The Project.

[Jenks]

So my project is finished. The Stove is installed and working perfectly. But it is very hungry for logs. Having just received my winter fuel allowance (thank you tax payers) I decided not to spend it on fuel but on a chainsaw. I bought a little Sthil with a 12’’ bar. It cost me £150. I have been out three times so far ,ragging fallen timber from hedgerows locally. And I reckon I have stacked away about a load and a half of logs £75s worth and enjoyed doing it. The pics below were taken after my first outing. I did struggle a bit getting these two bits of Ash onto the roof rack of my van. Looking forward to the next gale.








Sorry about the smuge mark on the camera lens.


Jenks

[Dave 101]

I have done that before at least it keeps you warm cutting and chopping wood .
Jenks have you tried doing it like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8jnSaCqxY
Dave

[ovenpaa]

You need a log splitter next Jenks

[Jenks]

I have done that before at least it keeps you warm cutting and chopping wood .
Jenks have you tried doing it like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC8jnSaCqxY
Dave

Dave101..

Dave..
No I haven’t done that (yet) but my dear old dad did. He was stationed in Pre-War India with a machine gun company of the Ox&Bucks Light infantry. There was a very big inter regiment firearms competition coming up. The O.C. decided that four of his Lewis guns would benefit from having new barrels. The existing barrels were not bad enough to condemn So he took the guns to A safe place and set them up, using a tree on the edge of the range as a target. They fired thousands of rounds through the barrels until he was happy that the armourer would agree they were shot out. My dad didn't tell me how many rounds were fired but the tree did indeed topple.

In the Photo my Dad is top row seven from the left.





Jenks

[Jenks]

You need a log splitter next Jenks

Dave..

The timber that I'm getting at the moment is well seasoned and splits easily with just a hand axe and a tap or two from a lump hammer. If I find a source of green timber or of larger diameter then yes I will be looking at getting a splitter.

Jenks

[Jenks]

OOOps! That should have read Vickers and not Lewis guns..


Jenks

[Jenks]

You need a log splitter next Jenks

Dave..

Well I bit the bullet and bought an electrically powered hydraulic log splitter today. This one..

http://www.gardenskill.com/products/alk ... ogsplitter

Works a treat. I now have a green house and a log store full of logs. Wish I had more space as there is a huge ash tree down not One hundred yards from my back door. Unfortunately I just don't have the room to store unseasoned timber for a year.


Jenks

[ovenpaa]

Lovely job No room for a pile of logs outside covered with a tarp?

[Jenks]

Lovely job No room for a pile of logs outside covered with a tarp?

Dave..

Sadly no, our back garden really is very small. I did go out and cut probably twenty lengths of the Ash, five foot long by about six inches in diameter. but no matter how i stacked them, there was no way they could have stayed there for a year. So I gave them to a friend who did have space for them.


Jenks

[ovenpaa]

You can either find the wood but not the space, or you have the space but no wood. We have not run an open fire here in years as we have no real space to store the wood and then in the space of a year two large trees have been dropped, sawn into good sized lumps and left to the elements, the furthest one is maybe 75 yards away and the other 25 yards....

We had a Morso stove in DK and lots of space for storing wood but had to pay for everything we burnt as there were never any windfalls or trees cut down near us.

Sods law.