I actually picked up 8 or so red oak rounds at the dump today, forgot to take a pic. Got to get back in the habit.
I noticed that a tree crew cut back near some utility lines, across the street from my folks. I went back armed. I wanted to get in/out. It's a fairly busy street. When the open hatch scrapes against my head, I know I'm close to enough. I tossed in some small red maple branches, from my folks Back home. Unloaded. Oh yeah - red oak. My fave
How do guys that hoard in the light duty suvs or mini vans get that much in there without bottoming out. I load my Yukon XL less than 1/2 volume and thats about all I feel safe with if I maxed out volume I wouldn't be able to see over the hood
They were. There's a few more that I'll go back to get on Thursday. I hope they're still there. I may need to halve a few. They are still in 6-10foot lengths. I didn't leave any rounds I cut.
I loaded my RAV4 so full of free spruce last summer that some of it shifted and it started to bottom out on the way home over any significant bumps. Must've been at least 500lbs worth. Had to take it slow after that but it wasn't a very long drive and over all paved roads. Even though it was spruce it was totally worth it. Nice for getting the woodstove going quickly.
'Tis the season for empty racks. The rounds will stay there for a bit. I have some rack maintenance to tend to. Besides, I like being able to look at the stack of rounds.
I figure if you guys are going to post suv scores, I can post my wheelbarrow score from this afternoon. Red maple and is a lot tougher to split when it is not so cold anymore. Some thick pieces w branches too though. The other pile I’m leaving for my neighbor’s pit.
You may be onto something there MFP, Maybe a "loaded wheelbarrow" thread??? Have you tried the "wet end" splitting trick? Ive learned if a rounds end start to dry and check they are a LOT harder to split. I distinctly remember a couple years ago with red maple. Had a truck load of rounds waiting to be split. It had warmed a bit (it was early Spring) and ends had checked. HARD to split. Stored some on vertical and the wet end was a lot easier. Even the black locust i was just splitting i noticed the same. Half the time i split wood within a few days so no issues. With weather warming now the checking will become an issue.
I have, and these were stored on their side,not vertical, at the neighbor’s. But I was getting some spongy impacts with the juice on either side of the axe. Some cracks, but the isocore wouldn’t stay seated to wail on it with the hammer. They are not dry and checking yet despite being winter fell. I’l split off what I can. Leaving the 18”+ splits at the neighbors, and keep the 17”- for myself. And set aside the ones I can’t get to go, maybe o noodle with the new to me echo ms-440. I’m going to take it to my brother in law’s for a tune up this weekend. I don’t want to hear about you complaining to split black locust though, Brad I can lop a large round in half with a couple blows from the x27, and I’m 5’4”. I’m just going Napoleon on you cause I don’t have any locust to split. Seriously though, I went through some of my uglies from yester-year, and I do think it gets easy again after being stored a while. Maybe try splitting with the checks, instead of parallel to the rings.
Not yet... I’ve had a couple heckish weeks at work. And waiting for the new chain-brake lever. I was thinking run some seafoam carb cleaner and some fresh fuel oil mixture through before tuning up the carb. I think the thing has had maybe a couple tanks of fuel run through it since purchase.. looking forward to cranking it up.
