How much does that log weigh?

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I complained to the local Bio-Mass Boiler Co. a few years ago, about burning unseasoned bio mass wood chips, making excessive smoke and creosote in their smokestacks. So they gave a weekend job drying wood chips for $10.00 a piece with an electric hair drier, it was a good jib while it lasted when fuel oil was high, but since the bottom drop out, they went back to that, and let me go with a picture of Obama and said don't call us, we'll call you.

(Side note) According to the weigh chart one of my biggest Eastern Hemlock log that I haul out with my L3400, weighs 2793 lbs. SE 6" x LE 28" x L 30'.

Curious...do you have a problem with Woolly Adelgid up there?...it has devastated the hemlocks here...

...on a related side note...the loss of hemlocks with their heavy canopy's and the advent of several years of high white oak mast crops...(walking the hills here is like walking on marbles with all the acorns)...with all the sun reaching the ground there is an unreal amount of acorns that are sprouting and not getting eaten as wildlife fodder...

 

[gwstang]

We had a grounds maintenance guy at my last job that was bush hogging down by the lake and got into a bumble bee nest. Tore him up pretty good. Knots all over his head/face/arms. He found out real quick that a Ford Tractor could not outrun bumble bees...not by a long shot. :ashamed:

 

[sd455dan]

I am not understanding how wood can be too dry for good burning. The dryer it is the hotter the fire is (although we all know from Ray Bradbury that the actual flame temperature for all wood is Farenheit 451)

sorry but 440f to-about 470F is the auto ignition point of paper- the actual flame temp is higher

 

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I am not understanding how wood can be too dry for good burning. The dryer it is the hotter the fire is (although we all know from Ray Bradbury that the actual flame temperature for all wood is Farenheit 451)

sorry but 440f to-about 470F is the auto ignition point of paper- the actual flame temp is higher

picky, picky, picky...

 

[Scut 4 Big Bucks]

I use a moisture meter, too, and prefer to burn wood as dry as I can...but enough about firewood...let's talk about that enormous buck!!

Yes, lets talk! This is my biggest archery buck of my life. Scored 175 6/8 inches gross. Shot it behind my house on Nov.03, 2014. That's my wife holding his enormous rack!

 

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The advent of owb being banned was brought on by the companies who make them. I have seen in more than one advertisement of how one does not need to split anything. If it fits in the door, just throw it in. This has created the amount of pollution that has been complained about so much that they are indeed against the law in many communities. For the sake of "convenience", they have shot themselves in the foot. I have a friend who has one. He believed the hype when he first got his owb. He burned 9 cords of wood his first year to heat an 1800 sq. ft. home. I told him to order 2 years of wood in advance and to split and stack it. He then used 6 cords of wood on an even colder winter with the seasoned stuff. His smoke output was also greatly diminished.
This is not like a traffic jam but something one can have control of. Of course this only applies to someone interested in getting the most out of his fuel as possible.

 

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Just make sure you test the wood in the center, not just ck. the outside and call it good enough...

SR

Boy is this true. I season my wood which is mostly red oak for at least two years. I took a reading on the outside of a 6" split after one year and it was 18%. I then split it and took another reading and it was at 28%. I still get a slight hiss even after two years. If wood is supposed to dry an inch a year, one can understand how it takes so long.

 

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I was wondering how much the logs I was hauling out of the woods were weighing. I searched google, and found this nifty site for an estimate.

Click Here

I figure the biggest one I hauled out was around 800lbs, pretty good for a little Massey GC1715.

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Always amazes me what these little tractors can do.

 

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Boy is this true. I season my wood which is mostly red oak for at least two years. I took a reading on the outside of a 6" split after one year and it was 18%. I then split it and took another reading and it was at 28%. I still get a slight hiss even after two years. If wood is supposed to dry an inch a year, one can understand how it takes so long.

Seasoning wood is all about ambient humidity and air flow...closely stacked wood (especially in a three sided wood shed) is not going to get enough air flow to dry evenly...where the air does not flow...neither does the moisture dissipate.

 

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Seasoning wood is all about ambient humidity and air flow...closely stacked wood (especially in a three sided wood shed) is not going to get enough air flow to dry evenly...where the air does not flow...neither does the moisture dissipate.

Correct. It is why I single stack my wood outside for two years before I bring it into the wood shed for an additional 2 months.