Life hacking of firewood: optimize production, processing and storage of "national fuel"

As with firewood for the winter to spend a minimum of effort, and what tools make it easy to cut and Kolka firewood

Winter is coming and the beginning of the heating season. Many people in our country, heat their homes, solid-fuel stoves and boilers. Case is troublesome. FORUMHOUSE simplify your task. We have prepared material, which contains the user experience of wood-burning heat generators. Read the article and learn about the life hacking 5, which will facilitate the physical labor of sawing and chopping wood.

Content:

• Why be lazy need car tire
• Which device simplifies portability logs
• How to chop wood, and what cleavers and axes need for firewood
• How to dry the wood of different types of wood
• As it is more convenient to carry firewood into the house

1. How to chop wood in the tire

How to chop wood? At first glance it - simple. You take a hatchet or cleaver. You put on the pile (stub) log. Hit and you're done! A log fell apart in two. Still needed to land Poleshko and take them to the drovnitsu. Stop. Is it comfortable? See how easy, fast and convenient tunic birch wood in the tire the user with the nickname FORUMHOUSE

AndreyPYSh, and take the "people's" life hacking into service.

The benefit of the method: split Poleshko not fly away, no need to bend down every flown away a log, reduces the load on the lower back.

AndreyPYSh

Casings can be fastened to each other or to pull on the lower deck bus, picking diameter. In a tire conveniently chop thick hemp.

OlegN

user FORUMHOUSE

This option is chopping wood I've seen for a long time and also tried out. My recommendations:

• Buy a good ax. Bad sticks in wood.
• The optimum height of the log - 1/3 of the tire sticks.
• Try to split the log in one hit.

Deck for stability, and that she was taller, I put it on the car drive.

Old tires can be borrowed free of charge in the tire shop.

2. The convenient drag logs

Wear logs in the hands of uncomfortable. Especially if they are wet, dirty or covered with ice and snow. Comes to the rescue, "third" and "fourth" steel hand - tick (clamshell) grip.

152247

user FORUMHOUSE

I'm wondering, does anyone use the manual tongs to logs? Worth paying for the brand 3000 rubles? I want to own order, to ship logs. It is convenient to use?

Russlanych

user FORUMHOUSE

I use tongs 5 ​​years. I never regretted that he had bought. I took them 1,500 rubles. Friends have told me that money is thrown out, and I am now into the forest to collect firewood without them I do not go.

When buying a grab tongs keep in mind that there are models with different widths. For example, a diameter of the logs 20 and 30 cm. Tongs with a large seizure, you can grab and a large and a small piece of wood.

Incidentally, there is a cheaper option - odnosharnirnye pliers for logs. Should I take them?

wind1wind

Super Moderator FORUMHOUSE

In odnosharnirnogo capture to log does not slip, it is necessary to compress the handle, ie. E. make additional physical effort. On softwood less effort, on a solid or promorzshey more. In the double-hinged grips compression occurs automatically, due to the weight of the lifted timber.

Well, all of DIY, a user with the nickname 152247 It proposes to make hand made variant branded mites widths at the beam diameter of 30 cm.

In the background is a piece of paper with a cell 5x5 mm.

3. Tips for firewood

Chop wood, too, should be able to. And waist will be healthier and safer. Let's hear what he would say FORUMHOUSE participant with the nickname Polar0id.

Polar0id

I stab wood with 5 years. Grandfather taught how to. In order not to screw up the back advise:

• Do not buy the easiest Cleaver. The heavier the instrument, so it is easier to work with. See, when we threaten, We submit back the whole body, so the weight of the cleaver does not play a special role. And when the hits, the light weight cleaver that he went into the wood, it is necessary to complement their weight. This leads to a jerky effort on the waist + returns. Heavy cleaver simply lowered his hands, and he split the wood with their weight.
• Yet many people buy splitter with the long handle. It seems to me that this -nebezopasno. In the case of a miss, you can not stop in time and hit the ax will fly up. When my height of 180 cm, the optimal length of the handle cleaver 100 cm.
• And I believe that branded cleavers, with fiberglass handle, unreasonably expensive. If the ax is broken, then it will have to throw out. Cleaver with a broken wooden handle can be repaired. I have two cleaver - light, for chocks with a diameter of 200-250 mm, and a heavy, 5 kg, made of high-strength steel. Kohl their block of wood of any thickness. It is enough to raise and lower. Tired him much less than working with light. And his good form of the blade. Cleaver has never been wedged in the tree.

It is safest to chop wood at high and wide deck.

Conventional cleaver better chop softwood. Sharp and narrow cleaver sticks in them. Solid wood better chop cleaver narrow, regular, with an obtuse angle blade rebounds from them.

