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Another winter preparation: A direct path from the house door to the firewood store.
I had plans to extend the fence around it but didn't get around to that this summer so the quick fix is to put a gate in the old fence here.
Had enough old gates salvaged from the goat pens so I picked one wide enough for the wheelbarrow and found a hinge post to match.
Gate needed some repair, then post pounded in, fence cut, attached to the post, same on the other side, some dirt levelling and finally welding on a hook to close it.
It will make hauling firewood much easier and also means less snow clearing.
I'll add some woodchip gravel later to keep it from getting muddy and slippery.
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Started making kindling for the upcoming heating season. Using the splitter to make a season’s worth of kindling is waaay easier than splitting by hand to make kindling as needed. Our tractor is in the pic since the splitter is mounted on the 3-point hitch and is driven by the tractor hydraulics.
Currently I making medium size kindling. I will also make a smaller size. The contractor is just about done replacing our highly flammable wooden deck so I have lots of bone dry wood that will make fine kindling. And since we no longer have horses there is plenty of room in the barn to store the stuff.
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Tackling the big fallen apple tree.
The trunk was hollow with rot inside and yet it made all those (small and sour) apples.
In between, a lot of chainsaw problems. Oiler blocked because some wood chips got in there somehow and then when I fixed that the next pull the stupid double-recoil starter broke.
Luckily its a standard Zenoah clone and lookit, the entire recoil assembly from a donor body fit right on it. Style upgrade, too! 😁
And it has normal pull start now. I hated that double recoil "feature".
The tree had a load of branches and fell on another two trees breaking another big branch, so its a mess to clear out and a lot of branches to drag out to the now huge piles.
#Tree #Storm #Damage #Homestead #Chainsaw #Repair #DIY #Firewood
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No #homelab nor #coding today, but filled my shed with #firewood because winter is coming.
All muscles are aching, but very satisfied now.
The #climatechange is making north pole warmer. That causes the #polarvortex to break. Last winter that very cold air sloshed over us. I burnt all I had, but should have had a bit more. I have electric heating but my 100 years old house starts dropping temperature inside when outside drops below -10c.
Going back to #homelab, I have #homeassistant automation to prevent water pipes freezing, which turns on a BIG heating fan in basement when it's winter, outside is below - 5c and basement is below +5c at least five hours. Guess what, some glitch triggered the fan few years ago during summer, probably because the little Zigbee temperature probe got low battery. After that I added those extra safeguards.
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MDARD Shares Tips to Protect Your Lawn, Garden from Invasive Pests This Spring https://www.allforgardening.com/1925953/mdard-shares-tips-to-protect-your-lawn-garden-from-invasive-pests-this-spring/ #agriculture #Auto #ccp #contrast #Data #Firewood #GardeningMichigan #invasive #local #mdard #michigan #none #pests #plants #props #Protect #Resources #species #vehicles
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Got firewood?
I can report on good authority that the trunk of a Douglas Fir tree that is about 32" diameter (just the wood, not the bark) will produce about 3 cords of firewood. I am nearing the end of the project. When it is all in there the row in front will be taller than the row in back.
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The last of Alan Birch is finally split and stacked.
This was a tough birch. I thought I lost my mojo but some ancient oak and fresh maple logs did split just fine so it was just that this birch was really tough. Probably because it didn't grow in a forest but on its own on a windy hill. Sadly it rotted inside as forked trunks often do.
As you can see I resorted to the chainsaw for some of the knottier pieces, the rest with wedge and axe.
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The last of Alan Birch is finally split and stacked.
This was a tough birch. I thought I lost my mojo but some ancient oak and fresh maple logs did split just fine so it was just that this birch was really tough. Probably because it didn't grow in a forest but on its own on a windy hill. Sadly it rotted inside as forked trunks often do.
As you can see I resorted to the chainsaw for some of the knottier pieces, the rest with wedge and axe.
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The last of Alan Birch is finally split and stacked.
This was a tough birch. I thought I lost my mojo but some ancient oak and fresh maple logs did split just fine so it was just that this birch was really tough. Probably because it didn't grow in a forest but on its own on a windy hill. Sadly it rotted inside as forked trunks often do.
As you can see I resorted to the chainsaw for some of the knottier pieces, the rest with wedge and axe.
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The last of Alan Birch is finally split and stacked.
This was a tough birch. I thought I lost my mojo but some ancient oak and fresh maple logs did split just fine so it was just that this birch was really tough. Probably because it didn't grow in a forest but on its own on a windy hill. Sadly it rotted inside as forked trunks often do.
