My 8yo son has it in his head he wants to build a treehouse or clubhouse with the firewood. I am doing my best to manage his expectations because his father is probably the least handy city slicker on the forum. I think I could talk him into a smaller project to get him warmed up to working with wood, and give him an idea of the amount of work involved. I have seen a jig for cutting boards to 16”, and that would be pretty handy for me as I have a little stack of HT wood that I could use this year to get the fires started. Does anyone have a picture of one that has worked well for them that I could crib off of?
I Was thinking the same thing. Only thing I can think of is Heat Treated, which that stuff looks like may be. But other than the stamp on lumber never heard of anyone refer to it as "HT"??
Yup, heat treated is what I meant. I try my best with the lingo. There is a custom wood shop outside my neighborhood that gives away scraps like this. My son gave up after bossing his little sister around, so I went ahead and did this batch. I am still interested if someone has a better system for cutting down longs.
Nice; yes, that is what I am looking for. I think that would be a good “working with wood” project for us to learn on together.. not too critical.
Is the treehouse thing just a random insertion to this thread? Not trolling or anything I'm lost on the 16" wood having anything to do with a treehouse? That's a bit small for anything? I know your asking to cut it down to burn it, which is where I'm lost on the treehouse part of this thread? Take some pallet and screw them together throw one on the top or a piece of plywood on top and make that his clubhouse. You could build it off a fence and tie it nail depending on the fence construction to help keep it up right if you don't think you can brace it to not fall over.
The treehouse was my son’s big plans, and I was trying to come up with a little starter project for us.. I do like the pallet land idea. That is doable.
Why not just build a few stacked "walls" with the firewood so they can throw snowballs at the girls until they are tired of it in February.
As much work as firewood already is why would you recut your spits back down to a uniform 16" exact? Is that little bit of trim so that the wood will fit in the stove? Maybe a stove that's smaller and you have wood laying around that you cut larger for a different stove? If it needs to be that exact have you thought about one of those log marker things?
