Purdy wood
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Looks like it'll burn good to me!
Cut and split 8 cord of wood in the last month. The first 5 cord, split by hand like butter,,,,, would have been a disgrace to put a splitter to them, or at least most of them. The next 3,,, the 27 ton MTD I was using was given a run for its money! Some pieces split up looking like a bowl of spaghetti. Different logs from different places.
The first 5 cord came from trees in the center of a large woodlot. The next 3 cord, came from the same wood lot, but took extra abuse by living next to a road their entire lives, and my guess is getting extra wind, twisting forces, etc, since they were more exposed.
In all, best thing I found was a rifle bullet in the dead center of an ash that was about 60 years old. I cut the tip off it with the chainsaw, and saw it just as I was about to run the splitter down through it, and instead did a bit of an autopsy job to figure out what was there. Fun finding a piece of history.
You splitting that up by hand or with a splitter? What are you using, the x27?
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Cut and split 8 cord of wood in the last month. The first 5 cord, split by hand like butter,,,,, would have been a disgrace to put a splitter to them, or at least most of them. The next 3,,, the 27 ton MTD I was using was given a run for its money! Some pieces split up looking like a bowl of spaghetti. Different logs from different places.
The first 5 cord came from trees in the center of a large woodlot. The next 3 cord, came from the same wood lot, but took extra abuse by living next to a road their entire lives, and my guess is getting extra wind, twisting forces, etc, since they were more exposed.
In all, best thing I found was a rifle bullet in the dead center of an ash that was about 60 years old. I cut the tip off it with the chainsaw, and saw it just as I was about to run the splitter down through it, and instead did a bit of an autopsy job to figure out what was there. Fun finding a piece of history.
You splitting that up by hand or with a splitter? What are you using, the x27?
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A split of what I am calling "tiger poplar." Waxed on the ends and drying out of the sun. Something needs to be made from this!
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We had a big soft maple that had grain colored and figured like that. It was so beautiful right where the major limbs crowned out that I couldn't stand to split it. Instead I gave those rounds to local artists to turn bowls from. They came out beautiful.
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That is pretty amazing. I don't think I have ever seen that deep of coloring in a soft maple around these parts.
I have never seen it this dark either. Tree was about 50-60 years old. It was a shame to take it down, but a good chunk had started to rot internally and it had limbs hanging over the house. The woodpeckers loved it.
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