Firewooding pictures, or, Marc plays logger for a day

[Marc]

So where was the hearing protection, safety glasses and gloves ..

I had in foam ear plugs, was wearing clear saftey glasses (I had taken them off for the picture) and light colored leather gloves... that are resting on the stump in the one picture there.

 

[Marc]

What are the chaps for? in case you snap a chain?

In case the bar kicks into my leg.... the kevlar fibers get pulled into the sprocket and stall the clutch and chain.

I also only cut with steel toed boots.

 

[Beetlenut]

I have had a tree roll back on me during the fall cut ..

Ah, well That explains it! ;-)

 

[Beetlenut]

That tree must have had one hell of a lean to one side .. from the picture your lucky you didn't drop that tree on your head. I see no fall notch ..looks like you pretty much cut straight through ..no angle cut about the notch..

So where was the hearing protection, safety glasses and gloves ..

explains what?? :smash:

Why your "grumpy old men" demeanor of course! :wink:

 

[WoodCore]

Seeing as Elm's are somewhat rare in North America, IYHO was this tree killed by Dutch Elm's disease?

 

[Marc]

Seeing as Elm's are somewhat rare in North America, IYHO was this tree killed by Dutch Elm's disease?

No, this was definitely death by grapevine. The main stem was 4" thick at the ground. There are a couple very nice surviving Elm's around the property, one is bigger than this one. Too bad Chestnut blight was so much worse on Chestnuts than Dutch Elm was on Elm trees.

 

[Marc]

Ok Good job then ...

Thanks Jerry, I know you're only looking out for me. I take this stuff plenty serious. Mama didn't raise no fool. Most of the time.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Chopping wood is an excellent stress reliever. Technically, you're beating the crap out of something and being productive at the same time 8)

Like going to a driving range but you burn a shit-ton of calories...which means more beer..:grin:

 

[Hawkshot99]

My grandfather built a log splitter 40 years ago. Mounted the hydraulic ram for a commercial airliner on a metal I-beam, with a briggs and stratton engine. Not very fast, but there was almost nothing that it could not split. We gave it away to my aunt a few years ago, and she uses it to split several cords every year.

 

[Marc]

Yeah, if I really wanted to make it that easy, I'd get a PTO driven splitter and run it off the 60 hp Massey Ferguson, but I like splitting everything with a maul and wedges. If I can't, I feed it to the 372.