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Redneck Log Splitter
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Redneck Log Splitter
On 1/26/2011 5:16 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ How do you determine which logs are Rednecks? :-) TDD |
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On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;) |
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Frank wrote in news:ihp5u0$759$2
@news.eternal-september.org: On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote: Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;) Compound wrist break, nahhhhh. And guess Mr Splitter never had a scratched cornea. Who needs stinkin' safety glasses! |
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On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Same page has a link to a larger version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY and also this "Unicorn": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HZz...eature=related I would have not thought of either, which may be a point in my favor! Jeff |
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On 2011-01-26, A. Baum wrote:
These are the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmKBDIAXd0 What's with the bark removal drum? These logs going to be burned at a black and white ball? nb |
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Frank wrote the following:
On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote: Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;) Nah, he has gloves on! -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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On 1/26/2011 11:24 AM, notbob wrote:
On 2011-01-26, A. wrote: These are the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmKBDIAXd0 What's with the bark removal drum? These logs going to be burned at a black and white ball? Dunno: http://www.palax.fi/en/images/storie...wer100_eng.pdf The Fins, IMHO, know how to make log splitters. Jeff nb |
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On 1/26/2011 8:00 AM, Frank wrote:
On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote: Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;) Works for me |
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On 26 Jan 2011 16:24:45 GMT, notbob wrote:
On 2011-01-26, A. Baum wrote: These are the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmKBDIAXd0 What's with the bark removal drum? These logs going to be burned at a black and white ball? I believe that's so the local convenience store in the burbs can sell the stuff by the bag to folks who want to put the bag in the trunk of their Audi. That is quite the machine. If somebody gave me one [and a woodlot of birch] I might go back to burning wood. Jim |
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"HeyBub" wrote in message ... Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ I'll stick with my 26 ton hydraulic, thank you very much. I have had logs go flying, and other incidents that would indicate every log splitter comes with a gallon of liquid Murphy's law paint. Steve |
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"Jim Elbrecht" wrote I believe that's so the local convenience store in the burbs can sell the stuff by the bag to folks who want to put the bag in the trunk of their Audi. Jim Now THAT is the business I want. Selling one cubic foot of wood for $5! Buy it for $100 a cord (or cut it yourself for $10, and bag it up), sell it for $640 a cord. Hey, I could afford an Audi. Forget that, how about a Ferrari? Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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On 1/26/2011 3:00 PM, A. Baum wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:33:53 -0800, Steve B wrote: "Jim wrote I believe that's so the local convenience store in the burbs can sell the stuff by the bag to folks who want to put the bag in the trunk of their Audi. Jim Now THAT is the business I want. Selling one cubic foot of wood for $5! Buy it for $100 a cord (or cut it yourself for $10, and bag it up), sell it for $640 a cord. Hey, I could afford an Audi. Forget that, how about a Ferrari? 75% of my heat in winter is wood. 4 chords usually does it since I use natural gas for the 8 hours I sleep. I save around 500 a year in fuel since the wood is purchased from a friend who does landscaping, sells mulch and seasoned split wood. I get it for 80 a cord. 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! Jeff |
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A. Baum wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:33:53 -0800, Steve B wrote: "Jim wrote I believe that's so the local convenience store in the burbs can sell the stuff by the bag to folks who want to put the bag in the trunk of their Audi. Jim Now THAT is the business I want. Selling one cubic foot of wood for $5! Buy it for $100 a cord (or cut it yourself for $10, and bag it up), sell it for $640 a cord. Hey, I could afford an Audi. Forget that, how about a Ferrari? 75% of my heat in winter is wood. 4 chords usually does it since I use natural gas for the 8 hours I sleep. I save around 500 a year in fuel since the wood is purchased from a friend who does landscaping, sells mulch and seasoned split wood. I get it for 80 a cord. 100% of my heat is wood fired boiler with h/w baseboard. I burn wood 24/7 for 6 months and my house is warm as toast. It don't take much fire to keep the boiler at 210 degrees. Cellar is warm, floors are warm, house is warm. Run around bare footed when it's 20 below and the wind is blowing 40mph. Takes me 4 cords a year. But that rotating splitter??? I'd call it a splitter and finger remover. I have a 20 ton bidirectional 3 point hitch splitter that is fast enough. -- LSMFT Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |
