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Title: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: woodmills1 on September 04, 2008, 06:58:47 PM

had at it................the pile of collected maple big bones...............sharpened chain many times but rendered the lumps to a splittable size

sorry no before pictures but one of the after chunks.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10064/chunks.jpg)

Title: Re: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: woodmills1 on September 04, 2008, 07:02:47 PM

OK ther is some pine there also

Title: Re: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: OneWithWood on September 05, 2008, 01:51:45 PM

Winters a comin'. There is no time like the present to stock up on fuel. ;)

Title: Re: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: mike_van on September 05, 2008, 05:06:18 PM

Load of maple I hauled in on last Sunday, nice tree, just up & fell over on a private road near me. No one that lived up there owned a saw, I was more than happy to open up the road, haul away all that messy tree - :D

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11530/maplex.jpg) Nice wood, can be a real bear to split around the crotches though. Also, if the round chunks dry some, they will just explode off the splitter wedge. Some years ago one got me in the knee, thought I'd never walk right again. >:(

Title: Re: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: woodmills1 on September 05, 2008, 07:25:02 PM

I too have experienced the dry maple explosion syndrome.

thinking I should make a bigger splitter, got a line on a 6.5 by 8 steel beam that looks to be 3/8" thick. At 24 foot long she wants $250 for it. Good deal?

Title: Re: work day (well processed maple)
Post by: little Bark on September 08, 2008, 04:19:36 PM

That would be a W8 x 24 or a W8 x 28 and would be about 576 #.

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