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On Saturday, after I had carried the log pieces to the splitting area, I cut them into 18" lengths. I have two chainsaws, one with a 14" bar and one with a 20" bar. I inherited both saws from a relative. The bigger saw has been sitting in our basement because it would not start. A few weeks ago we took it to a chainsaw shop and had them clean the carborator and get the saw to run. Even though I did not need the big saw Saturday, I used it to see how it ran and to use up all the gas in it. The saw ran fine. It seems to cut through the logs a little faster than the small saw; it might just have a sharper chain. The bigger saw is significantly heavier than my little saw. Bending over the logs with that heavier saw did not make my back happy.
I set one of my new box crates beside the splitter so that I could take wood off the splitter and stack it directly in the box crate. That arrangement worked out awesome. These box crates are extremely convenient. Man I would love to find more of them!
I am enjoying the log splitter. I stacked some logs beside the splitter and used them as a makeshift table. I placed pieces of logs on the log stack while I was splitting a piece to reduce the number of times I had to reach all the way to the ground to pick up pieces of wood. For easy to split pieces, the log splitter doesn't really speed up the process much over using a maul and axe. However, the log splitter really helps when splitting knotty, forked, and otherwise difficult to split logs. In addition, using the splitter doesn't wear me out like swinging a maul does. However, I did find my lower back getting tired as I stayed bent over the splitter. If the splitter were a foot higher off the ground, my back would complain less.
At the end of the day, my wife stacked the second pallet while I split the wood. We then put plastic over all the pallets of wood. I wish I had covered the pallets two weeks earlier before we got all the rain. Our firewood got pretty wet and now we are having to burn some wet wood.
I set one of my new box crates beside the splitter so that I could take wood off the splitter and stack it directly in the box crate. That arrangement worked out awesome. These box crates are extremely convenient. Man I would love to find more of them!
I am enjoying the log splitter. I stacked some logs beside the splitter and used them as a makeshift table. I placed pieces of logs on the log stack while I was splitting a piece to reduce the number of times I had to reach all the way to the ground to pick up pieces of wood. For easy to split pieces, the log splitter doesn't really speed up the process much over using a maul and axe. However, the log splitter really helps when splitting knotty, forked, and otherwise difficult to split logs. In addition, using the splitter doesn't wear me out like swinging a maul does. However, I did find my lower back getting tired as I stayed bent over the splitter. If the splitter were a foot higher off the ground, my back would complain less.
At the end of the day, my wife stacked the second pallet while I split the wood. We then put plastic over all the pallets of wood. I wish I had covered the pallets two weeks earlier before we got all the rain. Our firewood got pretty wet and now we are having to burn some wet wood.
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