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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! |
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"Steve B" wrote: Hey, I could afford an Audi. Anyone can afford to buy an Audi. Few can afford to keep it on the road. DAMHIK. |
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"HeyBub" wrote in message m... 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. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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Steve B wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message m... 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 the landfill requirements. |
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On 1/26/2011 11:55 PM, Steve B wrote:
wrote in message m... 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. My brother lives on the edge of a glacial valley (Cleveland, Oh) and whatever the Park cuts is left by the roadside. Anyone can take it. Beautiful, eh? Except the suburb he lives in does allow wood stoves. So free wood, already cut, just behind the house, but you can't burn it! As far as the splitter, it's ingenious and mimics the way people split wood. By impact, rather than forcing the splitter through. And it has the same hazards. Jeff Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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On Jan 27, 7:25*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
Steve B wrote: "HeyBub" wrote in message om... 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 the landfill requirements.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - 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 |
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"Steve B" wrote .. 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. Steve Our town used to have a section at the dump to put re-usable items that others could pick. It was eliminated about 10 years ago. as for logs, the town sells wood every fall to the highest bidder. |
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"HeyBub" wrote:
-0snip- 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 the landfill requirements. My town has a pile like that. And the town uses it to heat their highway dept garage. Jim |
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m: Frank wrote the following: On 1/26/2011 6:16 AM, HeyBub wrote: Seems to work okay... Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=40sCGb678sQ Man, there's an accident ready to happen ;) Nah, he has gloves on! But those are As Seen on TV Mighty Gloves. If the Mighty Gloves sense a sudden jerk the molecular composition immediately solidifies to steel rigidity and strength. |
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"HeyBub" wrote Hmm. Re-use is better than recycle. I see ads every day on Craigslist for "free" firewood (somebody cut down a dead tree). I would make a caveat here, having done that once. Make sure the wood you are picking up is 1. a species that burns well, 2, it is not rotten, 3, it is not full of termites or other undesirable characters, 4. isn't moldy. Lots of people want to get rid of wood, but a lot of it is not of the quality that is worth the trouble. Not all, but a lot, I'd say. But, then occasionally, there are nice rounds of a tree that was felled, and they just don't have the means to take it away, a splitter, or maybe even a fireplace. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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"Jeff Thies" wrote in message ... On 1/26/2011 11:55 PM, Steve B wrote: wrote in message m... 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. My brother lives on the edge of a glacial valley (Cleveland, Oh) and whatever the Park cuts is left by the roadside. Anyone can take it. Beautiful, eh? Except the suburb he lives in does allow wood stoves. So free wood, already cut, just behind the house, but you can't burn it! As far as the splitter, it's ingenious and mimics the way people split wood. By impact, rather than forcing the splitter through. And it has the same hazards. Jeff I used to live in Louisiana. Whenever they would make a new road, they would post publicly a notice that people had 90 days to cut all the wood they wanted. Oak, pecan, and lesser species, but LOTS of oak and pecan. Then they bulldozed it. It was great. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com |
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"Steve B" wrote in message ... 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. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com Yeah, that kills me. Sometimes when I go a builder will be dumping a load of fine remodler goods. All I can do is sigh and unload my crap. |
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Colbyt wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message ... 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. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. Learn how to care for a friend. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com Yeah, that kills me. Sometimes when I go a builder will be dumping a load of fine remodler goods. All I can do is sigh and unload my crap. If you ever have such goodies to get rid of, check out freecycle. |
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On Jan 26, 6:16*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
Seems to work okay... Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=40sCGb678sQ Next the department of Labor will be setting up training task forces at the kindergarten level. |
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