Well, I got to tell you, it is for me. I was sick all week. Kept fighting it and went to work. Came home 2 afternoons but other than that I kept going. Wife says this morning "you are NOT going to go cut wood are you?" Said yep I sure am ;-P She thinks I am crazy but then she has lived with me for better or worse for over 40 years.zapny said:
tfdchief said:
Me too Thistle, and when I have my son and grandson with me, it's the best. If you look close, my grandson is in every picture except the last one (wearing black0Thistle said:
Well, what I said was "almost a cord each (un-split so probably not quite that much)" It is stacked, un-split, quartered rounds. But I can stack those in there pretty tight and the bed is 8 ft long, 5.5 ft wide (minus the wheel wells) and we stack 2.5 ft high. That is 110 cu. ft., a little shy of a cord 128 cu. ft. which is what I was trying to say. Sorry if I misled anyone. Anyway, it was a heck of lot of really great wood.smokinjay said:
Thanks Dennis. I wish you did too. But I know you have a lot of great ash which is what I am burning mostly this winter. My son and I were pretty happy to get it. We have worked on those 4 trees, when we could on the weekends, since late November. Finished today with the last of the second white oak in the original pictures in this post. I will post more pictures as soon as I can. SteveBackwoods Savage said:
No, it is definitely White Oak. The last pics do sort of look like Red. Look at the pile of rounds picture and the very first pics on the thread and you can see in those that it is White Oak. We did cut 2 Red Oaks that blew over in a storm in the first round, but the last 2 were White Oaks that mysteriously died summer before last. Real shame to, because they were beautiful, mature, solid trees.raybonz said:
Brave 22 ton SR log splitter & a Monster Maul, Well not quite true. The old man ONLY splits these days with the hydraulic. :-S My son uses the monster maul and 8 pound maul a lot, especially in the field to quarter stuff, but the last few years I tend to stay away from the mauls....hurts to much.zapny said:
tfdchief said:
Well, that back cut was a little steeper than I wanted it but I was coaching my son who has not felled that many trees. We did leave almost 3 in of hinge and started the fall with wedges and we also had a 1 in rope with slite tension tied off to our 3/4 ton truck. It went down like the text book within 2 feet of the target, which it had to 'cause there was stuff on both sides of that I didn't want to hit. You are correct, some sources will tell you the back cut should be horizontal, others will tell you with a slight down angle towards just above the apex of the wedge cut. I feel like that gives me a little insurance against the butt kicking backwards if something goes wrong at the hinge. There are lots of techniques but I have always liked the slight down angle to the back cut and ending just above the apex of the wedge cut and of course with plenty of hinge (I like 10%) and I always put wedges in the back cut as soon as there is room.Kenster said:
Google Tree Felling and you will find lots of good information and techniques.....some bad ones too! :-SKenster said:
