[c5rulz]

I hauled this home yesterday. I was only able to get 18 pieces on a 6'x10' trailer.

Fiskars X27 handled this effortlessly. The Makita 6401 is a dream in big wood.:thThumbsU

36 pieces after the Fiskars. This was one round.

 

[c5rulz]

It must be "Big Wood" week :fing32:

Look like nice clean burning wood you picked up, what kind of tree was it from ?

This is red oak.

I am kind of spoiled with having access to good wood for free. I have another tract I am cutting that is all black walnut.

 

[c5rulz]

I'd like to get a hold of a few rounds like that. I want to make a coffee table out of a 2-3" thick slice of one of those.

Last year a tree service delivered free of charge, (OK I lied, I gave them a 12 pack of Mountain Dew), black walnut that was much larger than those in the pictures. They dropped them in the ditch in front of the house. Busted it all into fire wood.:drunkie:

 

[c5rulz]

And a log splitter, or at least a helper!

Joe

Don't need no stinkin splitter. The trailer is emptied and all the wood is split and stacked along with the bark clutter raked up.

I have no life.:greendr:

 

[c5rulz]

Please tell me you are joking about busting and burning black walnut. Please?

Yup that black walnut was about 40" on the stump.:trink40:

The arm wood was a good 16" and I picked it up with a hand truck and up over the folding gate in my trailer.

The 3 sections of trunk were a good 8-10' long and were so big the skid loader with a grapple had the rear tires come off the ground when they picked it up. They dropped it in the ditch in front of my house.

Most was nice straight grain so it split real gooooooooood!:thThumbsU

 

[c5rulz]

yea black walnuts only worth a couple dollars a bd foot.I planted many years ago to get to where i could thin them out.I can,t say i would burn bw .unless that.s all i had to burn.

So you are saying hardwood isn't good enough to burn?

FWIW, it does have a nice blue flame.:trink40:

 

[c5rulz]

You guys are absolutely killin me with bustin and splittin all of those nice beautiful lumber logs...:crybaby:

Take those Black Walnut logs for example, they could have been sold for enough $$ to buy you some decent firewood and have some $ left over for Momma to buy a new pair of shoes with...:banghead3

I agree with Jere 39.


The tree service dumped the black walnut in the yard for one reason. It was cheaper for them to give it to me than waste time on it. The probably got the lion's share of a 10 -$100 bills to drop, chip and get rid of the wood. They didn't have to pay a tipping charge at the land fill and my house was close.

For me, what am I going to do with it? I don't have a huge flatbed truck to haul it. Besides that nice straight grain splits nice.:fing32:

Third, mills are leary of buying wood that has lived in a urban enviroment all it's life. Too great a chance of metal in it, i.e. nails, screws, staples.

 

[c5rulz]

Jere 39,

Great pics, nice dog, and pretty decent looking felling cuts on those stumps. The one did get a little thicker on one side. Still :fing32:

 

[c5rulz]

You know, black walnut is somewhat toxic. The sawdust is not good for you to breath and some plants won't grow around the trees. Do you know if the smoke is bad for you?

From what I understand, black walnut leaves have something in them that will hinder the growth of other vegetation. I don't imagine breathing any sawdust is good for you and smoke in general is, [Mr. Mackey] "Smoking's bad, mkaaay", [Mr. Mackey]. (from South Park:fing32

Black walnut is a ton better burning wood that people burning boxelder, poplar and conifers. It has a little more ash, that is the only down side I see.

 

[c5rulz]

What do you cut big wood with??

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Magnum 660 - 91CC

I'll bet this is a "limbing saw" to some of you guys!!

Ahhh............ That's a very nice saw!

This one is mine,

When we were cutting some trees in my yard we had these. The 372 I would call a decent sized saw. The 346XP is mine.

 

[c5rulz]

We dropped a black walnut in our front yard, because it hurt our garden.
I think that most sawdust is toxic- I have seen many labels on kiln dried, unfinished oak hardwood warning of the cancerous effects of raw saw dust. Fortunately, it seems to only be in the state of California...

I agree.:thanku:

I have heard of people having allergic reactions to oak sawdust in milling operations with no dust abatement.

 

[c5rulz]

Does this qualify for "BIG WOOD"? 090 Stihl w/ 50 inch bar.

Yes that qualifies for big wood.:fing32: That also qualifies for Big Saw:trink39:

So what's up with the handle on the end of the bar? It looks like it would get in the way but work good for lining up notches and felling cuts with a helper.

 

[c5rulz]

No skidder handy, in fact, not even a full size tractor. Moved these the old fashioned way, a little fall in the contour of the ground here, a stout hickory handled Peavey Cant Hook, and a lot of grunting. But, then I got to climb up on one and pose for the picture. This was a 42" poplar, and not worth bucking and splitting for firewood, so I moved it out of the way, and into the woods where it will gradually dispose of itself.

Very manly pose there Jere 39.:thThumbsU:howdy:

I just re-built the can't hook I picked up for $20 off Craigslist. Can't hooks seem to have become a thing of the past. Very underated log handling tool in my opinion. I don't know if my "fixes" will work. If they don't I'll buy a quality one from Log Rite.

BTW, the stainless steel bottles in the back are going to be for chainsaw gas. Gottem for 3 for $10 @ Walgreens.:fing32::trink40:

 

[c5rulz]

I cut them all up also with a Makita 6401 with a 20" bar and my Stihl 045 Super with a 32" bar.

We still have many red oak and hard maples that measure 13.5 feet around. I prefer to leave them standing - but when they fall I cut them up, split them up and burn them. Also have a few huge Shagbark Hickories that seem to date to 1780. We had a size-age-region calculation charge.

Shagbark Hickory that dates to 1780 . .

That is a dandy of shagbark hickory. One of the biggest I have seen. Pretty hard on chain?

How are you liking the 6401? I am working on another used one for a 79cc big bore upgrade.:howdy:

 

[c5rulz]

I'm hoping to get a call tomorrow from the hardware store i ordered the X27 from:fing32:

Ronnie

You are going to love it. :fing32:

 

[c5rulz]

My X27 came in on Friday and I've already split a good load of wood with it. It is absolutely amazing -- compared to my splitting maul it's like night and day. (I will post some more observations later.)

I am only a bit taller than you and I have no trouble with the X27. Although I am not as proficient as I used to be, I grew up splitting a lot of wood so am comfortable handling axes, mauls, etc. If you are too, I think the X27 is the way to go. The handle is long, but the entire package is much lighter than a typical wood-handled splitting maul -- which makes it very manageable.

Your back is going to thank you at the end of the day also.:fing32: