldn't help myself.
Nice pile. Lots of work.
Sorry - couldn't help myself.
Nice pile. Lots of work.
One hit with that bucket broke any round placed under it,so they became somewhat manageable."All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth"...
Sorry - couldn't help myself.
Nice pile. Lots of work.
Part of the end result lots of wood."All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth"...
Sorry - couldn't help myself.
Nice pile. Lots of work.
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I won't even have to think of touching it for several years,I'm almost 10 years ahead of myself. I wish I knew when to quit.
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Osagebndr
Minister of Fire
That's good stuff! Speaking strictly from a firewood addicts point of view of course. [emoji3]
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That's a guess,I'd say at least 6 to 7bad winters.10 years aheadthat's crazy! you must be a wood burner.... (see recent thread by brotherbart)
don't quit. sounds fun. you might need to get a tube burner though to go through wood faster and get rid of the blaze king
MacinJosh
Feeling the Heat
Those cant hooks (and hookeroons) are priceless. They save my back and saw blades.
Really nice pile. I'm jealous. No oak yet, just ash. How in the world did you source that much oak?
I live in an area where million dollar plus homes are the norm,I'm a LEO 16 years here and live in that area. I've met some of the most down to earth decent human beings that one could ever hope to meet in a lifetime. despite their wealth,the one friend does contract work in the city of Cleveland since he owns the largest construction company in the area.He has contracted a job to replace sidewalks and roads that these 100 oaks are destroying with their root systems,he got the job on bid 2400 locations to repair and replace ,unfortunately the trees must come down.He hires a tree service that has a 5 million dollar ins policy ,required by the city,an arborist also required by city. The trees are taken down and we take what we can it;s delivered to his yard as shown here. We process it,get it delivered to my place ,I split it and we split the wood equally,probably have 1000 in a cord when the totality of the entire operation is taken into consideration.It's who you know and timing and work,we stillhave some logs 5 feet in diameter for next year. The best part of this whole deal was when we called an Amish lumbermill to see what they would be worth at the mill. They said no one wants oak anymore and offered 100 a log,we laughed and said good day we'll use it for firewood. it was our intention anyway we wanted to have a little fun.
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