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is that it warms you several times.
We had a couple of dead trees felled when we moved in here (standard Tennessee method - chainsaw to prepare the fell, and a length of line, a block, and a pickup truck to do the actual felling) and the feller chainsawed the trunks into firewood lengths.
On Monday we hired another chap to split the logs - he reckoned a couple of ricks (whatever that is) so about $80. In fact he spent much of the day at it, estimated the pile at 6-7 ricks ($240) and there's still as much again to split.
So this week I've been moving the split wood up from where the trees were to the lower porch and stacking it. I now have a pile about 8'x2'x2', and the original pile doesn't look any smaller.
Who needs a gym?
We had a couple of dead trees felled when we moved in here (standard Tennessee method - chainsaw to prepare the fell, and a length of line, a block, and a pickup truck to do the actual felling) and the feller chainsawed the trunks into firewood lengths.
On Monday we hired another chap to split the logs - he reckoned a couple of ricks (whatever that is) so about $80. In fact he spent much of the day at it, estimated the pile at 6-7 ricks ($240) and there's still as much again to split.
So this week I've been moving the split wood up from where the trees were to the lower porch and stacking it. I now have a pile about 8'x2'x2', and the original pile doesn't look any smaller.
Who needs a gym?
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Oak will take longer to season (a couple of years stacked) than pine or other softwood. If it's red oak then you will need a splitter, unless you want to end up with forearms like Popeye. Problem is that once you have your own splitter you start looking around for other trees to take down and turn into firewood. That means getting a chainsaw and a pickup truck and a hound dog -- no, scratch the last one. Samson will have to suffice. P.S. give him a scritch from me.