On 11/29/2020 3:53 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Snag wrote:
>
>> On 11/28/2020 5:23 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2020-11-28 5:33 p.m., cshenk wrote:
>>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2020-11-28 4:34 p.m., cshenk wrote:
>>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MT3S2CK/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I KNOW there are massive units that Sheldon will claim are
>>>>>> all you can use and he has 5 of them or something.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now for real people with smaller needs?Â* I am over Pnematics
>>>>>> at this stage of our lives.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My old neighbour had one similar to that. He loaned it to me
>>>>> when I had that huge branch fall on my house. It was more like
>>>>> tree size. It could not handle the 18" pieces, but it sure was
>>>>> handy for anything you would get in a load of unsplit
>>>>> firewood.Â* Word of caution... use a heavy duty extension cord
>>>>> or you will be burning out the motor or blowing fuses.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!Â* Our needs are more to the splitting down a bit more.Â* By
>>>> 18" do you mean long or wide?
>>>>
>>>
>>> 18" diameter. That would be about the limit and, of course, depends
>>> on the type of wood. Some wood splits more easily than other wood.
>>> With the big and newer wood you might have to start near the side
>>> rather than going straight down the middle right off the bat.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like you've been there ... IMO that splitter would be fine for
>> someone who wants a small stockpile of firewood for emergency use or
>> someone who has a fireplace that they burn for esthetics . If I were
>> splitting for a main source of heat , I'd want something bigger and
>> gas powered.
>
> Not trying to split 18 cords for a winter, Snag! This is more a weekend
> augment to the heat (weekdays depend but with working from home still,
> hard to say what will happen this year). At roughly 4 logs a minute if
> both Don and I are working it, a 1/2 hour probably covers us (plus
> some) for a weekend. MOst doesn't need re-splitting at all.
>
>> As Dave said , use a heavy cord , minimum 12 ga but 10
>> would be better . You'll also want to do your back a favor and put
>> that thing up on a platform of some type . From what I've read and
>
> No really good way to do that here but I'll keep it in mind if I find
> something stable and level enough for it.
>
>> seen on the 'net , one of the biggest complaints is that these
>> electrics need both hands to operate. Makes it a bit difficult to
>> balance a big piece on the beam while splitting it.
>
> Watch the review please. Hands off sort. Log fits between the bars.
> 10 inch max width of log but we rarely have wider and if we do, we
> could do that with the Pneumatic.
>
>> Mine's a 12 ton
>> horizontal with a 196CC gas engine . It does pretty good , but gnarly
>> grain in a big piece will have me cutting the chunks down with a
>> chainsaw - I've split up to 24" diameter pieces with straight grain
>> with no problems . I currently have about 4 cords of oak (red and
>> white) and half a cord of hickory split and stacked , and plan to cut
>> that much more this winter . I like being warm ... and I'm trying to
>> get a year ahead , well seasoned wood burns better with more heat and
>> less creosote.
>
> Agreed and love your wood pile! That might be 10 years worth for us
> here!
>
> I have 6 8' racks and a 16' rack. I gave away a 4' rack to another who
> really needed it for a wood stove (he has no other heat).
>
> These are single layer so if doubled (we plan to do that as they empty
> and zip-tie them together), that seems 1/2 cord right? So 1.5 cords
> (and we always have some leftover that doesn't fit when we get a load
> which was why the single 4' rack)
>
> We aren't real specific on 'cords' down here. It's more often sold by
> truck size. The 2-ton truck load is what we normally get and we know
> what it fills. No one gets antsy about exactly how much rack fillage
> there is.
>
> The fellow I use has a decent proption of what I call 'Banker Logs'. I
> don't know what another would call them but they are the larger parts,
> very useful once it's going really well but alone are too big to burn
> correctly without smaller ones around it. I'd say 1 in 10 are that but
> it's 2 more or so than desired? Hence other than helping others cut
> wood, our needs here will be small.
>

My wood lot for firewood stacks is used steel roofing pieces 10 and
12 feet long . Total area is about 30 x 10/12 feet . I figure 20"
lengths of wood in a stack 10 feet long and 4 1/2 feet high is about 2/3
of a cord , 12 foot stacks are about 3/4 cord . I started this year to
leave a space for circulation between rows , it helps quite a bit to dry
it quicker . What your supplier calls banker logs are what we call
overnighters , I like to put a couple of big pieces in just before I go
to bed . There's usually still a pretty good fire when I get up in the
morning . I split my wood into a range of sizes starting about 2x4 size
because you just don't always need a big fire . Warm (above 50°F) days
call for a fire of smaller pieces . Colder nights (like tonight ,
predicted low is 27°F) call for some bigger wood , and sometimes an
early-morning replenishment .
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