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The log splitting season is well and truly here and now is the best time to start sawing up your wood and splitting it into firewood for burning next winter.  As Game of Thrones likes to remind us "Winter is coming!".  Ideally, a chainsaw for very large wood lengths and a petrol log saw bench for anything under 10.5 inches in diameter.  Using the petrol saw bench makes sawing your wood much easier and safer.  You can accurately measure the length of each log with the telescopic arm measure on the saw.  The Hartnett Petrol Log Saw is one of...

If you're looking at buying a petrol log saw bench, then look no further.  The Hartnett 13HP Petrol Log Saw is the best on the market. Never has there been a safer and more efficient way to cut lengths of wood into logs.  This log saw bench bears all the weight of the length of timber as the circular blade cuts through it effortlessly.  The log length is kept in place with the gripper handle and the chopped logs simply fall into a satisfying pile beside the operator.  Unlike a chainsaw, this kind of log saw can be used safely by anyone as the blade is fully enclosed...

A log splitter’s job is to take the hard work out of making firewood and split logs with minimal effort from the operator.  This winter, hundreds of thousands of Irish people will use firewood to heat their homes, the lighting fires filling rooms with a cosy atmosphere that only a wood fire can bring.  Splitting firewood by hand is laborious work and it puts a lot of wear and tear on the body.  Now that log splitters are widely available and very affordable, anyone that splits wood on a regular basis should be using one.   So let’s compare engine driven log splitters and electric logsplitters.   For the ordinary...

The aftermath of a storm like this one can bring a rich harvest of firewood.  There are people out there finding enough free wood to get them through the winter without spending one cent!  Here are some of their methods: Landscaper Gardeners/ Tree Surgeons One man’s waste is another man’s gold.  Many tree surgeons will have a market already for their hardwoods.  However, fresh softwood and smaller limbs are not sought after commodities so it is very common for tree surgeons to have to find other ways of getting rid of this type of waste.  If you are willing to put a bit...