Thread: Winter Firewood take2

Note from a guy with a 100 acre gum forest: ring and split quickly. Or just leave alone till you are ready to ring and split. Ring and wait four months to split and you are in for trouble, 35 tonne hydraulic log splitter no go trouble.
But you'll already know this

Originally Posted by XR500

Note from a guy with a 100 acre gum forest: ring and split quickly. Or just leave alone till you are ready to ring and split. Ring and wait four months to split and you are in for trouble, 35 tonne hydraulic log splitter no go trouble.
But you'll already know this

you should try some old ash....never seen grain like it,looks like the wavy hair on bun of a red setter.one block can have grain running in 4 diferent directions. green or dry makes no diference to how it splits,or wont...

Originally Posted by XR500

Note from a guy with a 100 acre gum forest: ring and split quickly. Or just leave alone till you are ready to ring and split. Ring and wait four months to split and you are in for trouble, 35 tonne hydraulic log splitter no go trouble.
But you'll already know this

Greetings XR500,
I am cutting all the easy stuff first as it is easy to split. Cut for one tank split stack repeat is the process. Satisfying as well as you see the stack steadily growing, an important thing for an old codger. My son had a run in with a standing dead gum of some sort. Felling and cutting was easy but splitting not at all. Great firewood though.
Regards Grandpamac.

There is an easier and more exciting way to split the stuff, but you don't want neighbours within a couple of km