I once met a man from Mozambique. As soon as I said my name I saw intense anger in his eyes.
Rindert
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Sweating, making saw dust and lumber 
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Really hate to waste wood but have no choice .
I have enough house heating wood stored away for almost two years . Have enough motor fuel stored for two years or more. I have been trying to give away the wood and I load it for anyone but no one wants it . I had so much sawmill slabs and cull logs that I was having trouble moving around the mill.
If I had some means to quench the fire I could have had a very big pile of charcoal but can’t get within 40 - 50 feet of the fire because of the heat.
More logs coming in very soon. 
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Dig a pit, with the loader and then the heat radiates up and not out towards you. Then you can use dirt to quench it as well.
It will have dirt in it, so it might not be that great for engine grade char but the best place to do it might actually be your garden. then you don’t have to dig it back out. It might retard growth for a year or two as microorganisms and the pH balance back out, but under several inches of dirt it may not, and it will hold a ton of water that roots will be able to access. It will also have tiny air gaps to promote aerobic conditions. 
IF you don’t want to burn it, you can just bury it like the garden. but It does it anaerobically so it might promote bad microorgasms. I don’t know.
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Thanks for the info Sean.
Most of the wood was pine , I save the hardwoods and run in my vehicles .
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I edited the my response (in case you didn’t see it) Pine will work for gardening char and hugelkultur. While I am thinking about it, the ‘new’ way (current trend) to do weedless gardening is to use woodchips as the mulch. But you probably don’t have a shredder to make it. The carbon in your garden will help a -lot-. It applies to fields as well, but you don’t have that much wood.
OH and the last thing is if you make it into char, it would be good fuel for the First annual Argos Ox Roast. 
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If it was economical I’d say send it all here! But I don’t think anybody would wanna to pay a logger to send a truckload of slabs to Bufu Egypt, NC 
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Best to put it back in the soil anyways. Give the cows some greener grass to munch on.
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Mechanism for easier starting, because it often blew my fuses when starting 16A, the wheels are iron and heavy
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Here I am trying to show some details on the saw, the wooden oak guides for the saw blade, cleaning and oiling the surface of the wheels with oil, here is a container shaped around the wheel, with some oil in it, a cotton strip is soaked in it, which slowly raises the liquid and emits it outside under the felt, … but there is also a starting mechanism and a three-phase capacitor for reactive energy compensation, so the conductors are less current loaded and the consumption is probably 10-20% lower
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Thought this pretty genius
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Trying to catch up on a little sawing .
Wife not hardly fat enough to turn this log ( sorry log with knots as big as hog heads ).
Sawing this one log put a little money in my pocket and enough motor fuel from the scrap to drive a few weeks
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Got to eat a big breakfast to help keep the back tires on the ground.
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thats a good lookin cant, should make some beauty boards
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Hey Marcus .
I wish it were a cant so I could work it down and handle easier.
It is a beam and I am trying to get it on my tractor forks .
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oof! ya then thats a mighty heavy things to be maneuvering around!
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You could also use reduced voltage for starting. The 75kw induction furnace I had required a low voltage starter due to the mass of the generator. Mine was mechanical with a transformer but I have one from an old grain elevator I tore down decades ago, The elevator was set up to operate on single phase with line shafts. The low voltage starter was one that used rods in metal cups filled with salt water to have variable voltage to the motor as it started up.’
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I only have 3kw 1450rpm on my band saw, it’s a bit too small.
I have a new 7.5kw 1450rpm motor, but only have 16amp fuses, any idea if I can use this motor?
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Your total consumption on 16A is good for 11kW Jan, so that should be ok as long as you don’t run a lot of other things at the same time
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Thank you Johan.
Do you think I need a y d start before I try?
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