Yep. Once the thermal mass gets hot, it stays that way, and in the Winter, if a cold snap lasts longer than a week or so, it is impossible to get warm. We just have to wait for the sun to shine into the South facing windows. If the weather warms up, we sometimes open all the doors and windows and use fans to blow warm air into the house.
Thanks, Bill, for the hint on making the video link show up.
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Last week I was cutting a blown down Oak tree into cookies (slices that I can handle, and split without a hydraulic wood splitter). As I was finishing up the last 3 or 4 feet of the trunk, my freshly sharpened chain started throwing black chips, and then became totally useless. This tree was on a fence line at my neighbor’s place, and years ago someone had wrapped steel fencing materials around the trunk. I never saw it! The Husqvarna is now patiently waiting for my attention…
Tomorrow I will stack all these cookies on pallets, with plenty of air space, and they should dry nicely. Three years or so ought to do it.
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Sorry to hear about the chain. I know all about it. Right after a good sharpening is when I hit something. Nice wood.
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that’s what I hate about yard trees also you find the one thing screwed nailed wrapped or whatever from 50 years ago . and you are usually doing a favor 
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I was sawing a poplar log that came out of a yard and sawed into a mule shoe right in the middle of the log. That made the teeth fly, the band ended up about as smooth on the front as it was on the back.
the log was about 16’’ diameter with no sign of metal in it.
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3 years ago I was milling for a friend. On the last 2 logs there were some old nails right in the center of them. Ran out of teeth even on my spare blade.
My blades have only 6 carbide teeth, wich is obviously not very common around here. The professional blade sharpening shop I engaged to replace the teeth use “per tooth pricing”. When I showed up with my blades I was met with a bird house face expression. They probably didn’t make a profit 
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I have been doing some sawing in big timber . I hate having big boards and ripping them into 2x4s or 2x6s. 
Having to manhandle green 2x18s and 2x20s is about all old folks like me want to handle.
The waste from each log should be good for 200-250 truck miles 
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Good evening Wayne,
Wow, 20" is wide! I know the “hate ripping” feeling.
My mill does only 12" widest - double cutting.
Made a few 12" boards a couple of years back, only because I could. Never used them though. But they’ve been moved around a lot - from one pile to another. The ones I need are always in the bottom. Board pile logistics is a pita.
Now days I never go wider than 8 or 9" and most get 4 or 6". I’ll do the wide ones when I need them. Only problem is I have to come to think of it almost a year ahead.
I hope you get use for yours before you end up chunking them 
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That sure is some nice looking lumber there Mr. Wayne.
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Thanks brother Jim .
The old saw mill is running as strong as it was 17 years ago but I have needed to drop a gear or two
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Hi guys, urgentcareguy3 inquired via email about more detail about my “chucker” but I couldn’t reply so hopefully here it is!
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Good morning all.
I had a couple of oak logs I had to cull because they were too big to saw in my little sawmill. I have plenty of motor fuel and plenty of wood for home heating but I decided to bust the logs anyway.
I have to quarter the log before I can handle it. ( I know I am getting old and weak ) . The straight grain wood splits OK but any knotty pieces will really test a wood spliter .
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Nice Wayne!
I wish I had those up here. That would get me through the season. I think one of those would last me a week. Woke up to -20° this AM.
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It’s been in the 80s here in L.A. I have a friend with a backhoe. He made a wedge for the outriggers. He just drives up to the big logs and sets the outrigger down on top.
They make a big screw-type splitter that you bolt to your axle that screws it’s way into the log and splits it. I have a posthole digger for the Farmall. I’m wondering if I can put the big screw on the posthole digger.
For my 8th birthday, my parents gave me a pair of wedges and a 8 lb. sledgehammer. I split a lot of eucalyptus with them. I’m always looking for an easier way. Somebody gave me a big trash compactor. It had a 1/2 hp motor and a long Hyd cyl. I reconfigured it into a log splitter. Most of what I get now is Lodgepole pine. It pops real easy. The ram doesn’t go to full travel, don’t need it. It has an 11 second cycle time.
Amazing for a 1/2 hp motor. The ram hits a couple of limit switches to return and stop. When a log pops, I just flick the return limit switch and the cycle time is even shorter. Obviously, it’s real quiet. You just push the button and it goes.
I’ll go out and just split one log in the morning if I’m short.
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They do make a screw splitter that goes on post hole augers, there are some on you tube.
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Brian bought one of those Aton splitters from the states and we use it to split our Large logs , largest we have split so far would be around 6 foot dia , and it will do that in minutes with no sweat , its also brilliant for doing long length’s of trunks , we split them into 4 and then lift it with the screw on the back hoe ,to the height that suits us for docking with the chain saw . The wood in the pictures is Mountain ash, Australian hardwood
Dave .
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Am working my little kubota hard getting 16’ pine logs out of the swamp. It’s below zero now but 1 1/2" of rain is forecast tuesday. Will need to pull out my skidder bridge across the stream or it will be 1/2 mile downstream. In VT, more often than not, downstream means to the north.
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Yes Dick now is the time to get any of that wood in wet areas harvested. Not only is the sap down but there is some places you just could never get if we didn’t have all of our wonderful seasons in the northland.
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Using Kubota to collect Mesquite pieces that a neighbor wanted hauled off. This was the third load.
She paid two guys to remove some trees, and they filled two light duty pick-up trucks with the little logs, and left these big pieces. Probably couldn’t lift them into the truck. I split them with a maul and put them into the front-end loader.
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