Chopping wood for Fire Pit/Fire Place

Nonsense. It's an overhead swing. You'll appreciate the added head speed the extra 8" develops - makes it seemingly effortless. Keeps the sharp part farther from your toes, too.

 

I'm waiting until the 15th to transplant my tomatoes/cukes (I'm a couple hours north of you).

 

I used to heat with wood also, but my wife struggled with keeping the fire maintained so we got a pellet stove. Best thing I've ever purchased.

 

That type of advice is entirely dependent on location. A woodpile 6 feet from a house can be a very very bad idea in some circumstances. I'll leave it to the masses to figure out where.

 

Stand on a stump when using .

 

Agreed, but we're not talking about storing a winter's worth stack of fuel for curing in some wilderness. We'd be back to sheds and 25ton splitters...in northern suburban New Jersey?

 

I have heard they are great and I would get one too if I didn't have some land and a tractor with a winch to get the wood with. If the wood wasn't "free" I would go pellet, I know the free wood requires a decent amount of labor.

 

I was concerned about late season frost. I just couldn’t wait any longer. I’m craving some home grown ‘matoes.

 

And it's quite enjoyable when you see the pile of wood!

 

Counterintuitively, it's better to wait a little longer before putting them out then to try and put them out a bit early. The shock of being transplanted too soon is the worst thing that can happen.

Patience, kemosabe.

 

Nice stack, but that's barely enough to kindle a fire pit.

 

That's what she said.

 

In the event you have a lot of odd-shaped pieces that don’t stack well, you can make a round wood pile. The perimeter is a single layer and you just throw the oddities in the middle.

 

update...
i bought the 36" fiskars splitting axe
and then the neighbor had a 99' Birch tree with a 7' wide trunk cut down. I took some of the wood and tried to use the axe splitter. Well it bounced off it like I was trying to hit rubber.

Researched and saw there's a lot of water content and would have to wait for it to dry. Then I was like fuh-get 'bout it.

Ordered a Wen Electric 6.5 Ton log splitter that has been pretty great. Split almost all of the pieces I tried and there was some large trunk pieces that I thought wouldn't work and it split them.

 

Please promptly remove and destroy your man can!




















I just learned last season that splitting drier, wood is much easier than freshly, or just cut timber.

 

All depends on the wood. I have some dry Elm that you can have a go at anytime you want...... It's easier to split with the chainsaw. Damn stuff grows in a spiral.

 

Yes and no...coniferous splits better seasoned and deciduous when it's green.

 

Did we actually learn something on the Beeb today...

 

Com'n Jeremiah Johnson, in easy to digest terms? I asking for the mouff-breathers that frequent this place.

 

Trying too but they started using big words!