And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
By my crude guestimation / calculation that log contains about 9 or 10 cords. I've cut a lot of firewood in my time and big logs seem to have less volume cord-wise than you'd guess before you cut, split and stack them.
That log is Doug Fir, which is my favorite wood to cut and burn. Especially that log, which probably doesn't hardly have a knot in it.
When being a truck driver meant sweating your ass off all day, every day in the summertime. (I graduated class of '65 Kenworth, no a/c or power steering.)
I'm wondering if the lumber mill would already be set up to deal with these giant chunks of wood? When my sister had various Redwood tree trunks and limbs removed from her Big Sur property (damaged or dead trees and widowmaker branches), a crew would show up with a portable sawmill to reduce them to workable size.
I think part of it was that by law, you couldn't just outright sell redwood on the market, it had to be by permission of the state forestry people, otherwise most of the remaining Redwoods would be gone, due to market value of the wood. Typically the wood could be cut down for use on the property, but not for market, except for very specific reasons. Her house and other buildings were all Redwood, IIRC.
The local big mill closest to me (it's closed now) had an 8' double cut band mill head rig that could cut a pretty big log but the oversized logs, like the one above, would have to be ripped in half with a chainsaw before going into the mill. That job fell to the loaderman on Saturdays. He and a partner would use an 090 Stihl using a chain made for ripping (cutting with the grain). Back in the '70s and '80s that mill usually received enough big logs that Roger would work all day Saturday almost every Saturday. Which he appreciated, as he had a ton of kids at home to feed.
Just how big is his fireplace?
ReplyDeleteWould heat my house for years and years. Would take years and years to wittle it down to 16" firewood.
ReplyDeleteBy my crude guestimation / calculation that log contains about 9 or 10 cords.
DeleteI've cut a lot of firewood in my time and big logs seem to have less volume cord-wise than you'd guess before you cut, split and stack them.
That log is Doug Fir, which is my favorite wood to cut and burn. Especially that log, which probably doesn't hardly have a knot in it.
When being a truck driver meant something.
ReplyDeleteWhen being a truck driver meant sweating your ass off all day, every day in the summertime.
Delete(I graduated class of '65 Kenworth, no a/c or power steering.)
I'm wondering if the lumber mill would already be set up to deal with these giant chunks of wood?
ReplyDeleteWhen my sister had various Redwood tree trunks and limbs removed from her Big Sur property (damaged or dead trees and widowmaker branches), a crew would show up with a portable sawmill to reduce them to workable size.
I think part of it was that by law, you couldn't just outright sell redwood on the market, it had to be by permission of the state forestry people, otherwise most of the remaining Redwoods would be gone, due to market value of the wood. Typically the wood could be cut down for use on the property, but not for market, except for very specific reasons. Her house and other buildings were all Redwood, IIRC.
The local big mill closest to me (it's closed now) had an 8' double cut band mill head rig that could cut a pretty big log but the oversized logs, like the one above, would have to be ripped in half with a chainsaw before going into the mill. That job fell to the loaderman on Saturdays. He and a partner would use an 090 Stihl using a chain made for ripping (cutting with the grain).
ReplyDeleteBack in the '70s and '80s that mill usually received enough big logs that Roger would work all day Saturday almost every Saturday. Which he appreciated, as he had a ton of kids at home to feed.