Logs Too Long

Yeah. I probably will just set them to the side as I'm bringing in wood this winter. As a pile grows, I'll bring the saw out and make quick work of them. I think most everything is cut to a manageable size.

 

My great grandfather from Lithuania would bring in logs as big as he could carry. Then just push the trunk into the fireplace as they burned.

 

Tonight, I'm burning the correct sized pieces. Once the stove is hot, I'll burn one or two long logs.

 

I'm posting to an old thread because it was one of these older threads that gave me the idea for today's entertainment...

Mounted to a dolly so I can go into the woodshed and fill it up, come outside and make a mess, and then roll back inside to stack it. The original idea was to go inside and dump it after cutting, but there is a lot of sawdust in between the splits after cutting, so I handled each one as I unloaded - thunked them together and tossed them into a pile. Doing this exercise because the Absolute is shorter than the PH.

 

Works good doesn't it?
Cool idea hooking it on to the dolly.
I hear you about the sawdust, I don't want all that extra sawdust in the stacks.
The little pieces too, because I catch them in a bin below there is a lot of sawdust in there, so, I throw them on a expanded metal ramp that I have, to knock all the sawdust off before I put them in the crates for storage.
With those chunks you can build just the right size fire you need for shoulder season days

 

It works much slicker than I expected. The weight of the splits locks them in place, so the little splits don't jounce around when the chain gets to them. So much safer than putting a foot onto each piece and cutting beside it.

 

I've used a reciprocating saw to shorten up a some small rounds/branches before.

 

And a whole lot faster

 

My grandfather & grandmother were from Lithuania as well.