No more playing around part II...the three year plan

I just write the stacked date, on the end of a split.

 

Good work sir. I think your three year plan has been modified

 

Thanks. Once I started I couldn’t stop. I think whatever bug bit Brad got me too. Luckily my allergic reaction wasn’t as severe as his.

 

No allergies, just a simple wood hoarding problem! Glad i helped your hoarding addiction sir! Our main mission here at the FHC!

 

There, I fixed that for ya. That's some excellent looking work that will pay off for a good long while.

 

Love the boxes. Does your tractor have any issues picking them up? What size (hp) tractor do you have? Thanks!

 

The tractor handled them fine. In one pic I had the box 5 feet in the air. Could have probably went to full height. The tractor is a Kioti NX4510. 45 hp, rated to lift 2761 lbs at full height (about 9 feet).

 

Very Very nice. I admire your ingenuity sir, please keep the photos coming!

 

For anyone curious the white banding holding the tops of the sides from bowing out is “Muletape” made by Neptco. A lot of utility companies use it to pull wires. Pretty strong stuff. A friend gave me hundreds of feet of it. So I have enough for “a few” more boxes. I’d like to make maybe another half dozen boxes. I like that I can transport them like the cages, and that they are free. I think they’ll work best for quicker seasoning woods like Cherry, Soft Maple, Pine, Birch, Ash, Popple, etc. The Oaks, Hickories, Hard Maples, and longer seasoning woods will go in hard stacks, get covered and revisited in three years.

 

Great work there sirstacksalot
Do you remove the plastic "tank" before filling your totes?
The reason I ask is I've been trying to find a few of them to butcher down to make basically a tub about 12" deep. I'd like to make a series of raised "planters" for veggies that are about waist height. I figure I can get 2 tubs out of each tote and now that I can saw my own Lumber.....
They would be easy to cover for an earlier start and finishing up those stubborn end of season tomatoes. Also portable, move them to the full sun (and garden hose) then stick them out of the way for winter.

 

Yes I remove the bladders. If you were nearby I’d give you a few. I’ve been thinking of ways to use them. I like your idea. Maybe drill a few holes in the bottom so water can get out. I also like Lordoftheflies idea of using them to store small kindling. So far I’ve used them to keep 16 chicks in until they can go into the coop, a roof over the chicken waterer and feeder, and a pool for my Golden Doodle

 

Yes, holes and 3-4" of gravel in the bottom. Even wondering about a layer of filter cloth.

 

Wouldn’t hurt to keep the loam from clogging things

 

Well I'm about an hour from the MA line at I95, I'm a fan of "horse trading". You have the tubs, I have the Lumber......
I'm going to use some of those PT 4x10's off of that pier for the frame, then probably just pine or hemlock for the rest, maybe paint the "legs" with old crank oil.

 

I've been taking pics of full racks and saving them in a file labelled "firewood pics". I use my Canon camera that puts the date on the pic so I don't have to peruse the exif data. There are other ways to put a date on a pic but the Canon does it easy peasy. Pretty much all I use the Canon for any more.

I've tried sharpies but the ink fades in the sun and is gone in no time. In the shade lasts a litttle longer but not by much/enoughI tried sharpie "permanent ink" on some slivers of milk jug plastic for garden plant labels and they were unreadable in 6 weeks.

 

I can always use 1x and 2x lumber. I need to make sides for a trailer and some beefy stuff for my 3 point sawbuck. PM me and we can probably figure something out.

 

Cut and split some Cherry this morning.

This was a large branch from a tree I thought was dead, Now I'm not sure. There are a few leaves up top, although last year it didn't have any. The branch was 16" at the big end. The tree is about 26" DBH. There was another smaller branch from this tree that had fallen by itself. That one was more like 8-9" diameter





Got it bucked up and loaded to drive to the splitter

 

The tree was about 100 yards from the splitter area



I love Cherry. The color, the smell, the burning of it, tends to have very few branches, seasons fast. Just a great mid range wood. One of my personal favorites



So now I have both the boxes i made filled up and stored. Time to make some more. I will have to go get some more pallets.

 

Pretty sure that limb is dead.....
now

 

Cherry defoliates early where I live. It can look dead, but there will be some leaves on top. I’m not sure if it’s a disease, or natural for them to defoliate in late summer.