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  1. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I noticed that the sugar maples weren't the nice bright red or pinkish-red colours. The lamestream media blamed it on climate change https://youtu.be/OY8jPE7G5Cg
  2. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Alot is seasoned because its been there for so long. 1/2 metre x .1/2 rounds, plenty of ash and black locust, as for the maples and oaks, hit or miss with rot
  3. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I noticed that the sugar maples weren't the nice bright red or pinkish-red colours. The lamestream media blamed it on climate change 🤣
  4. Ontario Firewood Resource
    It will go moldy if it doesnt have air to dry. If pulled out of water after submerging, it will get kiln dried or air dried, depending on local climate, I'm guessing
  5. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I'm not 100% clear on context of what you guys over the pond use the term tip site, Whether that means a place for public use that is designated for that purpose, or if it just simply means a site to tip, no details. Either way it is some sort of tip site, but I know it as is their private place of business that they use for their own firewood and for people to pick up firewood so even if the wood is sitting there doing nothing, its still for firewood. They use it, I get some from there and others come for some, once again, intended purpose. No trick, no need to overthink and riddle own yourself
  6. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I'm sure there are lumber yards way bigger than this is the dozens, I used the term wood yard which is common here to describe a firewood lot. Its not a tip site in a sense that its for others to come and drop off, it is this company's own tip site for no purpose except for removing wood from sites ehre they cut the trees and having it available to "woodys" to come by and take away firewood for themselves. If they have lumber for milling still on site, that wood is buried and as of recent, definitely not set up for incoming and outgoing trunks. They have a log burner in their shop so they split some for use in it.
  7. Ontario Firewood Resource
    How many cubic meters of firewood do you estimate?
  8. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I did a nature walk in two separate locations in Ontario's premier cottage country, the vast region of Muskoka. Lion's Lookout over Huntsville and High Falls in Bracebridge. Filmed with GoPro Hero 9 2.7K https://youtu.be/vfzLPMD1AHc
  9. Ontario Firewood Resource
    What a great experience it was with Abdrew at Eastonmade. This brand of splittere is number one in North America. They are doing so well that the wait time for a machine is 1.5 years!
  10. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Too funny
  11. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Or Donald Brashear?🤣
  12. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I got him on camera but he seems a little reluctant so I didn't press him, but here's the video.
  13. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I split some incessantly stubborn American elm for an Englishman, seems to be doing pretty well here in Canada. I have to go there and finish the job (stubborn wood) so I'll see if I can get him on camera for you guys. American elm grain is like cotton balls in fiberglass resin
  14. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Ouch!
  15. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Sorry, meant to say I had a hookeroon before. It was too slow for moving split logs but should work out for me with rings. Because I get tree service wood, cutting into a large pile of all kinds of shapes and sizes of wood spreads cut rings all over the place so I can use the hookeroon to pull rings from the pile and centre them near the splitter easier
  16. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I'm already wondering where the time went
  17. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I had one before and found it useless for logs so I got rid of it. I'll be getting a hookeroon soon for moving rings.
  18. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Sometimes, yes, more so when that big diameter wood comes in trunk form. They're typically cut to size and I may have to cut off a few inches off of some of them but the 880 wood be great when I get big trunks. One time I had only 3 trunk sections which filled a 36.5 cubic meter bin.
  19. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Crouching seems to be everyone's complaint except mine. My splitting time is at most 8 hours in a day, usually 4 or 5 hours and I only split for a quarter of that time, getting up regularly to stack, bag up, clean up, move splitter, etc. I don't know, doesn't seem to bother me but I am aware that I'm not getting any younger
  20. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Actually slower is better when I'm hired to split😆
  21. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I'll be getting my custom splitter going with a log lift for those big rings I get regularly. I'll split up to 8 logs in a full hydraulic cycle, straight-grained rings only. I'll still get use out of my slow machines by splitting the uglys, for helping hands and renting out the machines or splitting wood for customers.
  22. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I always operate mine vertical, I still would if I didn't have any large diameter wood
  23. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Its take the money and run time for them. Regarding the population, the elites want to solve the problem before the problem solves them
  24. Ontario Firewood Resource
    I really like cutting into oak, it just chews right up. It's softer than woods like sugar maple, beech, ash and black locust. I've had up to 1.4 meter diameter oaks come in, its excessive work to cut them into rings but I like the challenge and it's always nice to have oak in the inventory. I'll use the technique in the video to split and will only cut rings with the saw if they're too asymmetrical can't be rolled to the splitter.
  25. Ontario Firewood Resource
    Actually, I would love to get the 500i, I haven't priced it, but I'm guessing almost $2000 CDN, in comparison, my 261C is $825. I dont know much about any other saws but looks like Husq seems to be right up there with Stihl in some sort, Echo, not far behind, seems like that to me anyway. I just bought it last spring, I could've gone bigger after selling my old 261C for $400. I made the most money ever last year in 13 years of self-employment, but I always have to think of costs. I also have 3 rents to pay, all cheap, but they add up. Two splitters, two trucks, a boat, maintenance never ends.

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