Metal roof suppliers all pack them the same way, thats how I roofed my old shed for free
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Corona used to made a leveraged pair of loppers that worked great to about 3". The only issue is you had to spread the handle out 2x as far, but I don’t think nearly as far as the Fiskars. I ended up bending them, and dulling them. then sharpened them enough times they don’t quite bypass anymore. but I cut a -lot- with them, and a lot that was dead and too big stuff. I am really surprised the handles didn’t break. I used my legs a few times to make the cut.
These are out of my budget but they look nice, but if I was going to chunk with loppers I would consider something like it. The hydraulic ones I looked at only opened to 2"
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Another 2 bins headed to work to get dried out. Been driving the dodge and suffering the fuel prices to work on it every night, but that means the woodpile keeps getting bigger, more buffer for when wood may get scarce and I mean the palletwood I get from work.
Trying to find a local supply of sawmill slab wood to really start putting away the chunks
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When a certain one sees what you have done with that truck and no fuel lord bills to drive it back and forth to work you might get a Wilbur/Smith offer to build one from some one with lots of coin in their pockets.
Cash only ofcourse.
Bob
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Actually had the ceo of work interested in one for his off grid alaska cabin already. No deal has been struck, but my offer involved a set of keys to cabin, jet boat and side by side and annual flight tickets. Last he was there fuel was 11$ and some change per gallon, flown in of course
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What would it take to remake your new gasifier Marcus. 50 dollars an hour, not counting materials and at least 300 hours? $17000, minimum.
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Now take that and figure in flight cost to haul in all tools and materials to build it on sight to a remote cabin sight. Then to build a chunker to keep it fueled, and training someone to operate it for statiinary generator use. Thats a mighty tall ticket for so e place you go to 3-4 times a year. And short super wind twisted up spruce trees would be hard on a chunker but its that or those little whippy alder scrub brush up there
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It might be more worth it to have a buzzsaw chunker like Kyle restored with wood like that. Twisted grains are always trouble.
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hopefully you retain your same pay, and the hunting and fishing are good in that area… 
Honestly I would install solar + battery to power a cheap plasma cutter/welder and an air compressor. Then work until power is dead, then go hunting and fishing for the rest of the day.
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Marcus that was the best RANT I have every heard or seen on video. Truth, truth, and more truth. No one can rant agaist the truth, but they will try, they will try. Good job speaking the truth,
Now I am going to go fire up my wood truck and SWEM while I am doing it and haul some more wood to the chunker and chunk it up. Yup if you are “WILLING TO WORK FOR IT WITH A LITTLE SWEAT”, DOW.
Bob
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Got the chunker chunking today filling up my wire silos. The weather is nice 48°f in a long sleave shirt. Hope to get a run in the wood burner truck too.
Bob
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I did a video of the chunker running and making nice chunks. Humm… I kept hearing her calling me to go DOW. The Old Black Beauty 92 Dodge Dakota.
Bob
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Feel pretty much the same way about the garden Marcus. Months of work,wondering why in all his wisdom, God didn’t make vegetables grow faster than weeds. endless bug battles for the joy of non-poisonous produce. Deer and porkies and coon taking out all your corn and hoof stomping your melons and pumpkins out of nothing but mean-ness. Early frost and you are looking at a hundred pounds of green tomatoes hanging on dead vines. And yet, everybody I know can hardly wait for spring to come so they can suffer some more.
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Raised beds and electric netting will end 90% of your misery.
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If I’m not bitching and complaining I may just as well be a mute Al. I’m working at downsizing and trying to get most of my efforts under plastic now. I have a buddy that does pretty well at a farmers Market from what he grows in three 20 by 60 hoop houses… I’m talking about hundreds of pounds of tomatoes, cukes and lettuce and kale for about four months of the year. Not counting seed starting.
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I see why you dont chunk that last foot or so, I wouldnt want to stick my hand in that dark hole neither!
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Yup it is not down the rabbit hole it is down the cut off 5" wood hole. By the time I get this cherry wood all cut up I will have years of wood supply for me. If you can get over here, it is yours yours to haul home. Might be worth driving hybred with the wood burner truck and a trailer to get it.
Bob
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Now i want too see them limbs flying through your rebak chunker. ?
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The rest is for charcoal 
? Nothing gets lost if you have to work for your energy.
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