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Muskyman:
Also got some more done today, arm wasn’t to bad.. split one of my logs and turned it into two staves..
I took my circular saw and scored it before I tried to split it..
Also tried a idea I had and some of you might laugh at this but it worked out pretty good.
I took a small chipping hammer and sharpened up a 1 inch bit I have for it and it peeled the bark and a lot of the sap wood of pretty easy.. saved me a lot of work with my draw knife and didn’t do any damage to the stave.
Eric Krewson:
You are OK scoring the log with a saw to split unless it has snaky grain, if you score a snaky grain log you may cause grain runout that will ruin a stave. I halved the bigger logs with a chainsaw so I could handle them, then split everything from there with wedges to make sure I followed the grain.
I am pretty sure I end over ended the larger log in the picture from a hedgerow across a field I couldn't drive to in my truck. Once I got it leaning against my tailgate, I could slide it in the truck. I had a Ranger pick-up at the time that was lower to the ground.
Muskyman:
That’s impressive Eric, I’m might have been able to do something like that years ago but not now I don’t think. I was able to get a few more of these things cleaned up today and might be going to get a few more logs Saturday..
Eric Krewson:
My laying by the log picture is over 25 years old, I could do a lot more at 50 than I can now at 75.
Muskyman:
Hear what your saying Eric. I’m almost 67 and nothing is easy like it used to be. I thought I replied earlier today but don’t see it on here.. I looked for diazinon on line and it appears to be banned in the States. Any other suggestions for insecticide to keep them off my Osage if I don’t get the bark off..
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