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[FriendwithTractor]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

 

[Duds13]

I cut my longer lengths as a multiple of 18" to avoid as much of that as possible. But when there is no choice, I start splitting the difference when I get to about 3 or 4 cuts from the end. I always start from the thick end, so the shorter pieces are smaller diameter and then those get tossed on top of the previous row in the wood pile. It helps the woodpile stability to not have them down lower.

When I mark the tree with the 16" magnetic measuring stick attached to my saw blade, I always start at the biggest part of the tree. Once I get to wrist size parts of branches, I usually just eyeball it. Unfortunately I didn't cut these chunks, a tree service guy did.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

yeah did that once... it's far from the heart but still hurt like a bi&^%

 

[ning]

A lot of my wood is twisty-turny and rather than have a 16-18" piece with a right angle bend in the middle of it I'll often cut them shorter. As you said it all burns and when I stack them in my totes the little **** goes in the middle

 

[ericm979]

I recently cut up some tree service wood where the tree service had been instructed to cut into firewood lengths. Someone even marked 16" cuts using lumber crayon. The rounds were still long or short by quite a ways. My 16" rounds aren't perfect but they're way better than this was. I had some other tree service wood where they cut it to about 24" with 45 degree angled cuts. I think very few of our tree service guys have cut firewood.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I measure mine with my chainsaw blade, its quick and easy.

 

[Duds13]

I recently cut up some tree service wood where the tree service had been instructed to cut into firewood lengths. Someone even marked 16" cuts using lumber crayon. The rounds were still long or short by quite a ways. My 16" rounds aren't perfect but they're way better than this was. I had some other tree service wood where they cut it to about 24" with 45 degree angled cuts. I think very few of our tree service guys have cut firewood.

Agreed!

 

[Gordon Gould]

I try to cut my firwood logs a multiple of 3' - 18', 21', 24' and my blocks 18" but there a lots of reasons this doesn't always work out. When I'm splitting I throw the the undesirables, ie shorts, excessive rot, softwood, or unstackables, in a separate pile and then put them in front of the wood shed under the overhang to use early when we typically only want a small fire. This years junk almost gone.

gg

 

[MadJack]

Here's hoping someone can learn from my pain:

Dad and I hooked the splitter up for it's annual trip to the mountain. Got it all set up, started up and running.
We're humming along and I reach for a piece just off the wedge that I know will need to be re-split (Didn't get a clean split, so it's hinged with a few wood fibers hanging on)
I misjudged how much it weighed and the hunk of wood slammed the tip of my ring finger against the splitting cylinder. Saw stars, said some very not nice words and needed to stop for the day.

Don't think I'll lose the fingernail, but new lesson learned: Let the stupid wood fall, if you need to re-split it, pick it up off the ground dummy!

PICKROON, get one! Wicked back saver.

 

[Rockbadchild]

18” is a nice length, the most annoying are the side cuts for sure … I always have the notch and sometimes when they get stuck while falling one or two more and the big branch too they can be tricky to cut square. I split by axe so i notice them a lot lol and as well I always have my ****ty wood pile on the side … this year I cord it length wise in the wood shack but next time I will try width wise.

 

[goeduck]

I measure mine with my chainsaw blade, its quick and easy.

I have different length bars so I simply span my free hand twice after each cut and eye ball the spot after the second finger tip. Fingertip to thump tip is about 9", so twice is about 18".

 

[John_Mc]

I measure mine with my chainsaw blade, its quick and easy.

Using the chainsaw bar is too much bending over/twisting and extending my arms out with the saw for me. If I do too much of that reaching, it aggravates an old college wrestling injury in my neck and upper back, and I end up needng a trip to the chiropractor the next day. (Stacking firewood higher than about 4 feet or so does the same thing. It's not the weight - the split pieces are light - it's the repetitive motion.) If I have no better method of gauging the length, I'll use the bar once at the beginning of the log then eyeball it from there. I sometimes get thrown off when I switch to a significantly different diameter log, so I'll recheck. (I guess the larger or smaller log tends to make the cut lengths look shorter or longer to me?)

