That’s a nice load of renewable resource fuel right there – looks like you’ll be toasty and warm this winter, even if the global warming falls fast and thick, or ice takes out the power lines!
Consider trading some skills/labor with a welder (or do it yourself), about 4′ worth of 16″ I-beam and a 3′ hydraulic cylinder from a combine head, welded up so the I-beam has the wedge and the cylinder has the ram and the whole thing fits on the 3-point hitch, makes the easiest log splitter ever known to mankind. It won’t keep you warm in the winter like the axe will, but you can fill a garage stall with split wood in a bit over an hour.
Out of curiousity, what wood stove did you go with?
Splitting wood by hand isn’t wise unless you don’t consume much wood (i.e. you live far south) or you’ve got tremendous amounts of spare time (which I don’t) or you’re as strong (and dumb) as a gorilla.
I bought a commercially made wood splitter. It wasn’t cheap but it made a big difference in my quality of life.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
John Dryden: 1631-1700
“Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde”
Beware of the anger of a patient man.
D. H. Lawrence: 1885-1930
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
Czeslaw Milosz: 1911-2004
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
That’s a nice stack of heat right there.
That’s a nice load of renewable resource fuel right there – looks like you’ll be toasty and warm this winter, even if the global warming falls fast and thick, or ice takes out the power lines!
Consider trading some skills/labor with a welder (or do it yourself), about 4′ worth of 16″ I-beam and a 3′ hydraulic cylinder from a combine head, welded up so the I-beam has the wedge and the cylinder has the ram and the whole thing fits on the 3-point hitch, makes the easiest log splitter ever known to mankind. It won’t keep you warm in the winter like the axe will, but you can fill a garage stall with split wood in a bit over an hour.
Out of curiousity, what wood stove did you go with?
I have a Harman. It’s a largish stove with non-catalytic reburn. With the optional blower and good wood it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Splitting wood by hand isn’t wise unless you don’t consume much wood (i.e. you live far south) or you’ve got tremendous amounts of spare time (which I don’t) or you’re as strong (and dumb) as a gorilla.
I bought a commercially made wood splitter. It wasn’t cheap but it made a big difference in my quality of life.
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