Nightshifts are ok, because you get the entire day to yourself.
Leafs are turning yellow and the weather was nice. First careful workout with the firewood 2024-25 mission.
Knocked down a few leaning alders.
Woodburner, chainsaw and vejnik. A small pile of motor fuel as a by-product.
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This lot is a good three kilometers away from home, so I can make one trip in the afternoon, a full wood hopper is enough to transport wood without any problem and at home to drive a circular saw to cut these pieces, well, small branches are intended for motor fuel, similar to said JO.
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I’ve been intending to mention that those cooling fins on you gasifier add a lot of style and interest to it. Form plus function is always a win win. 
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Looks good JAN-thats the way i like to buy them from my local saw mill guy-i get about a 3.5 to 4 foot round bundle about 10 feet long hardwood for 60 bucks or 30 bucks soft wood bundles.
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Mr. Tom, I will slowly stop playing with small pieces of wood, this load probably weighs more than 4 tons…
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Excelent hearth wood! Is this Brest?
Our oak is the other way around here… all white with a sample of hearth wood in the center. Useless… left a log on the ground for 6 months and it got all punky. Made some nice pattern on the stairs thugh.
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Yes, Kristjan, it’s an elm, I wouldn’t cut it down anyway, but the top has dried up and so has the upper part of the stem, but there are still some dry trees to bring home, Fergie will continue to work hard, because the location is quite remote (approx. 5km) and the large height difference, the terrain is also very inaccessible and rocky.
You have very nice stairs. 
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We don’t have much elm around here anymore. That went to a disease maybe 50 years ago. However I did cut up a dead standing one today for firewood. It’s red Elm. Can’t split it without a machine with it’s twisty grain but it makes excellent scaffold planks when you can find one. I actually have a 30 inch diameter, fifty food long long laying about a hundred yards from my house that I dropped a couple of years ago to use for a saw log. laying on the ground doesn’t see to have much effect on that species. I’ll probably cut it up for fire wood. Not sure how you got those logs up on your trailer even with the winch, but without any equipment myself getting those size logs to my saw mill is just to hard.
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I watched this video and it made me think about how crappy my mill is and how much work is involved in cutting a log. I use Woodmizer blades and it still cuts about 4 times slower than this thing that does all the work for you. Maybe I’ll start a go fund me page and make up a really sad story and people will buy me a machine like this.
I have a question for anybody that uses a chainsaw for a living. How long do your sprockets last? I only cut steady about a month or six weeks a year so never really paid much attention but now I’m thinking it would be a good idea to get an extra sprocket and needle bearings for each saw. I have all my saws running again. Had to change the fuel line in the Stihl and oil pump in the Husky. Got me to thinking that those kinds of things don’t last forever and one little part can shut the whole thing down.
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I bought my Italian OleoMac spring of '20 l think and l checked the other day it still has enaugh meat on the teeth. You can tell by the discoloration of plastic parts its been on the sun a lot and burnt some petrol alredy…
But having one in reserve vuldnt hurt your right. Shuld order one…
Edit: l just noticed there are tar coated floor boards on the picture. Off topic but l promissed the report on the experiment. In short, exelent and lhighly recomend! After a week it lost all stickiness and after 2 all the smell was gone. It repells water, drops roll right off.
I got the techniq established too, tar/diesel mix needs to be boiling hot, and its best to heat the wood with a torch first, then brush on the tar, then hit it with a torch again and it realy sinks deep that way. Dryes faster too.
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Looks good. I don’t remember if you wrote it earlier on another topic but what ratio diesel/tar did you end up with?
And did you paint the underside too?
And on the chainsaw note, two chainsaws are what I bring every time to the forest, one might perhaps break or if I somehow make it stuck felling a tree I always have a backup getting it done.
Edit. Even if I never actually need the second chainsaw I usually swap saws just to avoid sharpening in nature as much as possible, I’d rather do it with the bar fastened in a vice at home using an air grinder with the right diameter abrasive.
I have been wondering about using a drill and simply putting in the file in the chuck but haven’t gotten around to trying it yet.
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About 50/50 but they dont mix. They kinda emulsify then separate out. Require a fast brushing techniq to whip them back together on the board.
Yes all sides
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Thank you. Plus twenty.
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Same technique we used on our cross-country skies as kids, Johan. You forget that as well? 
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I knew it was used but I actually never tried it 
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I think I can one up you on coolness… This sawmill is powered by the wind… But that is a cool machine.
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We still have some elm, that is not resistant to dutch elm disease. You -can- split it by hand. waves axe but it is a work out. You get one piece split, and think you just won the olympic gold medal. 
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Got a question for you northerners and others dealing with conifers.
I got some thick spruce logs to split for firewood, and they are a pain in the ass. The knots are giveing me a headake. They are like rebar in concrete. Got any tips on axe spliting spruce?
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Really nice looking home built cabin feel steps, Are all them steps going to two story house.?
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