Best saw for chopping wood for the fire?

Mary_Hartnell

If you are using a bow saw, DH suggests you can keep the old blades for cutting lightweight ("foam") concrete building blocks.

Not all replacement blades are the same - he bought some from "Wilkinson" and had to take them back as rubbish.

ixwood

Lotus-eater wrote: »

There are bow saws and there are bow saws.

This one is excellent and is what I use.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bahco-BAH102423-10-24-23-Bowsaw-24In/dp/B0001IX7TC/ref=sr_1_3?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1291735156&sr=1-3

That's the one I've got. Top quality and makes the job much easier.

Saw horses are also very nice to have.

And a Maul is definitely required for bigger logs. The heavier the better. It's a wedged axe crossed with a sledge hammer and is designed to split logs, rather than a normal axe which is designed to chop trees down. I love using mine.

On that note, some steel toe capped boots could be a wise investment.

BTW I hate to be a killjoy, but unless the wood outside has been covered, it won't be seasoned. Wood needs to be kept under cover to dry out. The moisture content on logs that've been lieing on the ground uncovered for a couple of years will be high.

LittleVermin

JodyBPM wrote: »

DH is meant to have chopped it over the summer, but he hasn't Apart from the fact that he's being a bit of a lazy so-and-so, I think it is actually pretty hard work, as he's doing it by hand with a normal saw and an axe for splitting.

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Poor DH! I hope he doesn't read this forum.

Maybe you could build a log store with him first? Using his hand saw. Dead easy. Then you can store in the dry all the wood you buy (preferably in summer, preferably seasoned) and all your 'free' oak as he works through it ('free' in the sense that it only costs your DH sweat, aches and pains .. until he becomes your superhero / your own Paul Bunyan*. Oh, and the cost of a suitable saw and log splitter/wedges).

Lots of stuff on logstores on the forum - even pics: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2827648


Maybe he could also make a sawhorse - dead easy, very useful.

(*Paul Bunyan was a mythical American lumberjack - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan - you could make his work clothes - he'll grow into them with all that sawing you're making him do. Just don't encourage him to sing the lumberjack song fortissimo down the garden - unless you know your neighbours well.

Happy New Year!