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Out here in my little part of California, the weather changed from hot to cold in a week. Thought I had better get my fire wood ready. My larger Husky Rancher 55 started fine. I have a 12 inch Echo for the smaller stuff. It always works. I get wood dumped at my place from tree trimmers. They cut the logs longer than I can use. I need to cut the logs under 14 inches to fit my stove. My home made log splitter works fine. All I need to do is plug it in to 220 volts. I hope you all have your wood in by now. Stan
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Stan, I have a bunch of wood piled up from when a hurricane came through last October.
Supposed to cool off big time this weekend to below normal temps by 10 degrees.
Will start splitting next week.
My ancient old 8 HP Briggs engine splitter does a great job.
Have already had small fires in the shop heater almost every evening for a while.
Richard in NW SC
 
I got the hydraulic unit from a trash compactor my employer tossed out when I worked at my factory job. stan
 
My wood cutting/splitting activities from earlier this year - don't know how much I'll use being in East Central Coast Florida, but, have a few BBQ's to do as well. Also had a friend watching me for over an hour....
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Good guy that I love having around :)
 
I use IBC tote cages I get free from the farm chemical company. I have 15 on hand with dried wood, they weigh about 600# each. I move them with pallet forks on the skidloader, typically use 12 to 14 across winter to heat my shop. We have a bunch of logs to cut with the sawmill this year, that will make another dozen cages full from the scraps. They'll sit to dry for next year. My area has more free firewood than we can burn from big windstorms in 2018 and 2020.
 
When I see the different wood splitting operations, it brings back memories of Loren, the Adirondack Case Guy, who built some fabulous machinery. My favorite was the cab for one of his tractors.
 
Wood was split back in March..

Termp hit 101 F several day in June ..wood is DRY...

We received news that the USA is contemplating opening up the Border for Canadian Snow birds to travel south in November...Canadian TRAVELLERS MUST MEET ALL REQUIREMNTS as per Homeland Security......:)

If so...wood for another season......
Bob..
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Stan, pretty soon you will have to have and electric chainsaw to with your electric splitter to make Cali happy. Then they will outlaw wood burners.
 
We have been burning wood for a few days now, but we always use wood that's been processed and stored in the wood shed for at least a year, our stove like dry wood. I processed a lot more blowdown ash last spring, and I will sell that next year. We don't burn much ourselves, spend the winter in Arizona.
 
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I think I would rather cut it before the dozer got it full of dirt.

teddy52food ...That's why the trees are knocked down in the winter...NO DIRT....and then in the winter the wood is cut.......:)

Dirt in piles is from first run of ROOT PICKING..in August.

Bob..
 
I drop and skid to a landing out in the open in March then process when the weather improves in April/May. I cut the log lengths into a long pile then work my way from one end with the splitter stacking the splits onto pallets as I go so I only have to handle it once instead of the typical 5-6 times. Our gasification boiler likes it at 12%-15% moisture so, I cap each pallet with poly then shrink wrap and cut a couple of vent holes at the top to let moisture escape. Temps in the stacks reach 140+ degrees, over the summer it kiln dries down to 10%-12%. I use 3 point forks to put 6 pallets at a time into the woodshed. I get about 1/2 cord to a pallet, 24 pallets gets us through an average winter; I did 36 this year to be safe.
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(quoted from post at 12:16:45 10/15/21) Quote:
I think I would rather cut it before the dozer got it full of dirt.

teddy52food ...That's why the trees are knocked down in the winter...NO DIRT....and then in the winter the wood is cut.......:)

Dirt in piles is from first run of ROOT PICKING..in August.

Bob..
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Whereabouts are you? Looks like my backyard.
 
(quoted from post at 20:15:54 10/15/21) I drop and skid to a landing out in the open in March then process when the weather improves in April/May. I cut the log lengths into a long pile then work my way from one end with the splitter stacking the splits onto pallets as I go so I only have to handle it once instead of the typical 5-6 times. Our gasification boiler likes it at 12%-15% moisture so, I cap each pallet with poly then shrink wrap and cut a couple of vent holes at the top to let moisture escape. Temps in the stacks reach 140+ degrees, over the summer it kiln dries down to 10%-12%. I use 3 point forks to put 6 pallets at a time into the woodshed. I get about 1/2 cord to a pallet, 24 pallets gets us through an average winter; I did 36 this year to be safe.
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We need to meet up someday. I'd be real interested in hearing about your boiler. I want one BAD!!!!!
 
I am on my second gasification boiler. The first was a 150K BTU Econoburn, manufactured down near Buffalo. It sh!t the bed, sprung a leak, at 1 week over the 5year warranty and I got zero help from the factory; they wouldn't even give me a bit of a discount on a new one. Then bought a 300K BTU Biomass Next Gen that cost me $2 grand less than the smaller Econoburn did 5 years earlier and that is light years ahead of the Econoburn in every respect. It has been grief free, just normal maintenance; it's now going into it's ninth heating season. They are European made but the importer is most helpful and stocks anything one might need parts wise. One fall, years after the warranty expired, the controller acted up when I first fired it. I called The Man and explained what it was doing and he overnighted a new motherboard to me at no cost. By the next day when the new board came it was working fine, I think it had been a result of dampness after sitting unused for seven months.
 
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(quoted from post at 12:16:45 10/15/21) Quote:
I think I would rather cut it before the dozer got it full of dirt.

teddy52food ...That's why the trees are knocked down in the winter...NO DIRT....and then in the winter the wood is cut.......:)

Dirt in piles is from first run of ROOT PICKING..in August.

Bob..
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Whereabouts are you? Looks like my backyard.
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Good day Brent4207..I'm about 1000 miles North of Spokane Washington USA on the Alberta British Columbia Border in Canada..
Our residence is 100 feet East of the 120 th Parallel of longitude
"The Border between AB /BC.."
 
(quoted from post at 11:45:56 10/16/21) I am on my second gasification boiler. The first was a 150K BTU Econoburn, manufactured down near Buffalo. It sh!t the bed, sprung a leak, at 1 week over the 5year warranty and I got zero help from the factory; they wouldn't even give me a bit of a discount on a new one. Then bought a 300K BTU Biomass Next Gen that cost me $2 grand less than the smaller Econoburn did 5 years earlier and that is light years ahead of the Econoburn in every respect. It has been grief free, just normal maintenance; it's now going into it's ninth heating season. They are European made but the importer is most helpful and stocks anything one might need parts wise. One fall, years after the warranty expired, the controller acted up when I first fired it. I called The Man and explained what it was doing and he overnighted a new motherboard to me at no cost. By the next day when the new board came it was working fine, I think it had been a result of dampness after sitting unused for seven months.
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Did you go through a local dealer?
 
The Econoburn was from the factory, the importer for the Biomass is New Horizon Corp, in Sutton WV. Google Biomass NextGen, I bought mine right off the website. A friendly word of advice, get one a size larger than you think you need, or plan on putting in storage.
 
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