Most annoying waste of firewood...

I don't know why anyone would not be honest about it.
Like most things in life it has its upside and downside.

 

Agreed. I've always said if I was running production or doing lots of smalls, I'd probably have one. Also if I was in an area with tall bean poles/straighter grain stuff it would be a great option as well. I just get a lot of large diameter stuff along with crotches/nasties that I don't want to leave laying. Different situations make the difference on what best suits a persons needs. I just find it amusing that some of those who say it does everything with ease will then post later about they noodle a lot. I think you see it too. The large rounds we get would topple the whole splitter over from the stands I've seen on some of the kinetics. We burn everything down to at least 1 inch in diameter. Heck I've even burnt all the brush in the boiler when it was dead and close. More work but the satisfaction of heating your home with it, instead of letting it rot makes me feel a sense of victory. I do boiler chunks too but mainly when I know if I try to split it anymore, it will leave me with multiple pieces that won't stack well. Like you said, upside and downside.

 

Not this bad yet but close.



Al

 

Vioxx was supposedly removed from the market permanently because of the results of the last clinical test where such a high percentage of participants were impacted from the Vioxx that they stopped the test ! Like 75 or 80%, maybe more.

 

Derail thread...hi from another in SD...140 miles up I29.
Annoyance ..hate to see tree rows dozed and then lay in the middle of fields and farmed around for years. But up here, makes me wonder about all the rock/boulder piles they've farmed around for years. Push down trees for more acreage, but continue to farm around rockpiles? Take the same dozer/backhoe and bury them.

 

i'm not so sure...
When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed

 

Thank you, sir! Been around for about a year, but had been just 'lurking' most of the time....just thought i'd put in my 2cents worth on this subject...and to say hi.

 

Well, thank you. I've been reading/following most everything....woodpile, equipment, stoves, etc. Really been interested in the Woodstock info...got an Ideal Steel during the last sale Apr/May?) sitting in the garage, still using my older DutchWest this season. The IS is stripped of anything that adds weight, and hoping to get help from the neighbor to get it moved up 5 steps and into the living room in my avatar pic. Can not wait!
Again, thanks for the welcome.

 

I'm a wood snob with a splitter. If it's a crotch, or gnarly it will often get left in the woods, or tossed into the firepit.

 

I'm going to use your comment to add my 2 cents on the controversy in question. I don't mind seeing crotch wood left behind in the wild because I know it's often not worth the trouble to split, but also I think it's healthy to leave some wood to rot for all the other wildlife that depend on the food chain it contributes to. Sometimes I even feel bad for not leaving anything behind to become bug, grub, and worm food which eventually becomes woodpecker food etc.... So I try not to be so thorough in bucking and cleaning up a dead tree, but that's just me and admittedly I'm not too thorough by nature unless I'm trying to find out who messed with the thermostat or loaded the toilet paper facing in the wrong direction.

Anyway, most people here hit on a lot of good gripes so I will add one small annoying one that effects us city folk and people like Midwinter who sometimes scrounge at town dumps. My dump heaps all tree refuse into a giant "meatball mountain" where everything is tangled together so you can't get at the logs or even see them under all the leaves and twigs. Why can't they take a little extra effort to separate the useful logs for scroungers like myself who would be happy to take it and actually save them the work of having to keep pushing the bulky growing pile around? I know eventually they bucket load it into dump trucks and send it all off to a landfill. So this I find a waste, but it's also intentionally wasteful and inconsiderate. Also I see Golf courses with piles of logs that they just seem to let rot, but I have called some local ones and they wont allow the public access to them.

 

Ah, but if they make it too attractive, then the competition increases! I don't mind keeping it on the down low.

 

LOL. Major consensus on toilet paper here is there is just one rule about TP. We need it. Doesn't matter which way it is on the dispenser, over or under, or the roll sitting on the bathtub or even the floor. It doesn't matter where or how it is as long as it is.
So I just put it on the dispenser over the top because, well, that makes my day. Never once have I found it put back the way it was or another way so apparently everyone here figures out how to use it no matter where it is. As long as it is.

 

Agreed Urban Woods! I forgot about golf courses! I’ve seen a few where they just make a giant pile behind the maintenance shed, not even out of view of the public eye! Hard to believe at a golf course they would leave such a mess... ever seen a golf snob before? They put a wood snob to shame every day of the week and twice on Sunday!

I don’t get it. Either trim, chip, the brush and buck split the firewood or let somebody do it and burn the brush! No golfer wants it around

 

My wife was on Vioxx for fibromyalgia and she loved it. After being on it for a couple of years it did damage to her kidney and she had to stop. She now has to be real careful about meds she takes because of her history with kidney problems.

 

I fish on the grounds of a local Golf course.
Big place, has, I think about 17 miles of river running thru it, pheasant farm and hunt areas, nature trails, horse riding, anyways big place.
I know alot of the grounds crew from running into them and talking.

They have several buildings that burn the stuff in fire places.
Even then they have I'll bet over several hundred acres in woods.
Just curious one time I asked if they would allow people in to cut firewood.
"No" was the answer, they did many years ago and the cutters left a mess, drove over small trees and generally were slobs.
I can see why they don't allow people in, If I owned the place I won't either.

Also in the City dump where my Dad lives they have areas where you can dump trees.
Its not sorted cause the general public does the dumping, bring in your yard waste and toss it on a pile.
It all ends up being chipped on site and the general public can get free mulch if they want.
Crappy mulch tho, they chip all wood, lumber scraps and worst of all home remodeling refuse full of nails, screws and paint.

Again if they let the general public in and scrounge the wood piles you'd find the piles end up getting spread out as scroungers go thru and toss the stuff ever which way looking for keepers. I don't blame them.

 

Welcome billijak gonna need of that stove install soon.. It will keep you warm..