Easy way, just drop a notice two weeks before you set on fire your gasifier on road to South.
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While waiting for Wayne’s fresh chunkpiles to show up, one of my today’s firewood loads will have to do.
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Straight trees, small limbs, flat ground, Jan you make it look too easy. But when the snow starts to build …
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Michael, I tend to get in the mood to use the camera only when the sun shines. Sorry, I’ll try to remember to take pics even when SHTF.
I actually went for a second load in the afternoon. Didn’t even remember to bring the phone and after getting the Mazda stuck in wet mud I had to hitchhike back home to get the Fergie and a co-pilot (my 77 yo father). More than a gallon ($10) of gasoline and valuable weekend time lost in the process 
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Bummer on getting Stuck in the mud, and all the rest . But you got the wood home. It makes you appreciate Dad when he can still help you out when you are in need.
Is this wood for milling boards and then wood for the broiler fire?
Bob
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Only firewood so far this fall. For a couple customers, for my parents and for us. (And most importantly, all the limbs get sorted out and chunked 
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There are a few fresh pines and spruces for milling knocked down by the wind, but I like to leave them intact until closer to springtime milling. They stay in better shape that way. I’m sure there will be a few more down by then as well.
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Wife and I did some chunking the last couple of days . All Red Oak .
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Seems like red oak is going to be my fuel for at least a couple years. Plan is to cut them into 4" long rounds and stack them back up on my log splitter to get multiple ones knocked out.
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Wonderful golden chunk piles, Wayne. What we (I) have been waiting for. Yours, with no roundie-bark, are so much more fotogenic than mine 
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JO, don’t the pieces get stuck in your 12 bit wood splitter?
I tried a little in my split, (8) pieces, and it did not go so well.
Where do you think about alder (alved) that stood by a sludge dam (mining waste) road, the wood chipper did not want it because it made the steel less sharp.
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The grain has to be pretty straight to split well and any stuck piece should get pushed out with the next disc coming.
However knotty and gnarly wood is a no go for a box-wedge. It will get stuck, or at least create lots of debrie.
I have always considered alder to be very soft and gentle on equipment.
I have no experience with them growing in scoriae. Could be they contain trace amounts of some abrasive minerals or something.
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I found out from Roy the orchardist that the 30 year old wood pile of cherry wood is going to be all burned this winter. So I have been hauling the wood that I can chunk up and also make into Charcoal over to my wood pile. I might be able to get maybe 5% of the pile.
Oh well it was good while it lasted. The news is this pile grows faster then I can use it up. The old orchard trees are getting replace every year. So that just means more wood for me for free.
Bob
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So far this seems to be fastest way to produce fuel is worth a table saw. Brought home a load of dunnage from work and used the XP saw to make 2 footers out of them then axe split in half then buzzed through the table saw.
And of course my helpers for bagging
Our first hard frost last night, reminds me of years past with being late on getting firewood into the wood shed. Feels good to be out early in the crisp air. 8 bags so far a lot more to go
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You are Blessed with your cute helpers Marcus. Children are a Blessing from Yehovah God.
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Marcus, you’re having way too much fun. Remember chunking is addictive as well. Your helpers risk being wood-junkies before you know it.
I’m sorry to say I’ve stored away my chunker for hibernation until spring. I already feel a little itchy and by April I’m probably about to explode
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Must have plenty of fuel stored up if it’s put away for that long!
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I do + 20 characters
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I’m up to 14 bags right now which is about a week and a half worth. I’d like to get a month worth sitting ready to go but I don’t know if I have enough wood to cut up without getting into my lumber pile. Plan to bring my chip saw down to work and cut pallet material down to wear I can load it in the back of the wood burner and bring it home to process so each week I hopefully bring home a week worth of fuel. I’ll have to de-nail some of it but it’s pretty easy work on the big 2x4 framed pallets we get
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