This cleavers and axes used by the participant with the nickname of the portal Leonidd.

Large cleaver splits the user rarely and only thick wood, which badly pricked by breaking them into dice.

Light splitter - the main working tool. Them Leonidd splits logs on dice or chop wood in half.

Ax chop fresh user logs that are easy to chop, dice and chop after working with choppers.

Leonidd

Big Cleaver weighs 3.5 kg. Cutting edge length 7.5 cm. Weight 2.3 kg cleaver smaller. Cutting edge length of 10 cm. Ax weighs 1.9 kg. The cutting edge 13 cm. Weight pointed with an ax handle.

4. How to dry the wood of different types of wood

The owners of wood-burning stoves and boilers are aware that it is necessary to heat the heat generator dry and not freshly sawn wood. But the wood is of various breeds, it is interesting, it somehow affects the features of its drying and storage drovnitsa?

152247

In this season of the logs to dry before placing it took only two weeks. I worked alone. Someone dries the wood for 2-3 years? How to dry the wood of oak, maple and hardwood?

alex 2

user FORUMHOUSE

Birch and aspen to dry for 3 years I do not advise. The quality of the wood falls.

Palych1975

user FORUMHOUSE

My observations: if the wood of birch or alder is not immediately chop and leave lumps, they sopreyut and will be mouldering in a year. And if you just cut to the Polenz, they are perfectly dry, burning hot and long kept even in the open woodpile, provided that the stack of folded bark up.

OlegN

This, if you store firewood openly. If the roof woodshed, the birch will only get stronger. And try not immediately beaten oak. A year later, it will be much harder.

Polar0id

Birch will be stronger depending on when it was harvested. If the tree is felled in the spring or in the summer during the sap flow, it is moldy and sopreet. And if once in a birch tree woodshed folded, even chipped. Therefore, first let it dry up in a heap. With harvested in the fall are no such problems for the winter everything freezes.

More tips and observations on 152247:

• In vapor-proof birch bark. If it is not immediately split to dry, then, in the open air, it begins to rot from within. Such reduced calorie wood.
• User developed following scheme firewood: December and January -raspilovka logs, February-March - FIREWOODPROCESSORS and storing them in the woodpile, July - transportation fuel in woodsheds.

Than more parts chipped piece of wood, the wood will dry faster.

ign73

Member FORUMHOUSE

I have heard that you can not long keep the wood in the chock. It is necessary to divide them, otherwise rot. It's true?

Tom_iura

Member FORUMHOUSE

Keep firewood dry and everything will be fine. In Germany, chipped wood dried for two years indoors, where there is no differential air humidity. I once conducted an experiment - check how long it takes a solid fuel boiler reach full capacity. Throw acacia wood after drying decade. Boiler raskochegarilsya quickly, and when he took the wood after 6 months of drying, then, and a time longer and took more than fuel.

alex967

I stoked the stove chopped birch, which lay in woodsheds 7 years. Well lit, the heat gives a lot.

And this is - drovnitsa 152247.

The user has checked the humidity hygrometer firewood. Results:

• Firewood of birch, sawed and split them after the New Year, and lay down in a separate open-air woodpile. The barn was removed in June. Humidity of 12 to 16%.
• Birch wood drying for 1.5 years on the street, closed on top of the rain and snow. Humidity of 11 to 12.5%.
• Wood of pine from the dry dead wood for two months in the woodpile have a humidity of 10%.
• Oak wood dried to 16% at 2 years.

152247

Wood moisture content less than 20%, - has fuel.

5. How to carry firewood into the house

To go out and carry armfuls of firewood - is not an option. Uncomfortable. Easier to use this capacity, which is in every country house.

Palych1975

I carry wood in the construction metal trough for mixing solution. The volume of the trough - 45 liters. I have attached to it a rope handle. Logs put upright. Over time I bring 15 kg. Another plus - saw dust and debris remain in the trough, rather than spread throughout the boiler room.

Instead, you can use the trough construction plastic bowl or bucket.

Another option from Fodor_Kotkin - cardboard boxes from under the bananas. They conveniently store wood chips, pieces of wood, small pads. Boxes are placed on one another in woodsheds and the content goes for firewood stove or solid fuel boilers. When the box comes into disrepair, it is also thrown into the furnace

conclusions

As you can see, in this mediocre business as chopping firewood, and there are lots of nuances, from which depends directly on how to pass the cold season. We talked about the basic principles that are useful for beginners suburban residents. Experienced users FORUMHOUSE have much to learn.

For example, we recommend the article, how to make woodsheds - decoration infield.

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• Homemade heat accumulator for solid fuel boilers: Advantages constructive tie circuit in the heating system.

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