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shameless dude 
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Posted: 24 Feb 2021 at 8:46pm |
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why ole MEL don't cuts no firewood from all them easy cut logs he keeps burning...them blue wheeled truck wanna be;s prolly won't haul much more than a couple wheel barrow loads atta time! LMAO! sorry buddy...had to do it! oh...and yeah...i bouts cried while watching you burn all them easy cut/stack logs you keep burning! no brush to trip over or cut off. PffffT! don't ya'll have fireplaces out there anymore? whew! i guess i could brings you sum tires to gits them piles burning better!
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 8:50am |
If there is one thing that California needs, its MORE FIRE PLACES and MORE HEAT ! 
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Ray54
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 12:00pm |
 steve(ill) wrote:
If there is one thing that California needs, its MORE FIRE PLACES and MORE HEAT ! |
Now,now steve I am cold blooded I guess my fire has not hardly gone out since Oct. Got this big stone faced brick and cement fire place. Only burn oak, cover the burning piece in ashes when I go to bed. Scratch the ashes off the red glowing coals, add the little splinters from splitting and bark pieces small twigs and away my fire goes. Put your hand up on the rocks in the morning and those rocks are still warmer than the air. Lord help me if I had to heat with only propane at triple the price it is in fly over country.
Just cause it will be 70 this afternoon, it is a little less than 60 in here right now but not bad with my feet in the fire as I peck away.
Now Shameless I never have had the privilege of meeting Mel, but I am will to go out  on a limb here. No more trouble to cut and burn oak that puts out lots more heat than fir trees. Gives more time with your feet up and less time dragging in more wood. 
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AC Mel
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 8:19pm |
Ok...Thanks Ray for baling us out...he's right about this....my brother and I were just reminiscing the other day about our mother covering up the coals at night and uncovering them in the morning to get the fire going..worked well. What shameless doesn't know is that my loving wife will get up in the night and put wood on the fire...she also likes to run the splitter. So the reason we showed those videos of burning slash....that would make fire wood...but not our preferred fire wood is because this it what we have in our yard to make fire wood out of And a BLUE FORD TRUCK !!! LOL
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shameless dude
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 9:22pm |
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that flushed him out! LMAO
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shameless dude
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 9:24pm |
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i saw that big ole rotten log painted blue in the one pic...it should burn bouts like a chunk of pine!
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shameless dude
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 9:34pm |
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and yes MEL...i really do enjoy cutting firewood, just right now my back won't let me pick up and carry the chunks PfffffT! but i still cut. my splitter mounts on the 3-pt of my 180. it's a good splitter, at tractor idle it'll split anything, if it don't split it, it cuts thru it. i need to figger out some kinda lift to put the chunks up on it. i cut anything from 3" rounds on up for firewood. i just gave a pickup load to the cub & boy scouts for their camp fires. when i see clean piles of cut trees laying in piles like i see on your vids...it just makes me slobber all over! no brush to cut off, yank out, or trip over.
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 10:37pm |
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Dang, splitting firewood when the grass is green. Shameless I can't run the saw over 20 minutes. I also have a 3 point splitter but I leave it sitting in the ground and tie the hydraulic lever on the tractor back. Taint so far to lift the stuff. Havnt tried it on the 200 yet but it worked good on the 17 last year.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 26 Feb 2021 at 10:19pm |
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Tom...i too have set mine on the ground, but it also includes bending over alot too, so not really saving anything. one thing that worked well years ago, when i cut the firewood, i'd throw it into an old PTO chit spreader, then set the splitter up on the back of it, that allowed me to grab the chunks at waist high and set them right on the splitter, when it got to far to reach thye chunks, i turned on the spreaders apron chain and ran them back to the end to the splitter. it worked very well. (the beater was off the spreader)
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LeonR2013
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Posted: 02 Mar 2021 at 4:01pm |
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Shameless you're getting the right idea. Hydraulics, lift cylinder, and a few odds and ends and your loader is ready to go. Leon
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Tad Wicks
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Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 10:35am |
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