Too hot to cut wood...

I'm ready for some cool weather. We have had lots of 100+ days this summer. It's way too hot to cut or work wood. I'm now getting the itch to start up again.

I still have some eucalyptus to cut down, and some euch logs here to cut up and split. Just need some 70 degree weather...

Here is a photo from the display on my weather station last Wednesday...

 

thats peetty dang hot .... the hottest weather i can say i've ever been in was in djibouti africa and it was about 125 and the thermostat about 6ft abouve the ground was readin 163 ...... i think it might have been a wee bit screwy with the 163 temp though

 

Ugh. You can have that heat.

We've had tease of fall weather this week. But, the hot/humid comes creeping back over the weekend.

 

Yep, that’s AC weather. I’m not even stepping out to cook an egg in that stuff.

 

Wow! 14% humidity! That's gotta cut down on seasoning time.

My wife and I have been to Vegas a number of times and that's some serious heat in the summer. "Oh, but it's a dry heat!" Yeah, still hot. How hot? We walked/took the trams from the Belagio to Mandalay Bay....and decided to Uber back. Money well spent.

 

I’d take a 119 degree day in the desert Southwest any day over a 90 degree day in the northeast.

 

Yep, that’s too hot to cut in. I recently made hay while the sun shone, but the weather guy is calling for over 90’s next week. My recent score will have to wait.

 

I wouldnt cut in that heat either. Jonesing for some cooler weather to cut in even though the heat hasnt slowed my hoarding that much.

 

Ha, ,I see lots of post from the mid west saying it takes 2 or 3 years to really season wood. Last summer (not as hot as this summer) my firewood went from 37% to 16% in one summer. I stacked some, and also left some in a large pile to do some testing. Both were the same moisture content after the summer.

I have some eucalyptus logs in the wood yard that had water running out of them when I cut them. They have been sitting in log form all summer. I'm going to cut and split it in a month or so (when it cools down) and test moisture content. I can tell you when it was sitting, we could heat it crackling (drying out) if you listened closely. It's not doing that anymore!

 

I don't know about the 119, but I know I can stand the humidity.

 

Yeah, I'm still hording a but, but only for a couple or three hours early in the morning. I did get some Pine and some almond wood recently.