Took 250ft of 6ft cedar fence down a while back and have slowly been breaking the panels up and de-nailing and cutting the punk from the bottom of the boards to leave 5ft of solid but weathered board. I am selling the better boards for a dollar each and cutting the split or junk boards into 16" for kindling. The fence was never sealed, treated or painted. I threw together a sawbuck made of the salvage 2X4's so I could cut the junk boards to 16" a bunch at a time. Worked pretty slick. I will have plenty of cedar kindling this year once I split up the boards. Funny, I saw about a dozen YouTube sawbuck designs exactly the same and all claiming to be original designer.
Wintertime metalcuttr will be thanking summertime metalcuttr big time when it comes time to light some fires
Great job on the sawbuck! Good on you for repurposing what can be and using the rest for kindling. Was that Western red cedar fence? Most cedar IME is decay resistant, but not good for ground contact unless Eastern red cedar. After admiring your stacks i suddenly have a craving for cheesecake!
You are right! Cut a bunch of the same type fence up a few years ago and wintertime metalcuttr was dancing a jig til mid-April!
Western Red Cedar! The tops of the fence seem to last forever but the bottom with the cover board tends to get punky. All second and third growth now. Still can last 15-18 years though. If made of true Old Growth Cedar everything lasts far longer. Funny about the cheesecake...I was craving pizza!
I've made/used a few saw bucks over the last couple years. Come in real handy for doing bundles of small logs, branches or slabwood in one fell swoop. Speeds things up, makes it easier to cut smaller stuff, keeps chains out of the dirt and less bending over. Simple and productive.
Looks like it worked well. I'm too lazy...I'd have just ran a couple ratchet straps around the piles and cut them.
