Lemme AXE you a question
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Nah, just part of the spring hipster lumberjack collection.
Comes with a coupon for mustache wax and Penny Farthing rentals.
A single bit axe is easy to sharpen and very effective an safe. I have a Craftsman, I borrowed it from my brother and never returned it. I ran it over with the tractor and took it back to True Value. They sent me the kit in the mail to replace it. No questions axed...
Looks like the one my wife uses.
Our last house came with a nice saw, I think it was a husqy. I never needed it, and had never used a saw, so I just left it there for five years then sold it to our neighbors when we moved. Then like a month after moving into our new house, a tree fell and I realized I'd need a saw. Oops.
how much property do you own?
woof that's a lot. that's almost the size of the wood lot we own in Maine. how much is wooded?
You need to take more pics of your Truck. Perhaps a action shot of you jumping it over some big rocks in your yard?
Nice. We have one patch with about acre of ramps.
@stosh and @johnbryanpeters could make some serious $ by charging admission for a “hipster ramp foraging day.”
I love ramp
whew!!! i really wasn't looking forward to talking rap/ebonics for now on. i really don't have the time to learn....i'd rather waste time doing other useless things
Ginseng is all the rage in the Hudson Valley. It just grows wild there...
About 1/2, I have a stream in the back and a small feeder stream that runs down the one side.
LOL, I've already had to weld the frame together once. I barely got through this year of plowing my driveway. It has a battery, engine, and brake light on on the dash.
I wasn't trying to make fun of you, it is a smaller one though.
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I've done about 6 cords per year for the last 3 years felling, bucking, and splitting. Husqvarna 460 rancher is a beast. I've been using a 20" bar. I started with a 24" bar, which seemed excessive, but honestly, I might go back because when you're limbing you don't have to move your feet or bend over nearly as much as with a 20" or 18" bar. Weight difference is nominal.
I use a fiskars x27 to split wood bucked into 18" sections It's pretty beat looking after 3 years and a bunch of splits where I hit the ground after but it's perfectly functional. I love it. 6lbs is just right. 8lb is excessive on 90+ percent of all logs. 6lb is excessive on about 60% of all logs. 3.5lb is underweight on about 50% of all logs. It's dull as hell and sharpening it doesn't seem to matter when splitting and super sharp seems to actually get stuck in the wood if you're swinging straight down on an angle / which I recommend trying to avoid going through to ground if you're not on a stump. If you're bucking to bigger than 18" because it fits in your stove it gets harder to split so you're not saving yourself much work.
I've hit a routine where I would take 15 minute breaks from the computer every 2 hours and try to see how much wood I could split and stack. So, split for 11 minutes, stack for 4 and don't give up on the tough pieces. That's a good workout and you're invariably going to miss a few if you're really giving it some effort and moving fast. The handle on the x27 is still pristine.
Felling trees is dangerous enough and a chainsaw helps keep control over the tree. I won't fell with an axe again.
I use a fiskars x27 to split wood bucked into 18" sections It's pretty beat looking after 3 years and a bunch of splits where I hit the ground after but it's perfectly functional. I love it. 6lbs is just right. 8lb is excessive on 90+ percent of all logs. 6lb is excessive on about 60% of all logs. 3.5lb is underweight on about 50% of all logs. It's dull as hell and sharpening it doesn't seem to matter when splitting and super sharp seems to actually get stuck in the wood if you're swinging straight down on an angle / which I recommend trying to avoid going through to ground if you're not on a stump. If you're bucking to bigger than 18" because it fits in your stove it gets harder to split so you're not saving yourself much work.
I've hit a routine where I would take 15 minute breaks from the computer every 2 hours and try to see how much wood I could split and stack. So, split for 11 minutes, stack for 4 and don't give up on the tough pieces. That's a good workout and you're invariably going to miss a few if you're really giving it some effort and moving fast. The handle on the x27 is still pristine.
Felling trees is dangerous enough and a chainsaw helps keep control over the tree. I won't fell with an axe again.
You split your wood when frozen I assume?
No. I'm cutting in fall/winter, splitting April-may. Under cover by 4th of July. Burning starting in late October.
Ok. It splits so much easier when frozen solid. Half the effort.
If you buy anything from Stihl in the axe/hatchet/maul dept they are lifetime warranty, break it, take it back, new one on the spot. done!
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Fiskar is too. We mangled so many loppers doing trailwork and they just take whatever is left and give us new ones.
bought the farm axe. Got the super splitter instead of the X27. I didn't really love the grippy handle, and the SS seemed lighter than the X27. Plus I liked the hook at the bottom and the death metal black paint. It should handle my logs just fine
That’s my main saw as well. Honestly I even bought a 40v Ryobi used battery chain saw to try out. Its super light and awesome for limbing fallen trees. Sounds silly but it’s great to get some of the small stuff out of the way quick. I usually fall and split 2 cords a year and buy 2 because it’s what my schedule and land allow for.
My Honda Generator and Craftsmen Chainsaw serve me well. I limit my height by the length of my cord and the height of my ladder.
Well @jonKranked was right, for once. The super spliiter/x27 is fantastic. So easy to use and it did a number...but I threw my back out lumberjackin' and couldn't finish splitting my felled tree (plus it's pine and fresh, so it's sticky as fuck). The little gerber hatchet I got did well delimbing some trees and shit too, so I had a good time. Need to get my chainsaw sharpened to finish the job.
Probably didn't have the requisite length of beard to counterbalance the weight of the axe - leading to his dodgy back.
While I don't really have a use for an axe living in the city there is no point in owning a dull tool. A coworker and former lumberman taught me a trick today on how to sharpen an axe or other impact edge.
Hold a file handle end above the edge and angled so the cutting teeth are perpendicular to the edge. Slide the file along maintaining a proper edge angle, do not move the file up and down. I quickly tried this today with my very dull axe and fuck me if it didn't put a damn sharp edge on it real quick.
Perhaps this is common knowledge for people who use them all the time but it was new to me and rather effective.
Hold a file handle end above the edge and angled so the cutting teeth are perpendicular to the edge. Slide the file along maintaining a proper edge angle, do not move the file up and down. I quickly tried this today with my very dull axe and fuck me if it didn't put a damn sharp edge on it real quick.
Perhaps this is common knowledge for people who use them all the time but it was new to me and rather effective.
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You sound inspired by your canadian trip.
