Wedding last year and one this year and lost a ton of access to cut was a lot of the reason. I wish my only responsibility was to cut, haul and stack firewood. Lmao
Show us your wood (pile)
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Sgt Fury
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The lack of respect from these young whipper-snappers these days. Invite him over for a beer then tell him to get off your lawn!
It’s all good. You said long ago before I retired that I’d wonder how I got anything done, “NO TRUER STATEMENT.”The lack of respect from these young whipper-snappers these days. Invite him over for a beer then tell him to get off your lawn!
I’ve gotten a lot of projects done over the last 2 years and knowing I was gone 50-60 hours a week makes me scratch my head as to when I’d have had time to do them. Lol
Let the boiler go out a couple days ago. Just about out of firewood. It's warm. It was time to shut her down. I've got to do a lot of gathering before next year.
I’m going to let mine burn out and switch over to propane(full tank) to conserve what firewood I have left(1.5-2 cord) for next year.
No clue. Didn't measure the piles. Added some as the season progressed. I'd say it was my lightest winter of firewood consumption ever. 5-10 cords? Probably 6-8 is a close guess.
I didn’t measure either but a shit load regardless of the mild winter. Figure at least 8-9 cords.
Propane heat is ok but it couldn’t hold a candle to boiler hardwood heat.
I started getting ready for winter this week
I prefer to cut in February and March but I was to busy shed hunting
I prefer to cut in February and March but I was to busy shed hunting
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Restocked a few weeks ago. Just for firepits.
I've been cutting on a huge pile of logs that the Township cut from the road frontage I have on my property (their easement) back in February of 2021. I'm down to about another 3 or so loads, which is about two cords. My log splitter has been parked there under a tarp for over a year now. I got tired of hauling wood home and making that mess in my yard or hauling the splitter back and forth. I went today to cut and split a trailer load and discovered when I got there that my splitter was gone. I was just over there last Sunday mowing. Had to be a local as this not a heavily traveled road. I did have a pad lock on the tongue, but I knew that was not much of an anti-theft measure. Still pisses me off that some fuckwad would steal something worth so little. I paid less than $1000 for it new 15 years ago from TSC. I got my money's worth of use out of it and so did some of my friends. Hoping my homeowners insurance will cover it. I'm getting a new splitter, either way. Open to suggestions, but the old Husky did a helluva job for me with little to no maintenance.
Been getting nervous. I have enough wood for a week or so. Schedule is slammed. Have a few small trees to clean up sitting here or there. Might get me a few weeks. Yesterday I called about getting log loads of wood. Pricey. Today I called a guy I know. Not for firewood. It was a follow up to see how he was doing after a surgery. He has a tree service and is back to work. He said they've been taking their wood to the mulch place for them to grind. Asked if I wanted any and if it mattered if it was green or dead. I gave him two locations to dump and told him it was a true blessing. Probably work out for them (his brother is a business partner) too. Their parents are walking distance from my house and they are in the area often. The other location they can dump is only a couple miles from their shop. Clean living and trusting I will be taken care of has paid off again. Thank you Jesus.
They have dumped 3 loads so far. I need to cut to length and split. They turned me onto a guy they dropped a couple trees for. Roughly 50' tall oak. Limbed them. Hauled it off. Dropped the trees whole. I was going to cut to 10' lengths and haul out with the bobcat but. . . .the home owner got impatient. He cut them to length and stacked them on the driveway. I told them 1-2 weeks before I could haul them. They said okay. It's been under 2 weeks but I guess he got antsy. Lol
Three dump trailer loads.
Three dump trailer loads.
They did drop off 3 loads. Yessir. Very thankful. I hauled the three dump trailer loads today.
P8riot
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Virgin bucker, splitter and stacker here! Does the size of the split wood look good? Should I leave some bigger for overnight burns? I'm mainly processing the smaller stuff now, but I do have some big rounds. This is an Ash that fell from the Helene winds. I didn't want to be doing this in these temps!
Bigger last much longer so good call for leaving some stuff big for over night but as long as it’s not too difficult to maneuver.
