Question for my wood choppers
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A pine that burns like an oak.YellowSnow said:
It’s very therapeutic. My Dad made me the official fire builder / tender of our family when I was in HS. Utah piñon pine is a fantastic firewood btw. Burns like oak or any number of hardwoods.dannarc said:I love cutting, splitting, stacking, and burning firewood. The Mrs looked at me like I was a caveman when we first met, now she loves wood heat and would never go back. Fiskars makes a badass maul I think it's the x27 or some shit like that. Sledge and wedge for big stuff, hydro are great if you have 4+ cords to do quickly. As far as firewood drill bits go, fuck off
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Piñon pine among firewood experts is known as the hardwood of softwoods.MikeDamone said:
A pine that burns like an oak.YellowSnow said:
It’s very therapeutic. My Dad made me the official fire builder / tender of our family when I was in HS. Utah piñon pine is a fantastic firewood btw. Burns like oak or any number of hardwoods.dannarc said:I love cutting, splitting, stacking, and burning firewood. The Mrs looked at me like I was a caveman when we first met, now she loves wood heat and would never go back. Fiskars makes a badass maul I think it's the x27 or some shit like that. Sledge and wedge for big stuff, hydro are great if you have 4+ cords to do quickly. As far as firewood drill bits go, fuck off
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I swing it like I’m the god of fucking thunderYellowSnow said:
Looks tuff but how do you swing that thing John Henry style ? Looks too shortCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I bought myself a wood grenade and this beautiful Fiskars hammer thing to smash stuff. The hammer weighs about 5 lbs and is the perfect size for splitting wood in combination with the grenade.YellowSnow said:I have soft supple thighs and a gas fireplace now.
But back in the olden days, I favored a wood grenade and sledge hammer.
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Lotta "mass" behind that swing, big fella!CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I swing it like I’m the god of fucking thunderYellowSnow said:
Looks tuff but how do you swing that thing John Henry style ? Looks too shortCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I bought myself a wood grenade and this beautiful Fiskars hammer thing to smash stuff. The hammer weighs about 5 lbs and is the perfect size for splitting wood in combination with the grenade.YellowSnow said:I have soft supple thighs and a gas fireplace now.
But back in the olden days, I favored a wood grenade and sledge hammer. -
You get me. I’m also only splitting 1-2 logs at a time and doing so inside my garage so a smaller handle works well.YellowSnow said:
Lotta "mass" behind that swing, big fella!CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I swing it like I’m the god of fucking thunderYellowSnow said:
Looks tuff but how do you swing that thing John Henry style ? Looks too shortCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I bought myself a wood grenade and this beautiful Fiskars hammer thing to smash stuff. The hammer weighs about 5 lbs and is the perfect size for splitting wood in combination with the grenade.YellowSnow said:I have soft supple thighs and a gas fireplace now.
But back in the olden days, I favored a wood grenade and sledge hammer. -
Man, I actually miss chopping wood with a maul. I could pace myself and chop all day if it was wood that split cleanly and didnt require standing back up too much. All the bending and standing is more tiring than swinging a maul.
It was the moving and stacking and mess that I burnt out on. My old house required 5-6 cord to get through a winter. My Dad and brother ran a loader logging operation and would trailer loads of nice logs to me when a few would build up around the landing, or even pile a load into a dump truck and send it my way. I'd get amazing mixes especially when they were in Oregon... giant Chinkapin, Tamarac, and mixed fir, and they'd selectively send the nice 1.5-2' diameter stuff that split easily without using a wedge.
Kinda miss it at times, kinda don't miss it at all most of the time. -
8 lbs of wood murderer. Wouldn't use anything else.
Do keep a 4lb Estwing hand maul for kindling, too.
Murderous Combo. -
USA Mr-Frs. -
You all realize you can buy wood already split from the poors, right?
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Firewood Slut!PurpleThrobber said:You all realize you can buy wood already split from the poors, right?
