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    One of these down a day is more than enough effort. Especially when you have to cut steps in the trunk to climb high enough to make the directional cuts

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    The Nissan gives you some idea of their size

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    Used up all my wedges (a dozen) to prevent it falling into the neighbours... and still it no fall down.

    The dozer redeemed itself by pulling it down with relative ease
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    You will need a bit for next forum get together bonfire

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    We only need enough kindling for a medium sized bonfire...not a thermonuclear blaze seen from the space station!

    Besides, these are over a k away from the burn pit. Asking a wee bit much of the dozer to drag them that far
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    Hey-soos - that's what you call a tree...

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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    One of these down a day is more than enough effort. Especially when you have to cut steps in the trunk to climb high enough to make the directional cuts

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    Used up all my wedges (a dozen) to prevent it falling into the neighbours... and still it no fall down.

    The dozer redeemed itself by pulling it down with relative ease
    Explosives would have been more fun. Seriously though I have had to double stack wedges more than once and have also employed a timber jack on one occasion

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    Little Stihl 211C getting a work out on She-oak (casuarina) put about 6 tanks through it over the last few days and hand split close to 4 utes loads. Its my gym workout I go and do a tank/load in the morning then work the office job in the afternoon.

    Filling mums wood shed up for her, I dont even have a fireplace.. The big butt sections of the casuarina seem too good to cut up for fire wood.

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    That stuff is good, although when it gets a few years and rings on it the density! Splitter axe bounces. End up having to rip it to chunk it down with some of it. I got some avo the other day, usually it's pretty hohum firewood not a lot of heat and fast burning to boot. This last batch was solid like small blocks of concrete. Been cut and air drying for two years, old 30yr trees that got removed apparently.
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    Really enjoying this 881, cuts these 1300 wide slabs like butter.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MSL View Post


    Really enjoying this 881, cuts these 1300 wide slabs like butter.


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    Very nice.
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    There have been some bloody fantastic fotos in these posts.
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    @MSL that's some absolutely gorgeous timber there
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    Cut a few little 10”x10” beams today, aswell as a stack of 10”x4”.


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    MSL is that western red cedar, beautiful looking timber. Looks like a good portable mill set up you have to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fat belly Dog View Post
    MSL is that western red cedar, beautiful looking timber. Looks like a good portable mill set up you have to.
    Redwood. Got a stack of jap cedar to do, but only small ones.


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    What you can do when you have the right gear! But the local timber we have access to is probably only good for 5 foot long timber before it turns corners, bit of a limiting factor!
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