Chainsaws....

[legalskier]

Splitting is great. I sometimes wish I had a gas splitter, but I just don't process enough to justify it.

What about renting one?

 

[TheBEast]

What about renting one?

No brainer!! I use a coal/wood stove in my house now and really only need to source wood for it every other year or so. So I rented a beefy splitter from the local hardware store for under $60 for 4 hours. It was one of the ones that you can stand upright for the really heavy stuff. It made such quick work of the cord or so of stuff I had to split. If you've got enough to do it sure does make quick easy work of it!

 

[Glenn]

I'd gladly rent one if I had enough wood to process at one time. Mostly, It's been small batches. I cut a lot of pine to length one Sunday afternoon. The next Saturday, I went outside and an hour and half later, it was all split. It probably would have taken me an hour just to go to town, get the splitter and bring it back.

I've got a neighbor who wants to take some trees down and give us the firewood. Depending on how that goes, I may have a good excuse to go rent one. Woooo!

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

thanks for the reminder,,,have to call my buddy to restock for the fall...free firewood is for me!

 

[billski]

 

[TheBEast]

That is way cool....

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

our town gives away free wood, first come, first serve, take what you can load.....its uncut, would probably split by hand....

 

[Glenn]

That clip ws like heli loggers. They used to show it in discovery; it's now on planet green. A very cool show.

 

[drjeff]

That clip ws like heli loggers. They used to show it in discovery; it's now on planet green. A very cool show.

Gotta Like Gord Closen and his heli-logger crew!

 

[Plowboy]

Gotta Like Gord Closen and his heli-logger crew!

Yea.. A little more professional than S+S Aqua loggers.

 

[drjeff]

Yea.. A little more professional than S+S Aqua loggers.

True, but the comic relief that is usually closely associated with S+S Aqua loggers can't be matched by Gord and his crew! :lol: And with Shelby the Louisiana Bayou Swamp logger, i'm never quite sure if he's going to get chomped on by an alligator, get blown up with some dynamite, or have his lifting rig break and decapitate him

 

[Glenn]

The guys in the swamp are certainly interesting! It does make the show a bit easier to watch. I feel the other crews doing the traditional logging are too busy being staged by the producers to create some "drama". "OK, now that female we wanted to you to hire...go get mad at her..."