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Greetings Tombi,
Thanks for noticing that. It was my late fathers wheelbarrow and there is a story about it. Sometime over 50 years ago my parents won 10th prize in whatever they called the Golden...

Thanks for that Zimmer,
My whole firewood collecting is low tech and on our small block. The split wood gets shifted around the corner to drying stacks. These are made of two 1.8m fence posts set up...

Greetings All,
Can't compete with the big boys epic chainsaw stories. Am currently using a 250mm bar top handle saw for all the smaller stuff and will move up to a bigger saw with a 450mm bar when I...

Greetings 7mmSAUM,
The blue look and spiral nature of the bark suggests your tree may be one of the southern blue gums, quite common in Hawkes Bay. A lot of them are dogs to split. The smaller...

Greetings Hamsav,
Its the luck of the draw with gum. Some like E Nitens are hard to split even green. The dead tree my son had trouble with which I think was E Fastigata was tough. Another standing...

Greetings XR500,
I am cutting all the easy stuff first as it is easy to split. Cut for one tank split stack repeat is the process. Satisfying as well as you see the stack steadily growing, an...

Greetings All,
Another year has passed and here we are again gathering firewood for next winter. This year things are going to be a bit different. I was becoming increasingly concerned about the...