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Title: The Backyard Lumberjack
ISBN: 1580176348
Author:
Frank Philbrick
Stephen Philbrick
Publicate Date: 2006-09-15
Publish: 2006-09-15
List Price: $18.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Borrow it From the Library
This is an ok book. Probably the most helpful info was the section on how to cut down a tree. Not worth keeping on the personal library shelf and I don't recommend buying it. I'm sorry I bought it.
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2: Awesome book, great pictures
I just bought a chainsaw for my 12-acre woooded property, and after reading the manual cover to cover, I was terrified of using it. This book was very helpful, and the pictures were great. It has given me some confidence that when I get out there, I will know what I am doing.
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3: Practical, clear, great handbook
This is a great all-purpose book if you have a woodlot or even if you don't. It covers just about everything you ever wanted to know about trees, identifying them, felling them safely, splitting, stacking, aging and burning them! We heat our house exclusively with wood, most of it taken off our property, and have found this book (like most Storey publications) to be genuinely useful.
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4: The Art of Woodcutting
There's more to cutting wood than swinging an axe. Learn the finer points of wood splitting in this book.
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5: Fun, informative, not complete
This is a fun and informative book. I recommend it for anyone considering doing anything
with wood before burning it. The book covers every step from tree to ashes, but there
is something in it for those that start with delivered log lengths, or shorter pieces,
split or unsplit.
I've been cutting and splitting wood for about 20 years, mostly purchased log lengths,
but also some trees on my lot. The only mistake I found was a one time confusion between
BTUs and Kilowatt Hours. The sections about limbing and bucking were correct, but a few
more examples and illustrations might have made them even better.
A substantial part of the book is not needed in an instruction manual. There are stories
about people (characters) the authors have known, sermons about the good life burning wood,
even a description of lumberjack competitions. You might not laugh as often as I did, but
if you don't smile frequently, you really are a grump.
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