My "log splitter" tells me that since the price of oil has skyrocketed, he's getting inundated with calls wanting his services as people switch from oil heating to log burners.
The UK is getting deforested because of Trump 😂
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You think the cause of EU's downfall is orange man bad?
Just the deforestation bit 😂
I thought you got rid of all the trees during the industrial revolution.
y'all let yourself get into a precarious position due to woke globalism and it backfired
orange man bad but he can't take credit for the downfall of the eu, which has (incredibly) been more shortsighted and dimwitted than even him
clown world out there, sir
That was coal!
There is no second best to coal, but if there were, it would be logs 😂
I'll let people in the EU speak for themselves, we Brexit'ed, so we have our own problems now 😂
Wait, does he split logs manually? Or with a hydraulic splitter?
I cut mine manually but I'm a lunatic that also actually shovels snow for fun despite having a perfectly good snowblower.
It'd be weird to manually split logs as a job -- it just takes long and is exhausting (in the best way -- bit you're still not doing 40 hours a week).
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uk is the superior stock
enjoy your firewood
We're fading more slowly 😂
Okay in fairness it's probably easier to keep up with with a splitting axe. I use an 8 lb splitting maul, especially for the big oak rounds. It's basically a spledgehammer with an axe blade on on side.
Ahh that makes more sense.
Firewood is a small price to pay for Piers' curry 🍛
Splitting logs is good fun manually. You might just need the right metal to listen to while doing it. Or some proper Oi!
Not surprised its more expensive if he's hauling the splitter around. Though hauling your logs to him and back would suck too, especially without an American truck.
Also...trucks take fuel...
It was good fun, at the start. But now I'm having more fun watching the industrial log splitter do its stuff
Log in for Winter heat.
The UK isn't the EU anymore. Don't you remember? BoJo 'got Brexit done.'
As for 'the oil bit' Tom Luongo has gone on a fair bit about how Trump's invasion of Iran had more to do with targeting City of London's chokepoint in the region, and that much of the so called blockade was Lloyd's of London hitting back more than it had anything to do with the IRGC actually blocking much of anything.
I don't quite follow all of what he's on about there but it's been an interesting angle. Too many layers to everything after Sikes Picot and all the intelligence apparatus spent the last 80 years pitting everyone against everyone.
Luongo's slight more MAGA than I care to be (I enjoy Bessent more than anyone, and Tulsi was a good egg), but he's usually been pretty good at tying some non-obvious pieces together. His analysis of the move from LIBOR to SOFR in particular.
Listen to some Forefather and pick up an axe and that wood will split itself.
So grateful not to know what's going on anymore.
The Romans agreed. That's sort of why they fell apart...it turns out trees grow slowly. And the people you're taking over to get them get harder and harder to manage.
It's not only the Norsemen who have good epic metal about their heritage.
Idk that anyone really does. Some are just caught up how angry they are about.
Trump is nothing if not tricksy.
President Loki 😂
Could well be just what we need. Or be leading us to slaughter. I'll read the history books later to find out.
Are you using the logs you're having split this year, or seasoning them? It seems like you might be having a bit of a time crunch with the winter coming (and the oil being expensive NOW).
I definitely get that splitting wood is one of those things you don't want to be staring at a pile that HAS to get cut in the next week or whatever your time frame is. Though I've also never had particularly good luck with burning fresh wood. It does depend on the type of wood, and oak is particularly needy when it comes to a few years of being allowed to dry out (after being split). I didn't realize there were trees in England anymore (only half joking -- I can't picture any), so I guess I don't know what sort of wood you're burning.
The logs are over10 years old and we have a ton of bought in logs already.
Me after a good cup of tea 😂
Tetley I'm sure
Williamsons Earl Grey ☕️
I know oak tends to season better while split but that old you're indeed probably fine either way.
I remember one year though my mom bought firewood from someone who said he found standing dead wood that was therefore 'preseasoned.' Yea, was an overstatement. It burned, but we watched a lot of sizzling out the end of the logs and steaming while they burned.
I've got a big enough woodpile at this point after chopping up a few trees worth while being a hockey dad (not much time for fires) that I almost have a bigger issue of getting through it before it finds ways to start breaking down. Especially after two trees fell ON the pile itself (had a bunch of pines that were rotting out -- we've now removed them all). Probably 3-4 cords back behind the fence.
I'd send you some but taproot assets on lightning don't yet support logs.
wow you have a log splitter, you aristocracy!
No, we paid a member of the aristocracy to do the work 😂
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That's how they rule the world you know :)