Thread: A few ways to cut firewood

Yeah, the last one wouldnt stop cutting until it got to the steel caps in your boots.

Great idea with the chainsaw guillotine

They missed some notable insane ones though
How to lose a leg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En47S7LM9zE
How to lose a hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40sCGb678sQ

Originally Posted by elanjacobs

Great idea with the chainsaw guillotine

They missed some notable insane ones though
How to lose a leg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En47S7LM9zE
How to lose a hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40sCGb678sQ

For Gods sake, just use an axe

Would not want any of those silly contraptions.
Nor would I fancy to use any of the dodgy looking softwood any of them are cutting for my fireplace.

I'm at a Greek village at the moment and I have to say I've seen all sorts of similar contraptions in Greece over the years.

The thing is, people need some sort of a machine that allows them to go to every farm in the village, cut wood, load it, and take it with them. And most of them simply can't afford proper machines. Scary things and accidents do happen

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Didn't see much seasoned hardwood in of them........

This is the one I want.

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And not a hand in sight.

I dunno, losing an arm or a leg in the name of inventiveness, probably gives these blokes the urge to invent something, to replace the missing body part!

It's pretty obvious safety guards are regarded as sissy items and completely superfluous to any design produced by those blokes. Besides, dodging flailing blades and clothes-snagging screws, must keep you on your toes!

Nice to see the labor-saving machinery, whatever it is. I would enjoy the work.. The thrill wears off an axe pretty quick.

Here, a well insulated home with a serious wood burning furnace (fan circulation)
will still need 6-8 cords of split seasoned wood each winter to see 20C in the kitchen and -20C (as usual) outside.

The woodworking shop down my street uses 5 cords and it's damn cold in there in winter.
They warm the place up when they do a big glue run. Best spot in the entire village to have a beer (BYOB)

I have the experience of trying to split frozen (-20C) fresh birch. My 3.5lb Sandvik just bounces off.

I burn compressed SPF wood pellets, 5 tons (10,000lbs/4550kg) each winter.
Smoke-free and maybe 2kg brown ash per 500 lbs pellets. 10+ years of cheap heat.