As you can see I resorted to the chainsaw for some of the knottier pieces, the rest with wedge and axe.
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The last of Alan Birch is finally split and stacked.
This was a tough birch. I thought I lost my mojo but some ancient oak and fresh maple logs did split just fine so it was just that this birch was really tough. Probably because it didn't grow in a forest but on its own on a windy hill. Sadly it rotted inside as forked trunks often do.
As you can see I resorted to the chainsaw for some of the knottier pieces, the rest with wedge and axe.
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Fruit trees versus shade trees | Tony Tomeo | Home & Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1896549/fruit-trees-versus-shade-trees-tony-tomeo-home-garden/ #AcerPalmatum #archaeplastida #AutumnLeafColor #botany #cedrus #CedrusAtlantica #deciduous #DutchElmDisease #Elm #FallFoliage #Firewood #forest #garden #GardenPlants #gardening #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #LiquidambarStyraciflua #maple #OrnamentalPlants #PlantLifeForms #plants #PlantsAndHumans #tree #trees #Ulmaceae #ulmus #Ulmus×Hollandica #UlmusParvifolia #WoodBurningStove
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Jenga sidequest. Got all the old alder split and stacked, just a few huge chunks of knotty old birch left.
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Hooked up the log splitter today to deal with the rounds the tree crew left after taking down a dead fir tree. Note in the pic that the splitter is on a dolly I made. It is super easy to roll it out of the garage and line it up with the lift arms of the 3-point hitch.
By contrast, when an implement is simply parked on the ground it can be a pita to position the tractor to do the hookup.
*Much* easier to position the implement on the dolly than position the tractor.
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'Objekte die mit "O" beginnen oder so aussehen ...Ofenholz '
#FotoVorschlag #photography #landscape #Summer #drought #firewood
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Got exercise?
Going to be a bit of work to process these rounds into firewood. Fortunately we have a log splitter. This was a large Douglas Fir tree that decided to die. It could have hit the house if I waited for a storm to take it down so I had a tree crew take it down yesterday.
New roof is on the tractor barn. The old roof (laying on the ground) will get folded up and given away on Craigs List.
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Huh, this is clever. It uses the existing bucket curl cylinder, super easy build, no messing with hydraulics at all.
💡 I wonder if I can design one for the quick-fitting I've got and how much force that would get me.
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Split, ya bastard! 2026 edition.
I wonder if the little Scheppach/Güde electrohydraulic splitter could handle these or just bend itself in half?
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Been thumbing around some concrete beams and then played some jenga.
The firewood store got expanded a little and some of the beams had sunk into the soft soil under the weight of the firewood stacked on them and needed rebedding.
The new thumb was extremely useful doing this and I managed to do it without either knocking over the stacked firewood or the roof.
Then stacked the split pile onto there so it can finish drying.
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I had an old broken maul handle I found somewhere. I shaved it down with a knife and rehung an old head I had laying around.
While shaving it down, I uncovered old insect galleries in a bit of sapwood(handle was suboptmal). I thought it was pretty interesting. I've never seen them in a finished product like that.
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Colorful foliage regardless of bloom | Tony Tomeo | Home & Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1743916/colorful-foliage-regardless-of-bloom-tony-tomeo-home-garden/ #AcerPalmatum #archaeplastida #AutumnLeafColor #botany #cedrus #CedrusAtlantica #deciduous #DutchElmDisease #Elm #FallFoliage #Firewood #forest #garden #GardenPlants #gardening #Kingdoms(biology) #leaf #LiquidambarStyraciflua #maple #OrnamentalPlants #PlantLifeForms #plants #PlantsAndHumans #tree #trees #Ulmaceae #ulmus #Ulmus×Hollandica #UlmusParvifolia #WoodBurningStove
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🔥📚 Ah, the riveting tale of prehistoric campfires, where esteemed scientists have unearthed the groundbreaking revelation that early humans might have, drumroll please... used firewood! 📜✨ Who would've guessed? Next, they'll tell us water is wet! 🙄🔥
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824 #prehistoriccampfires #firewood #discovery #earlyhumans #scientificrevelation #humorinscience #HackerNews #ngated -
I found three of these guys today while moving wood. I'm like "Sigh... Let's get you somewhere safe..." and carry it over to where I was stripping bark off logs, and tuck it between bark pieces.
Being cute takes you a long way with me. I swerve to miss woolly bears on the road :^D