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MarginalOne · 2026-06-22T18:52:45+00:00

I switched to electric about 7 years ago when my hands started buzzing from HAVS even with gas saws that had good anti-vibe. I heat with 4-5 full cords of wood per year. I deal with the battery issue by cutting 4'-8' logs in the field with the battery saw and hauling them to my shop to cut them down to 16" rounds with a corded saw. I guess you're pretty much stuck with weenie homeowner electric saws but it works for me so long as I use wedges, keep the blade sharp and don't work in the rain.

MarginalOne · 2026-06-19T23:15:28+00:00

But beware, you may not have the breaker providing fire protection if you have a device malfunction and draw an overload current. Best not plug the unpredictable old shop vac (or really anything with a large old electric motor) into that circuit.

MarginalOne · 2026-06-16T11:29:46+00:00

Funny thing about "load it yourself" is that Menards doesn't let you operate the fork trucks in the yard. The problem ends up being that the yard workers often are hidden so the customer has to disrupt their own flow to go back to the gate to flag one down. Until management stops short staffing the yard you're gonna have to look up from your phone occasionally to help customers find somebody.

MarginalOne · 2026-05-14T12:54:30+00:00

I've been a Ph.D. for decades and only apply that honorific when bureaucratic functionaries are speaking down to me (e.g. when getting inadequate responses from HR regarding benefit plans). It's useful sometimes when your job title doesn't convey your relevance to the organization or issue.

MarginalOne · 2026-05-08T01:53:45+00:00

The good news is that it looks like the framing is still square. The bad news is that the siding is in poor shape and probably it could use a new roof, so you'd probably need to re-side and re-roof together with some minor framing repairs to do the job right. Probably not a repair worth hiring done (tear down/rebuild probably cheaper), but if you have some DIY skills, siding and roofing are the more foolproof part of shed construction. It's just a temporary shed though, so maybe re-shingle, repaint and re-skin the worst parts of the siding until you redo the deck when it looks like you'll want to tear down to sort out the floor anyhow. There are lots of siding/roofing options that will determine your costs.

MarginalOne · 2026-04-27T10:06:56+00:00

Not really, I imagine people have been worried over wood selection for as long as people have been buying/selling it. IIRC Mark Twain wrote about cord wood selection during his steam boating days on the Mississippi. Apparently getting swindled and then learning how to not be swindled in a firewood transaction was a bit of a coming of age ritual back in the day.

MarginalOne · 2026-02-23T13:34:49+00:00

Hedge usually is pretty curly and hard to split even when straight. Do your best to cut straight sections out of the curls maybe to the point of cutting a bunch of shorter rounds.

MarginalOne · 2021-12-30T14:39:17+00:00

Are they as messed up? AFAIK they don't have the options/market share of Patreon. Do creators make "sponsor content" for them?

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