Wood cutting

[Anonymous No.2557900]

So I fell for the cabin in the woods meme.
How do I make life easier with diy.
The amount of work is killing me.

[Anonymous No.2557907]

>>2557900
>don't be fat and lazy
splitting firewood could be the best job I can think of
>one guy occasionally gives me $40 to split a truckload of firewood
>I do a full truck
>its from a pile of stumps and ends from the tree trimmers/loggers
>I am driving around 5 miles with a 2000 pound load
sometimes I use a tractor and wagon
the wagon is 12 feet long and it gets piled up a little higher than what I put in a truck so I would guess its 3000-3500 pounds of wood
working by myself a days work is cutting, splitting, loading and moving, then unloading and stacking one wagon load
>it should be 3 face cords possibly a little more
all split with maul

[Anonymous No.2557910]

Install gas furnace and have fuel delivered. Wood stove is mostly a meme for cheapskates who don't value their time; see >>2557907 who does a full day's work for $40.

[Anonymous No.2557913]

>>2557910
Feeding the furnace all night is fucking my sleep too.

[Anonymous No.2557914]

>>2557907
>don't be fat and lazy
I lost the weight in 3 months of doing this still not fun

[Anonymous No.2557917]

Acquire a child and train it to do all of these tasks for you. Bonus is that along with wood splitting they can wash dishes, shovel snow, clean the house, weed the garden, and many other mundane household tasks.

[Anonymous No.2557920]

>>2557917
Sorry I don't own a van and the only female I've seen around the nearest town looked really inbred

[Anonymous No.2557924]

>>2557920
If you aren't as inbred as her, you would be diluting the inbreeding of the resulting children and they might even come out normal.

[Anonymous No.2557925]

>>2557924
I'm not but I don't think I can get over her breath smell
And you know the deformed face mangled teeth...

[Caveman !ZrDebyJajE No.2557934]

Look into converting a hi-lift jack into a log splitter.

[Anonymous No.2557962]

>>2557900
you can buy/build wood splitter
screw wood splitters are relatively safe and cheap to cobble together if you can find a motor for free(ish)
https://youtu.be/DOzNrAq6jY0?t=575
but don't try building one of these limb removing monstrosities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz7FdvuVjB8
>>2557910
at least it's a workout
with gym membership you earn negative $40 for full day's work

[Anonymous No.2557966]

>>2557900
Often I see people split the fire wood in too fine pieces. That in turn mens too much work.
Intead, I prepare the fireplace with large bits at the bottom, and an elevated layer with finer pieces, so that you get proper pyrolysis going and not oxygen starved fire. The glow lasts longer too.
The coarse pieces should be at least partly split just so that it dries faster. You don't have to cut all the way through. Also make sure the pieces are as long as you can fit into the fireplace.

[Anonymous No.2557976]

>>2557920
>>2557925
I know we are on diy board, but it doesn't have to be your own child.
Women with 2 little angels are easier to come by and you'd have mulattos working on your property, just like the founding fathers intended.

[Anonymous No.2557980]

>>2557962
Hahahaha that thing is fucking awesome. Sketchy as all hell, but still awesome.

Realistically, people can just get those squat splitters, cheap and easy.

[Anonymous No.2557984]

drive around by home depo in the morinings and look for some mexicans, pay em 40 each a day. if you live realy far in the woods you they might run away

[Anonymous No.2557998]

>>2557976
Yah no thanks

[Anonymous No.2558001]

>>2557962
This is cool and useful

[Anonymous No.2558037]

>>2557976
You want to wake up shanked?

[Anonymous No.2558110]

>>2557962
The screw splitter is great, but it misses a couple easy to reach emergency stop buttons. I would implement a metal bar at the front side connected to a switch which would stop the machine when I touch that bar with my hip.

[Anonymous No.2558335]

>>2558110
for sure
a sleeve can get caught on the rotating shaft and efore you know it, your entire hand gets mangled
hydraulic/kinetic splitter that has a piston pushing a log against stationary wedge is generally the safest option for splitting wood

[Anonymous No.2558344]

>>2558335
The scariest screwtypes are just bolted to a truck axle, the fuel tank is the safety cut off...

[Anonymous No.2558351]

>>2558110
>I would implement a metal bar at the front side connected to a switch which would stop the machine when I touch that bar with my hip
how do you avoid triggering it in normal operation the disabling it for being annoying?

[Anonymous No.2558363]

>>2557913
get a catalyst stove like Blaze King, i only have to open my stove door ever 24 hours

[Anonymous No.2558370]

>>2557900
Just move back to the city if you want a cushy easy life.
>>2557910
I spend 30 minutes a week splitting wood during the summer, it is not difficult or time consuming. That time becomes tree felling/hauling/bucking time come winter. Frankly I have more issues with an excess of free time than not enough.Other than harvest/planting season I don't have much I need to do.
>>2557913
Just let the house get cold at night, it needs to get below zero outside for a couple nights before I worry about keeping the heat going all night and even then I just wake up once. I don't even start heating until it is hitting freezing temps during the day. Heat yourself instead of the house, put on a sweater.

[Anonymous No.2558745]

>>2557913
Do you people not have good fireplaces that store heat available? I suppose you would have to prepare for that when building the structure because they do weight quite a bit. Mine weights maybe 2 tons. I've seen some tv shows or whatever of people living in rural Alaska and some only have these retarded tiny metal furnaces that store no heat

[Anonymous No.2558751]

>>2558745
>Alaska and some only have these retarded tiny metal furnaces that store no heat
That can be fine if you store the exhaust heat in thermal mass

[Anonymous No.2559017]

>>2558751
> That can be fine if you store the exhaust heat in thermal mass
Yeah. I've got a nice long chimney and a kitchen stove up against the chimney side wall. I stop feeding the furnace around 22:00-23:00 and by the time I reignite it in in the morning (around 10), that chimney side wall is still warm to the touch.

[Anonymous No.2559021]

>>2559017
the rocket stove guys use downwards chimneys and trap hot exhaust using an inverted lake effect, but their exhaust will be a lot cleaner than a regular stove since they're burning the tars

[Anonymous No.2559127]

>>2558745
>and some only have these retarded tiny metal furnaces that store no heat
Wood stoves can be dampened down effectively so they can slowly smolder through the night, instead of storing the heat you are controlling how/when you release that heat. They both have their advantages and disadvantages and it comes down to preference.

[Anonymous No.2559243]

>>2557976
Okay big guy post body. Bet you won't.

[Anonymous No.2559244]

>>2557976
I apologize I thought you called me a dyel but you said diy.

[Anonymous No.2559534]

>>2557900
>woood heats you twice
when you chop it and when you burn it.

[Anonymous No.2559617]

>>2559534
3 times, when you hump it in too

[Anonymous No.2559647]

>>2557966
I never built fire like that, always went with the bonfire method.

[Anonymous No.2562127]

>>2558351
by not being fat

[Anonymous No.2562158]

>>2557900
Get a log splitter or a bigger fireplace to burn the logs whole.

>>2557913
You need a larger fire place then, or you're not using your damper/intake right to control the burn time. Most heat goes up in smoke, learn the sweetspot in your fireplace to make the wood last longer. What I go is I build small stick to medium branches to full sized logs. Once you get a bed of coals going you can even use wet logs.frozen wood to make the burn time longer.