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[Jstpssng]

Impressive. :thumbsup:

He likes showing off how versatile that machine is.
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I can't say that I blame him.

 

[4570Man]

He likes showing off how versatile that machine is.
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I can't say that I blame him.

After I moved those I dug some stumps out. These were about 12" oaks and I can get them out in a couple minutes each. Knocking the dirt off and leveling the hole takes way longer.

 

[BrokenTrack]

We had a guy here [Amish I think] doing that in a neighbor's wood lot- the neighbor is one of those who has to have a "golf green" lawn, so the impact of the horse/mule team was much more tolerable for him than skidders.

I hear this a lot and from what I have seen, I am not sure that it is true. I have seen some logging operations where the end results have just be horrific, and it was done using horses, yet I have seen some logging jobs where the bumper trees, thinning and knocked over saplings and brush were slashed up, and they used skidders. Obviously the opposite is true as well, horrific looking logging jobs with skidders, and nice looking horse logging jobs.

Really the difference is in how the chainsaw is wielded. Sure a horse does not make a rut with tires, but there are a lot of places where adverse grades mean a horse cannot log either.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Hi BrokenTrack,

We're [SWMBO and myself] getting old and decrepit enough [due to the sum of the injuries] to want to get out of the full-time wood-burning for heat "business", and because we like the way wood and coal both heat, we're strongly considering going to a coal system- all this is a preface to asking what manufacturer and kind of dual-fuel stove you have, and would you recommend it, or some other to us?

We know a couple of places around here where ewe can get coal delivered, or dumped into our pickup, so that's no concern.

Thanks in advance,
PA

I am not sure I am the guy to ask because my coal stoves are all old. My house's d馗or is the 1930's era, so we have a 1893 Pot Bellied Stove and love it. It burns wood well, but burns coal better. The coal I burn being defined as good ole Northeast Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal as opposed to soft coal. A lot of good used wood/coal stoves abound out there, and near where I live there is even an old stove museum and old stove shop where you can buy rebuilt ones. I am sure other states have them as well though.

You can buy new pot bellied stoves today, Vogelzang by US Stove Company being one of them, but do not let the name fool you, it is a Chinese knock off. I had one, and it barely burns wood, let alone coal. They are not worth buying.

My boiler is an old New Yorker WC 90 which the name says it all, w/c=wood and coal, and the 90 being 90,000 btu's for wood and 130,000 btu's burning coal. It too burns coal better than wood, but still does both. That is a great low cost option for a boiler situation if you can find one, but new coal/wood boilers are still being made.

I highly recommend going to coal. I got hundreds of acres of land, all the equipment in the world to make firewood easy, and yet the majority of my home is heated by coal every year. My wife loves it. Less mess in the house, heat is much, much better, the stove goes all night, no fire to rekindle every morning, the house is 90 degrees instead of 80. I can see why people have firewood if they have the wood growing out back, but buying it I will never understand. Cut split and stacked here, firewood is $225 a cord, yet coal here is $325 a ton, but a ton of coal is equal to 2 cords of wood, so a person gets the same heat for $125 less.

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[John_Mc]

People scoff at me because I buy bigger saws and then replace the 20 inch bars with 18 inch ones, but I just let them laugh. To me, cutting wood is getting from point A to point B as fast as I can. With a 18 inch bar, I can cut through a 36 inch tree, and here in Maine, that does not happen very often so I have never wanted more.

Nothing wrong with that, especially since most of the entry-level or mid-range saws sold by the big box stores or the local hardware store are sold with a bar that is too big to be a good match for the saw. I guess they think they'll sell more of those disposable saws if they put a 20" bar on a 45cc saw ("it must be a better saw... it's got a bigger bar".

My 50 & 60 cc saws wear a 16" bar most of the time (I own a 20" for the 60cc saw "just in case", but don't use it much). With the right technique, I can cut larger than a 32" tree with it. That would not be my first choice of saw for such a tree, but it can be done.

 

[John_Mc]

I hear this a lot and from what I have seen, I am not sure that it is true. I have seen some logging operations where the end results have just be horrific, and it was done using horses, yet I have seen some logging jobs where the bumper trees, thinning and knocked over saplings and brush were slashed up, and they used skidders. Obviously the opposite is true as well, horrific looking logging jobs with skidders, and nice looking horse logging jobs.

Really the difference is in how the chainsaw is wielded. Sure a horse does not make a rut with tires, but there are a lot of places where adverse grades mean a horse cannot log either.

I agree, and it's not just how they use the chainsaw. Regardless of the equipment (within limits) I'd rather have a good operator with poor equipment than a poor operator with good equipment. It's all about how you use it and the care you take. Logging with horses is no guarantee that they are good, careful loggers (having said that, I have not run across any real crooks who are horse loggers).

 

[dsgsr]

I used to cut firewood tree length, sell it and buy propane, but soon stopped that foolishness. Now I cut tree length firewood/hardwood pulp and buy COAL! All my stoves can burn both coal and wood so that I always have options. Wood...coal...propane...:drink:

That's one nice looking Boiler. I like the Red Bottom

David

 

[BrokenTrack]

That's one nice looking Boiler. I like the Red Bottom

David

Thank, it is definitely one of my wife's finer assets.

I am just surprised you saw the boiler. I have not just been scoffed at because of my 18 inch bar, but rather been told as well that I am a lair, and that there was no boiler in that photo, or at least, they could not seem to see the boiler.

(At 38 with 4 daughters, the poor thing works hard to stay in shape...her husband...not so much).

 

[Rustyiron]

I am not sure I am the guy to ask because my coal stoves are all old. My house's d馗or is the 1930's era, so we have a 1893 Pot Bellied Stove and love it. It burns wood well, but burns coal better. The coal I burn being defined as good ole Northeast Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal as opposed to soft coal.

Here's a good link for fuel comparison.Fuel Cost Comparison - Solid Fuel Versus Others - Alternate Heating Systems
My plan is to burn coal when firewood becomes too hard to do. Right now it's fun & rewarding for me and I have more acre's of it than I ever dreamed of owning. I'll be replacing my wood boiler with one of their coal boilers at that time.

 

[PhysAssist]

That's one nice looking Boiler. I like the Red Bottom

David

You shouldn't oughta talk about his spouse like that....
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Although he seems to have taken it with good humor- which I guess is a must if he's going to be posting his home-hotty on a male-dominated site like this'n.

:thumbsup: to BrokenTrack for being a good do-bee!