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"...Venison, it's like free-range chicken eggs, only it's free-range meat..."

"...any Red Hemlock..." What a great line!! I may quote you...

Beyond finding out the meaning of “neighbors”, I ask myself what on Gods green earth is a woodchuck (such as myself), doing by the shoreline? If it weren’t for my wife, Id feel like a tick on a robot.

 

[kozal01]

I think you have the right machine koz.
My firewood limit is 3” diameter if oak and about 6” if silver maple. That means I’m munching anything under 3” so if 4” is about the limit, seems like a fit to me.
I don’t even bother splitting silver maple unless it’s 8” or more.
In 2 years, that maple turns to paper. Rock or sugar maple is a whole nuther beast

Yeah, you’re right. I am happy with it and it’s very well built. A bonus is that I use the chips for mulch, it’s not as pretty as the stuff I can buy but that’s ok. I only split 6” and up also, the rest I just leave un split and I stack it. Burns great in my solo stove.

 

[CalG]

It is a pretty nice day for working up the big rounds.

 

[CalG]

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It is a pretty nice day for working up the big rounds.

I was asked, "How much wood is that"

I'm really bad a "cord' measurements,
Face cord, pulpwood cords, thrown in, stacked, makes my head spin.

But just looking, What I see will easily carry between the first autumn fire and the time WINTER sets in.
;-)

 

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It is a pretty nice day for working up the big rounds.

If you have forks to place a platform on or a way of fastening a 2x5’ piece of 3/4” plywood onto the bucket, you can roll big rounds as your pic shows, right onto this platform, position the platform next to the splitter and roll the rounds right onto the beam.
This method works great with a pulp hook or picaroon
No lifting at all if you so desire.

 

[CalG]

If you have forks to place a platform on or a way of fastening a 2x5’ piece of 3/4” plywood onto the bucket, you can roll big rounds as your pic shows, right onto this platform, position the platform next to the splitter and roll the rounds right onto the beam.
This method works great with a pulp hook
No lifting at all if you so desire.

The pic doesn't show the two rounds in the bucket ;-)

There were only a dozen big rounds to work up. But the 22 foot main stick, without a knot in it, remains to be determined. The thought of burning all that clear lumber is killing me. It's just so complicated to get it to a mill, and I already have 1K bf of 20 year old air dried in the lower level of the shop.

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I run "bucket tusks" on the Hurlimann. That 18 inch extension on the bucket can be fitted with boards or plywood. Mighty handy at times! great for logs too!

 

[goeduck]

I love wind storms. Wind is my friend.
Well here we have some more fallen trees blocking an ROW between a gas line and a water line. Between the winter of fallen trees and the spring growth, there’s few signs left of the path. Today I have the Challenger MT535B and my log grapple.

Same here, seldom ever need to cut a tree down.

 

[Windblown]

Same here, seldom ever need to cut a tree down.

Gypsy Moth infestation defoliated the majority of the mature oaks enough years in a row that many didn't come back this spring. Luckily I noticed a large die off of the caterpillars last summer so I'm hoping the cycle is over. I have enough standing dead wood to last me quite awhile.

The spring clean up rounds are starting to accumulate and I have a lot of standing dead timber to drop yet. A couple of them are monsters (by my standards) and I'll wait until I have an extra set of hands on site before dropping them.

 

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The pic doesn't show the two rounds in the bucket ;-)

There were only a dozen big rounds to work up. But the 22 foot main stick, without a knot in it, remains to be determined. The thought of burning all that clear lumber is killing me. It's just so complicated to get it to a mill, and I already have 1K bf of 20 year old air dried in the lower level of the shop.

eta

I run "bucket tusks" on the Hurlimann. That 18 inch extension on the bucket can be fitted with boards or plywood. Mighty handy at times! great for logs too!

Good description of “ bucket tusks”. That’s what I have on mine. I made them 28” long out of 3/4” steel and fasten them with a couple 1/2 bolts to the bucket ends. I put a little curve in at the end with the cut so they get under and curl the stem

 

[dodge man]

Someone I know said he had a pin oak tree in his backyard he was going to have taken down. I thought if he just gets it dropped I’ll haul it out of there for free just to get the firewood. Once I saw the tree I didn’t make the offer. It’s huge, maybe 42” in diameter or a little larger.