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Firewood the easy way?
« on: April 29, 2014, 08:29:56 PM »
My 80+ year old neighbor tells me he's got a tree down from the wind a few weeks ago. Tells me to come get it for firewood. Should be pretty easy he said.

Probably 2-3+ cords of wood in this pile if I can get it out.
It may wait til winter though. Everything growing up around it is either blackberry briars, smilacs or poison ivy.



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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2014, 08:34:37 PM »
Got more photos of the truck?
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2014, 08:37:03 PM »
There are cords of twisted hedge up this way. One of them I saw had to be five foot around.

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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2014, 09:16:04 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on April 29, 2014, 08:34:37 PM
Got more photos of the truck?


A few.















Well, he asked =D
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2014, 09:45:47 PM »
Awesome stuff RKL!
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2014, 09:57:36 PM »
Nice rig.  Now I know where to go when the zombie hordes arrive.
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2014, 10:32:28 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on April 29, 2014, 09:57:36 PM
Nice rig.  Now I know where to go when the zombie hordes arrive.


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Personally, I do not understand how a bunch of people demanding a bigger govt can call themselves anarchist.
I meet lots of folks like this, claim to be anarchist but really they're just liberals with pierced genitals. - gunsmith

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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2014, 10:36:12 PM »
Okay, I broke down and googled it:

http://www.uszort.com/






What were we talking about, again?  Zombie trees and old trucks, or something?
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2014, 10:43:20 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on April 29, 2014, 10:36:12 PM
Okay, I broke down and googled it:

http://www.uszort.com/






What were we talking about, again?  Zombie trees and old trucks, or something?


I'm a freelance ZORT.
As the the tree, the big dead oak in the back is kind of creepy looking
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2014, 10:46:07 PM »
firewood and easy only belong in a sentence where you discuss writing a check to buy some
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2014, 10:51:18 PM »
"easy"  =|

You keep using that word.  I don't think it means what you think it means.



Better have a long bar and a chain that cuts really straight  ;)
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2014, 11:45:46 PM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on April 29, 2014, 10:46:07 PM
firewood and easy only belong in a sentence where you discuss writing a check to buy some


"Easy" is relative. Some of the cutting I do the land owner knocks the trees down with a dozer. I don't even have to mess with the brush.
Quote from: Grumpy Old Man on April 29, 2014, 10:51:18 PM
"easy"  =|

You keep using that word.  I don't think it means what you think it means.



Better have a long bar and a chain that cuts really straight  ;)

The big dead oak will take some strategierizing to get it down safely but it's a bunch of wood and it's close to home.
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2014, 12:04:50 AM »
Easiest would be to just burn the tree in place and go to it with sticks and marshmallows, than cutting it up and hauling it away piece by piece.
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Re: Firewood the easy way?
« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2014, 12:07:50 AM »
Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on April 29, 2014, 10:46:07 PM
firewood and easy only belong in a sentence where you discuss writing a check to buy some


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