Logs Too Long

Snowed here and my saw buck is out there under some snow. Been too lazy to go and cut some longer splits down to length to fit into the stove, so I've been letting them hang out the side door until they can be pushed the rest of the way in. I have a split in there now burning a few hours. Still can't be pushed all the way in, so I am burning it like a fireplace. Sending alot of heat up the chimney, but it's mild here, so that's ok today. Wouldn't be doing this if it were cold outside or I was short on wood.

 

Put your jacket and gloves on, slip on some boots, grab your saw and cut them shorter. There. It's done!

 

Sounds like something i would do while consuming a 12 pack

Btw, tony is a get her done, no bs kinda guy. I could be his gene....but I'd need subtitles.....even in 5.1

 

Yeah, Tony is fun to watch! My old work partner called him Tony Bleeps!

 

yeah...most of my wood is cut to length. just didn't feel like messing with a saw tonight. it's almost 40 tonight, so you can burn what you got and keep warm enough.

when i split this, i was just trying to get enough wood split early enough to allow it to dry. now, i can further process the split wood and get it to the right size if it's too long. glad it was all split open early on.

 

Make yourself one of these, cut the whole bunch at once



OR Cram a few in a milk crate and cut them off

 

No matter what, it seems that every year I will have one or two chunks that are just a tad long also. Can't even fit them diagonally.
I can live with those chunks. They may fit if I split them down real small and use them to start fires. If they're knotty, gnarly or otherwise a pain to try to split, they go to the bonfire pile or the OWB gobbles them up!

The setup in hdrock's post above is nice!

 

For me, I just run it with the door open and eventually, it either gets smaller or the middle burns through and you can push it the rest of the way in. Lose some heat up the chimney, but that's ok. Had the room up to 95 last night. Siting at 79 this morning with a reload at 2:45 a.m. when I woke from the beer I drank.

Drank a 6 pack of light beer. Getting too old for this nonsense.

 

And what about the smoke smell from leaving the door open?

 

Nice way to make one pass & get a stove load !
You burn the crate full of chunks for shoulder season fires ?
How you store the shorties long term ?

 

Man who burn firewood, not lazy
suffer from "burn out" maybe, but not lazy.

Which saw you use to cut to size ?

Only way to cure "burn out" is to light the fire inside one of the saws
Once you get started cutting , the wood cutting bug feels good.

 

Not too bad. The draft pulls well enough to carry the smoke out. No back puffing in the room

 

Yup! Tony's got that right.

 

Live and learn as ma used to say. Got this nice big stove that can take 22 inchers either way so like a goof I cut a whole tandem load (24 fc) into 18 -20 inch pieces as I had no clue as to the difference between a sec burn EPA stove like we had and a big hybrid cat stove. They will fit and burn ok but now find I prefer the old 16 inchers by far. The new stuff won't see the inside of the stove until winter of 18/19 so I guess God willing and the creek don't rise I can fix em up by then. I'll get it figured out sooner or later ma! LOL

 

Yes, I burn all the chunks sometime or another usually shoulder season.
If I end up with short pieces 8, 10, 12 inches long I just stack them in a regular stack.
All the chunks get stored in the wooden crates I have
I get a lot of stuff that needs to be recut from scrounging, limbs and stuff.
I made that stand when I got a deal on 2 cords of dry split wood, and I had to recut about three quarters of a cord, it was definitely worth the time to put it together and it's all free pallet wood is made from.

 

I have an electric chainsaw that I keep on my back porch. If I get a log too big for the stove, I cut it on the porch and then throw it in the stove

 

That's me too. I keep an electric chainsaw in the garage for those pesky long splits.