Ontario Firewood Resource

Just temperory magnetic loss. I'll be going about my business and I hear it drop so I just move it to where it will stick again

That's right, the brick does keep the hottest temps away from the body of the stove. Not only that, the heat is quickly dissipating off the stove body so it cant stay too hot to begin with. Those magnetic thermometers will slip of the flue with extreme temperatures and it will never slide off the stove body. The flue pipe is thin so it can get hotter than the plate steel of the stove body

That looks like fun. Not for someone who shows up with a chainsaw and a pickup truck who says he'll be done by sundown 😃

We have a big show here in Canada called Heavy Rescue 401 about resucue and recovery operations on the 400 series highways in the province of Ontario.One of the cast members is a customer of mine and he needed some firewood

Fair enough. I have wood in volume and its spread out over a wide area after cutting/ bucking so instead of having a stationary tire screwed to wood, I'll roll the tire to where I need and throw it over the big blocks (up to 75 cm) because they're too heavy to lift into a tire on top of wood. It all depends on your setup and wood diameter.

Ya I never liked horizontal. My friend smaller than me would lift big blocks and liked horizontal without log catcher. I tossed the log catcher rack at the scrap yard, I figured nobody would buy it online unless that one guy comes for it a year later, no big deal, would have sold it for only a few bucks anyway. Hopefully I get my fast machine going, standing up, with log lifter

You should start your own channel if you've got some type of content, ability, profession or talent. Theres never been a time where you can earn income doing your own job that you're already getting paid for or should we just pound each other down and further divide the plebs while our lives are being usurped by the profit makers? God bless gentlemen

I get a lot of big diameter wood (city trees) and you still have to bend over and pick up each small diameter logs. I split as much smaller blocks with the axe. I dont get up out of chairs easy after sitting for a while but I am a machine on the job and previous back injury a decade ago with the scrap lifting is non-existent than the fact that I'm stiffer in idle, but I'm almost 44 and I eat the 25 year old kids helping out for dinner. I do scrap, junk removal and other knick knacks all day amd I split wood into the night after day work because that's when I can unless other work gets slow. I hate working at evening/ night even with a floodlight on, its colder at night in winter but I avoid the coldest days and nights

I know a lot about your country in the WWII area. I probably have the world's biggest private WWII documentary collection in the world. Hail Churchill, he came through after his past failures. Too bad his political success post-war dwindled quickly. I like Bomber Harris too, his monologue reflected fearlessness and ability to stop the Germans in their track. One of the many things that our countries have in common is that we both have one of the two flight-capable Avro Lancasters in the world. I can go to the Warplane Heritage Museum less than an hour and a half away from where I live. I've lost my videos but I will upload footage in the spring

13 GPM, pretty much 50 litres per minute. I'm on metric just like you guys

Always interested gathering info on the firewood business. I have learned much about firewood here in North America and a little in Europe. Ive always thought about how the UK copes with limited wood access and humid climate. We had significant dampness here, but not like there and we have endless supplier. I am an avid youtube viewer and I like their ideal about it being a community for networking. After learning so much from it, I thought that I would provide info back into the realm as a return of favours. Thanks Stubby, I 'm a humble man, yes these machines are slow and I am a lot faster with an axe, but I cant run a business on my arm joints. I thought I killed my body permanently with an axe when I started 10 years ago, bad carpal tunnel too, but I recovered 90% luckily. Experience helps you split wood faster with a slow machine, notice I was getting other blocks ready while waiting on the wedge to go up and I wouldnt let it go all the way. also I show when to turn the block upside down to complete splits and return the ram before it goes all the way down because the wood has been split already. I rent my machines out for extra income to compensate for their slowness. Once I resurrect my high output custom made machine, I'll be doing up to 8 logs per cycle instead of maximum 2. It would take me one hour to split a half a bush cord, with an axe I can do it in less than 15 minutes. I use a 6 lb maul axe any time I have wood that will split easy

No I get wood for free from tree cutters in the city, mostly from houses and a few business properties here or there or I go to a couple tree cutter lots wjere they bring the wood back and I can pick through. Its expensive to live in this city, luckily I have cheap space for home and business, firewood has lots of operational costs and equipment. This is my harder work, I recycle scrap metals too, much easier money

both wet and dry wood would be cheaper in Canada because of the abundance here versus more limited supply in the UK and being on an island. I easily get more than enough wood IN the city of Toronto. The vast forests of the province of Ontario alone is enormous supply even despite heavy wood usage

Im seeing all the pictures right side up. That stack of logs that you have up against the house between the door and the window, how about making an L-shaped rack whereas the bottom keeps the wood off the ground, and the upright section runs up alongside the window and you can fit more wood in that area without logs falling down the inclined stack. I will look nicer in terms of storage with a nice rectangle looking stack as opposed to triangle

Heat source helps, but wind or fan is very important.

I charge $400 CDN in the city for the perfectly straight firewood logs, consistent length (12, 14, 16 or 18 inch) to people with fireplaces. When I send the 40 yard bin with 6 bush cords, it is either the odds and ends/ cut-offs, crotches for people with wood boilers or furnaces, or it is the semi-straight16 inch logs for people with wood stoves (denser wood for people who need it for heat). The wood is wet and the customer gets the wood at discount and they let it sit for a year to dry. They get it at about 200 per bush cord and they pay for the roll-off truck to deliver as well. Not a money maker for me, but its a good way to get rid of my undesirable pieces

I'll get you a quote on trans-Atlantic shipping first 😃

Ontario has the most freshwater lakes, rivers and streams in the world...we have 3 Great Lakes, endless cottage country within 30 min to 3 hours, less habited regions beyond and remote wilderness for fly-in charters in the more barren far north spotted with lakes. Generally we have mainly pike (gators), its silver cousin the monstrous musky (barracuda I call them), walleye/ pickerel, smallmouth and largemouth bass, yellow perch in the lakes, lake trout in the deeper lakes. There's rainbow and brook trout in a small percentage of lakes and we've had imported brown trout in the Great Lakes and Pacific salmon and steelhead (same as rainbow trout) stocked since the 50s from out west. They spawn in the rivers here, there are numerous rivers along the Great Lakes shorelines, some even here in Toronto. Locally, there's at least 8 rivers and creeks to fish in Golden Horseshoe area (Toronto to Niagara Falls, as well as another half a dozen more in the smaller cities and towns east of Toronto, all within an hour drive. I go half hour east of Toronto for numbers and steelhead preferable over salmon, but I can get salmon 5 minutes from home beside a major north-south highway leading to downtown! I go for the fight so I go for the steelhead/ rainbows in therivers and for smallmouth bass. I used to have 10 jumbo smallie days but apparently somebody at the lake died and they held a tournament in honour of him with a fish fry after the tourney and fishing hasnt been as good, but sizeable catches still. I go for pike at a lake with big ones, even downtown has some but Id like to go for their cousin the muskie but they require a lot of determination, especially with the busy shallow lakes that are an hour or two from Toronto.