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I learned my lesson about chainsaw chains. It is far easier and more economic to let some guy with a skidsteer [and all the attachments] to cut down trees, dress them to stovelength, split them, and load them onto a dumptruck. Heavy forestry equipment does not mind messing with firewood, unlike some poor fool out there with an axe, or a chainsaw, splitting wedges and mauls.
One guy sitting in a skidsteer chewing on a cigar can process four cords of firewood in a day.
that sounds great, but i'm not going through enough wood to justify that. plus there's no one in my area that would take on a task like that for anything approaching a reasonable price.
that sounds great, but i'm not going through enough wood to justify that. plus there's no one in my area that would take on a task like that for anything approaching a reasonable price.
Maine is over 92% forest.
The timbering industry has gone broke, it is cheaper to import lumber from Canada than to grow it here. But as residue from a long-lost industry there remains a lot of old heavy equipment, any mechanic with spare time could rebuild some of it.
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Maine is over 92% forest.
The timbering industry has gone broke, it is cheaper to import lumber from Canada than to grow it here. But as residue from a long-lost industry there remains a lot of old heavy equipment, any mechanic with spare time could rebuild some of it.
Same in PNW, tho we still have a downsized timber industry. I have several nieghbors who are loggers by trade (and continuing to eat, somehow). Across the road and over a couple hills is a woodlot for culls (non marketable) timber. ~200 logs of 3-5' dia and 30' long.
Helping that neighbor guy repair his firewood processor, so we can work through that stack of logs. Trying to find a 18-20 hp aircooled diesel engine for that application. (10- 12 HP is far more common). Those engine sip very little fuel.
I generally do my firewood a stick at a time ~5-7 cords / yr. But getting too old and stiff to consider that a LT option. Especially wrestling and splitting 4' dia rounds.
But I do like the heat! (important resource at the moment)
There is something really mesmerizing about watching those lumber and firewood processing machines videos.
Some of them Eastern European rigs are down right scary though.
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....lumber and firewood processing machines videos.
Some of them Eastern European rigs are down right scary though.
True, neighbor was stacking in the truck, when 3 of his brothers fingers, in gloves, came up the conveyer. Off to the hospital for the rest of that day.
Yikes !
I just knew some of them “creative” processing machines were dangerous.
We had a guy get creative at work a while back.
I had to attend to him in a serious manner.
To heck with all of that.
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