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06-20-2012, 02:42 PM #31Senior Member
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Husqvarna x 2 here,I heated our last house for 25 yrs with wood (2 vermont castings stoves)
Mauls, wedges up the yinyang,great excercise for the young at heart,cut, split, stacked, stored 5 cords/year.
Than I built a 20 ton log splitter,that was fun
made my back happy.
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06-20-2012, 02:44 PM #32Bondservant of Jesus
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love splitting!!! Hate stacking
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06-20-2012, 03:13 PM #33Senior Member
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I split,wife stacks
Originally Posted by coachschaller
love splitting!!! Hate stacking
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06-20-2012, 06:14 PM #34Senior Member
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Axe Connected: Wood Splitting with the Twist
Yarr! Get er done! No shoes...
Tom Clark splitting wood using "Buster" - YouTube
He's my kind of guy. MX, chopping and smithing in the woods. Good stuff.Last edited by Sasquatch; 06-20-2012 at 06:22 PM.
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06-20-2012, 09:29 PM
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Can I borrow your wife every so often?I split,wife stacks
06-20-2012, 09:55 PM
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Absolutly,shes strong like Bull and twice as smart and will work all day for beer. Great Germanic Stock
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06-20-2012, 10:16 PM
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Oh my, that is hilarious. My wife stacks often but she is way smarter than a bull, not nearly as strong as one, and doesn't drinkAbsolutly,shes strong like Bull and twice as smart and will work all day for beer. Great Germanic Stock
She won't swing the 8.5 maul nor the smaller ax. But when we work as a team, it goes by much quicker. I will appreciate when the younguns are old enough to stack, transport, and even chop. I might get a log splitter when they are gone in another 20 or so years!
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06-20-2012, 11:03 PM
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Problem I had was,I had to buy cordwood than split it all into stovewood,big differance.
Also both stoves had cat convertors so softwood of any kind was out of the question.
The best heating woods we have in our local as far as BTUs/cord are madrone,Almond,eucyliptus (SP)
You cannot split Euc, without a logsplitter,no way no how (real aussy euc)we have tons of it available.
Today heating with wood is not an option anymore here,10 yrs ago I could get 5 cord lots deliverd for 115/cord in july.
Now it runs 285.00
06-21-2012, 11:06 PM
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We can go through about 10 ton of wood a winter. Preferably wandoo, or jarrah, both local hard woods in Western Australia. Old wandoo will actually shower sparks when being cut with a chainsaw. I use an old kelly brand axe, the best axe for splitting we have came from the sheep station my late father managed. I have been using that one for 46 of my 51 years or so !! If the wandoo is a little green I have to use a block splitter, am reckoning on getting one of those motor driven hydraulic splitters in time. Love getting wood we get it from local farms gratis.
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Heelerau
ps Jarrah from the local woodyard is about $275 a ton. Would hate to be buying wood.
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06-21-2012, 11:28 PM
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Madrone is the same way, dry it will also throw sparks,made a world of diff when I got a carbide toothed chain for my huskys.
Your Wandoo must be similar to madrone about 3200 lbs/cord dry.
