Only get to load NS about 15% of my loads; and it's always cookies, chunks, uglies, or shorties. This load happened out to be a bunch of shorties, so they fit in pretty tight. In this pic, she's cruising at about 650*F. My 13NC is only around 9" deep, so these are "shorties"!!
I'm literally reprocessing my split length from my stacks with a chop saw, just so I can do this in my stove!
I suppose that I could consider this...............it does make a lot of sense with longer burn times and such. But I don't want to haul my "mitre saw" out on the deck every time I bring a load of wood in. Hell; maybe I'll try it..............
I know this has been mentioned in threads before, but I'll go on and say it anyway. I have had this happen to me... When using a miter saw to cut down splits, I have found that they really like to move and kick out, especially the small piece opposite the hand. I guess it's because of the weird shape of most firewood splits....they don't sit flat, can be twisted and bind the blade a bit...till they're cut through and then go flying at a high rate of speed.... If you haven't seen it on here before, some folks have made a jig/box for holding splits so they can cut with the chainsaw. I can't recall who had it (a coupld folks I believe), maybe someone will chime in....
I know.. It's a total pain in the rear. Sometimes I bring the saw out to the stacks (on seasonable weather days) and go through a bunch at a time (load some in the house and restack the rest) and sometimes I leave it where it is currently set up (garage) and bring a full stove load's worth to it, and trim it there to stack on the hearth to use when needed. This will all be rectified when I finally start ordering future cords in 13in splits (if they allow that measurement)
2 pix of the "current" load in my 13....................... First is a NS load just starting to take off.......... Second is the same NS load cruising at 650*F. Lovin' it!!
