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Post by NRG on Nov 23, 2018 18:56:39 GMT -5
We haven’t been able to roast marshmallows this summer due to fire hazard!! Fire pit sales has been slow in California this year Pat. Idaho is another state that is strict about burning. Most fire pits get converted to natural gas in Cali and Idaho. Not mine! I've been burning my old wood frame shed. Cutting the mdf into squares and the 2x4 into 18" lengths. It's taking forever! |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 23, 2018 18:57:43 GMT -5
At 12 to 13 seconds there was a communication issue between saw man and winch operator and the tree almost made a landing on the log truck.
It is a matter of a few seconds that errors can occur. There was some pale faces on this tree.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 23, 2018 18:58:13 GMT -5
jamesp. I don’t think the marshmallows would taste as good if cooked over gas. He he, yes a problem. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 23, 2018 20:10:11 GMT -5
Fire pit sales has been slow in California this year Pat. Idaho is another state that is strict about burning. Most fire pits get converted to natural gas in Cali and Idaho. Not mine! I've been burning my old wood frame shed. Cutting the mdf into squares and the 2x4 into 18" lengths. It's taking forever! keyord is big. big fire When paths are clear the tractor will push the cut up logs into the fire instead of my skinny butt. that will get rid of the wood in a hurry. But the coal pile has to be just right and very hot. if I was a developer i would be required to use a deep hole and a burning machine fan hole burning with high speed fan gets to catalytic converter temps lowering pollution. They clay walls of the whole melts into rock, real hot. |
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Post by Pat on Nov 23, 2018 21:24:40 GMT -5
Definitely a job for pros.
Some jobs you can do yourself. Other jobs best done by the pros.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 23, 2018 21:49:51 GMT -5
Definitely a job for pros. Some jobs you can do yourself. Other jobs best done by the pros. This was just the job for the pros Pat. 100% correct decision, no boubt a adout it. If you have some 15 foot long marshmallow sticks you guys could roast up some marshmallows on this really hot fire. This fire will be kept burning for at least a couple of weeks. Lots of wood to feed it. Even heavy rain will not put it out. This is much more work than falling the trees. I hope to finish burning it all in 2 weeks working 5 hours a day.  |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 24, 2018 6:00:51 GMT -5
Agree on professional job and low cost.
Around here loggers will not touch trees near houses/in yards, on property lines, or by pastures. All too often they have metal in them.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 6:59:24 GMT -5
Agree on professional job and low cost. Around here loggers will not touch trees near houses/in yards, on property lines, or by pastures. All too often they have metal in them. My wife is a yard art fanatic and bird lover bless her heart. Hung everything off limbs and trunks of trees. Metal everywhere grrrr. The biggest hassle though is the ground on this hillside is 80% granite rocks and requires rolling every darn log to finish saw cut to avoid ruining the chain. Removing all the ~35 tons of logs over 20 inches was the real labor saver though. The lightweight saw terrorizes the limbs and makes quick work of them. It is all about having a fresh sharp chain. Then a big 5 HP Husky 570 to saw the trunks into shorty's so they can be piled high to burn. |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 24, 2018 7:07:23 GMT -5
Can relate. MY land is full of granite boulders.
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Post by toiv0 on Nov 24, 2018 7:46:56 GMT -5
A guy from northern MN where good hardwood is scarce and my rail car in NM we burn pinon and juniper wants to cry. When we were kids we cut firewood for extra money. We sold the maple and birch and that left us the junk to burn for ourselves, but our parents had free labor and the money.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 13:13:43 GMT -5
Can relate. MY land is full of granite boulders. Great for building, terrible for farming. The east facing slope is loaded with them, the west slope devoid. Go figure. Unique though, sandstone-ish granite and the flatest finest chimney building rocks you could ask for. They dug the septic drain field thru them. Looked like a giant pile straight from the stone yard at a landscape company. Perfect 8 to 14 inch size, 2 to 4 inches thick. Iron stained to yellow/orange/red. At least 4 feet down, 70 feet wide 200 feet long. May build a big thermal mass chimney/pizza oven into the side of the add on with them. Love rock laying. The clearing makes it a breeze to drag a toothed harrow thru them to raise them to the surface. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 13:15:28 GMT -5
A guy from northern MN where good hardwood is scarce and my rail car in NM we burn pinon and juniper wants to cry. When we were kids we cut firewood for extra money. We sold the maple and birch and that left us the junk to burn for ourselves, but our parents had free labor and the money. I believe you have forgot more about cutting firewood than I ever cut. Heating Minnesota weather, brrr. How many cords for a winter toiv0 ? |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 24, 2018 13:23:42 GMT -5
Loggers had to remove a 6' granite boulder that surfaced on a trail/road after a down pour. They also filled in the hole. I have not been on that road yet, but they said it was purty. Mine range from about 4" to over 6'.
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 13:46:42 GMT -5
Loggers had to remove a 6' granite boulder that surfaced on a trail/road after a down pour. They also filled in the hole. I have not been on that road yet, but they said it was purty. Mine range from about 4" to over 6'. The hill tops around this area above 900' have hard granite boulders. some are 20 to 40 feet, roundish. Many on my place. BoatRock park close by is a climbing park. Kids freehand walls up to 24 feet. Maybe 20 boulders freestanding on 12 acres. Fun spot on earth. I have Georgia state publications describing these rocks. Dated 1956 and a very discriminatory description of the rocks - in a state publication of all places !!! Segregation rampant in 1956 Georgia. crazy   |
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Post by fernwood on Nov 24, 2018 14:02:44 GMT -5
Wow! Those are some big ones. My neighbor has one that size.
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Post by Pat on Nov 24, 2018 14:10:11 GMT -5
jamesp that rock looks like an excellent spot for a picnic, but 24' high! No thanks!
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 14:24:03 GMT -5
jamesp that rock looks like an excellent spot for a picnic, but 24' high! No thanks! This one is taller. But quite a hike for toting the picnic basket. |
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Post by jamesp on Nov 24, 2018 14:25:02 GMT -5
Wow! Those are some big ones. My neighbor has one that size. Too much granite makes rock hunting no fun. |
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Post by pauls on Nov 24, 2018 15:07:41 GMT -5
The tree fellers that did my trees hired a crane with a 100 foot boom, they attached a platform hoisted it to the top of the tree so the feller can attach chains, lower the platform to the ground put tension on the crane so its lifting the tree and then just saw it off with the crane supporting it, then they lifted the whole tree right over my shed to an open area to cut it up. Very wierd and scary seeing a huge tree cruising over your shed.
Considerably safer than just dropping them. That particular tree was about 4 foot from my workshop and about 4 foot thick, it had already split in half in a storm a few years back and the half that was left was leaning towards the shed, it was a huge tree before it split and it was still a huge worry.
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Post by toiv0 on Nov 24, 2018 16:16:41 GMT -5
A guy from northern MN where good hardwood is scarce and my rail car in NM we burn pinon and juniper wants to cry. When we were kids we cut firewood for extra money. We sold the maple and birch and that left us the junk to burn for ourselves, but our parents had free labor and the money. I believe you have forgot more about cutting firewood than I ever cut. Heating Minnesota weather, brrr. How many cords for a winter toiv0 ? 10 to 15 cord as year. When I had a greenhouse and nursery it as heated my from Feb to May 35 cords. We stretched plastic across and opened it up as season progressed. |
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