Recent content by cholland

Classic Genesis, when Phil was just the drummer. Big fan of the old stuff. Poison hemlock goes back to Shakespeare as a poison and probably further. Water hemlock grows a tuber of sorts. Kind of like a potato. When stepping around where it grows, it can release toxins into the water. Good...

I like that... waves at sea. Maybe why I don't take many pictures. Yes, it's twisty live oak mostly. I've been doing this for a few decades, I know what I'm in for. I prefer Black oak, but I get what falls. It actually splits and stacks pretty well, although Im starting to use more toats and...

Working on the wood pile. It's not pretty but it will keep us warm for a couple of years. Used to be a nice shady spot but we had a low snowfall last spring that took out a few nice oaks. The picture is deceiving, there are two piles of logs/limbs. And I haven't even cleaned up the tree behind...

There are some other threads on the topic. I shopped around a few years ago when I was in the market and ended up with the Woodland Mills 68. It's a good solid chipper. Good size for a 30+ hp tractor. Watch the punky stuff or branches with a lot of leaves, it will clog up. I only chip up to...

Poison oak- lived in it my whole life. Tecnu is my go to for washing up. Works pretty good for taking grease off after working on the tractor too. I'm pretty much immune to it, but I still get little dot or a dime size patch once in a while. My mom used to put the goats in it and we would drink...

When I fill a tote with oak, freshly split and wet, I can barely lift it off the ground and shuffle them in the wood lot with my CK3510. End of the season, no problem to pick them up and move closer to the house. I have no idea what they weigh but even dry I wouldn't want to be on uneven ground.

Small house, small stove. Only takes 16". I found the saw body including the handle is 16". I have a Husky 455. It's a little extra twist, but when I buck at the wood lot, not big deal. Before that I would sometimes use my arm, it's about 16" from my elbow to my pinky knuckle. If the last piece...

West coast here. I burn some pine, it's okay. Yes, low on the BTU. But it's fast and hot. Mostly use it for kindling but I can get it for basically free. 90% of my firewood is oak. Like the post above says, any kind of wet firewood will result in more build up. The key is cleaning your...

Tarzan approved. LOL! I have poison oak vines up to two inches in diameter. it's nasty stuff. I do burn it, but only on a hot fire where it goes up quick. I don't really get poison oak rash though, so it doesn't seem to bother me. Woodland Mills chipper - I have found hardwood branches chip...

I put some of my chips on the walkways in the wife's flower garden. Depends on what you are chipping. If it's 1-3 inch branches, then yes they are good looking chips. But if feeding in tops with a lot of leaves and small stuff, you get a lot of twigs n stuff mixed in that is better for the...

We had a late snow storm on Friday. About 10", which is a lot for this area. That's where the tractor was parked. Got lucky. Finished cutting this up on Sunday and got the tractor out. Lost a dozen or so large oaks like this one. Going to be a lot of clean up, but I'll have firewood for about...

You should be fine, I run the next size down on my 3510 no problem. I remove the drawbar when using PTO, just to be sure I don't hit it. Watch that punky rotten stuff. The feed roller tends to chew it up and not pull it into the chipper. Ive also found when chipping hardwoods like oak it does...

For me if it's over 16" it doesn't fit in the stove. I tried. I have an old broom handle I use to measure up quickly at the woodlot. and use the guess method with the chainsaw bar if bucking in the field. I also put a mark on the splitter at 16". When I split anything over 16 goes into the BBQ...

Maybe not. I use mostly the smaller ones, only have a couple of the larger 330 ones. Measured the area the wood occupies, not the size of the tote. I get two rows of 16" in there with some stuff tossed in the middle and I don't heap them up. I've never tried stacking a cord and then seeing how...

I did the calculations on what fits in my totes and it was 0.27 of a cord. So a little more than 1/4 but less than 1/3. A very nice way to move wood around, and a good way to sell portions of a cord if you so wish. I've paid $20 for some near me and also found a few for free. They also make a...