In loving memory of Kenis D. Keathley 6/4/81 - 3/27/22 Loving father, husband, brother, friend and firewood hoarder Rest in peace, Dexterday

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Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Horkn, Mar 15, 2025.

  1. Horkn

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    I did have some tequila afterwards, but starting fluid for the Tecumseh on the splitter. Lol.

    I shortened a few rounds the other day after work and then ran a tank of gas out of the splitter. I then ran another tank of gas through the splitter and shortened more logs to split. I'll get pics of my progress after dinner tonight.
     
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    Ok. Here's how the pile sits tonight after shortening a few, probably about 10% of the entire stash, and then splitting a bunch.

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    Bottom right of this picture are ones that I need to shorten before splitting.
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    The last trailer load hasn't really been touched. I'll unload it round by round, right onto the splitter as long as they are the the right length
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    The pieces to the lower front right is campfire wood. Most of what's in this picture is split from this score. Honestly barely any is not still prime. If you look at the splits, it's solid wood. There's some honey locust splits in the center of the picture at the bottom. Those were split last fall and I left them out of the shed to start drying HL needs 3 years to dry here, when in my shed. Since I have my tractor in the last bay of the shed for now, I can't really put any fresh cut HL in the shed until it's been out and cut/ split for a year. That should change as I'm putting a replacement garden shed up on the place of my current garden shed,, which is not big enough and getting to the point where I either need to repair it or replace it.
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    got a load delivered yesterday from one of my customers white oak and sugar maple. had to take some off by hand as load was to heavy for system to dump. also got a little saw time in . pardon my finger, that box is some 20-25 foot long. sorry forgot grab a pic of the whole thing dumped. 1000000065[1].jpg
     
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    Looks pretty full. Post pics of the pile after it was unloaded
     
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    Ok, I went out today and shortened and then split more of this score. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow so today was it for me until Monday at best.
    Here's how far I got today. There's more on the left and a couple on the right that need shortening before splitting. But I pretty much got all that were not in the trailer, that were short enough to split done.
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    I ran two tanks of gas through the splitter. The splitter pile is growing.
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    Only a couple of rounds that were punky and will be fire pit wood.

    Even though I had to shorten only a couple rounds. I found metal. Grrr it's safe to say I need to sharpen the chain on the ms170. On 2 rounds. There were a few more mails that the splitter found, which is far more preferable than the chainsaw. PXL_20250329_223031862.jpg

    Then it started to rain.
     
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