Aunt Maud

I found green Beech really easy to split if I flake slabs off around the edges and work my way around the ring, instead of trying to split them down the middle.

I've got a Hultafors Sly which weighs about 2.5 kg and I'm very happy with how it performs.

I can feel a brick, rocket pizza oven coming on.

You haven't got a beard have you ?

Saw some Poplar stands (I think) that were chock full of the stuff in France. None up this way though.

Make sure your shed is windy inside, otherwise you'll get mould growing on them if you stack them wet.

In my experience of USAnia, the Parks Folk tend to be pretty militant about Parks Stuff, shouldn't it just be left down to them to sort it ?

Who do the trees belong to. Are they in a National Park or something and belong to the state ?

I cut mine whilst green into 2' or 3' lengths (depending on how I'm building the stack) then split and stack them outside in the wind.

It means I need to cut them down to length when dry, but it reduces handling considerably.

I split mine using an axe and use it with a wooden maul if they're 3' long

Ikeavarna.

Sunny, -2ºC, been outdoor swimming. Doh!

Just marks on the bark.

thanks. this is where my comp skills go to zilch.

 

cache, would,nt even know where to look for it.

You need to know what programme you're using. I'm assuming its a PC, so you've probably got Internet Explorer something or other.

Google empty cache for internet explorer "whatever" and you will probably find a youtube video for it.

The cache gets filled up with rubbish from websites and needs to be emptied now and then. It may speed up your interweb experience greatly.

Empty the cache, then see how it is.

You lucky sod!

 

Nice here though - inch of snow and zero celcius. Going inland a bit to go sledging with my daughter, wife and friends.

Absolutely. Been standing on a bank in the sun clearing up the hedging brash. Fire outside with an extra cold beer (or five) when it gets dark.

Enjoy your sledging.

-11ºC and sunny.

That's in town, probably colder out here.

More about wood than trees, but a goodly read nevertheless.......

Desch and Dinwoodie. Timber. Structure, Properties, Conversion and Use. 7th edition, Macmillan

Looks like we're in for a crispy week of -15ºC.

The rules are made for morons, but we all have to live by them.

Unfortunately, Darwinian selection doesn't apply when it comes to humans.

Let me get the roof on the thing and then I'll take a photo, I'll need a bit more wood though.

I'm not sure about the size either...It feels like I've split a lot more than 3.6M Ø, but it probably isn't.

Currently -10ºC and falling, metal getting sticky, beer cold, no wind and super sunny. Been out all day stacking the Lars Mytting inspired back garden installation.(currently 3.6r Ø x 3M high and rising.)

As they say in Greenland "really lovely and cold".

There are some tricks you can use such as linking videos to youtube and having links to your site on forums like this one.

If you have a link on your signature the TXT bots (crawler programs that look at websites each day and record changes) will register each new post you make as a new web link to your site.

The more forums you're a member of, the more links you generate when you write posts, the more relevant your site appears to Google etc.

Changing your website works too, such as having a blog or posting new photos, Google likes updated websites and they generally rank highly.

Search Engine Optimisation.......the aim is to get you to the top of Google using links, keywords for searching and stuff like that.

Yebbut, you put it in the firewood forum bit.....That's why we're talking about firewood.

All very well and lovely, but that all requires planning and as we all know, most people just don't do planning.

Now I'm going to have to do a ring count now to be sure. We bought the place 8 years ago and that's when I cut them, just after I rebuilt the roof. It was so overgrown, there was nothing growing on the whole plot apart from interlocking Hazel trees.

The old man that had it cut a strip 2 metres wide around the back, it was amazing and so dark inside. Everything was leaning over at 70º because of the wind, even the trusses of the roof were leaning over....mad to think he was living in there like that.