How to convert 22 tons of oak trees into firewood - How to cut tree stumps
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Uploaded by mpfluegl on Jan 5, 2012
This video is part of a series of videos on the topic of producing firewood to heat your fireplace or complete home. The series of videos covers the tools you will need, how to cut tree trunks, how to cut trees into rounds, how to split the rounds with a maul or axe into logs, and how to stack the wood logs for drying in towers or stacks.
This particular video focuses on how to cut tree stumps in your backyard with a chain saw. It helps me to use a wood stick of the approximate size of the chain saw blade. I use this simple stick as a visualization tool to plan the cut(s). So, before I start up the chain saw I already know exactly which moves I will make, where I will start the cut and in which direction I will make the cut. Since the size of the body of my chainsaw is the same length as the blade I use the same stick to check for possible obstacles in the movement of the chainsaw. Possible obstacles might be nearby trees, nearby branches, or soil. With this simple visualization any surprises can be avoided, it is safer and one feels more confident about the cut.
Once the cut is made, the cut might not be complete, either because the chain saw blade is too short for the size of the tree stump or because soil or rocks are touching the stump on one side. In these cases I use a large craw bar. I wedge one end of the craw bar into the made cut and use the leverage of the craw bar to break off the prepared cut. This will work even on hard wood if the uncut area is not too big. It certainly helped me on several instances and sometimes it avoids getting the tip of the chainsaw into the dirt. Just leave the last inch uncut and break the piece off afterwards with the craw bar.
For the other videos of this series look at:
* http://youtu.be/lZv-hQ9TK24 (Tools to use)
* http://youtu.be/YMxZB9wBuMo (How to cut tree stumps)
* http://youtu.be/HXHI7XTzzMo (How to cut trees into rounds)
* http://youtu.be/qvGF8NoqYt0 (How to split wood)
* http://youtu.be/21jVAEe4e8Y (How to stack and store wood)
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@mpolaris100 :: from a local wood supplier; the trees are semi-dried (some 36% humidity) and most likely from local sources; I also noted that not all trees are oak and that they mixed a few other tree types in with the oak
mpfluegl 4 weeks ago
where did you get all that wood from?
mpolaris100 4 weeks ago