Any of you have experience with beech? The lot next to mine was logged last year and the logger left several massive beech trees on the landing,...
I am wondering how many of you guys use a moisture meter for your firewood. I have an old Lignomat mini-Ligno analog meter, I've used it for...
Well, after ten years of dealing with a traditional outdoor wood furnace (Central Boiler CL5648), prone to frequent random failures, and now...
Black birch is my favorite firewood. Great smell, easy to cut, easy to split, smells good, dries fast and high BTU. And did I mention that...
These are on my bookshelf: The Backyard Lumberjack, by Frank and Stephen Philbrick. Homeowner's Complete Guide to the Chainsaw by Brian J Ruth...
My stacks are mix and match, and they get even more mixed up as they are transferred from the woods, to the splitter, to the drying shed, to the...
I got almost 20" on my hillside in SW Vermont. It varied a lot, some higher elevations got over 36" and the low areas got 4-6". I'm not counting...
Look up Ace Tree Management on YouTube. They are a tree service in Australia that uses a 70-meter (!) tower for removals and pruning. 230 feet...
Most of what I have been splitting lately has been losing most or all of its' bark when being split. Locust is especially good for shedding bark...
Never used a "homemade" firestarter in my life. It's always been either crumpled-up newspaper and small pieces of pine kindling, or paper birch bark.
Most loggers in my area use a conventional notch. Humboldt is popular on the West coast. I use all three depending on the situation. I tend to...
That be ug-ly! Sugar maple?
Looks like cottonwood that's been sitting around for a year or so.
I cut and split a monster white pine (yard tree) a couple of years ago, and the knob on my splitter handle is still covered in dry pine pitch. It...
I made the mistake a couple of years ago, of dropping a bunch of red pine and a couple soft maples in the woods right below my house. They're...
My rule of thumb - file after every second tank of gas, whether it needs it or not. The key is to listen to the saw and look at the chips coming...
Echoing the comments above, standing dead just requires more care and attention, as you have 'widowmakers' above you in the form of dead branches...
I use Stihl's filing kit, or their basic file guide, which is just a piece of metal with two thumbscrews that clamps onto a file. Been using them...
I'm pretty close to using up my first chain with my small Dolmar. I have probably cut close to 100 cords of wood with the chain that's on it,...
My Dolmar PS421 has about 1/3 left in the oil tank when the gas runs out. My Dolmar PS6400C is almost empty of oil when the gas runs out. I had...
