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[ultrarunner]

Just checked and you are right...

The region near Salzburg is about 50 inches of annual rainfall... your WA location approaching 50% more.

Western WA reminds me a lot of Bavaria and Land Salzburg... in many ways except for Saltwater.

Just about everyone with access to wood heats or augments heating with wood.

When I have visitors from Austria in California there are many things they find strange and one is that Californians, at least in the SF Bay Area pay to have Oak hauled away... in Austria people will pay the property owner for the right to haul off storm damage trees...

 

[94BULLITT]

Looks quick but the knife is a bit small so you may have to flip the wood over the get it completely split. I have that problem with my champion splitter. It has been tough but I think I will go with a split fire or timber wolf next time.

Yes, it is very fast. I am not sure how tall the knife is. If a piece is real big or hollow it will need flipped and split again. My old splitter is a dual direction splitter like a split fire. It was fast, espically for what it was. I wanted something with a stationary wedge and a large work table so someday maybe I can add a conveyor. The problem with a splitfire is you have to handle the wood the is split to the proper size. Once I split it to the size I want I don't have to touch it. I can let other splits push it off the table.

Timberwolfs are nice but they are very pricey. Dirty handtools was supposed to make a TW5 clone for around $3,500 but I have not heard anymore about it. For a splitter like this to be fast you are going to need a 4 or 6 way wedge. IDK if you have used a 4 way wedge but they can make a mess of the the wood. There is a guy on another fourm that has a TW5 or TW6 and he said he rarely uses it since he got his Super Split. I am not knocking these other brands, they all make high quality splitters, this is just I how I decided to go with a kinetic splitter.

Check out this video

That looks like a nice splitter Bullet !

I have been working on firewood today. Pulled this ash up a steep bank.

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Thanks! That ash will make some nice firewood. I like ash. It easy to work up and puts off good heat. I have a pile of ash I need to stack. There aren't any ash trees left here from the emerald ash borer.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Very interesting comparison !! That Timber Wolf needs a big table at the end. W/O one it must get old chasing the splits and bringing them back up to resplit.

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[Sawyer Rob]

Very interesting comparison !! That Timber Wolf needs a big table at the end. W/O one it must get old chasing the splits and bringing them back up to resplit.

gg

I see SS guys post that vid quite often...

IF you want to see a REAL comparison between a SS and a TW5, you should have been at the firewood shootout a week ago in Ohio...I was there at the show and watched what happened.

The TW and SS were side by side, with the same kind and amount of wood, and this is how it looked when the TW was all done splitting,

Two guys on each machine (handing wood to the operator) and you can see what the SS had left, when the TW got finished. In the pict. the TW guys were cleaning off their machine.

Both had a few tough pieces and the TW shoved EVERYTHING right on through, the SS went into bam bam mode and that takes extra time too.

It was a timed event with each machine having someone timing and looking for cheaters, so it was fair... You will be able to read the results in the Dec. issue of Sawmill & Woodlot magazine...

NOW, that's what I call a fair comparison that "I" along with about a hundred plus others, could see for ourselves...

SR

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

ya...there is pros and cons for every type. As long as you enjoy your process that is the main thing.

Just checked and you are right...

The region near Salzburg is about 50 inches of annual rainfall... your WA location approaching 50% more.

Western WA reminds me a lot of Bavaria and Land Salzburg... in many ways except for Saltwater.

Just about everyone with access to wood heats or augments heating with wood.

When I have visitors from Austria in California there are many things they find strange and one is that Californians, at least in the SF Bay Area pay to have Oak hauled away... in Austria people will pay the property owner for the right to haul off storm damage trees...

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

A bad week with a lot of losses. I posted this video on Facebook etc hoping to encourage low impact select cut logging. Small Scale, Low Impact, profitable Firewood Wood Production - YouTube Instead what happen I believe is an a***hole logger with big equipment seen on Facebook the road and wood, went to the land owner and provide quick short term gain to the land owner. She is now handing over her property to the logger. I spent 2 years cutting my way through poor wood and building a road to make it to the back of the property where there is 80 acres of good wood. The week I made it to the the good wood she hand over the property to the big logger. Maybe it was her that contacted the logger but either way it is my loss. Not only did I loose my woodlot I had to put two of our cats down yesterday. It has been a tuff week.

 

[motownbrowne]

A bad week with a lot of losses. I posted this video on Facebook etc hoping to encourage low impact select cut logging. Small Scale, Low Impact, profitable Firewood Wood Production - YouTube Instead what happen I believe is an a***hole logger with big equipment seen on Facebook the road and wood, went to the land owner and provide quick short term gain to the land owner. She is now handing over her property to the logger. I spent 2 years cutting my way through poor wood and building a road to make it to the back of the property where there is 80 acres of good wood. The week I made it to the the good wood she hand over the property to the big logger. Maybe it was her that contacted the logger but either way it is my loss. Not only did I loose my woodlot I had to put two of our cats down yesterday. It has been a tuff week.

Super lame. I'm sorry to hear about that. I hope another good opportunity presents itself shortly.

 

[tman1020]

Sorry to hear it. Sometimes there's just bad days. Hopefully better ones come soon

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My firewood tractor had two jobs today, loading logs on my BSM and sitting there so I could use the pallet forks for a hydraulic lift table. lol

So, I got started by loading a REALLY nice (although short) red oak first, and got started taking 5/4 flitches off it,

and stacking them "in order" on my pallet forks,

until I had the whole log milled,

Then I started reconstructing the log, with stickers between the flitches,

and up with the stack I go,

until I had the whole log put back together, and with ratchet straps around it, to hold it all together,

and set aside to air dry!

It's going to make some NICE furniture some day!!

SR

 

[sd455dan]

was going to burn this cottonwood in the burn pile but can use any burnable firewood for heat so tried out my new pallet forks to move it and should have looked a little closer at the tires instead





that log was heavier than it looked.

Got it cut up and now really, Really wish I had one of those neat lift tables