Thread: Designer Firewood

Ill say itll be getting a work out round about now, its starting to get a bit nippy round the nether regions down here at night too.


Al

I have cut and split about a tonne and a half today to get ready for the winter. We use a slow combustion stove to heat the water and do the cooking on in the winter. The solar panels are starting to slow up now.

I was up your way some years back, I was fixing woolpresses around your area.

I thought the further north you went the warmer it got, not true I found out. :eek:

Al

I guess you would mock me if I told you I still have a hundred years supply of 2 x 1 hardwood that we burn six sticks at a time??

Sort of makes me want to move somewhere cold so I can get another bit of machinery though!!

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

I guess you would mock me if I told you I still have a hundred years supply of 2 x 1 hardwood that we burn six sticks at a time??

Sort of makes me want to move somewhere cold so I can get another bit of machinery though!!

Cheers,

P

Well Biting you wouldn't need to split it any smaller unless you wanted to make matches and you could cut it to length on the drop saw.

Originally Posted by Barry_White

Well Biting you wouldn't need to split it any smaller unless you wanted to make matches and you could cut it to length on the drop saw.

I KNEW you'd mock me!!

I actually denailed all the old roof battens to save the cost of dumping them, then spent a day with the drop saw docking them to fit in the fire!!!

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...achmentid=6895 We only go through about a bay of shelving's worth a year, and I generate about 3/4 of a bay in offcuts, so I reckon what you see is close to a lifetime's supply.

Maybe I can visit just to use your splitter for a bit??



P

Bazza
There is a bit missing.

Where is the lifter to lift the block up ready for splitting.

Lifting that weight may not be good for you.
You will have to go out and buy a lifting attachment now.

Originally Posted by DavidG

Bazza
There is a bit missing.

Where is the lifter to lift the block up ready for splitting.

Lifting that weight may not be good for you.

She was inside cooking tea when the photo was taken!



P

on her wood stove.

Originally Posted by ozwinner

its starting to get a bit nippy round the nether regions down here at night too.


Al

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Its the Queenslanders who are cutting firewood not us Vic's

Mum and Dand just had some friends from Bavaria stay with them and Hans said that they went through about 35 tonne of spruce in fire wood a year. Mind you, the temperature gets to a comfortable -35deg so i spose that its justified.

No Bob,

The Queenslanders cut enough to see them out of the new millenium one fine Saturday afternoon!

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by DavidG

Bazza
There is a bit missing.

Where is the lifter to lift the block up ready for splitting.

Lifting that weight may not be good for you.
You will have to go out and buy a lifting attachment now.

Actually if the block is too heavy to lift you pull out a pin and pivot the ram and the base sits on the ground and you just roll the heavy ones on to the base and split away.