Sorry, but bark free slippery (red) elm standing dead and bark free is great firewood and I have burned lots. Dries in one year. Splitting, well...
Our furnace is DIRECTLY under our bed and any heat in the furnace is TOO hot for a good nights sleep.:sleeping:
We had a similar incident. 15-20 years ago, I cleaned our exterior masonry chimney with an extension ladder in September. While carrying the...
Sugar maple, my favorite firewood. Dries quicker and burns hotter than white oak. White oak coals better. My furnace works better with wood...
Not Fair. We had reservations for a July camping trip to Vermont but the "two week quarantine" put an end to that trip. Last time I looked, a...
Unrelenting 90 deg days here too. The BIG question: will all these 90+ deg days dry my firewood faster or will the 70+ deg dew point counter the...
"The point of this technique" as questioned by the OP: To reduce the length of wood in contact with the cutting teeth. Why would you want to...
I have a hard time thinking of a bar oil shortage since bar oil is easy to produce and oil inventories are at record highs. Brands/companies come...
My thread: Battery Chainsaw I checked OSHA noise rules and my Makita 14" does not require ear protection based on Makita's rated decibels. NIH...
Ash as well as pine was a common faster growing tree combined with red oak here in new plantings which EAB ended. Poplar would grow fast and the...
I have hiked past many black locust stands here in Northeast Iowa and black locust is not "taking over" anything. Black locust suffers many...
The 36 volt 14" Makita battery chainsaw has a OEM 0.043" gauge bar and very thin saw teeth with an Oregon chain. The Makita motor appears too...
Splitting prior to stacking: Red and white oak, 6-8" rounds to halves, larger to quarters Everything else other than red elm, 7-8" rounds to...
This is one of my favorite topics, oak drying, and I have done a lot of research without reaching any conclusions. I appreciate everyone's...
1 - Red oak, all oaks have "rays" in the heart wood radiating out from the center as continuous lines to the sapwood. Red oak heart wood is red...
I had a hernia repair but mine is genetic. Several relatives also had hernia repair. Though, lifting 300-400 pounds of wood could give anyone a...
volume = diameter/2 squared times pi times length, all in feet. Northern red oak weighs around 60 lb per cubic foot, green/wet. (27"/2/12)**2 x...
I have cut over 5 cords in a year with the Makita 14" battery chainsaw. I carry four Makita 5 amp-hr battery pairs, Makita's system, which can...
I found a freshly downed red oak pole this week, stump rot, with all the bark and sapwood fallen off. The heart wood was nearly perfect after...
I am good with numbers and carry a tape measure to measure my stack of wood in the Astro, did LxWxH, and calculated the share of a cord weight...
