Chopping up the beast

[GadDummit]

The Boy and I lucked out and almost killed ourselves Saturday with a pile of castaway wood that fell off the neighbor's land and onto our curb. I think it's oak, but I don't know my trees. I will tell you it's hard as diamonds. I had to resharpen my MS261 after every 4 or 5 trips through it (Thanks timberline!)

Pile at the curb:

The Boy hiding in the pile

Standing by the stump to show height compared to a 9 year old boy.

As I cut chunks out of one of the fat logs it became a sort of chair looking thing.

Sister had to get in on the comparisons.

It was a tough back breaking 10 hour ordeal, but we got it all chopped up into the sizes you see in the wagon there or near to it. Moved all to the backyard for the splitter, but I'm skeerd it'll break my blade off because it's so hard. We'll see this Saturday how it turns out or if I need to break the welder out again.


Here's some pics of the beautiful grain and lines. You can see where I worked the saw back and forth trying to get it to cut through the beast.

If I had more skills and strength I would have loved to turn this into a dining room table or something with those lines. Isn't that just the best looking stuff you've ever seen? Anyway, it's going into the fireplace. It's heavy as alll get out so it should be good for the BTUs.

And my MS261 didn't miss a beat. It bogged down a couple of times and it was tough going when the chain got dullish (not whipping out spaghetti strips anymore, just dust) but I'm so glad I upgraded from that Poop-on Pro!

That's about it. Just wanted to share

 

[saewoody]

Thanks for sharing


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[kennyp2339]

FYI - that's maple, not oak, split and stack it on a pallet and let it dry out for a year or longer

 

[Threelittlefish]

Maple! Nice score!

 

[Woody5506]

That stuff will throw some heat, and put that Radio Flyer to the test!

 

[KC Matt]

How are you guys calling that maple? The first few pics the hue is off but the last several is clearly red oak. Or at least it's identical to the red oak around here.

 

[BamaScroungr]

The wood looks like mulberry or bradford pear to me.

 

[Jags]

Looks pretty maply to me, but not soft maple (silver), more of a Norway or one of its cousins. Could be an oak variety but different heartwood than I am used to.

 

[coutufr]

I have split oak logs yesterday and the bark looked the same as this tree. To me this is oak too.

 

[gzecc]

Provide some pics of the end grain and bark from 2-3 ft away. Its hard to tell with all the chainsaw grooves.

 

[Jags]

And an actual split, not quarter sawn.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

No rays in any of the end grain shots. The only common oak I know that could have shallow fissures being that old is a pin, but it looks more like norway bark to me. Its also spalding, which is a maple characteristic.

 

[GadDummit]

Sorry guys, I somehow quit getting emails on this thread. The beast is finally almost split up. All those stumps made just over a full cord of wood! I had to find new places to stack the stuff, haha. Good troubles to have, I guess. I also broke my splitter twice. Once by pushing the blade off the end, splitting the beam. The second time by busting my hydraulic ram pusher's hold-downs to the beam. Sent three grade 8 nuts flying into my feet!

My chainsaw blade and splitter both guarantee this isn't pine, unless it's some new Franken-pine from the bowels of Monsanto that is engineered to eat up chainsaw blades. I'll take some more pics tomorrow while I put the pusher back together and finish the last 6 chunks. Should take about 2 hours at the rate I'm going.

Then I get to put Christmas lights up for the little lady.

 

[VirginiaIron]

My post was deleted. I do not recall posting to this thread, although I did read it.