It's late July and I can hear his dull-azz saw screaming because he's been cutting down trees for this season's firewood.
But that piping hot bar and dull chain is drying the wood as it cuts right? So it will surely been under 20% MC by the first day of fall right?
You should be a nice guy and go over there and explain that he needs to sharpen or replace the chain, and let the saw do the work. Maybe you'll get some beer out of the deal!
a retired neighbor enjoys seeing trucks in October loaded down with fresh cut wood in, with drivers in a panic to get this season's wood cut an split.
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. People just have it in their heads how they're going to do things. Doesn't mean they're lacking in any cognitive capacity, it's just that they have a way of doing things or they don't like change. A family up the street from me burns 9 months out of the year. I assume they're a little less well off as they're in a tiny lake cottage, and they have cord after cord of fresh cut red oak along their fence line. And I know they're burning it green as there's always thick, stinky smoke coming out of the chimney. Maybe they're just not as far ahead as they need to be, maybe they just don't know... The cosmic ballet continues.
I have a neighbor that does this year after year. His stacks are in the same place and very visible. He always seems to muddle through the winter with wet wood he buys during the winter. While one summer isn’t enough for majority of wood, it would at least help a bit to have it delivered at the end of each burning season. Oh well I have a different neighbor across the street who “stores” their wood in a big pile in the back yard. I, on the other hand, am years ahead and wood stacked and top covered. I have a new neighbor moving in next month. If he blames me for excessive smokiness, I’ll have to give him a crash course in “It ain’t coming from me”.
Go try to get these neighbors educated before they ruin it for the rest of us.Some political do gooders will see all that unseasoned wood smoke and deem all wood stoves poisonous.Then the push for restrictions.
I just LOVE my neighbor, he has one of those hammer type cordless drills they sell these days you can hear them from two blocks away and he loves building stuff, heard it all last spring/summer/fall and again this year. I will never buy one those drills just out of principle !
I believe that could be an impact for driving screws and yes they can make a little noise. Usually hammer drills are for drilling into concrete.
I do not believe I would like living next to someone west of me with a stove that put out a bunch of smoke. You know there is a method to everything and you would think that people would get that.
A "little noise" you say, truth is a regular cordless drill will do 99% of the tasks people use them for but every inconsiderate moron and his donkey goes for the noisy drill.
Having been in construction for many years, there is no comparison. Impact drivers are lighter, easier to get in smaller places, and drive even large screws with a small percentage of the effort that regular drills require due to how they are designed. People aren’t buying them because they are noisier. They buy them because they are superior for driving screws. There are a lot of tools that make loud noise. Circular saw, air compressor, nail gun of multiple types, etc. Are you not going to buy any of those either?
I've offered to sharpen his chains. He's 70 and believes conifers gunk up a chimney. That should tell you all you need to know. I really do like him and his wife. Over the years I've even given them firewood when I'm maxed out on storage and find a good score. He had some health issues in the spring, but cutting firewood in June-July is his normal routine.
I remember when we were first introduced to impact drivers around 2005-2006. We (construction crew) were amazed at what they could do. Could drive a 8” ledger lock in with a pinky on the trigger. For someone to say a cordless drill will do 99 percent of the same jobs, tells me they have never used an impact driver before. It’d be like trying to drive a 16 penny framing nail with a 12 ounce hammer, when there is a 24 ounce hammer available. People only recently (as in 15ish years now) started buying impacts because they werent invented before. I remember old framers saying nail guns would never catch on and that they were a fad. A hammer was just as good and could do all the same jobs. I also remember those same guys saying that about all terrain forklifts. Just hire an extra guy they said. We laughed then and I laugh now.
