Thank you. Had our first fire last Friday 10/12/18. The 2018-2019 burn season has begun! I’m going to keep data on my burning this season as I was scrambling last year because we moved into our current house last November.
I like LumberJacked's doubled up cross-bars. I twisted mine try to load some green and twisted Manitoba Maple (Box Elder). It's miserable stuff to handle, but the yard was full of it after a windstorm. You need both outside legs on the same side or the legs can slide on the dowel. Leave a 1/4" or more between legs so you can still fold it up even if the legs warp some. You can see the gap between the centre legs. I put a wood preservative on the bottom of the legs. The first dowel did get nipped by the saw a few times, so this one is new today. BTW, no one around here knows what a sawbuck is. It's a sawhorse, same as a regular carpenter's sawhorse. We're too far out on the prairie to know the pro's lingo.
LumberJacked , welcome to FHC! What model quadrafire do you have? I've got a load of black walnut choochin'away in my quadrafire 4100i right now.
Thank you! Good question. Not sure of the model. Has a blower that comes out of the horizontal slit above the firebox. Works well moving the hot air.
Here’s a look at my data!!! Going to try to stay on top of this. I know there are many variables that will cause me to burn more/less but I would like to compile data to see from season to season here in NJ. I guess it’s the science junkie in me. How does everyone else keep track?
I fill my woodshed at the beginning of the season, start worrying sometime between Christmas and groundhog day, then breathe a sigh of relief in March when I realize that (once again) I have about a cord more than I need in there.
Not a true sawbuck, but we had a couple extra sawhorses, so made a trough with adjustable stop at the end. Load forks on tractor, pull up to it and slide it down. The pole saw isn't as heavy as my saw or nearly as loud. Guess you work with what you have. Glad my honey is a willing helper.
I'd agree with you on the price being a bit steep if the LogOX were only a timberjack, albeit a very well made one. But as a lot of FHC members and our other customers can attest, it's also a 38" cant hook and a unique log hauler, which can engage and lift a log without bending over, in one tool. Unlike a set of timber tongs, which typically max out their grip on log rounds at a diameter between 8-12" the LogOX will lift as large a log round as you can, and help you drag larger ones. It's also extremely portable, with a lifetime warranty, and made in the USA. With a LogOX you're definitely getting a lot more for your money than the one-dimensional, cheap, imported timberjacks you'll find online.