 

[Hoobie]

PICKROON, get one! Wicked back saver.

Absolutely best advice! Multi purpose when you get used to them. Best ones are from Peavey Mfg. in Eddington Maine.

 

[goeduck]

(Stacking firewood higher than about 4 feet or so does the same thing. It's not the weight - the split pieces are light - it's the repetitive motion.)

I stack up to 7 or 8 feet. It does have its drawbacks such as more tilting and I have to be careful when removing the top layers. I'd stack low like you if I had enough sq ft space.

 

[John_Mc]

I stack up to 7 or 8 feet. It does have its drawbacks such as more tilting and I have to be careful when removing the top layers. I'd stack low like you if I had enough sq ft space.

I still stack high. I just suffer for it. Not enough space under my lean-to to stack low. Anything that is not stacked under there stops at about 4 ft.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, I flew into Charlotte NC, and some generous person in the airport gave me, at no charge, the whu-hon flu! AND, it really kicked myazz for several weeks.

Although I feel pretty good now, I have no stamina and have only been doing little piddly jobs, but with sunny 75 out, I decided to run my BSM.. So, off I go get this "big ugly" and load it on the mills deck,

I need construction lumber, so I milled 3-1/2" and 5-1/2" thick slabs, off the log,

I then load them back on the deck, up on edge, and start taking off the lumber I need,

I don't care about any "wayne" on the boards, as all of this lumber will be used to build firewood boxes, and it's not important at all if it's not hi-grade lumber,

and here's what I got from that log,

It took me a looooong time to get that lumber as I had to stop and rest over and over but at least I got it done!

SR

 

[Molalla1]

Well, I flew into Charlotte NC, and some generous person in the airport gave me, at no charge, the whu-hon flu! AND, it really kicked myazz for several weeks.

Although I feel pretty good now, I have no stamina and have only been doing little piddly jobs, but with sunny 75 out, I decided to run my BSM.. So, off I go get this "big ugly" and load it on the mills deck,

I need construction lumber, so I milled 3-1/2" and 5-1/2" thick slabs, off the log,

I then load them back on the deck, up on edge, and start taking off the lumber I need,

I don't care about any "wayne" on the boards, as all of this lumber will be used to build firewood boxes, and it's not important at all if it's not hi-grade lumber,

and here's what I got from that log,

It took me a looooong time to get that lumber as I had to stop and rest over and over but at least I got it done!

SR

Nice SR . . . take it easy . . . .

 

[Jstpssng]

Well, I flew into Charlotte NC, and some generous person in the airport gave me, at no charge, the whu-hon flu! AND, it really kicked myazz for several weeks.

Although I feel pretty good now, I have no stamina and have only been doing little piddly jobs, but with sunny 75 out, I decided to run my BSM.. So, off I go get this "big ugly" and load it on the mills deck,

I need construction lumber, so I milled 3-1/2" and 5-1/2" thick slabs, off the log,

I then load them back on the deck, up on edge, and start taking off the lumber I need,

I don't care about any "wayne" on the boards, as all of this lumber will be used to build firewood boxes, and it's not important at all if it's not hi-grade lumber,

and here's what I got from that log,

It took me a looooong time to get that lumber as I had to stop and rest over and over but at least I got it done!

SR

That looks like a piddly job for Sawyer Rob. OTOH it's a full day for us mere mortals...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That looks like a piddly job for Sawyer Rob. OTOH it's a full day for us mere mortals...

If you had seen me running my mill, you would have seen me going about as fast as a turtle that day!

When I got to that second pict. I posted above, I wanted to quit, I had to force myself to finish the job! lol

SR

 

[ning]

If you had seen me running my mill, you would have seen me going about as fast as a turtle that day!

When I got to that second pict. I posted above, I wanted to quit, I had to force myself to finish the job! lol

SR

Getting activity is important but just as important don't overdo it too soon

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