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Default Redneck Log Splitter

On Jan 27, 7:25*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
Steve B wrote:
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Jeff Thies wrote:


Rough calculations gives a break even of about $820/4 = $205/chord.


* Good deal at $85. It's hard to find cheap wood here, unless you
get it yourself. I've given up on that!


My city has a "yard waste" pickup schedule (it alternates months with
"heavy trash"). Or, the city says, you can take your yard waste to
the collection center.


I haven't checked, but I'll bet the city wouldn't mind if you hauled
off a pickup load of logs...


'Course you'd have to have a home-made splitter like we saw in the
video!


You lose. *They won't allow any salvage at all. *I go to the dump,
and see bicycles and all sorts of things I would like to bag. *They
won't let you take anything, and for insurance purposes, you cannot
load anything that is there.


Hmm. Re-use is better than recycle. I see ads every day on Craigslist for
"free" firewood (somebody cut down a dead tree).

Perhaps I could persuade the city to pile up the "logs" in a separate
section for homeowners to carry away. During the winter, it would seem a
couple of cords a day taken for residential fireplaces would make a dent in
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around here yard waste is run thru a chipper and available for free,
but you have to load and haul....

so yrd waste doesnt end up in landfill.

every now and then there a brick mixed in, to the in pile, they damage
the chipper