bigfellascott wrote:bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
What's stopping ya Pete?
bigpete wrote:bigfellascott wrote:bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
What's stopping ya Pete?
Money,and no real place place to put it
Die Judicii wrote:Yep, I love a wood fire when it gets cold.
But I made sure I don't raise a sweat when I'm splitting it up.
bigfellascott wrote:Nice setup Ed, what's the story? Yep splittings a bitch and so is loading it into the ute (it really knocks the piss out of me now I can tell ya) this year is really going to be hard on me I think, hopefully, I can get enough in before it gets too cold.
bigfellascott wrote:This video demonstrates what I mean by knocking the sides off the wood that is harder to split, you will also see him try and split it the more traditional way by splitting in half then half again and you can see the difference in how knocking the sides off is to going more traditional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTroXIXQHIY
bigfellascott wrote:This video demonstrates what I mean by knocking the sides off the wood that is harder to split, you will also see him try and split it the more traditional way by splitting in half then half again and you can see the difference in how knocking the sides off is to going more traditional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTroXIXQHIY
bigfellascott wrote:
Nice setup Ed, what's the story? :
bigfellascott wrote:That looks like a good little setup you have there BR, what type of wood do you burn where you are?
TassieTiger wrote:12mm Drilled holes in some reels, with some compressed adi powder, with a sparkler fuse, allegedly splits wood quite nicely. So I’ve heard...
bladeracer wrote:bigfellascott wrote:That looks like a good little setup you have there BR, what type of wood do you burn where you are?
I had to check with Rose
She says most of what we burn is difficult to identify with certainty after laying in a paddock for a decade or two.
Mostly eucalypts, some blackwood, occasionally some pine and oak, and probably some others as well. Anything that falls goes through the stove eventually.
We saw it into ute-lengths, cart it up to the shed, stack any green stuff to dry, then cut the dry stuff into stove-lengths with the swing saw. Then split them and stack them in the wood shed with the snakes and spiders. Every week a heap gets barrowed down to the stack at the back door.
Die Judicii wrote:bigfellascott wrote:This video demonstrates what I mean by knocking the sides off the wood that is harder to split, you will also see him try and split it the more traditional way by splitting in half then half again and you can see the difference in how knocking the sides off is to going more traditional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTroXIXQHIY
Demonstrates yes,, but it is the straightest of straight grain firewood that isn't a challenge to split, especially by hand.
bigfellascott wrote:bladeracer wrote:bigfellascott wrote:That looks like a good little setup you have there BR, what type of wood do you burn where you are?
I had to check with Rose
She says most of what we burn is difficult to identify with certainty after laying in a paddock for a decade or two.
Mostly eucalypts, some blackwood, occasionally some pine and oak, and probably some others as well. Anything that falls goes through the stove eventually.
We saw it into ute-lengths, cart it up to the shed, stack any green stuff to dry, then cut the dry stuff into stove-lengths with the swing saw. Then split them and stack them in the wood shed with the snakes and spiders. Every week a heap gets barrowed down to the stack at the back door.
Yep I'm the same mate, I wouldn't have a clue about a lot of the wood I burn either, to me it's wood and it will put out some sort of heat so burn the bloody stuff
I get pine offcuts from the local mill, they come in handy when you want to get a fire going quickly and they put out good heat (they don't burn real long but it's great for getting the fire cranked up quickly) and it's free so we just get the backhoe to drop a load in the ute and off we go.
Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
What about CCA Treated Pine - is burning this stuff actually dangerous?
Bob here never worried about it, if it looked like wood it went in the stove.
Daddybang wrote:bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
What about CCA Treated Pine - is burning this stuff actually dangerous?
Bob here never worried about it, if it looked like wood it went in the stove.
Don't know about treated pine I've burnt pallets and coppers logs and ended up with a very sore throat but I've felt the same after burning untreated black cypress logs(very handy for keeping mozzies down in camp
)
There's a few rainforest trees that the murris use for some of their corrobees and they get some very interesting result from burning them and inhaling the smoke.
Stix wrote:Daddybang wrote:bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
What about CCA Treated Pine - is burning this stuff actually dangerous?
Bob here never worried about it, if it looked like wood it went in the stove.
Don't know about treated pine I've burnt pallets and coppers logs and ended up with a very sore throat but I've felt the same after burning untreated black cypress logs(very handy for keeping mozzies down in camp
)
There's a few rainforest trees that the murris use for some of their corrobees and they get some very interesting result from burning them and inhaling the smoke.
Its not dangerous to burn CCA treated timber...but given its treated with Copper, Chrome & Arsenic you probably dont want to be breathing in the fumes/smoke..
I love the smell of Cypress...its so nice to cut & nice sweet smell when burning...
Termites dont like the taste either... (well the termites down here anyway--dunno about the the supercharged hulk versions you breed up there.. . )
Daddybang wrote:Stix wrote:Daddybang wrote:bladeracer wrote:Daddybang wrote:We have to be very careful with the wood we burn(or at least know exactly what it is) as some trees can have nasty effects if ya breathe the smoke including hallucinations or in extreme cases death.
What about CCA Treated Pine - is burning this stuff actually dangerous?
Bob here never worried about it, if it looked like wood it went in the stove.
Don't know about treated pine I've burnt pallets and coppers logs and ended up with a very sore throat but I've felt the same after burning untreated black cypress logs(very handy for keeping mozzies down in camp
)
There's a few rainforest trees that the murris use for some of their corrobees and they get some very interesting result from burning them and inhaling the smoke.
Its not dangerous to burn CCA treated timber...but given its treated with Copper, Chrome & Arsenic you probably dont want to be breathing in the fumes/smoke..
I love the smell of Cypress...its so nice to cut & nice sweet smell when burning...
Termites dont like the taste either... (well the termites down here anyway--dunno about the the supercharged hulk versions you breed up there.. . )
Yeah stix it's one of my favorite bush timbers I'm lucky enough to have quite a bit of qld bush cypress and black cypress growing on my blovk so we use quite a bit of it for posts .
I am looking at building a saw to make it easier to cut the logs into planks to build a little cabin at some point (hard to get good planks with the little chainsaw I own). Posts i have put in the ground six or seven years ago haven't been eaten by the termites yet.
Runnymede wrote:Blimey is that an axe bigfellascott? I haven’t used one of those since I got my hydraulic log splitter which are a god send. I heat my house primarily with wood as bottled gas here is way too expensive to use full time. I have a wood fire with a wet back that heats water and when up to temp a pump kicks in and pumps it around the house and heats the house via radiators (hydronic heating I believe is the correct term?) It is very effective with the only downside being it’s a hungry beast and the way my wife burns wood it’s a full time job keeping up. Oh well at least it’s cheap as it really is just my time and some fuel for chainsaws and the splitter. Having two teenage sons to “help” split wood helps too