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    No, that'll get you booted off the algorithm 😆
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    One day I will get a 462 with a big bar. As long as I don't have to fix everything all the time 😀
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    Good call, energy is only going up in price in the future. Unfortunately the Watermelons (green commies) will want to cut us of from using the precious trees because they think wind and solar will save the world
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    I appreciate any criticism. I do my research but never had any in person instruction but experience has taught me a lot as well
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    Lol thanks. Some people will just watch the whole cut, others may find it tortuous! I will do "sharp only" cutting in the future. Cheers
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    Thank you. In simpler terms of what a bush cord is, not quite metric like your country and mine use, but a bush cord is stacked 16 inch logs stacked 4 ft high, 4 ft wide and 8 ft long. I dont know what measure your plywood is, but we use feet for that measurement in Canada, which is 4 ft x 8 ft, so I use as reference a pallet of plywood stacked 4 ft high to describe a bush cord to people that are unfamiliar with the term. Those crates hold just under a face cord or 1/3 of a bush cord. Even simpler, I fill 50 to 100 crates per year. I would like to have a second saw one day, I would like to have two of everything.
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    Thank you! I am under-equipped and only do firewood part time but I manage up to 50 bush cords (4900 cubic meters) in a year, with some help here or there. I am impressed with how much I do considering that I never give enough time to it, but this is the harder work for me than the other things I do for work. Beyond the crates, I sell at least a couple hundred smoker wood chunk bags as well as cut-offs/ odds and ends bags and fire lighter bags and send out two to four 30 cubic meter (6 bush cord) bins of wood in a year.
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    Waiting on a new electric sharpener in the mail and the chain has been changed while I wait. I've never had bigger that an MS261 to compare except for using the tree cutter's saw in my truck to cut branches to reduce the load volume, but a sharp chain seems to be more important than having a bigger saw, that's just my experience, fill me in on what I am missing. Also I try to keep my costs down. I have a lot of expenses and live in an expensive city
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    Interesting, I'll have to look that up
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    I don't know, that's just how it is here. Actually I think its because its a lot colder here than where you are, but whether there is hardwood high availability or not, hardwood is preserved for heat I guess. When it is -10C and colder, it makes a difference what you're burning
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    Sure, that perspective is for cooking, not heating the building
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    I've posted far more chat than links
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    YOUR beer lol. Apparently our beer is stronger in general. I like Heineken and local Muskoka brewery. A case of Heini is $37US, Muskoka is a few bucks more (local lol). Most drink Canadian beers here, like Labatt Blue, Canadian, Moosehead. I can't drink these, its like water. lots of trendy youngish Corona drinkers. One way to tell Heineken has a following...at our Beerfest, the Heini tent is the most packed and happening. 30 cans of Crystal Light in a weekend? My buddy Stevey does 30 tallboys a 2 packs of butts in one night and he's up at 6:30 am ready to roll. Some beer is sold in government liquor stores that close at 9, 10 at some locations, now probably only with the lockdown. The beer there is more expensive than the the actual Beer Store ( or Brewers Retail, so cheesy, I know) but last few years you can buy (more expensive of course) at the supermarket. The Beer Store has a sign showing the top ten beers. Only two brands are actually good, the rest are what the alcoholics can afford XD
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    Most people look at pine from the perspective of creosote potential, but the real factor is that it burns quick, which requires more handling, more wood, more ashes, more stoking, more cleanup. Hardwood is more efficient, that's all
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    I thought youtube was for non-professionals. Wasn't expecting to be one in under 3 months. Some people like it, so don't. That's natural, same goes for professional material.
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    If you had a youtube channel, you'd be chomping at the bit to get views considering the time limit. Its a lot of work, It doesn't just happen for you, unless you get lucky. I do think that the internet exists to spread and or/ or gain knowledge though, am I wrong?
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    We have plenty of hardwood here, we don't need to burn pine. So much so that I have never had to burn any as backup.
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    I have a bag of loggings, works great for firestarter and coals
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    Some people avoid it like the plague, some have no choice.
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    Lite beer lol...I'm guessing that lite beer took off in the US because of marketing, otherwise I dont see how a dietary approach and low alcohol content can be appealing to the many burly Americans that consume it
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    Welcome to the forum! Its a silver maple Acer Saccharinum. They grow fast and shoot out like that. mediocre wood, not like good hard sugar maple (Acer Saccharum).
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    A nice feeder for the animals. Beyond what I keep for myself, I've found that I can get rid of my sawdust for free so no more waste laying around in bins for, just the broken up bits of wood and bark. I use sawdust for any oil spills in my shop and to level out the ground in my wood yard, I'm doing some terraforming by spreading sawdust and throwing in ash, coffee grounds and urine to break it down, This is to prevent flooding...my base floor is mostly crushed asphalt that looks and acts like mud, it is even metallic. I took back some of the asphalt that I had bought from a section that I no longer use in the same area and made a berm to divert water coming down the driveway to the back of the lot to prevent it from hanging a left and filling my work space to begin with and I've been filling in the area leading to and at the beginning of my splitting area. What I don't use for myself, I give away to gardeners, some use the sawdust to smoke food!

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