My lawn chair for having an evening brew and playing with the woodpile cat is between the separate season's woods stacks.
My wood pile for 2010-2011 and 2011-2012... I hope. (with pictures)
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Archer39 said:
A better way to do that is to run the rope across the stack when you have about half of it stacked. Then tie each end to a post and stack the other half on top of the rope. Since I started doing that probably fifty or sixty cords ago I have never had a stack fall.
Flatbedford
Minister of Fire
NH_Wood
Minister of Fire
Oh and ya gotta love that naturally debarked oak. I see ya have lots of that.[/quote]
it stops about 2 inches short of the plate. I think they designed it this way to prevent fingers and stuff from getting chopped off but i really don't know. It is a pain in stringy stuff but oak maple and ash its no biggy because normally you can pull apart the splits once the wedge is half way in.[/quote]
Nice stacks! Nice to be ahead! Same splitter here (borrowed from neighbor) and, yes, stops ~ 2-3" short - fine for ash and red oak, but hard maple and beech etc., can be a pain - need to turn round and finish split from other side, but not too often - still a big time saver if you are set up right and ready to split fast. Good luck! Cheers!
it stops about 2 inches short of the plate. I think they designed it this way to prevent fingers and stuff from getting chopped off but i really don't know. It is a pain in stringy stuff but oak maple and ash its no biggy because normally you can pull apart the splits once the wedge is half way in.[/quote]
Nice stacks! Nice to be ahead! Same splitter here (borrowed from neighbor) and, yes, stops ~ 2-3" short - fine for ash and red oak, but hard maple and beech etc., can be a pain - need to turn round and finish split from other side, but not too often - still a big time saver if you are set up right and ready to split fast. Good luck! Cheers!
i wonder if that ram has the length to extend all the way out to the plate or atleast to within 1/2" of it? It would be no problem taking the wedge off and cutting off the piece that makes contact with the end plate. hmmm i am going to have to take some measurements.
SmokinPiney
Feeling the Heat
Im sure the ram is capable of fully extending. They wouldn't have put that stop in if it didn't. Matter of fact yesterday when i was usin it i had to pry apart a piece of cherry. When the cherry finally came apart i smashed my finger between the beam and the split and cut it down to the bone. Go figger huh?
NH_Wood
Minister of Fire
Archer39 said:
Hmmmm....wonder if you could weld additional plate to stop in order to make up the difference? Cheers!
NH_Wood said:
I could but i don't have a plasma cutter to cut it like it would need to be. I suppose i could cut it with the torch and grind it to make it look decent.
That is a beautiful bunch of wood.
It is better than money in the bank.
Where did the wood come from?
It is better than money in the bank.
Where did the wood come from?
bogydave
Minister of Fire
Better looking than any fence I've ever seen.
Green grass & trees sprouting, that adds good color to the pics, (Next month for that to happen here)
Good job.
Looks great
Green grass & trees sprouting, that adds good color to the pics, (Next month for that to happen here)
Good job.
Looks great
wood spliter
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firefighterjake
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sksmass said:
Oh the yellow ropes . . . they're for crowd control as everyone in the neighborhood has been flocking here to check out these stacks of wood. To keep the admiring throng back the yellow rope is being used during Visitor Hours to keep folks back a respectable and safe distance.
Rustaholic said:
most of it was from my grandmothers house. In case your wondering I'm 22 that's why my grndmother is still around. Everything at her house is in a swamp and over bolders so it was a lot of work. None of it was easy. Some I found on craigslist, the walnut.
rphurley
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