Tone, spirit level and strings aren’t accurate enough. I prefer lazer 
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I have a vague recollection of sunshine JO. Seems like it was something desirable. My wood pile is not going in the same direction as yours.
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Tom, every region on the map has its own conditions. I’ve noticed prepping firewood is sometimes done in the fall on your side of the pond. That’s s big no-no here since our spring has the driest months. After Midsummer morning dew starts and a lot higher air humidity over all. Fall looks like a foggy Scottish meadow for the most part.
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I try and do some cutting in the spring before the underbrush gets to thick but most of it is done in the fall after all the ferns and vines die off. Spring is not really a treat here. Usually wet and messy. 16 F this morning. Better days ahead. It was a hard winter. A lot of down and broken trees, but unfortunately all up on steep hill sides that are unreachable with any machinery I have.
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I see I have acres of 1" hard maple coppice shoots now. This was a cutover in 2007. This might be the best producer fuel I have ever made. I have to harvest some and see how it works.
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maple burns well. Even the soft silver/swamp maples burns well. They drop a lot of branches so I clean those out as fuel. 
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As Jan-Ola says, every region on the map has its own conditions. I like to season my firewood over summer to get it as dry as possible. It’s a race to get it stacked by late spring, but luckily most of the work of cutting and hauling can be done in winter. It rains a lot, but usually there is a dry day or two each week when harvesting can occur. And unlike most of my northern counterparts where subfreezing temps make it difficult to work, a sunny day in winter here is like a nice spring day.
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I have a similar situation with all the black walnut on the property. I keep cutting them down even in the heat of Summer to try and kill them but they keep coming back!
Only thing slowing me down is methods to move the trees around. I don’t have any help and I’ve just got my pickup truck to haul them out of the way. Good old hard headed picking up and throwing. I still need to hunt for a big buzzsaw to chop them up faster.
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To busy working. No time to process the scrap wood. To busy last week to fire the Atmos and let the pellet burner do its job. Ha, ran out of pellets so back to palletwood. A must, long night.
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Well I started up the chunker this spring. Had the opportunity to chunk up some green wood that was pruning from on the yard. Most of what I have been chunking is dry spruce and oak. Cutting green is definitely a lot smoother.
I updated my auto feed stopper since last year it was always getting bent up. Here is a video.
It is not nearly as fast and smooth as Tone’s screw chunker, but It gets pretty close.
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