Most of us have learned the hard lessons from experience unfortunately, some lessons we learned from others bad experiences. The big thing is to learn from the mistakes. I still have a piece of steel in me from an object I was striking with a hammer. Many think you're being an alarmist or not manly by suggesting or using safety equipment.
Massive logs delivered, now what?
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Ashful
Minister of Fire
I think the more interesting question is, what kind of dog is that in your avatar? Unless you're exceptionally short, that's a true monster canine!
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Ashful
Minister of Fire
One thing I've noticed about my shorter friends, is that they all know exactly how tall they are... like to the quarter of an inch.
Those over 6 feet don't worry about 1/4".
That's awesome! Our little min-pin is approaching her 20th birthday, and getting very close to her end. The kids aren't going to let me go without a dog in the house, once she's gone, so I've been been casually thinking about what direction we might go next. If it weren't for so many allergy sufferers in the house, causing us to shop for specific low-allergen breeds, I'd prefer rolling the dice at the ASPCA.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Woodsplitter67
Minister of Fire
Me personally If I had limited resources like this.. Id cut everything into rounds.. then Idrent a splitter for the weekend
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Neighbor previously had a male that was about 140 lbs.
Female he has now isn't quite that big.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Neighbor previously had a male that was about 140 lbs.
Caw
Minister of Fire
A fellow giant dog lover! Wolfhounds are great. I have an English mastiff myself.
Glad you guys mentioned cleaning up the wedge head. Mine was starting to mushroom and I was worried about bits flying off. Just need to get a new wheel for my angle grinder.
Isaac Carlson
Minister of Fire
I used to get wood from a tree service. I'm talking HUGE chunks. I have pictures somewhere of a pile of them. Some of them were so big I could only fit 2 in my 8ft truck bed, and not because of the weight. There were mountains of noodles when I got done, and I found metal in several of the chunks.
It was a big job and required several people to safely move and break down the pieces. We had 22 full cord when we got done.
The best way for us was to simply noddle them into smaller pieces that we could put on the hydraulic splitter. I would cut a chunk in half, then cut that into thirds, and then halves or thirds again.
There is a lot of wood in a big chunk, yoi just have to break it down.
It was a big job and required several people to safely move and break down the pieces. We had 22 full cord when we got done.
The best way for us was to simply noddle them into smaller pieces that we could put on the hydraulic splitter. I would cut a chunk in half, then cut that into thirds, and then halves or thirds again.
There is a lot of wood in a big chunk, yoi just have to break it down.
Ashful
Minister of Fire
I've brought home single logs over 5000 lb. They're fun to strap into the trailer, as one log hits my payload limit, yet could still roll around causing the tail that is my trailer to wag the dog that is my truck, if not somehow strapped down.
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Ashful
Minister of Fire
Nope. That's the stock bed rail caps that come on Ram pickups now, and below that the painted top corner of the metal bed. Tail lights are lower, out of view in this photo.
