Tool Of The DAy,

guido

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Hello,

Just a rake, but needed for the chips after splitting some
wood,

GUIDO.
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(quoted from post at 18:24:15 12/08/17) Hello,

Just a rake, but needed for the chips after splitting some
wood,

GUIDO.
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you split all that today ??? bet your hands, arms, back, legs, feet, neck, and butt are tired ! You're a better man than me Guido, I doubt if I could order that much wood and have it delivered in a day... you da man !
 
What is as impressive as the amount of wood is the great job of stacking. If I split that much wood all there would be is a huge mound of
firewood which I would intend to stack when I recovered.
 
Hello jniolon,

If you had a splitter that worked like this old one, you
would split with ease all day. That is just the end row. That
face size is about 6x12. Done spitting now 21 or 22 feet I
think. Last me a couple of years or three HE! HE! Here is my
machine,

GUIDO.
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Hello tech4,

Been practising for a few decades. Here is how it gets to the back of the house in a pinch. Usually I use a tow behind cart,

GUIDO.
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That looks like a Jackson wheel barrow with a stamped pan. I have 3 old Jackson's now, one with a stamped pan, the other 2 with folded pans. All 3 are the older version with channel steel, nothing stamped like the newer ones, which are still just fine, all Jackson's are well made. I like your method of loading wood and increasing the capacity.

My secret for doing that is splitting 2" maple limbs (use care they snap out 2/3 of the way through the wedge ) Then I place 4 or 6 of those as stakes along the side and can stack up the wood above the pan higher than the height of the pan. It can get heavy, but you can really haul quite a bit of wood on one of these and bring it through a narrow path. One does have to be careful and load what you can handle, and some day these may not be so handy being heavier than most wheelbarrows. In that case, I have 4 gardenway carts with 26" bicycle wheels. Those are great to work off the splitter. I can put a cord on wheels, haul to anywhere I want to stack or park a full one in the garage.
 
Hello Billy NY,

You would chuckle at the braces I have under that thing. I only use it down hill or flat. That no flat tire digs in way too much to go up hill. Had 5 or 6 feet diameter oak one time, never balanced straight after that,

Guido.
 
I always had enough trailers , some very old, to hold all winters supply. Fill trailer at site of log. I must be very lazy, however I have never stacked wood. The above stacks are very well done. Just seems easier for me.
 
I got a neighbor that cuts and splits his wood in the summer,and then put's it in some old trailers made out of pick up boxes with toppers on them. When one gets empty he hooks on too another trailer, pulls it closer to the house.
 
Hello Superhank,

Here is a picture of the pile. I just stack it up and hope it does not collapse. This side is the end I am picking from, Esthetics was never my goal, thanks just the same,

Guido.
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After splitting I pick out the larger chips for starting fires and rest gets put in field and plowed down. I have 3 hay wagons and a trailer that I tarp.The trailer is set and wagons are brought in as needed. The rest of my wood is stacked in 1 cord piles with tarps on top. The photo was taken at the tail end of winter.
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Hello D beatty,

I do the same with the chips from the splitting. They get racked and boxed. I put them up in the garage loft, nice and dry when needed,

Guido.
 

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