I'm definitely interested to hear the results of your experiment, so keep us posted!
Too hot to split, so I've been hanging a few axe heads. Carpenter's hatchet as a "thank you" gift for the friend who let me take all his oak, a...
Minor adjustment! The five rows at the base will remain, too much work to rip it all off. Going up I'm leaving a board's width in between each...
Ahhhh.... I'm smellin' what you're steppin' in! Good call. I may have to rethink it. I'm not so far along that I can't pull off the top rows and...
Deep in the throes of firewood related thought the other night (and also a couple glasses of wine deep) I made the decision to start siding the...
I have 2.5 cords of maple that is ready to burn, plus a half cord of ash, walnut and cherry in case I need to stretch it. I also have a chunk bin...
I totally hear ya. My next door neighbor passed away last month... really nice guy and he'll be missed. Now I'm starting to worry if my new...
Hot, humid nasty day on the CT shoreline today. I've been making a weekly trip to a friend's house further down 95 to chip away at my latest wood...
Looks that log could really screw up a chainsaw :) I'll stick to my usual program of a pile of red oak and a 6 lb. maul.
I was doing the hatchet and chopping block method for years. Had no problem with it at all, but this neat little thing came my way and I'm pretty...
That's awesome. I remember reading an article once about "witness trees". Essentially, trees that were present in Civil War photographs that are...
That's great that he/she is interested. This would definitely be a safe way to get them going. I use the poll of my hatchet to pound the wood...
Hey all! Happy to see the site is up and running again. Hope you had a great 4th. So a good friend of mine got this for me as a birthday gift a...
Woo hoo! Finally back in the swing of things. I was going through withdrawals without my FHC forum.
I had the same experience with a moisture meter. I like the peace of mind in grabbing a split, splitting it again and checking to see what it says...
I wouldn't say that I save certain species of wood for special occasions, but I DO save different sizes. I burn in the wood stove in my kitchen,...
Come on... you don't want to shell out a grand and change for rounds you can't lift in someones driveway? LOL. Sheesh... I don't pay that much in...
No such thing as overload! Always room for more.
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It was a beautiful June day today, and the firewood gods called to me from upon high and said "Thou must processeth firewood my son." And yay, it...
