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Anonymous08/15/26, 23:31No.3004582Woodstove, Fireplace, Firewood & Solid Fuel General
Winter Is Coming Anon. Are you ready? The time for Lumberjack Testosterone is upon us.
How many cords will you burn? Do you buy or buck? Show us what you are working with: Splitters, Chainsaws, Axes, Mauls, & Saws. What are you cutting? What are you burning? Where & how are you sourcing? What are you burning in; make, model, year?
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Anon08/16/26, 15:56No.3004647
1 cord stacked as of yesterday. i still have about a 1/2 cord left uncut. I am about to fire up the chainsaw again. wood is mostly dry, but definitely still needs a finish. the lower photo is mulberry felled 18 months ago but left stacked in 8' logs until yesterday. the upper stack by the house is oak of unknown age given free from some old guy who just wanted it hauled off. i have lots of well aged large elm rounds that are already cut but need split. I also have a fair amount of seasoned, burn-size elm rounds that just need cut. I dont have a moisture meter at this time but I still have a few months before burn season. I keep putting off buying a splitter because im poor, but these fat rounds just keep stacking up as I pick through the smaller burnable rounds. splitting elm with an axe, maul, wedge and sledge is fucking impossible. I've got to get a splitter by next fall. it HAS to happen.
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Anon08/16/26, 16:59No.3004653
I've got this many rounds so far and will probably need about four times as much. it's mostly white ash with a little elm. I've got my eye on a couple of large standing dead white ash trees that should produce three-quarters to a full cord each and a medium half-dead maple that I'll use for overnight logs. I won't split anything until the first good freeze when the water will expand the cracks. Before then, I'll just burn the scraps like those in the foreground and no-split-ems.
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Anon08/16/26, 17:00No.3004655
I've been using this CS-400 for eight years and have had to rebuild the carburetor and replace the pull start assembly. Otherwise it's been reliable and effective. I welded a steel pipe handle to the maul since I got really tired of replacing or repairing the fiberglass jobs at least once a year. The pipe handle is heavier but extremely durable.
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Anon08/16/26, 19:05No.3004673
fuck i need to order firewood for winter! holy fuck i forgot. i need 5 cord like now fuck fuck fuck
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Anon08/16/26, 22:18No.3004708
I've been making cardboard/paper bricks to supplement my firewood
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Anon08/17/26, 13:28No.3004787
my chainsaw has a very frustrating issue. it seems to develop some sort of fuel vacuum or negative pressure after running. it will run fine up until I shut it off for refueling or chain tension adjustment. once shut down for any reason, it cannot seem to pull fuel back in to restart. there is no vent on the cap or tank to clean. even the prime bulb (seperate from the pull choke) will not fill and pump fuel when pressed after unit has run. if i pull the choke and then try, it will start for 1-2 seconds then die. I then remove choke and it will pull-start for 1-2 seconds then starve. if I leave it alone for many hours until it cools completely, I can restart it.what do anon? if i wasn't so fucking poor I would just buy a husqvarna to upgrade. but this is what I've got to work with so I have to make it work.Model number in photo caption
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Anon08/19/26, 06:18No.3005045
I'm about to build me one of these. Was camping this past year and our camping neighbor had one.....dam it splits amazing with just a sledgehammer. The logs don't bounce!
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Anon08/22/26, 06:14No.3005327
why not a fan to blow on stove?
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Anon08/22/26, 13:27No.3005345
I bought a Makita corded 120v electric saw to cut rounds in my shed/driveway, it's working great. I'm keeping my gas saws of course, but the electric one is so much more handy for work near/in the buildings.If you live near a city or similar and have to scavenge for wood or don't have a woodlot, call up tree services and tell them that you'd take logs and/or chips, and at least here in the Midwest they'll drop a dual axle dump trailer right in your driveway of whatever a nearby job produced. Not always the best wood but it always burns. I just finished splitting and stacking a cord and a half of oak and I'm working on another cord or two of maple. They dumped two huge loads of wood chips which we use to mulch heavily around our fruit trees. We planted them in orchard rows and mulch the whole row deep and wide, the free mulch works great and the top layers will be decomposing as the bottom layers a few years from now, helping with moisture and providing nutrients. If shit hits and I need to triple our garden space, I can quickly pull back the mulch and plant right in the now-compost underneath.Most tree services around here would rather not haul too far away or (God forbid) have to pay to dump it, so with a few calls and a low time preference you can get trees brought to you instead of having to get them yourself!
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Anon08/22/26, 14:28No.3005350
too soon but i was supposed to build a compact oil burner forgot about that
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Anon09/07/26, 17:24No.3007325
my progress continues. I cut down several trees last week at my boss' house, but they are not pictured. I'll go pick them up in a few weeks.I've done several measurements and calculations and I still only come up reliably with under 3 cords. at a glance it looks like more (there are several smaller piles of oak, pear, peach, apple, pecan, and other grilling/smoking quality not in photo) but I do not benifit from bullshitting myself. photo is about 60/40 elm/mulberry heat-use-exclusive. only 2 cords are seasoned for this year.today's effort: I ran one tank out in the new MS271 bucking down my most recent elm for better seasoning. I have decided to just rent a 30T splitter this year. cost is $150 for Saturday & Sunday. hopefully I can just buy one for next season. this year's big expense will be a 4600w solar panel expansion plus another 5.12Ah LiFePO4, so a $2000-$3000 splitter isnt in the cards right now.
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Anon09/09/26, 21:40No.3007628
Picked up this one last week. It'l heat up my workshop that I also sleep in. We'll see how the winter goes. I have some wood, but not sure it's enough. If bad comes to worse, I'll just start dismantling the half rotten patio, maybe buy some coal.
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Anon09/10/26, 03:27No.3007659
No stupid question thread, so y'all'll have to do. Daft question, fellas. Got an old lady who asked me for help taking out a thru-the-wall AC unit earlier this year. Fast forward to now, she hasn't put in a replacement. We're in like Zone 4. The fuck needs to be done to winterize the sleeve so gram doesn't turn into a Popsicle in -40 degrees F? Stuff it with 7 inches of fiberglass cladding and a cover over the outside part of the sleeve, plus the plastic one on the inside?